AGILE THINKERS - Key Persons
Chet Hendrickson has been involved with Agile Software Development since 1996, when as a member of Chrysler's C3 project he helped develop Extreme Programming.
Craig Larman is a Canadian computer scientist, author, and organizational development consultant. With Bas Vodde, he is best known for formulating LeSS.
Craig Larman is the co-creator (with Bas Vodde) of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum), and since 2005 has worked with clients to apply the LeSS framework to descale development in big product groups. Much of his work is organizational-design consulting with senior-management teams of product groups adopting LeSS.
Craig has served as the lead coach of large-scale lean software development adoption at Xerox, and serves or has served as a consultant for LeSS at Ericsson, UBS, bwin.party, Nokia Networks and Siemens Networks, Nordea, Cisco-Tandberg, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Alcatel-Lucent, and Ion Trading, among many other clients. Craig has also served as chief scientist at Valtech and while living in Bengaluru India, at Valtech's development centre helped to create agile offshore development with LeSS.
In addition to his focus on hands-on LeSS consulting and product work, he occasionally speaks in public, such as keynoting on LeSS at the 2016 Global Scrum Gathering , the 2015 Manage Agile conference, the 2014 Software Executive Summit , the 2013 Agile India conference, and the 2011 QCon conference.
Craig has been named one of the top 20 Agile influencers of all time and is the author of several books on scaling lean & agile development with LeSS, including:
Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS
Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking & Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum
Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Successful Large, Multisite & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum
Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide
Craig was one of the first Certified Scrum Trainers, and helped kick off the Agile movement, especially with his 2002 book "Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide".
Fabiola Eyholzer, the Co-Founder of Just Leading Solutions, a renowned transformation consultancy for HR Agility, is a pioneer and recognized thought leader in Lean-Agile HR.
Job Titles:
- Enterprise Agile Coach & Executive Coach, Coaching Leaders, Coaches and Organisations for Making a Bigger Positive Impact
Gonçalo is a practitioner of New Ways of working tools and methods, and ways for improving results, that can make a vital catalyst for transformation and value creation.
Job Titles:
- Trainer
- Founder of Experience Agile
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Hugo Lourenço is the founder of Experience Agile® and DevOps Forum, Agile Human Factors ®, World Agility Forum ®, Agile21®, and Agile Thinkers Academy ®. Hugo is an Entrepreneur in several businesses and his main focus is to understand how companies are coming up with better ways of working and how to improve their business outcomes for their employees and customers.
Hugo is motivated by his values and getting his opinion recognized, perfectionist and creative as well a strong believer in a better outcome from people's work, although he has a strong need for personal (people) trust/honest/transparent relationships and also doesn't expect less than perfection from others too. Hugo was a marine and he is mission-oriented, if your business, department, or team is in danger or needs to be rescued, this is the right mission for Hugo and his international team.
The experience of working closely with the leaders of many of the brands that have already started this "Enterprise Agility" process outside Portugal, has made it clear that the company's to get ready for an "unpredictable future" should seek to rationalise the portfolio of legacy products, create high-performance teaming, understand why they do what they do, and their impact on the new operating model. Hugo team will guide you to organizational design & a new way of working, and that will emerge psychological safety, emergent leadership, and new business models through sustainable processes.
He collaborates as a guest lecturer in some national and international business schools has a presence in the North American, and European markets.
As a Certified Scrum Trainer, Iain has immense experience in applying, coaching and training Scrum along with other agile and lean techniques including XP and Kanban.
Jesse Fewell is an author, coach, and trainer who helps senior leaders from Boston to Bangalore transform their organizations world-wide.
As a project management pioneer, he founded and grew the original PMI Agile Community of Practice to 18,000 members and 40 volunteers leaders, co-created the PMI-ACP® agile certification, and co-authored the Agile Practice Guide®, translated into eleven languages.
A global entrepreneur, he has distilled his remote leadership experiences in the handbook "Can You Hear Me Now: Working with Global, Distributed, Virtual Teams".
A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he is a dual-certified coach (Certified Enterprise Coach® and Leadership Circle Profile®) and an accredited instructor with four distinct agile certification bodies (Scrum Alliance, SAFe, ICAgile, Conteneo).
Maria is a published author and holds more than 10 industry certifications encompassing coaching, facilitation, project management, and leads training throughout the world.
Mónica Lopes da Silva is a persons lover. Her main objective is to help people to evolve in a sense of greater congruence with themselves and with the environment that surrounds them, combining efficiency and effectiveness in all areas of each person's life.
Job Titles:
- Founder & CEO of the Agile Leadership Journey
- Leadership Coach
Pete Behrens is the Founder & CEO of the Agile Leadership Journey, an organization, curriculum, and community devoted to improving leaders and their organizations. As an engineer by profession, Pete now guides leaders and organizations to be more focused, responsive and resilient to change.
Pete is the creator and host of the (Re)Learning Leadership podcast. Along with expert guides and his guests, Pete explores leadership challenges, discussing paths for new awareness and growth for leaders to improve their leadership in highly complex and rapidly changing environments.
As a systemic coach and leader himself, Pete led the development of the Certified Enterprise Coaching (CEC) and Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) programs for the Scrum Alliance. Furthermore, he served on their Board of Directors from 2016-2018.
Pete Behrens is a leadership coach and the founder of the Agile Leadership Journey and is actively building the leadership education and practice curriculum to develop the leaders of tomorrow.
Sophie Durand is an experienced professional with over 20 years of expertise in big systems integration, software development, and IT infrastructure management.
Stuart is a professional live illustrator with extensive traditional/ Agile Project management experience and a deep-rooted appreciation for Agile Principles and Methodologies.
Europe based SPCT. Sukie has over 20 years experience across a wide variety of industries in both software and hardware contexts.
Starting out as a network administrator, he has worked as a technical architect, in project and programme management and set up the Global PMO for a global organisation.
More recently he works with organisations who are undergoing a transformation of ways of working.
He has worked with leaders and teams to adopt lean principles and the Agile mindset.
Well-travelled, he has lived in 4 European countries and has worked closely with teams on 5 continents. A self-confessed technology geek but is obsessed with customer experience and customer value. As well as his native English, he also speaks a bit of Spanish, Dutch and Punjabi. Sukie also has a MBA from Henley Business School in the UK. In his personal time he takes a keen interest in clean energy, EVs and consumer technology.
Sukie has over 20 years experience across a wide variety of industries in both software and hardware contexts. He set up the Global PMO for a global organisation.