AGILE LIETUVA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Consultant at Blue Bricks
Alexander Gijsbers is a managing consultant at Blue Bricks, a Product management coach, and a certified PSPO3 Product Owner. He has over 8 years of experience in helping organizations to be more Agile and deliver great products and services. Alexander started his career as a business analyst and quickly moved into a Product Manager role. He has worked with a variety of organizations, from Startups to large Enterprises, across various industries. He most recently served as Digital Product Lead for Vattenfall in the Netherlands.
Clients describe Alexander as both highly analytical and human-centered, allowing him to clearly communicate complex ideas. He has the ability to get people involved and is committed to turning ideas into tangible solutions. He can show your product teams how to deliver value, by focusing on the right opportunities.
Algirdas is a software engineer, business solution analyst, Scrum Master. He worked with multiple teams to enable them in Agile practices (Scrum & Kanban). He has lead a 4-hour workshop on Agile fundamentals for TransUnions Testers academy (TUTA). Algirdas holds a PSM 1 certificate and an OKR foundation certificate.
Job Titles:
- Agile Coach, Trainer, and Consultant
Anna is an Agile Coach, Trainer, and Consultant with over 15 years of experience in Agile coaching, process optimization, and strategic delivery.
Craig Cockburn ("coburn") has been working with agile practices for over 15 years. Originally a software engineer, where he worked in networking and was recruited remotely in the 1980s, he holds software degrees from Edinburgh University and Napier University, the latter an M.Sc. with class medal and distinction. Craig is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he works as a freelance agile coach. He is an active member of the agile community and is a founding committee member of the BCS Agile Specialist group. He has worked as a scrum master, development lead, and agile coach across many sectors, particularly the public sector and banking. He wrote the UK's first guide to getting online in 1992, invented an early browser, and is credited on the acknowledgments for HTML5 and in the book "Agendashift:" by Mike Burrows. Craig has used remote working for many years and has research published on it from 1993 as well as extensive blog posts pre-covid based on his own experience. Recently Craig has been one of the advisors and early supporters of the Agile20Reflect festival and is a co-author of "Agile an Unexpected Journey", available through Amazon. Craig uses Red Team Thinking to help organizations make better decisions through critical thinking. His main talk topics are Critical Thinking, Visualizing Strategy, Visualizing Talks, and Remote Working.
Craig's full biography and contact details are at https://www.craigcockburn.com
Dave Westgarth worked in digital project delivery across industries and positions starting with consultancy, then public sector. He is currently working in the e-commerce/ SAAS universe with Attraqt. Dave enjoys working with teams to deliver value and improve user and customer outcomes. He's served on software development, automation, cloud, and service transformation projects using a variety of delivery approaches while looking to champion agile values and technical excellence
Dave's spoken at the community of practice sessions, organizational lunch and learns, and recently more remote meetups while pandemic measures were in place. He loves talking about all things agile, project management, and delivery!
Dean Latchana supports individuals and organizations to succeed in a dynamic market by helping them to develop situational awareness and ways of working that are contextual to their needs. He advises and guides individuals and organizations to gain a new set of competencies so they can continuously re-optimize to an ever-changing business landscape. Dean co-develops change to remove organizational debt to create a more balanced focus for continuous improvement and innovation. In order to achieve this, as a Business Agility Consultant, his role is to support business transformation programs and develop new ways of working across departments. He teaches departments, and coaches & mentors individuals. Dean is an accomplished speaker and established practitioner across several business sectors. latchana.co.uk Find out more on Dean's LinkedIn or website.
Erik is a Flow Master, writer, speaker, and editor. He works at Scrum Facilitators, where they are committed to contributing to this social change by helping everyone to understand and adopt Agile.
Job Titles:
- Agile Coach
- Certified Trainer
Jakub is an Agile Coach and Design Thinking Coach trying to humanize the workspace. He supports people and organizations in creating an environment conducive to learning and goal-oriented work driven by empathy. Jakub promotes learning through experimentation and problem understanding, bringing a systems perspective. He is driven by diversity and the creativity that emerges from working with a group.
Jakub is a certified trainer and facilitator, lifelong learner, hobbyist, and scientific researcher (PhD in progress) actively participating in Agile communities, trying to run, read philosophy, travel, and understand contemporary art in his free time.
Job Titles:
- Transformation Consultant and Coach
Jan B. Olsen is a transformation consultant and coach with 10+ years of experience in scaled Agile environments ranging from business domains to large and complex development organizations. He has experience with complicated and challenging strategic and tactical consultancy assignments in designing new business models and lowering unnecessary complexity in large organizations. Jan is able to analyze, design, and change organizational design and structure and the organizations' culture, mindset, and behaviors. He is guiding transformation through consulting, training, and coaching. Jan can effectively act as a consultant/coach to management, teams, and team members. His last responsibility was as part of the transformation leadership team at Danske Bank. He took part in redesigning 5,000 people large development organization from top to bottom with new business and operating models.
He has various certifications and accreditations, including Certified Agile Coach at Scrum Alliance and European Individual Accreditation Senior Practitioner at EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council).
He has been a speaker at multiple meetups, Agile Tour, and XP Conference.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Trainer
- Lean Agile Consultant, Trainer, Coach
Raul Barth is a seasoned Lean Agile Consultant, trainer, coach and SAFe SPCT Candidate at Gladwell Academy, with a deep understanding of Lean and Agile values and principles. With a Green Belt in Lean and certifications as a Professional Scrum Master I & II (PSM) and Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), Raul brings a wealth of expertise to his work.
Over the past 15 years, Raul has gained extensive international experience in Agile, software development, IT, R&D, team management and leadership, having worked in diverse locations such as Brazil, France, Netherlands, and the UK. Throughout his career, he has dedicated more than 10 years to Lean and Agile.
Raul's technical proficiency is rooted in his academic background, holding Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Engineering, as well as a Master's degree in Big Data. His practical experience in Agile spans across various roles, including team member, Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Agile Coach and Consultant. For the past 7 years, he has been actively engaged in guiding organizations through Agile transformations.
Passionate about Agile and Lean, Raul firmly believes that successful Lean-Agile transformations depend on mindset and people. He views frameworks, methods, and processes as tools to achieve goals such as faster time-to-market, quality, motivated teams, and customer satisfaction.
Currently, Raul serves as a consultant and trainer, leveraging his expertise in English, Portuguese, and French. He is dedicated to supporting Gladwell's partners in their pursuit of success through Agile and digital transformations.
Job Titles:
- Portfolio Manager and Agile Program Manager
Samant Kumar is a seasoned Portfolio Manager and Agile Program Manager at Capgemini, boasting over 21 years of extensive experience in Agile Program/Project Management and software solution delivery across diverse domains. His professional journey is marked by a rich repertoire of certifications including SAFe SPC, ICP-ACC, A-CSM, CSM, and CSPO, solidifying his reputation as an agile champion.
Having previously contributed to IBM, Samant has cultivated a career focused on agile coaching, leadership, and management across product, program, and project dimensions. His proficiency spans agile tools, virtual collaboration tools, and career guidance, underscoring his commitment to achieving successful project outcomes and nurturing team excellence.
Samant's educational background includes a postgraduate degree in Finance and Marketing, complementing his Bachelor of Technology credentials. Actively engaged in the Agile community, he is a distinguished speaker at Agile/PM conferences, Symposiums, and local PMI chapters. His contributions have earned him recognition such as the Globee Award 2024, along with numerous accolades from Capgemini and IBM.
He is affiliated with esteemed professional associations including IEEE, PMI, Asian Society of Indian Engineers (ASIE), Scrum Alliance, Agile Alliance, Scrum.org, and Keep Austin Agile (KAA).
Samant has also served as a judge in prestigious events like the Stevie Award, Globee Award, Texas Science and Engineering Fair (TXSEF), and Science Exhibition of Houston.
Committed to mentorship, he actively participates in programs at Katy ISD School District, Texas, and adplist.org. Samant has contributed to several publications featured in prominent platforms such as UT Dallas Project Management Symposium, IGI Global Publishing, Dzone, and SIUE PM Symposium.
Beyond his professional commitments, he resides in Katy, Texas, with his wife and two children, finding joy in reading, cooking, meditation, and mentoring on spirituality.