Doug Shimp
Douglas E. Shimp over 20 years of experience in the technology field and has played key roles in software development (developer, QA, Analyst, Manager, Leader, Coach and Consultant). Doug’s passion is about teams and applied learning for product development. He has established himself as a leader in the area of agile/scrum transitions and applied practices. He believes that the core bases for applied agile is that “You must see the result for it to be real; otherwise it is all just theory to the individual”. He is co-founder of 3Back LLC that specializes in helping teams get better in applied pathways of agile, scrum, lean and PMBOK. His latest craze and focus is on social media and video conferencing. He is using tools of social media and video conferencing for improved adaptive team behaviors especially distributed teams. He is also using tools of social media and web analytics to help others and organizations learn how to approach this confusing but critical paradigm for product development.
More of his work can be found
· http://twitter.com/scrum_coach (daily scrum throughts)
· http://advancedtopicsinscrum.com (deep thoughts and book material for applied scrum)
· http://www.scrumalliance.org/profiles/29-douglas-e-shimp (Certified Scrum Trainer and published articles)
· http://3back.com (his company and their services)
· http://doug-shimp.net (just about everything else he does)
Jan Beaver, Ph.D.
Jan Beaver is a Ph.D. educator with 25 years of experience in the software industry. His experience covers the gamut of management, development, QA, and technical writing. His first practical exposure to agile was a dramatic eye-opening experience that for the first time demonstrated that there really was a better way not just to develop software, but a better way to work in general.
Jan is an expert agile/lean/Scrum trainer and coach who has worked with a wide variety of companies in an equally wide variety of industries including telecommunications, medical, insurance, media, and smart-grid energy. He specializes in bringing agile, lean, and Scrum values, principles, and practices to teams, helping them to become effective, productive, and self-sustaining. He also works with executive leadership through focused enterprise agile training and coaching to help organizations become truly agile.
Contact Jan at jbeaver@greyrockagile.com .
Jan's Blog is at coachingagile.blogspot.com .
Follow Jan on Twitter @jan_beaver
Tom Smallwood
Tom Smallwood, with over 20 years of experience in the software industry has spent most of career crafting software solutions for customers and clients. As a Senior Agile Coach and Trainer, Tom is dedicated to coaching organizations, at all levels, in the application of agile/lean philosophies, principles, practices and continuous learning that enables the team to delivery a fast, flexible, flow of business value to deliver more of what their customer wants.
Tom currently provides on-site training, coaching, and mentoring in Agile practices with emphasis on technical practices such as TDD, BDD, Specification by Example, FitNesse, Cucumber, Continuous Integration, automation and XP.
Tom is experienced helping cross-functional teams make the transition to agile/lean principles and practices. He is able to coach all team roles in addition to middle and senior leadership.
An expert in course development and delivery. He is continually improving his own knowledge with on-going study of agile/lean topics.
Certifications: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP), Certified Scrum Developer (CSD), Professional Scrum Master Lvl-1 (PSM1), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).
Tom's web site at http://www.smallwood-software.com .
Tom's Scrum Alliance profile at http://www.scrumalliance.org/profiles/11639-tom-smallwood .
Follow Jan on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomsmallwood