Jay Conne's - Profile & Position Statement for the AA Board
In the last four years I have refocused my career on coaching and teaching Agile SW Development with Scrum as the interaction model wrapping the technical disciplines from XP and the business discipline from many sources including Mike Cohn, Mary & Tom Poppendieck and Rob Thomsett. My career prior to discovering Agile was divided between engineering roles, technical marketing and technical education development and delivery. I have led or managed teams in GE, HIS, Burroughs and Digital. And I co-founded a medical computing company, MedRx, which introduced an early version of the computerized medical record. My Agile consulting practice has served companies such as Shopzilla, Kaplan-IT, Capital One Financial, Mansueto Ventures (Inc. and FastCompany magazine websites), Raytheon, AccuRev, etc.
AGILE: Since refocusing on Agile, I have worked to clarify what Agile SWD is and is not in my training, coaching and writing. Agile is not a methodology and it’s not specific enough to be a philosophy. But rather, it’s an umbrella term for the works of some initial innovators and a growing number of others that are striving to improve the way software is created compared to a history of dysfunction. It includes a collection of recommended principles and practices from those sources. That, in my opinion, is what Agile properly refers to. Judgment is required – to learn and apply those ideas appropriately. In my postings on various group sites I have always tried to bring clarity and understanding to issues. I focus primarily on trust as the measure of success. This is driven by principles of independent thinking and delivery of customer determined value as team members primary focus.
COMMUNITY: I have a long standing commitment to industry volunteer leadership with 18 years in the GBC/ACM – especially driving our Professional Development Seminars, as a Board member and President. Last Spring I was Program and Event Chair for our Deep Agile 2-day Seminar at MIT with Jeff Sutherland and Ron Jeffries which was one of the most successful seminars in the chapter’s 40 year history. I am now planning “Deep Lean” for November with Mary & Tom Poppendieck, Jeff Sutherland and Nancy Van Schooenderwoert – this time under the sponsorship of our local Agile Alliance Chapter, Agile Bazaar.
MY CANDIDACY: I would like to see Agile Alliance aggressively support these kinds of events throughout the world with how-to knowledge transfer to local groups. In my experience, events like this drive revenue, membership, volunteering and new leadership at hyper-speed. It will put many marginal local chapters on the map.
To accomplish this Agile Alliance will need to provide a legal and 501©(3) tax umbrella for the chapters as ACM does for its chapters. If AA does that now, we have had trouble verifying it.
If you vote for me, I will work to add these dimensions to our Agile Alliance.
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