Agile Process Coach, Editor and Open Space Conference Facilitator
Toronto, Canada Area
Agile Process Coach, Editor and Open Space Conference Facilitator
Toronto, Canada Area
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I energetically help teams produce better software by improving their work habits. In coach, team lead and analyst roles I have actively addressed each team’s most pervasive problems, collaborating with management and team members to apply practices such as Lean Thinking, Scrum, Feature Driven Development and Extreme Programming. Experience has shown me that software’s toughest problems are often “people issues”, and so my focus has increasingly shifted toward team-building and facilitation, including use of the Scrum Agile project management methodology, Agile Work, and the Open Space meeting methodology.
I have worked with both traditional software lifecycle methods and Agile approaches: Scrum, RUP, FDD (Feature Driven Development), XP and Test-Driven Development. Most recently I have been coaching organisations in their switch to the Scrum project-management method. No single development approach can guarantee success, but by maintaining frequent "inspect-and-adapt" cycles, these have been proven to deliver useful software in a way that customers can quickly appreciate.
Training/Coaching in Agile and Lean Process Improvements for software development, Preparing and Facilitating Open Space or BarCamp-style unconferences, Excellent Analytical Skills, Broad Business Domain Knowledge, Object Oriented Analysis and Design for Java, Web Application Design, UML Modeling, Data Modeling, Scrum Agile Project Management Methodology.
Memberships:
Newfield Coaching Network (CEO Program) http://snipurl.com/NewfieldCEO
International Coaches Federation http://snipurl.com/ICFcodeofethics
Greater Toronto Area Coaches http://www.gtacoaches.com
Cognitive Edge Practitioner Network http://cognitive-edge.com/accreditation.php
Certified Scrum Master (CSM, CSP) http://www.scrumalliance.org
Open Space Instutute of Canada http://www.openspacecanada.org
Agile Alliance (Agile Software Development Association) http://www.agilealliance.com
Affiliations:
Organiser of AgileCoachCamp 2008 http://wiki.AgileCoachCamp.org
XP/Agile Toronto, professional interest group http://www.xptoronto.com
BarCamp Toronto Community (aka TorCamp) http://barcamp.org/TorCamp