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Johanna Rothman, also known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” is a coach, consultant, speaker, and advisor. Johanna offers frank advice for tough problems with managing projects, programs, and project portfolios.  Essentially, Johanna helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work.

Johanna started her career in software engineering.  She started managing cross-functional projects in 1979, then managing programs in 1988. She founded the Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. in 1994. She has had a virtual team long before 2020!

Additionally, Johanna is the author of 18 books (non-fiction & fiction) and hundreds of articles.  She works on a monthly newsletter, and blogs regularly at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.

Johanna has served as a program chair for the Agile Alliance for 6 years, as well as a technical editor for TechWell, and a contributing writer to TestRail by Gurock.

Johanna was recently a guest speaker at the DC Lean + Agile Meetup where she covered Modern Management.

Follow Johanna on Twitter @johannarothman

Esther Derby is a consultant, advisor, author, and speaker. Esther has spent the last 25 years helping companies design their organization for success. 

She has a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership and a certificate in Human Systems Dynamics.

In 1997, she founded her own consulting business, Esther Derby Associates. She works with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.

Esther is the author of more than 100 articles and several books. Esther started her career as a programmer, and has also worked as a business owner, internal consultant, and manager.

Esther is also the host of the Change by Attraction podcast that’s designed for people who want to bring change to their team, department, or organization.

Follow Esther on Twitter @estherderby.

Welcome to the second episode of Agile Chat! In this episode, our hosts Brandon Call and Johnny Gholson will cover the importance of an innovation strategy for an enterprise. You'll also learn how an effective lean/agile transformation can help you properly design and implement this strategy across your enterprise. Visit cirruslabs.io/agile for more details.

Welcome to the first episode of Agile Chat! In this episode, our hosts Brandon Call and Johnny Gholson will breakdown how to effectively empower agility across an enterprise. You'll learn the importance of assessing your current practices, how to implement the right training for your organization and the value behind coaching and organization towards continuous business value delivery.

Alistair Cockburn is one of the 17 signatories of the Agile Manifesto, the author of the Crystal methodology and the founder of the Heart of Agile movement.  

Back in 2002, Alistair wrote the seminal book, Agile Software Development: A Cooperative Game and brought his unique methodologist’s eye to agile methods. 

I met Alistair in those early days, and was taken in by his energy, passion and erudition.  Alistair and I had several conversations that have stuck with me to this day several years later.  For instance, we had a conversation we had about autopoesis, which is Maturana and Varela’s term for the self-generating, self-maintaining structure in living systems. Another conversation that I can remember with Alistair was about his passion for designing spaces, both on agile teams and also for agile conferences, with such attention to detail. He thought about them as gardens and how to grow them and bring people together so that they could thrive.

I really believe that one of the reasons that we have the agile community today is because of Alistair’s contributions in bringing together this global community for the very first time in 2003 in Salt Lake City for the first unified conference.

Along with Jim Highsmith, Mike Cohn, David Anderson and Ole Jepsen, Alistair’s perspective influenced the writing of the Declaration of Interdependence for Agile and Adaptive projects. 

Alistair’s influence has been fairly wide ranging. For instance, Alistair’s Crystal Orange methodology forms the foundational basis for all scaled methods today, including the Scaled Agile Framework and Disciplined Agile.

Over the years, Alistair has been a force of nature, rallying people together all over the world behind the agile cause. Today, Alistair brings his incredible passion and enthusiasm for life to the Heart of Agile movement, seeking to return agile methods to their first principles.

-Sanjiv Augustine

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