Think, Design, Work Smart
I am an Agile Coach, a ScrumMaster, a CSP (Certified Scrum Practitioner), a CST (Certified Scrum Trainer) and an MBA.
You can find me at my blog, Agile & Business. Or at my company website (kittyhawkconsulting.com), or at leanagiletraining.com
Hope you are having success with Scrum, and having fun!
I run TDD and team leadership classes for software developers.
If you’ve ever been to one of my classes, I’d love it if you left me a testimonial!
Roy Osherove is one of the original ALT.NET organizers. He consults and trains teams worldwide on the gentle art of unit testing, test-driven development and how to lead software teams. He frequently speaks at international conferences on these topics and others.
Roy is the author of the book The Art of Unit Testing, and writes about subjects such as unit testing, TDD Team Leadership and agile development on his blog is at osherove.com/blog
Jurgen Appelo is a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, developer, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and… Dutch guy.
Since 2008 Jurgen writes a popular blog at www.noop.nl, which deals with development management, software engineering, business improvement, personal development, and complexity theory. He is the author of the book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders, which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations. He is also a speaker, being regularly invited to talk at business seminars and conferences around the world.
Mattias Skarin is an experienced kanban practitioner and trainer. He has used kanban to improve everyday life in multiple teams stretching from development to operations and support.
He is co author to the book “Kanban and Scrum – making the most of both” and an experienced speaker at Lean and Kanban conferences.
In 2011 he was one of the Brickell Key award nominees at the Lean Software and Systems conference in Long Beach.
David teaches and coaches the adoption and improvement of agile methods as powerful delivery tools. Sometimes he is pairing with developers and testers, while other times he is helping to plan and create product roadmaps. David often works with leadership groups learn to pragmatically use agile methods to foster innovation and competitive business advantage.
Prior to working as a fulltime coach, David spent years building software in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. David now leads DevJam. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products in competitive cycles.
Along with teaching and coaching, David participates in conferences around the world and continuously publishes to a variety of sources. He has contributed to several books as well as helping to create agile curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University.
David Evans is an independent consultant and agile coach with over 22 years of IT experience. A thought-leader in the field of agile testing, he has trained and consulted on this topic for clients in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, Australia, South Africa and Singapore. A regular speaker at events and conferences across Europe, David has also had several papers published in IT journals. He currently lives and works in the UK.
I’ve been working in Agile methodologies since 2001. I did a career change from Social Worker to Developer through the Object Oriented Software Techology post graduate program at St Mary’s University in Halifax.
I did my internship at TransCanada Pipelines where I worked with ThoughtWorks. I met Ken Schwaber there in 2002 as he was teaching us Scrum and helping us kick off a large project.
I joined ThoughtWorks in 2003 as an consultant. I was on the road for years working in many client sites mostly across North America.
I was able to travel to the India and Uk offices as well. I joined Gap Inc Direct in 2007 as their Chief Agilist and lead organization transformation efforts, which is my specialty now. I moved to Paris in June 2009 and am now consulting in France.
Gojko Adzic is a software craftsman with a passion for new technologies, programming and writing. Gojko got bitten by the specification-by-example bug five years ago. Since then, he has helped numerous teams implement these practices, written two books on the subject (Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse and Bridging the Communication Gap) and contributed to several opensource projects for specification by example. At the moment, Gojko is working on his third book, titled Specification by Example.
Gojko is a frequent speaker at leading software development and testing conferences and runs the UK agile testing user group.
Over the last eleven years, he has worked as a developer, architect, technical director and consultant on projects delivering equity and energy trading, mobile positioning, e-commerce, online gaming and complex configuration management.
Gojko runs Neuri Ltd, a UK based consultancy that helps ambitious teams from web startups to large financial institutions implement specification by example and agile testing practices.
To get in touch, write to gojko@neuri.co.uk or visit http://gojko.net.
Maarten Volders is a Systems Thinker, Organizational Effectiveness Coach and Futurist.
He helps organizations and people to see, set a course towards an uncertain future and guide them in their journey.
Andrea Provaglio is an independent professional in the field of Information Technology, with almost twenty years of working experience in three different continents.
He assist his clients in finding better ways to develop software and to create better development teams; and he supports individuals who want to improve technically and relationally.
Andrea’s clients come from many different domains, which can range from large organizations such as the European Commission in Brussels, or large multinational banks, to small and dynamic IT companies.
His work is primarily in the areas of: Adoption of different Agile and Lean methods; Development of soft skills for teams and organizations; Software architecture and design patterns; Design and development of enterprise-scale applications.
Andrea is frequently a speaker at major international IT conferences (on past occasions in front of audiences of 1000-2000 people) and he contributed to a few books and publications.
He currently works in Europe; he also worked for four years in the U.S. on a O-1 visa for “extraordinary abilities in Sciences”.
More information about Andrea’s professional accomplishments is available at http://andreaprovaglio.com/about
Blog: http://agilecoach.typepad.com/agile-coaching/
Rachel Davies is author of “Agile Coaching” book and UK’s leading expert in coaching agile teams. She is internationally recognized and presents at many industry conferences. Rachel has over 20 years experience in software development in a variety of roles from software developer to manager. She has been an agile practitioner since 2000 and utilizes a range of agile methods including XP, SCRUM, Lean/Kanban, and DSDM. She has extensive experience facilitating agile meetings and workshops.
I strongly recommend Maria as a Scrum trainer and coach. Her solid background and pleasant personality will certainly bring added value to your team – she can explain in a nutshell what “transparency” and “inspect and adapt” really means. She will make you feel more Agile – and you will see the benefits!
Manager, local branch of a telecom company
Maria worked in software development for more than 12 years, both locally and abroad. From Software Developer, Technical Lead & Manager to Agile Practitioner & Coach, Maria is supporting quality software, Software Craftsmanship and people passionate about their craft. She talks at conferences and organizes the OpenAgile Romania conference. She traveled tirelessly all around the country to start the Romanian Agile Community, AgileWorks.
I’ve never imagined myself doing something other than software development. I’ve always wanted to understand and to learn more about how it’s done and especially about how we can do it better. I was lucky enough to have mentors in my early career that slapped my hand whenever I did something wrong. I have thus learned each year more and more about the discipline and craft required for developing good and successful software products.
You can read the rest of the story on my website.
With more than 10 years of experience, Flavius is an agile trainer and coach focusing on helping teams deliver faster, better quality software. Describing his past, Flavius shares: I was bit by the computer bug around age 12, when I first laid hands on a 486. Age 13 caught me reading books about Norton Commander, Windows 3.1 and Pascal, even though I’ve only had my first computer when I was 14.Flavius blames the computer-related high school and university, plus the economics-oriented master’s degree for his biggest obsessions: product quality and programmer productivity.
I wanted to develop software to help my clients improve their business.
I was helped by my professors, colleagues and mentors to continuously improve both my technical and analysis skills.
Whenever I write code I focus on reducing domain complexity to obtain maintainable software.
Corey is currently a freelance developer and journeyman, traveling around to pair-program with other developers.
He is an active member in the software craftsmanship movement, focusing his attention on post-apprenticeship activities.
He started programming in the early 80′s by cheating at video games (they weren’t compiled back then) and fell in love with development as a teenager. He currently specializes in Ruby, but will pair in just about any language you want.
He was a guest speaker at OpenAgile Romania 2009.
J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger is best known for his contributions to agile development, for which he was awarded the highest honor from the agile community, the Gordon Pask Award in 2005 (its first year of existence).
He helps software organizations better satisfy their customers and the businesses they support. Expert at delivering successful software, he writes, teaches and speaks about why delivering better software is important, but not enough.
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