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APLN Founders

David Anderson  President, Modus Cooperandi Inc. Author of Agile Management for Software Engineering (Prentice Hall 2003).

Sanjiv Augustine  Sanjiv Augustine is the President of LitheSpeed,an innovative Agile and Lean training and consulting company, and an industry-leading agile and lean expert. He is a co-founder and board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). He is also the author of several publications and the book Managing Agile Projects (Prentice Hall 2005); and the founder and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile Project Managementdiscussion group.

Christopher Avery  Principle at Responsibility Redefined, author of Teamwork Is An Individual Skill and senior consultant with the Cutter Consortium.

Mike Cohn  President of Mountain Goat Software and author of User Stories Applied For Agile Software Development.

Doug DeCarlo  Principal, The Doug DeCarlo Group and author of eXtreme Project Management - Using Leadership, Principles and Tools to Deliver Value in the Face of Volatility

Donna Fitzgerald  Creator of the Nimble Approach to Project Management(TM), Partner at Knowth Consulting, Co-founder of the NewGrange Center, a web-based nonprofit project management society, and author of frequent columns on the practical details of agile project management.

Jim Highsmith  Director Agile Project Management at the Cutter Consortium and author of Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (Addison Wesley 2004).

Ole Jepsen   Founder of Go Agile. Founder of the Danish Agile User Group. Author of "Donkeys and Carrots" and other articles - mainly about customer collaboration.

Todd Little  Sr. Manager at Landmark Graphics. Member of the AgileAlliance Board of Directors and Program Director for the Agile2005 conference.

Lowell Lindstrom  Founder of The Oobeya Group, a services firm providing guidance, training, and facilitation for organizations at all stages of their journey towards excellence in delivery and customer delight. He was the Organizing Chair of XP/Agile Universe 2001 and the co-Program Chair of XP/Agile Universe 2004 (now Agile 2006). He is published in the Cutter IT Journal and the Auerbach IS Management Handbook (8th ed.).

Kent McDonald
Founder
President of Knowledge Bridge Partners and Co-Author, Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility (Addison Wesley, 2009).

Pollyanna Pixton  Principle, Accelinnova, and President of Evolutionary Systems, Co-Author, Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating Business Agility (Addison Wesley, 2009)

Preston Smith  Principal of New Product Dynamics and coauthor of Developing Products in Half the Time and of Proactive Risk Management.

Robert Wysocki Founder of Enterprise Information Insights, Inc. (EII), a project management consulting and training practice. He is a Senior Consultant with the Cutter Consortium. He is the author, or co-author, of numerous books including Effective Project Management, 5-Phase Project Management, Effective and Practical Project Management, and Managing Information Across the Enterprise. He has trained more than 10,000 project managers. He is a member of the ProjectWorld Executive Advisory Board, the Project Management Institute, the American Society of Training & Development, and the Society of Human Resource Management.