Welcome to the Coalition! Introduce yourself :-)

#151

Great to see you here, Todd! I guess this is one way to break out of phone tag!
Would love to see you post more about your adventures as a PST.

#152

I’m an agile coach and Open Space Agility Community Supporter.

Culture eats strategy [ & well-meaning agile coaches] for breakfast.
-Always respect people.

I believe that applying agile principles to organizational culture change in an enterprise-wide agile transformation, is the most effective, reliable, lasting and human way to get authentic, positive results among those Willing to try it out. I’m hoping to gain insights from people who have enjoyed success in empowering people to try out agile in a wide variety of industries, or get acquainted with people who have some level of curiosity around this topic.

I live in Mission Viejo, California, USA, but travel globally and speak/read/write Japanese.

#153

Hi, I’m Alison! I am a graphic designer, illustrator and content marketer for Knowledge Train. I’ve recently just started to work in an agile way going from 1 year and 6 month plans (and never finishing them!) to monthly sprints and sometimes daily iterations. It has changed my life! :smiley: I stumbled upon this forum on Twitter and thought I’d join to learn and to network. I’m always on the lookout for contributors for the Knowledge Train blog and thought I might meet some in here! :slight_smile:

#154

Hey everyone. I am Jay. I’ve been on the outside of Agile Environments for a few years now, just soaking everything in. I’m now trying to start practicing Agile in a real way. I’ve been lurking for a little bit on here but just signed up!

#155

Same to you @JonJorgensen! We should catch-up very soon!

#156

A warm welcome to the new arrivals. We took at stab at “user personas” early on:

How close are we to depicting you?

#157

Glad you made your way hear @JonJorgensen love hearing you and @vbonacci on the Agile Coffee pod cast. I was binge listening to it today!

#158

I’m Barry the beginner :sunglasses:

#159

Ah, the wonderful Beginner’s Mind of @alisonwood - filled with openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions!

#160

I guess I’m closest to being a Charlotte

#161

Hi, I’m Jen aka Peter the Product Manager…just (literally 5hrs ago) got my CSPO in an awesome class taught by Dave Prior, where I had the pleasure of learning about the Kano model from Troy AND found out about this great community - value packed day!

I’ve been in product management for 9 years, but only truly working as a PO in an agile environment for about a year. My organization is about 3 years into their journey and launched a ‘Back to Basics’ effort 9 months ago - my team was one of the pilot teams and the program has taken my newly formed (at the time) team from being completely unpredictable, fairly disfunctional, with dismal stakeholder satisfaction to being the top performing team out of 30 in the organization with the best predictability and highest stakeholder satisfaction score.

I’ve become an Agile champion in my company because simply put…this stuff works when you work it. I’m spending a lot of time working with my prod mgr peers who are struggling with the evolution of PM to PO - and we’re definitely struggling. Would love to get perspective from others on this topic.

We have (IMO) a pretty great Agile learning and adoption community at my company and I’m happy to chat about what’s worked for us if anyone is interested.

Glad to have found you all - looking forward to some great discussions!

#162

Thanks for joining Jen! Glad to you have you here.

#163

Hello everyone,

My name is Joris and I am from The Netherlands. I’ve worked as a developer in a small web startup company that used XP. Later I joined a larger company with about 15 scrum teams. I am now a scrum master for two of those teams. I started out with one team a year ago, and I gained a second team a few months ago.

I am a somewhat confused beginner (Barry the Beginner). Our teams are very independent and have very different views on very basic concepts in our process. Although we use the name scrum master, we deviate from the scrum books in some ways, making us more scrumban or in worst case scrumbut.

Our company is distributed over three European countries, making collaboration quite a challenge. We try to solve this technically by splitting our monolith of an enterprise product into (micro)services. I think there is a social/communication side we are avoiding or not facing, but gut feelings are hard to trust when you are relatively new.

Because I am so new I sometimes feel I sometimes fall into the persona of Fred the Frustrated Practitioner, because things don’t work as cleanly as they are represented in the books.

I am looking for information outside of our organization because I think it is easy to perceive your immediate surroundings as “The Way It Should Be Done”. I am highly ambivalent about certifications, because I believe having outside coaching is very valuable, but I am really repulsed by the fact that the training market is so fractured.

I am an podcast listener that loves to catch up on new thoughts during my commute. The Meta-Cast was the first Agile podcast I listened to and it had a large influence on how I look at agile. Now I recently started listening to the Agile Uprising podcast and that led me here. There seems to be a lot to read here, and it is very daunting to take it all in, so my first plan is to basically try to keep up with the new things and search into the history later.

Hope to hear many different views and get some direction from the community.

#164

Another approach would be to start some new topics… related to where you are now… and what problems you want to work on… we probably all share those…

#165

Thanks for the warm welcome. I look forward to a communitydiscussion around agile and technology. In fact, I think I’ll start one :slight_smile:

#166

Hello everyone, glad to discover this awesome community and to already see a few familiar faces! My name is Dana Pylayeva. I am an Agile Coach at HBC Digital as well as an active member of large agile community - speaking at conferences, volunteering, co-organizing NYC Scrum User Group. If you are in NYC on 3rd Thursday of the month - you are all invited!!
I am one of the co-chairs for Project, Program and Portfolio management track at Agile2017.(Our call for proposal is open at the moment. Submit yours - we offer help with crafting it.)
As hectic as a conference organizing could be, being a part of dynamic teams of people who volunteer their time to make it work is truly an amazing experience! Intrinsic motivation is contagious :slight_smile:
For me it started with a huge experiment of founding Big Apple Scrum Day(BASD) in 2015. Most of us had full time jobs and were complete newbies in conference planning. Beginners luck turned out to be real!
Next came the planning of BASD2016 and Play4Agile North America 2016.
This year - another big experiment: a back-to-back extravaganza in NYC: Agile Coach Camp US (ACCUS2017), followed by Big Apple Scrum Day 2017.

Yes, everyone is invited!

#167

@Dana_Pylayeva Great to see you here!

For any east cost US peeps, if you haven’t been to a Big Apple Scrum Day, get yourself to one soon. http://www.bigapplescrumday.org/ They are awesome!

If you are interested in being a speaker, deadline for submissions is Feb 14. Here’s a link: https://www.papercall.io/basd2017

And here’s a link to submit a proposal for Agile2017:
https://www.agilealliance.org/agile2017/program/submission-process/
Feb 6 is the deadline for session proposals.

#168

I am the Founding Director of the Agile Lean Center at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology and an Agile Evangelist in the academic world. Our University is one of the first Universities we believe that requires a 3 credit hour Agile Scrum class in order to receive an MS in Project Management. We also have just introduced an Agile Lean Concentration as a part of the MS in Project Management. We are looking for speakers - Track and Keynote for our Agile Lean Summit on May 1. I look forward to this group! I am a big fan of Ryan Lockard and a few others I know in the Coalition.

#169

Welcome aboard Tom! We should post about the Harrisburg Agile Summit!! Ill get that up tomorrow.

#170

Welcome aboard @tsheives