Board and Founders

Current Board Officers

	President		Kent McDonald
	Vice President		Pollyanna Pixton
	Treasurer		Mike Cottmeyer
	Secretary		Julie Chickering
	Local Chapters Chair		Barbara Wilders
	Past President		Todd Little

Board Of Directors

David Anderson Founder		President, Modus Cooperandi Inc. Author of Agile Management for Software Engineering (Prentice Hall 2003).
Julie Chickering
Mike Cottmeyer
Mike Griffiths Charter Member		Mike Griffiths is an independent consultant specializing in effective project management. Mike was involved in the creation of DSDM in 1994 and has been using agile methods Scrum, FDD, XP, and DSDM) for the last 14 years. He is active in both the agile project management community and traditional PMI based circles. He serves on the board of the Agile Alliance and the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), he was a contributing reviewer to the PMBOK v3 Guide and is a trainer for the PMI SemninarWorlds program. He maintains the award winning leadership and agile project management blog at www.LeadingAnswers.com.
Todd Little Founder		Sr. Manager at Landmark Graphics. Member of the AgileAlliance Board of Directors and Program Director for the Agile2005 conference.
Kent McDonald Founder		Director of IT Content with Projectconnections.com. Founder of Agile Iowa.
Pollyanna Pixton Founder		President of Evolutionary Systems, Co-Founder of Institute for Collaborative Leadership, and Senior Project Manager for the Swiss Electronic Stock Exchange, a large-scale Agile development project.
Dot Tudor		Dot is an accredited trainer and examiner in DSDM and for the British Computer Society’s Business Analysis Diploma. Also a certified facilitator, PRINCE2 project manager and ITIL service manager, she is heavily involved at the front line of the industry. She is passionate about Agile approaches. Over the last 25 years Dot has delivered training and mentoring for companies large and small, through her own UK-based company, TCC.
Barbara Wilders		Managing Technical Consultant and Certified Scrum Master at CC Pace.

Founders

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
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.
Sanjiv Augustine Founder		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. He presents regularly at several agile conferences and user groups worldwide, and project management conferences including Project World and Project Summit. Sanjiv has assisted clients in deploying agile and lean methodologies at many institutions large and small. As a management coach and consultant, he has advised in the enterprise rollout and adoption of Scrum at several Fortune 250 companies. As an in-the-trenches practitioner, he has personally managed agile projects varying in size from five to over one hundred people and coached numerous project teams.
Jim Highsmith Founder		Director Agile Project Management at the Cutter Consortium and author of Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products (Addison Wesley 2004).
Ole Jepsen Founder		Managing Director of Projects at Unwire- a Danish supplier of SMS/MMS/WAP mobile services. Member of the Agile Alliance Board. Founder of the Danish Agile User Group. Author of "Donkeys and Carrots" and other articles - mainly about customer collaboration.
Lowell Lindstrom Founder		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.).
Christopher Avery

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