Free Global 24/7 Agile Festival February 2021
First in a series of sessions with the trustees of the event – Marina, Valentina and Sathpal talk about Membership in The Friends of The Agile20Reflect Festival
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And as we learn how to do this we want to explain why it’s not a conference so here goes…
At our Free Agile Festival you can host, or do anything that you want at any time in February 2021. Co-badge it with us and we will advertise your event or activity on our central programme and we will keep a copy of your event or research for people that are unable to attend to make use of free in the future.
It’s a simple idea, come be creative and share your passion! In our world community party!!!
#agile #agile20reflect
Scott is an Agile Coach working with software teams, he lives in Scotland. He has been know to use Kanban, Scrum, PSK, Open Space, SAFe, Cynefin, Heart of Agile, Clean Language, Flow, Agendashift, and has experience of most methodologies (have not yet used Xscale or Nexus) but is non-allegiant over methods. He believes in the power of invitation and respecting people. Also in challenging systemic barriers and is part of the Be More Pirate Movement – He loves their Manifesto too. He is passionate about people, inclusion, equality and creating awesome places where we can learn from each other. Previously, he has led digital and modernisation programs valued in the multi-billions, created Digital Apps and led huge teams.
He does prefer embedding and coaching small teams in 1:1 settings. He is a full stack Agile coach from User to opps. He spends his time encouraging others to create things, talk at events and overcome their imposter syndrome and helps to make a more inclusive and vibrant Agile Community. (Current hobby learning how to be a fun grassroots Festival Director.)
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/heartofscott/
Twitter : @HeartOfScott
Email : Agile20GlobalRetro@gmail.com
Award winning and experienced Solutions Architect, Solution Designer and Software Developer.
With my knowledge and experience, I can take any business requirement and convert it into a software solution.
I have experience designing and developing solutions on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud platforms and have used all major programming languages, databases and operating systems.
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishkulkarni/
He has been a consultant and innovator in Business Transformation and Human Centred Design since 1989 and in Agile since 2004 involved in supporting both business and technology in the adoption of Customer Centricity and Agility. His recent focus has been on combining HCD and Agile in Enterprise Agile Portfolio management as an extension of SAFe. This was delivered in the NatWest Group from Business through to IT, Retail Banking and Commercial Banking Transformation with 88,000 staff.
Karl Smith is a Fellow of the British Computer Society FBCS, a member by invitation of BCS ELITE the CIO & CTO group and European CIO Association and has supported various Westminster Parliamentary Groups since 2003. He regularly speaks at conferences on a myriad of subjects Agile, HCD, IoT, Blockchain and Social Media including speaking in the House of Lords on Fake News.
He has worked globally and loves to travel and meet new people as his focus has always been people “My desire was not to build things that humans already do but to find out how technology could evolve our human experience.”
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlsmith2/
Twitter : @UserExperienceU
Crunchbase : https://www.crunchbase.com/person/karl-smith
Brandon is an entrepreneurial transformation specialist who thrives in organisational environments where innovation is valued and leveraged to drive change. Pivots between a detail focused and macro level lens to approach business challenges. A servant leader who empowers, builds relationships well and is comfortable in diverse, international environments. Excels at shaping organisational change, communicating clearly through precise communications, and securing buy in across stakeholder groups. A knowledgeable coach and mentor who advises and coaches CxOs, bringing a contagious passion for business agility and equipping organisations with the tools to adapt and change to market environments.
Grace is a Nigerian and lives in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. She has worked mostly as a Project Manager for close to five years in the housing sector. She started off working to deliver social housing in 2014, where Grace and her team successfully delivered a prototype of social housing in a State in Nigeria. They went on to record successes with some other states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, securing Lands without financial cost to the organisation, as one of their fundamental approaches to delivering social housing. She moved on at the end of 2015, away from social housing, focusing on all things leading to the production of sustainable housing; a housing approach focused on using sustainable materials in the housing production process. Being that power supply was and still is a major challenge in Nigeria, they focused on the use of solar as a major source of energy and an important theme in the design and construction of houses for their clients. Grace’s duties quickly changed overtime to Interfacing with investors, the government of states in Nigeria and clients.
Grace is a PMI certified project manager, with a Master of Science in project management and a first degree in urban and regional planning. The year 2020 has been a defining year for her, as it has allowed her to transit to the agile space. Her current focus is on all things agile and digital transformation. She is currently in the process of becoming a certified Scrum Master.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/graceijohnson
Yusuf is a generalist consultant, with a 25 year track record in using systems theory, complexity and Agile to help clients transform & change, from small startups to global giants that create our wealth, fuel our economies and have products in all our homes. Coming from a background on bank trading floors and consulting companies has allowed him to see the good, bad and amazing of getting things done, together with the methods and techniques that actually work in the real world. A realisation that great CEO’s and leaders empower first has shifted more and more of his thinking to the Agile way of operating, with the strong belief that no problem is insurmountable if we understand that ten brains are better than one. He works with the singular drive that Agile is a human movement, not a mechanical method, and we must embrace learning and change to sustain this.
Shelby Wilson is a coach, facilitator, teacher and inspirer, and also loves when people break out into song!!
Her current focus is improving leadership teams through insightful facilitation and organisation coaching. Helping them unknot difficult, multiple departments problems within the finance world and more recently working in the insurance realm. She is passionate about helping organisations transform, to improve service delivery to customers, and improve the working lives of people within the organisation.
Her other focus is community of practices and speaks regularly around the uk on this to highlight how important people are to each other and ways of working. She is passionate about the people side of change, and focused on bringing meaningful change into organisations that will improve the lives of people.
She holds an alphabet spaghetti of certifications but believes that people are always the way forward
With her passion and enthusiasm she hope she can leave the place she’s been last in a better place
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelby-wilson-8bb19684/
Twitter : @Shelbylou27
Anurag is an Agile enthusiast with almost 14+ years of Software Management, Program Execution & Delivery and Agile Transformation experience. Adept at creating, leading and managing Agile teams in distributed setup. He has worn multiple hats in an Agile team – most recently worked as a Scrum Master mentoring and coaching geographically spread Agile teams.
Anurag is pursuing an Executive MBA from the Indian School of Business and loves to volunteer for National and International events and meetups. He was a flag marshal at the Formula 1 Indian GP in 2012 and 2013 and a Communication Marshal at the RUN Norwich race in the UK. He was a Servant Leader for AgilityToday2020 held in Gurgaon, India and a member of Agile Alliance. He loves to travel and works with different people across the globe to learn from them.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/anurag-shrivastava-30a51a3b/
Dominique Lives in Paris, He first got interested in iterative / incremental approaches, human factors when he started working as a developer, back in 1989. He drifted away from software development and got interested in complexity through transformational program management, and then onward to agile thinking. He has been doing consulting, teaching and academic research on agile transformation for the past 6 years. His main interest has now drifted toward adaptive organizations.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcausse/
Marina is an agile coach and community builder with 10+ years experience, working on creating an awesome and inclusive new agile community across all Russia.
She experiments and pilots agile ways of working in companies and government structures that are new to working with agile ways of working. She has experience in hiring internal scrum masters and agile coaches from her own school alumnus. This network has made a huge impact and great change in the organisations. She also helps with the product management culture setup and teaches scrum masters, agile coaches and product coaches through her independent Creative Thinking consulting company co-owned with Montessory Expert.
Marina spent time working as software developer and quality manager in Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, Siberia whilst studying in Novosibirsk State University and had practice in scientific research organizations in computer technologies.
She also worked as the first Scrum Master in Russia’s largest IT company Yandex in 2012-2015 and at Russia’s largest telecom MTS as an internal agile coach in 2017- 2018.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/arefyeva/
He is a seasoned knowledge worker, leader and coach. He specializes in product and process design, business communications, open/agile mindset development and Organizational/Team transformation.
As part of the team of Professional Services at SaskTel, he heads the Agile process and practices discipline serving both internal groups and consulting for external clients. He has engaged with his clients’ individual teams, multiple teams across departments and C-level executives to bring Agile process and practices to their organizations.
His specialties are: Agile Coaching, mentoring, training, team building, product & process design, and knowledge work.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/khurshid-akbar/
Myles is a business agility influencer and leads the business agility community in Africa and the Middle East. He is the founder of Be Agile and has been a globally respected consultant for the past 19 years. He focuses on adding tangible value to organisations through enabling them to develop winning and actionable strategies, core adaptability and agility, and the innovative and engaged culture needed to deliver high impact results.
Myles is a sought after speaker at international conferences, Meetups and Webinars. His company – Be Agile – won the 2020 World Agility Foundation award for the work they do in building agile communities.”
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/myles-hopkins-6048b6/
Valentina lives in Moscow, Russia. She has been working in IT since 2006 and for the last 4 years she has worked in FinTech managing Software Development. They use Scrum methodology, so she is interested in getting more experience with it. She speaks Russian, English and German. In July 2020 Valentina got a Diploma of Harvard Business School in “Disruptive Strategy and Innovation” course. She is a passionate traveller and likes experiencing new places, cultures, food. She also loves Alpine skiing and French bulldogs.
Freelance strategist & marketing director in Riga/Moscow/Palma
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/julija-sipicina-buhgolca-37a6b915/
Interaction Design Student at The Glasgow School of Art, Marketing Circle Member at The Agile20Reflect Festival
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-seivwright-227048149/
Sath is a technology leader, passionate Agilist and Visual Storyteller. He started his career as a Software Engineer after graduating with a BEng(Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, he moved from technical hands-on roles into management and leadership roles and has over 20 years of professional experience across the public, private and voluntary sectors and has led numerous cross-functional teams, departments and divisions. He has also been responsible for a number of complex and high profile digital programs and transformation initiatives working across a number of sectors, notably travel and tourism, energy and the drinks industry with global brands and international clients.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sathpal/
Twitter: @sathpal
Enterprise Agile Consultant with 19 Years of Experience in Software Industry and in that 10+ years of Agile Coach/Scrum Master / RTE experience for large programmes / platform teams. Experienced Agile Coach and Scrum Master with good Coaching & servant leadership skills with the ability to develop high performance and self-organised feature teams. Have worked extensively in the Implement and Embed phase of Bank’s Agile transformation programme (organise the work, organise the people, speed up the work). Good experience in designing and implementing scaled agile operating models for the Bank (Business, Change, Technology) based on industry frameworks (SAFe,LeSS,Scrum@Scale,Spotify)
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerome-arockia-51bab238/
Having over 9 years’ experience in Project Management and Agile Delivery, I am confident in communicating with stakeholders to ensure software delivered meets business requirements and is fit for purpose. I have a track record for training and enhancing Scrum Teams in agile principles, who may or may not have a traditional waterfall background, enabling them to select methodologies to work more efficiently and continue to set expectations. I have been coaching and training using many different agile methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, ScrumBan as well as having experience in scaling agile using the LeSS framework. I regularly keep up to date with new agile ways of working and attend the scrum alliance conferences. Agile is not just a job for me it’s a passion.
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrinabruce/
