Chris Bailey
The author of two books on productivity: Hyperfocus, and The Productivity Project.
Chris also writes about productivity at ALifeofProductivity.com, and speak to audiences around the world about how they can become more productive (without hating the process).
AUTHOR, SPEAKER, COACH
Chet Hendrickson
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. In 2000, Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, and Chet wrote Extreme Programming Installed. It detailed XP’s core practices, how to do them, and how they work together to help teams be successful.
INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT, COACH, AND TRAINER
Chris Lucian
Director of software development at Hunter Industries and a founder of mob programming. Chris is passionate about the advancement of machine learning and software craftsmanship.
DIRECTOR OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT HUNTER INDUSTRIES
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Dana Pylayeva
An Agile Coach, trainer, author and international speaker with over 18 years of diverse IT experience. Keen interest in DevOps culture and experience in Gamification all come together in Dana's game and book “Introduction to DevOps with Chocolate, LEGO and Scrum Game”. Dana is passionate about collaboration and helping the teams improve.
AGILE, DEVOPS COACH, TRAINER, SPEAKER
Diana Larsen
A visionary pragmatist, Diana Larsen is Chief Connector at the Agile Fluency™ Project. Devoted to the success of all Agile coaches and teams, Diana co-authored books *Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great*; *Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams*; *Five Rules for Accelerated Learning*; and co-originated the Agile Fluency™ Model.
CO-FOUNDER OF AGILE FLUENCY™ PROJECT
Gareth Lock
Gareth Lock is a retired Royal Air Force senior officer Navigator of 25 years, who was both a senior supervisor and a tactical flight instructor on an operational C-130 flying squadron. In 2016, Gareth developed and launched the Human Factors Skills in Diving high performance development programmes to improve the knowledge, skills and safety of all divers.
LEAD CONSULTANT, AUTHOR: 'UNDER PRESSURE'
Hugo Lourenço
Hugo Lourenço is the founder of eXperience Agile and Radtac Portugal. His main focus is to understand how companies are dealing with digital transformation and collaborate as an advisor to evolve the operational model as well as the approach to addressing the market to gain competitive advantage through an organisational evolution.
CEO RADTAC PORTUGAL
James Grenning
WINGMAN SOFTWARE, AUTHOR, SPEAKER
James Grenning, founder of Wingman Software, trains, coaches and consults worldwide. James is one of the original authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. With decades of software development experience, both technical and managerial, James brings a wealth of knowledge, skill, and creativity to software development teams and their management.
Jeff Patton
VETERAN PRODUCT MANAGER, AGILE, LEAN, UX
Jeff Patton is the glue that connects good product management and strategy, lean user experience and agile delivery practices together. He has authored numerous articles, essays and, most recently, a book, “User Story Mapping.” An independent consultant with a unique teaching and speaking style, he uses hand-drawings and engaging story telling to share his passion for product design.
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Jeff Sutherland
FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN AT SCRUM, INC.
Dr. Jeff Sutherland is one of the creators of the Scrum software development process. Together with Ken Schwaber, he created Scrum as a set of processes at OOPSLA'95. Sutherland helped to write the Agile Manifesto in 2001. He is a writer of The Scrum Guide.
Jem D'jelal
SCRUM TRAINER & CONSULTANT
Jem Djelal has been a Scrum Master since 2007. A nomadic Agile practitioner, he’s served over 200+ teams in the last decade or so. Having worked in a range of industries, Jem has creatively applied Agile ideas to help teams find better ways of working using a combination of methods and frameworks.
Joe
Justice
FOUNDER OF TEAM WIKISPEED
Joe Justice is a consultant at Scrum, Inc., a TEDx speaker, and coach for agile hardware and manufacturing teams around the world. He is the founder of Team WIKISPEED, an all Scrum volunteer-based, “green” automotive prototyping company, with a goal to change the world for the better.
Joshua Kerievsky
CEO OF INDUSTRIAL LOGIC
Joshua is the CEO of Industrial Logic, one of the oldest and most well-respected agile consultancies on the planet. Since 1996, Joshua and his global network of experts have helped people in teams across many industries leverage the wisdom and power of modern development methods. Joshua most recently created Modern Agile to help people and organizations benefit from a principle-based approach to agility.
Ken Pugh
CO-CREATOR SAFe AGILE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Ken Pugh helps companies transform into lean-agile organizations through training and coaching. His special interests are in communication (requirements through ATDD), delivering business value, and using lean principles to deliver high quality quickly. He has written several programming books, including the 2006 Jolt Award winner Prefactoring and his latest Lean-Agile Acceptance Test Driven Development: Better Software Through Collaboration.
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Linda Rising
SPEAKER, AUTHOR, CONSULTANT
Linda Rising is an independent consultant who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She has authored four books and numerous articles and is an internationally known presenter on topics related to patterns, retrospectives, influence strategies, agile development, and the change process.
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Lisa Crispin
TESTING ADVOCATE AT MABL
Lisa Crispin is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing Condensed: A Basic Introduction (2019), More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (2014), Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (2009), the LiveLessons Agile Testing Essentials video course. Lisa was voted by her peers as the Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person at Agile Testing Days in 2012.
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Melissa Perri
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT LEADER, CPO COACH
Melissa Perri believes the key to creating great products is growing great product leaders. As the CEO and founder of Produx Labs, she helps companies effectively scale their product organizations. Melissa also founded the online school Product Institute and started a program to train the next generation of Chief Product Officers. She is an internationally recognized, sought-after keynote speaker.
Stuart Young
BUSINESS VISUALISER, DESIGN-THINKER
Stuart is a professional Business Visualiser with extensive experience and a deep-rooted appreciation for Design Thinking and Agile Principles/ Methodologies. Over time he became accustomed to Agile and Design Thinking ways of working, becoming a Certified Scrum Practitioner, DSDM Agile Analyst, Lean, Kanban Practitioner and SPC4 consultant.
