Doug Shimp
Douglas E. Shimp has 18 years of experience in the technology field and has played key roles in software development (developer, QA, Analyst, Manager, Leader, Coach and Consultant). Doug’s passion is about teams and applied learning for product development. He has established himself as a leader in the area of agile/scrum transitions and applied practices. He believes that the core bases for applied agile is that “You must see the result for it to be real; otherwise it is all just theory to the individual”. He is co-founder of 3Back LLC that specializes in helping teams get better in applied pathways of agile, scrum, lean and PMBOK. His latest craze and focus is on social media and video conferencing. He is using tools of social media and video conferencing for improved adaptive team behaviors especially distributed teams. He is also using tools of social media and web analytics to help others and organizations learn how to approach this confusing but critical paradigm for product development.
More of his work can be found
· http://twitter.com/scrum_coach (daily scrum throughts)
· http://advancedtopicsinscrum.com (deep thoughts and book material for applied scrum)
· http://www.scrumalliance.org/profiles/29-douglas-e-shimp (Certified Scrum Trainer and published articles)
· http://3back.com (his company and their services)
· http://doug-shimp.net (just about everything else he does)
Richard Lawrence
Richard Lawrence is a Certified Scrum Coach and the founder of Humanizing Work, a consulting firm focused on making software organizations happier and more productive. He is based in Denver, Colorado.
Richard is available> to help you adopt agile or tune up a struggling agile adoption.
Richard's Blog is at http://www.richardlawrence.info/ .
Bob Hartman
Bob Hartman, known as "Agile Bob" is President of Agile For All, LLC. He brings over 30 years of experience developing software to every client engagement. His logic‐based approach to software development and quality was honed early in his career when he obtained both Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Since that time he has broadened his industry knowledge by serving in almost every role in the software industry including developer, tester, documentation writer, trainer, product manager, project manager, business analyst, senior software engineer, development manager and executive. His experience includes 8 years running his own consulting firm and over 15 years of public corporate experience at the Vice President level.
Over the past 10 years he has grown from being an early adopter of agile to his current status as a
Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) who has done significant training, coaching and mentoring in all areas of agile development. He founded Agile For All, to continue to promote the use of agile development methods. Bob teaches all of our process courses as well as many of our role specific courses. He specializes in helping organizations of all sizes achieve successful agile transitions. He has been a speaker at numerous conferences, seminars and workshops where his engaging style, holistic view of development, and personal anecdotes are always well received by attendees. Anyone that is using agile, considering making a switch to agile, or just wants to learn more about agile, is encouraged to contact him via email
bob.hartman@agileforall.com. You can also read his blog at
www.agileforall.com/blog
David Bernstein
David Bernstein, founder of Techniques of Design has been writing software for over a quarter of a century. A noted speaker and presenter, David has been responsible for successfully delivering systems that drive leading econometric and financial firms as well as helping to develop application and operating system software. He has nearly two decades of experience “preaching what he practices” as one of IBM’s top technical instructors and then at Net Objectives as a Senior Consultant and Design Patterns Instructor. David has personally trained over 6,000 developers on how to improve the design and construction of software.
In addition to his deep technical knowledge and passion for software development, David has experience running all aspects of a startup software company and is also an award-winning video producer.
Jake Calabrese
Jake Calabrese founded VimStreet in 1994 to help companies slice through the typical confusion surrounding process improvement and technology projects. Focusing on actual stakeholder needs and business goals has been critical to delivering successful projects. Jake believes that all projects need to have direct customer involvement and focus - and because of that, project are more successful when utilizing agile approaches such as Scrum. Jake’s experience includes leading projects and teams on a range of successful endeavors such as business process improvements, enterprise system replacements, mergers and acquisitions, Internet initiatives, and team development. Jake is the President of the Denver Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), has a BS in Management Information Systems from Penn State University , and is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP©) as well as a Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
Derek W. Wade
Derek has recently been helping non-collocated teams by developing techniques that encourage visibility using collaboration tools such as
TWiki.