The Agile20Reflect Festival ceased to exist on the 11th of May 2021. The following people were involved before that time.
Arie is a pragmatic who embeds his pragmatism in structure, discipline & common sense from his early days in the health care and the military forces up to where he is today. This eventually led to being one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. Over the years Arie has become an expert on Agile transformations and Business Agility. Arie is working for Wemanity (www.wemanity.com) these days as thought leader and within Wemanity responsible for international transformations (across the globe) and works with an international team to get this done. Next to this work in Agile and Agile transformations Arie lectured at the Rotterdam University (20 years), Amsterdam (7 years) and Utrecht (3years) on topics such as Agile, (Agile) project management and Facilitation. His IP is to be found at www.integratedagile.com and www.arievanbennekum.com. His first book is about how to handle change and objectives as an individual (#YouAreTheArchitectOfYourOwnLife) and his second book on Business Agility (#ReachingForBusinessAgility) is coming out soon.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariev3/
Twitter : @arievanbennekum
Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can then decide how to adapt their product development.
With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. Her most recent books are the Modern Management Made Easy series, From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, and Create Your Successful Agile Project. Find the Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter, and her blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannarothman/
Twitter : @johannarothman
Co-author of the Agile Manifesto, created Heart of Agile. Creatively showing a humane way forward since the 1990s. Asked by IBM in 1991 to create a new and modern methodology for the IBM Consulting Group, Dr. Alistair Cockburn started studying how teams succeed. His team was one of the few that succeeded with commercial object-technology projects in the mid-1990s. His book Surviving Object-Oriented Projects showed how they did that.
Continuing his research, including being special advisor to the Norwegian Central Bank in the late 1990s, Dr. Cockburn co-organized the event that changed the software industry, the writing of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development (http://agilemanifesto.org), generally just called the Agile Manifesto. He received his Dr. Philos. from the University of Oslo in 2003, the same year he organized the first Agile Development Conference.
Author of 7 Rules for Positive Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results. Esther draws on four decades of experience leading, observing, and living through organizational change. Esther started her career as a programmer, and quickly realized that while her job description referred to computers, her real work involved changing the way people worked, and supporting them though that process. In 1997, she founded esther derby associates, inc., and works with a broad array of clients from Fortune 500 companies to start ups. Her approach blends attention to humans and deep knowledge of complex adaptive systems.
In addition to consulting, Esther has an extensive background in designing and leading experiential learning. She teaches workshops both on-line and in-person around the world. Her workshops support leaders to explore how they can adapt the environment to amplify empowerment, engage in joint problem-solving, and evolve their systems towards better results.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/estherderby/
Agile & Exec Team Coach, Virtual Facilitator & Systems Coach, Co-leader TENWOMENSTRONG. I am an Agile + professional coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer. My current focus is improving the performance of top leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organization systems coaching. Making difficult decisions faster and with clear alignment, unknotting challenging multi-department impediments, creating the conditions for smooth organizational delivery, helping leaders take up the “Agile transformation” that is theirs to make…this is where I thrive and help thrive.
My Agile community focus is amplifying women’s voices, which is why I am a founder of the TENWOMENSTRONG #WomeninAgile programs.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyssaadkins/
I am simply a transformer. Someone who is really passionate about transforming individuals, teams and organizations to doing what they do better. I believe in enabling Business Agility so our customers can thrive in a competitive world.
My leadership style is summarized as.. BE BOLD .. BE REAL and Lead with LOVE
BE BOLD is why my amazing team and I have a BIG dream to bring measurement, continuous improvement and business agility to all major enterprises around the world.
It’s also why I started SudanNextGen.com, a non-profit that aims to help Sudan leapfrog into the future after its recent revolution led by women and youth.
Learn More: https://www.AgilityHealthRadar.com
Learn Agile: https://www.AgileVideos.com
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/elatta/
Coach, Facilitator, Speaker, Co-Creator of Tabi Game, Co-Founder of Future of Work 24 Hour Global Gathering & Women In Agile Open. Experience Craftswoman & Mindset Harmonizer that Nurtures the Journey to Nourish Yourself
I lead with empathy and courage while partnering with others to help unlock their full potential. Believing the path to authentic growth and change begins with invitation and a people centered approach. Favoring a blended mindset of agile, lean, design thinking, open space, teal, and improvisation when engaging. I value connecting people to ownership of their needs and goals.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/soulcraftswoman/
Thought Lord, Mapper, Junior DevOpper, Destroyer of undeserved value. Lawful / Chaotic Evil often Good.
Explorer of uncharted spaces. Twice voted in the UKTech50, Judge in Nesta’s Open Banking and Netflix’s Open Source competitions, Co-Chair of OSCON Europe, Cloud Camp and Map Camp. Regular speaker on the global tech circuit.
Linkedin : @swardley
CEO XSCALE Alliance, Peter is Australia’s longest serving agilist and played a part in the formation of the Agile Alliance. Credited in Beck’s first XP book, Peter created the first agile training games and ran them at the first agile conference, XP2K. He led transformations at GMAC and Websense in the US, and IAG, CBA and Ray White in Australia.
In 2015 Peter founded XSCALE Alliance as “the Linux of the Agile world”. Gartner recognised XSCALE in its 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 market guides for Enterprise Agile Frameworks, and XSCALE coaches in a dozen world capitals are collaborating on it as an open learning ecosystem engaging banks, insurers, health and telco corporations.
Peter also has three decades in delivery programs. He played leading roles on the $9B CBA Mobile Channel “Kaching” product, Invensys “I/A Systems SCADA” which controls a third of the world’s oil infrastructure, and Telstra’s OMP grid which controlled Austalia’s international telco network for 2 decades. He authored patents in scheduling, e-currency, pattern recognition and social ratings, led multiple startups and open source projects including the original Wikipedia wiki engine.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermerel/
interim Managing Director at Agile Alliance. Helping organizations, leaders and teams deliver better results through coaching them to bring about the circumstances in which they can work most productively and create real organizational change. As a business agility coach, I help teams and leaders in all parts of the enterprise to actively address the organization’s most pervasive problems. I introduce techniques from Scrum, Lean, Kanban, Extreme Programming, and Systems Coaching to promote successful collaborative environments that can adapt to changing business circumstances. I deliver training and workshops in a variety of experiential formats to build the foundations for an agile mindset and practices, and use coaching and facilitation to solve the tough people problems and overcome obstacles to organization change at the team, managerial and corporate levels. I often work with teams to develop coherence and resilience in turbulent business environments.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellengrove/
roduct Management Author, Consultant and Trainer,.
Roman is a leading product management expert specialised in digital products and agile practices. He teaches product managers and product owners, advises product leaders, and helps companies create successful product management organisations.
Roman is the author of three books on product management and one on Scrum. He writes a popular blog at romanpichler.com/blog, hosts his own product management podcast, and offers a range of free product management tools.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanpichler/
Agile & Organizational Coach, founder of ScrumTrek, partner and DataMonsters, entrepreneur.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/urazbaev/
Gabrielle Benefield is an author, speaker, innovator, and founder of Mobiusloop.com. Mobius is a radically simple way to get to the outcomes that really matter. It acts as a navigator, creating a continuous flow of innovation from discovery, to design, to delivery. Gabrielle is an advocate for purposeful innovation and believes the relentless pursuit of ‘more, more, more’ gets in the way of success. Since developing the earliest inception of Mobius in 2009 she has helped individuals and organizations all over the globe, including Google and Red Hat solve complex problems in a transformational way.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/gbenefield/
