A LITTLE ABOUT ME
Hello. I ama learner.a leader.a coach.an elephant rider.
I’m a person that really enjoys helping others make great software, have fun, and discover new ways to innovate. By the way, I like to also hang with my BFFWife, fish, anything with my dogs, enjoy beer, and smoke meat.
TWEETS
MY WHY
I believe in working with teams to help them
continuously learn, continuously get better, and
build great products that users love
— all while having fun.
continuously learn, continuously get better, and
build great products that users love
— all while having fun.
COMMUNITY & SPEAKING
2022
- Agile Day Atlanta (Atlanta, GA), May 2022, Being Actionable About Trust
- Agile and Beyond (Detroit, MI), May 2022, Being Actionable About Trust
- Agile and Beyond (Detroit, MI), May 2022, Raising Your Game Using Model Thinking
- WashU’s Project Management Roundtable (Virtual), March 2022, Patterns and Good Practices of Product Ownership
2020
- Agile Day Atlanta (Virtual), October 2020, Continuous Improve Your Way to Badass!
2019
- IIBA Atlanta Meetup, December 2019, Getting Crazy with Group Ideation!
- Fall for Agile (Atlanta, GA), October 2019, Getting Crazy with Group Ideation!
- BAConference (Columbus, OH), December 2019, Stop Talking, Start Building – Trust, It’s Time!
- Agile2019 (Washington, DC), August 2019, Let’s Just Skip High-Performing and Go Straight to Badass!
- Agile and Beyond (Detroit, MI), May 2019, A High-Speed Crash Course of Design Thinking
- Path to Agility (Columbus, OH), May 2019, Stop Talking, Start Building – Trust, It’s Time!
- AgileCamp Chicago, May 2019, Let’s Just Skip High-Performing and Go Straight to Badass!
2018
- AgileCamp Dallas, November 2018, A High-Speed Crash Course of Design Thinking
- AgileDC, October 2018, Stop Talking, Start Building – Trust, It’s Time!
- Agile Testing, September 2018, Deliver Team’s Future with all the _DD’s
- AgileCamp New York, September 2018, A High-Speed Crash Course of Design Thinking
- Path to Agility, May 2018, High-performing Doesn’t Happen Overnight, It Takes Practice
- Agile and Beyond, May 2018, High-performing Doesn’t Happen Overnight, It Takes Practice
- Agile Day Atlanta, May 2018, A High-Speed Crash Course of Design Thinking
2017
- AgileCamp Silicon Valley, November 2017, High-performing Doesn’t Happen Overnight, It Takes Practice
- AgileDC, October 2017, High-performing Doesn’t Happen Overnight, It Takes Practice
- AgileCamp Northwest, September 2017, High-performing Doesn’t Happen Overnight, It Takes Practice
- Path to Agility, May 2017, Learning to Fly – Purpose Driven Teams
- Agile and Beyond, May 2017, Finding Some Agile Success – It’s All In The Head
2016
- AgileCamp Silicon Valley, October 2016, Learning to Fly – Purpose Driven Teams
- AgileDC, October 2016, Learning to Fly – Purpose Driven Teams
- Agile 2016, July 2016, Purpose Driven Teams
- Agile Day Atlanta, May 2016, Franken-Agile – Adopting Agile Everywhere
- Agile & Beyond, May 2016, Finding the Key to Engagement – Purpose
- Atlanta Scrum Meetup, April 2016, State of Agile 2016 – Culture and Leadership Barriers
2015
- Agile Day Atlanta, May 2015, Words Mean Things
- Agile & Beyond 2015, April 2015, Spice Up Your Agile Everything
- Atlanta Scrum Meetup, March 2015, The Agile State
- Atlanta PMI-Agile Group, February 2015, Fall In Love with Metrics
2014
- AgileDC, October 2014, Words Mean Things
- Atlanta Scrum Meetup, October 2014 – Spice up Your Agile Everything
- Agile 2014, Orlando, FL, Getting Past the Documentation Conundrum
- Atlanta PMI-Agile Group, March 2014, State of Agile in 2014
- Atlanta SPIN, Jan. 2014, Team and Agile Facilitation Public Workshop
2013
- Agile DC, October 2013, Art of Group Facilitation made Fun
- Atlanta PMI-Agile Group, August 2013, Overcoming the Largest Agile Hurdle, Culture
- Atlanta Scrum Meetup, March 2013, Doc is not a Four Letter Word
- AgilePalooza, Minneapolis, February 2013, Doc is not a Four Letter Word
- AgilePalooza, Minneapolis, February 2013, Agile and Waterfall, Together?
2012
- Atlanta SPIN, October 2012, Getting Blood From a Turnip
- Southern Fried Agile, Charlotte, October 2011, Agile Basics — What You Need To Know
