Welcome to the Coalition! Introduce yourself :-)


#206

Thank you so much for the kind words. One of the reasons I love doing the podcast with other members is it feels like conferences. Me and my friends sitting around enjoying the company and talking about our challenges with work. Glad you found some use with the convo, anything you would have added to the podcast?


#207

@pascal8888 to ā€œyes andā€ @chrismurman - are there podcast topics youā€™d like to hear about? join a podcast about? guest blog about? All are possibilitiesā€¦


#208

Hi there -

My name is Matt Roe. Iā€™m new here. Andy Cleff suggested I join the community! Iā€™m a recruiter at a company called Open Systems Technologies. We work with quite a few financial firms and healthcare companies. Any times that I find opportunities focused in Agile/Scrum/Kanban, I jump on those reqs because I love working on them! The agile community is so interesting to talk to.

About me: Iā€™m a little over a year into recruiting and Iā€™m passionate about what I do. I love talking with professionals and itā€™s incredible that I get to help people find their next assignment. Iā€™m married, a dog lover (German Shepherds are the best), and Iā€™m fascinated by IT/Healthcare.

Let me know if youā€™d ever like to connect! I love expanding my network and getting to know people.
(980) 265-0147
mroe@opensystemstech.com


#209

@MattRoe Welcome! Great to have you here.

All - did you know if you arenā€™t a frequent visitor, you can get a regular digest email of discussion?

Frequency can be set at your preference.

Just visit your preferences (Gear icon that displays when you click on your avatar top right)
Then click on ā€œemailsā€ on the left:

Pick your cadence:

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#210

Greeting! Iā€™m Erkka and I come from the small European country of Finland. I actually ended up here through Twitter after starting to follow @Ryan_Lockard and @andybacon due to the Uprising podcasts.

I have a history of roughly 13 years in software development and solutioning what started with web design but a large part of this time I have worked with (please do not hold this against me) SAP. Agile has been a focus point of mine for the past soon now 3 years and it started for me from the point of view that there has to be a better way to do things also in large ERP projects and basically after that I have been the guy who debates against the ā€œthis is how we have always don thisā€.

Now days i am fast moving more and more away from traditional ERP and working more and more on custom solutions what focus on usability and mobility.


#211

Sounds like interesting work. Welcome to the coalition.


#212

Greetings Erkka! Iā€™m currently working on a massive ERP project myself using agile and SAFe, so Iā€™m really looking forward to sharing both horror stories and successes. Welcome!


#213

Hi Jay. The I would expect that you have your hands full. Looking forward in hearing how it goes. SAP has waterfall rooted really deep in many of the practitioners head.

I donā€™t know if I have that much success stories to share, but some stories as well


#214

Howdy Gang, Iā€™m John in Atlanta, I provide Agile Coaching and Training, so for the personaā€™s, Iā€™d be a cross between Terry and Charlotte. So I guess that would make me either Terlote, or Charrey.

Iā€™ve been doing Coaching and Training for the past 8-9 years and have been working as an independent consultant. Currently Iā€™m between gigs and looking for new opportunities as well as wanting to expand my network. Iā€™m open to travel and have really been to some interesting places and met some great people.


#215

@Paul_Elia - a fellow atlantian!


#216

Hi there! Iā€™m Adam - a Product Owner for CA Agile Central (Rally) focused on enabling better ways of working that provide more valuable outcomes and more sustainability for the people doing the work. Iā€™ve tries on many hats - Product Owner, ScrumMaster, and Developer - and enjoy learning and sharing with others. I currently works to accelerate teams on Agile Centralā€™s release train with continuous delivery tools that empower them to easily and rapidly develop / build / test / deploy / operate / validate their work.

Looking forward to good conversations, learning, and sharing.


#219

Great to have you onboard @zoltron3000

Weā€™ve got a topic open: https://coalition.agileuprising.com/c/processes-and-tools/ca-agile-central-rally

Not much activityā€¦ maybe youā€™d like to spark some conversation? lively debate?


#220

Hey everyone! Iā€™m John and love that there is such a great community to talk all things Agile. I work for Fearless Solutions where I have two main jobs. 1.) Helping different project teams deliver Agile software solutions 2.) Helping our company embed Agile principles into our culture and processes. Excited to be apart of this community and looking forward to conversations and debates!


#221

Welcome to the coalition. I look forward to chatting with you.


#222

Jfoster welcome!

A new person around our campfire always makes me smile.


#223

Hi iā€™m Popi and an agile evangelist. I love coaching new teams and leaders. Iā€™m a Lego serious play facilitator and believe that play in the workplace can uncover and address many dysfunctions


#224

Hey there, Iā€™m Gerald and am a scrum master / developer promoting agile throughout my organisationā€¦ which is not always easy! Iā€™m flying the Aussie flag although am currently based in Basel, Switzerland :smiley: :snowboarder:


#225

It is rarely easy, but definitely worthwhile. Welcome to the coalition.


#226

Hi, itā€™s great to be here. Iā€™m a scrum master with Ippon US, and I practice kanban in my personal life and have introduced a lot of people to it, which has been very rewarding! :slight_smile: Iā€™m starting to get opportunities to do more coaching beyond the team level and am finding the need to go beyond my current network to sharpen and expand my skills. Heard about Agile Uprising and thought, that sounds awesome.


#227

How did you hear about this place? ( wanna know if we owe somebody in particular their commission ;p)

Joking aside, great to have you here. And nice to see you posting in the retro topic on day one!