Board and Founders

Current Board Officers

	President		Barbara Wilders
	Vice President		Pollyanna Pixton
	Treasurer		Mike Cottmeyer
	Secretary		Julie Chickering
	Past President		Kent McDonald

Board Of Directors

Julie Chickering		Julie Chickering is an Agile Coach with Rally Software in Boulder, Colorado. Her passion is coaching teams to a better, more fun work life. She has the proven ability to transfer job knowledge and skills to all levels, including distributed teams, and has a solid track record leading teams through the challenging transition from waterfall to Agile practices. Julie brings more than 15 years of experience in the software development industry ? most recently at Travelocity.com as an Agile team mentor and at a leading global Agile consultancy as a Senior Consultant. Julie is a board member of the Agile Project Management Network (APLN), dedicated to connecting, developing and supporting great project leaders. Julie is a co-founder of the Dallas chapter of the APLN. Julie is a Certified ScrumMaster and holds the PMP certification.
Mike Cottmeyer
Kent McDonald Founder		President of Knowledge Bridge Partners.
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.
Barbara Wilders

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. 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.
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.).
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.

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