Jeff McKenna is a Certified Scrum Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer who has been involved in software development for some 45 years. During that time he has participated in every aspect of product development from implementation and test, through architecture and design, all the way to sales and marketing. Since the late 1980s Jeff has focused on the process side of development. He consulted on the very first Scrum project in 1993, alongside Jeff Sutherland and John Scumniotales. He enjoys teaching, coaching and mentoring agile teams using Scrum and Extreme Programming practices, working with small startups as well as established enterprises.
“I am an Agile Coach and Trainer from London, UK, currently residing and working in the USA, with frequent trips to Europe. I have a background in software development, graphic design, theatre arts, and team/groupwork facilitation. I have a keen mind, an anarchic edge and a passion for corporate enlightenment.
“I currently work as a change agent, trainer and facilitator, providing coaching and consulting services to teams and organizations making the transition to more agile, trustful and team-centered ways of working. My current core focus is on the Scrum framework, offering both public and private training classes to explore the principles and practices of Scrum. I have developed a fast-moving and energizing style of “immersion training” for teams that provides an extremely high yield of knowledge for participants: knowledge that is not just learned, but embodied.
“My coaching work is essentially at a grass roots level within an organization, but more recently I have been exploring how the Scrum principles can be applied within the field of organizational development. I am interested in how management by consensus, and the qualities of self-organization, empiricism and emergence can be used across the wider corporate culture to free the creative spirit and improve both human relationships and productivity.”
Rob Myers is lead instructor and co-founder of The Agile Institute, and a founding member of the Agile Cooperative.
For over 10 years, Rob has played a key role in numerous successful Agile, Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP) projects. Rob has been training and coaching teams in Agile practices and object-oriented programming since 1999. During his more than 20 years in various software development roles, he has enjoyed consulting for leading companies in the aerospace, government, medical, software, and financial sectors.
David has an unusual set of skills that encompasses both the deeply technical and the deeply human aspects of both software and organizational development. David has been designing and building custom business applications since 1989. He is the lead Agile Evangelist as well as the chief systems analyst and designer for Outformations.
His ability to abstract and capture complex system requirements and application flow, combined with his relational database application development experience, ensures that every Outformations solution has a solid, lasting foundation. His technical skills include use case and UML modeling; Unified Process, Scrum and other Agile development methodologies; application architecture and design; web and desktop application development; and various DBMS systems.
In addition to his background as a system architect, David holds a degree in group dynamics, and has completed formal training in creative problem solving, advanced group facilitation and Non-Violent Communication (NVC). Using this experience, he leads focused, task-oriented client design sessions. His collaboration and communication skills support effective Agile project management and team facilitation, training, mentoring and consulting.
David is the founder of Outformations and a principal. He is a board member of the national Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and the founder of the Bay Area Agile Project Leadership Network (BayAPLN) local chapter. He is a past president of the Bay Area Association of Database Developers and a member of the Bay Area Organization Development Network (BAodn).
Elisabeth Hendrickson is founder and principal of Quality Tree Software, Inc., which provides software testing and quality consulting and training services throughout the US and abroad to companies ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 corporations.
Hendrickson has over 20 years software industry experience and has been working with Agile teams since 2004. She is a Certified Scrum Master, a respected thought leader in Agile Testing, a former member of the board of the Agile Alliance, and co-organizer of the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools program. Hendrickson blogs regularly at Test Obsessed.
A Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified ScrumMaster with an MS in Educational Psychology, Ainsley has been an innovator, synthesizer and leader for more than two decades in the people side of information systems work. One of the Bay Area’s most experienced meeting facilitators, with a special emphasis on Open Space Meetings and Agile Retrospectives, Ainsley is founder of Agile Open California, and co-founder of the Bay Area Agile Project Leadership Network (BayAPLN). She has provided consulting and facilitation services to teams in companies ranging from the Fortune 500 to biotech start-ups and non-profits.
VersionOne is the provider of one of the most popular suites of Agile project management software–a boon to distributed teams everywhere. They are also as dedicated to supporting the Agile community as much as we are. VersionOne has been a loyal sponsor of Agile Open California, and they are the sole sponsors behind the rollicking Agilepalooza tour of “unconferences” (there is likely to be one coming up in your town, just check the website), and their website hosts a wealth of solid information for those looking to bone up on Agile 101.
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Jeff McKenna
Tobias Mayer
“I currently work as a change agent, trainer and facilitator, providing coaching and consulting services to teams and organizations making the transition to more agile, trustful and team-centered ways of working. My current core focus is on the Scrum framework, offering both public and private training classes to explore the principles and practices of Scrum. I have developed a fast-moving and energizing style of “immersion training” for teams that provides an extremely high yield of knowledge for participants: knowledge that is not just learned, but embodied.
“My coaching work is essentially at a grass roots level within an organization, but more recently I have been exploring how the Scrum principles can be applied within the field of organizational development. I am interested in how management by consensus, and the qualities of self-organization, empiricism and emergence can be used across the wider corporate culture to free the creative spirit and improve both human relationships and productivity.”
Tobias Mayer’s website is Agile Thinking.
Rob Myers
For over 10 years, Rob has played a key role in numerous successful Agile, Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP) projects. Rob has been training and coaching teams in Agile practices and object-oriented programming since 1999. During his more than 20 years in various software development roles, he has enjoyed consulting for leading companies in the aerospace, government, medical, software, and financial sectors.
David Chilcott
His ability to abstract and capture complex system requirements and application flow, combined with his relational database application development experience, ensures that every Outformations solution has a solid, lasting foundation. His technical skills include use case and UML modeling; Unified Process, Scrum and other Agile development methodologies; application architecture and design; web and desktop application development; and various DBMS systems.
In addition to his background as a system architect, David holds a degree in group dynamics, and has completed formal training in creative problem solving, advanced group facilitation and Non-Violent Communication (NVC). Using this experience, he leads focused, task-oriented client design sessions. His collaboration and communication skills support effective Agile project management and team facilitation, training, mentoring and consulting.
David is the founder of Outformations and a principal. He is a board member of the national Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and the founder of the Bay Area Agile Project Leadership Network (BayAPLN) local chapter. He is a past president of the Bay Area Association of Database Developers and a member of the Bay Area Organization Development Network (BAodn).
Elisabeth Hendrickson
Hendrickson has over 20 years software industry experience and has been working with Agile teams since 2004. She is a Certified Scrum Master, a respected thought leader in Agile Testing, a former member of the board of the Agile Alliance, and co-organizer of the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools program. Hendrickson blogs regularly at Test Obsessed.
Ainsley Nies
VersionOne