Lyssa Clark Adkins

Agile Coach, Agile and Scrum Trainer, CSM/CSP/CST, PMP, SSGB

Richmond, Virginia Area

Current
  • Agile and Scrum Trainer at Cricketwing Consulting
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Education
  • Villanova University
  • George Mason University
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Lyssa Clark Adkins’s Summary

I am certified as a Scrum Trainer and I am an Agile Coach. I came to Agile as a project leader with over 15 years’ project management expertise. Even with all that experience, nothing prepared me for the power and simplicity of Agile done well.

My Agile experience, along with my professional coaching and training abilities, gives me the perspective needed to guide teams and Agile leaders to harness Agile as the competitive advantage weapon it was meant to be. I know the transformation path is rocky. As a former large-scale program manager and director of Project Management Offices, I have lived it myself. This makes me uniquely able to help others translate their existing world to the Agile world.

For the last four years, I have been coaching teams in the financial services industry and coaching coaches who represent the gamut of Agile implementations, from small consulting firms to the giants of industry.

I believe that Agile is more than an alternate project management methodology and am passionate about deepening the roles in Agile - specifically Agile Coach and Agile Manager - to help Agile move into its fullest expression.

I hold an alphabet-soup of certifications: Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB). I am also actively training in the methods and practices of Co-Active Coaching.

Lyssa Clark Adkins’s Specialties:

agile, scrum, scrummaster, agile coach, process engineering, organizational change management, software engineering, project strategy, project management, analysis and design, data modeling and data warehousing, technical writing, training, deployment

Lyssa Clark Adkins’s Experience

  • Agile and Scrum Trainer

    Cricketwing Consulting

    (Internet industry)

    January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

    Certified Scrum Trainer offering training courses and 1-on-1 "coach of coaches" consulting. See descriptions of available courses at Training Classes on www.cricketwing.com.

  • Agile Coach

    Capital One (through Sapphire Technologies)

    (Public Company; COF; Financial Services industry)

    April 2007 — April 2009 (2 years 1 month)

    Coach of multiple Agile teams, programs and management groups. Building Agile capability and Lean thinking through apprenticing coaches and educating at all levels within the organization. Guiding teams to deliver quality customer value as fast as possible.

    Within 6 months, started up 3 teams, consulted to 3 more and was a thought leader for leadership teams. Also, mentored 3 Agile Coach apprentices to successful certification, influenced program delivery and was the catalyst for significant step-change in leadership mindset. Since November, have expanded this to a new program with 6 teams and 3 more coach apprentices.

  • Manager, Enterprise Portfolio Management Office

    Circuit City

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

    April 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 1 month)

    Creator of the Project Management Center of Excellence which has the goal of increasing the level of project manager proficiency across the Enterprise. This will be done through the creation and maturation of project management methods, tools, training and mentoring.

  • Project Manager/Scrum Master

    Capital One (through Convergent Domains)

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; COF; Financial Services industry)

    May 2005 — April 2006 (1 year )

    Scrum master for teams who are using Agile methods to deliver business value to Capital One incrementally. One team put their first piece of functionality into production within 45 days of start-up and began delivering hard-cash value to the company from that point forward. That team will finish the project 6 months earlier than the best waterfall estimate and will do so with more functionality and higher confidence in the quality of the solution.

  • Director, PMO

    Trilegiant Loyalty Solutions

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    March 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 3 months)

    Directed a team of project managers in the planning and execution of over fifty client projects in less than a year. Played a significant role in the pursuit and win of one of the industry’s largest loyalty programs and served as the project director during the initiation and planning phases. Managed a 20-person team to deliver a major loyalty program and software solution for a leading condominium brokerage.

  • Project Manager

    Capital One (through Apex Systems)

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; COF; Financial Services industry)

    March 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 11 months)

    Led multiple software development, production support and infrastructure projects to support Intranet Content Management initiatives. Managed a team of 20 professionals in the creation of the Content Management System for CapitalOne.com. The project included custom development, third-party software integration, business process re-engineering and infrastructure build-out.

  • Project Manager

    CricketWing Consulting & Analysts International

    (Computer Software industry)

    2001 — March 2002 (1 year )

    Independent consultant offering functional architecture, project management and systems analysis services. For ChevronTexaco, provided project leadership, data cleansing, data warehousing (Informatica) and GIS leadership for a 20-person team. At Birdnest Software, an e-Government start up, served as the whole product manager defining the product roadmap and strategy.

  • Project Manager

    iXL

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; iixl; Internet industry)

    2000 — 2001 (1 year )

    Led a team of 50 e-business professionals from initial concept through solution delivery and into maintenance in the creation of Mayo Clinic HealthQuest and MayoClinic.com (http://www.mayoclinic.com/), two infomediary websites offering a variety of content and health management tools

  • Project Manager

    Chevron

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Oil & Energy industry)

    1997 — 2000 (3 years )

    Managed teams of 5 to 15 to deliver at least one major software project per year and actively participated in the development and delivery of several others, including significant geographic systems development, spatial data access and legacy data migration.

  • Project Manager

    Mitchell Systems, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Geo/SQL

    (Computer Software industry)

    1991 — 1997 (6 years )

    Project management positions of increasing responsibility and complexity.

Lyssa Clark Adkins’s Education

  • Villanova University

    Six Sigma Green Belt , 2004 — 2004

  • George Mason University

    BS , Management Information Systems , 1997 — 2001

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Lyssa Clark Adkins’s Groups:

Scrum Alliance, Project Management Institute

  •    Certified Scrum Trainers
  •    Agilistas
  •    Scrum Practitioners
  •    Innovation Games® in Action (an authorized forum)

Lyssa Clark Adkins’s Honors:

Key player in two technology projects that were both nominated for Computerworld/Smithsonian Awards for “significant progress for society through visionary use of information technology.” ADAPT was nominated in 1993 and ViaVista in 1998. ViaVista was one of 50 finalists out of a field of 3,000. ViaVista was also a finalist in Bill Gates’ Windows World award.

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