Affiliates

Mike Cohn is three of the most popular books on agile software development: Agile Estimating and Planning, User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, and Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum. Through Mountain Goat Software, Mike specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques in order to build extremely high performance development organizations. He is a co-founder of the Scrum Alliance and Agile Alliance. With more than 20 years of software industry experience, Mike has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 20. Mike is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, a Certified Scrum Trainer and a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. He can be reached at www.mountaingoatsoftware.com.

Simon Powers has 20 years of product development experience with small and huge companies alike. He is an organizational design coach using Agile / Lean as the toolkit for his work. He believes Agile can change the way we work for the better to a more wholesome way of transparent working, with respect, honesty, courage to speak up, resulting in greater innovation and faster time to market.  He is the founder of Adventures with Agile and global community of practice for scaling agile and organisational change, he runs the AWA support network and consultancy, and practices what he teaches.  He was the lead coach on the best implementation of Agile in the public sector and one of the finalists for the person who has done the most to promote Agile globally in 2015.

Zuzi Sochova is an Agile Coach and Scrum Certified Trainer (CST).  Her background is software development and services delivery where she worked for 10 years. Later she moved to management and executive roles before starting her independent coaching/training company. Zuzi holds several well recognized certifications such as CSM, CSPO, CSP, CST, Certified LeSS practitioner, and Management 3.0 facilitator. Zuzi works most of the time in EMEA and BRICS countries and can easily adapt her coaching /training to specific cultures. She often leads distributed project connecting USA, Europe, and Asia. Zuzi uses the Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) framework for coaching and she coaches at all organization levels – individual, team, and whole organizations, working with developers to executives. As a volunteer she founded the nonprofit Agile Association (based in the Czech Republic and promoting Agile principles locally) and organizes the annual Agile Prague conference.

Vernon Stinebaker is an active proponent of Agile principles and practices and proven leader with over 27 years experience in the Information Technology industry including more than 20 years executive experience leading award winning software engineering, IT, and operations organizations in China. Vernon has proven success in leadership, technical, consulting, business development, training, and organizational coaching roles.  Vernon’s personal mantra is “Never stop learning”. His vision is to change the world by helping individuals and organizations aspire to their full potential. Vernon sees coaching as a key means of achieving this vision. He is an active Scrum Alliance volunteer contributing to many programs including the new Certified Team Coach (CTC) program.   Vernon works for Perficient, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT) where he is Principal, Agile Practices. He works primarily out of Perficient’s Hangzhou, China office.

Sergey Dmitriev is Certified Scrum Trainer (CST).  He is a lighthouse in the dark.  He inspires and motivates people to sail towards the light.  Sergey’s mission is to convince the World that traditional approach to managing knowledge workers is broken.  Just like many enterprise-level coaches and trainers, Sergey operates globally, without borders, with his most known area of impact being South California/Scandinavia and Russia.