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Agile Alliance Announces Six New Board Members and Officer Appointments
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire--AsiaNet/ --
- Leading Agile organization adds growing number of international
industry experts to meet growing demand for Agile knowledge, community
building and sharing of best practices
dedicated to supporting the advancement of Agile software development
principles and practices, today announced six new members to the Agile
Alliance. In addition, three board members, Diana Larsen, Todd Little and
Tamara Sulaiman, have been appointed as officers of the organization.
"The commitment of all Agile board members, past, future and present, are
the driving force in providing value to our membership and the Agile
community around the world," said Phil Brock, managing director of the Agile
Alliance. "The talent and expertise of these new board members brings new
ideas and perspectives that will help advance our organization and the Agile
development community throughout the US and abroad."
The new board members will each serve a two-year term and replace
Jennitta Andrea, Luke Hohmann and Johanna Rothman. In addition, Jim Newkirk
will serve as the conference chair for Agile 2010,
Nashville.
To help guide the organization's growth the Agile Alliance membership
elected six new board members:
-- Cesar Idrovo - Idrovo is a consultant at Tacit Knowledge. He also
serves as a board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network.
-- Henrich Kniberg - Kniberg is an Agile and lean coach. He is the author
of, "Scrum and XP from the Trenches - How we do Scrum
brings more than 15 years of experience as a CTO of many leading Swedish IT
companies.
-- Diana Larsen - In addition, to being reelected to the board, Larsen
will also serve as chair of the organization. Larsen consults with leaders
and teams to create work processes where innovation, inspiration, and
imagination flourish. With more than fifteen years of experience working with
technical professionals, Larsen brings focus to the human side of
organizations, teams and projects. Larsen co-authored Agile Retrospectives:
Great/dp/0977616649)!
She publishes articles and writes occasional blog posts at "Partnership and
the Agile Alliance Board of Directors, she co-founded the "Agile Open
Northwest" conference and the international "Retrospective Facilitators
Gathering."
-- Laurent Bossavit - Bossavit is an independent consultant focused on
Extreme Programming and Project Retrospectives. In addition, to being
involved in the Agile Alliance, Bossavit also had led preparations for XP
Days France.
software development consultant and technology writer, best known for his
contributions to Agile software development
the highest honor from the agile community, the Gordon Pask Award in 2005 He
well known for his book, "JUnit Recipes : Practical Methods for Programmer
Testing."
-- Esther Derby - is well known for her work in helping teams grow to new
levels of productivity. She helps teams and organizations make the transition
to Scrum, and coaches technical people who are making the transition to
management. Esther is recognized as one of the world's leaders in
retrospectives, and is co-author (with Diana Larsen) of the book "Agile
Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great."
In addition, the Agile Alliance named two existing board members to
executive committee positions:
-- Todd Little - treasurer, is a senior development manager at Landmark.
In addition he is a partner at Accelinova and past-president of the Agile
Project Leadership Network.
-- Tamara Sulaiman, PMP, CST - secretary, managing consultant at Applied
co-originator of the Agile Earned Value Management (EVM), a process
recognized for integrating the traditional project management practice of EVM
with the Scrum framework.
The remaining Agile Alliance Board members include, Paul Culling, Rachel
Davies, Jim Newkirk, and Phil Brock.
The Agile Alliance continues to increase its membership each year in line
with the growing interest and adoption of Agile processes for software
development. One key indicator of the increasing adoption of Agile practices
is the continuing demand for Agile knowledge by enterprises looking to reap
the benefits of the discipline. The Agile Alliance helps meet this demand by
publishing content, conducting regional and international educational events
and by hosting the industry's foremost event, the Agile Conference, which
brings together development experts from around the globe.
About the Agile Alliance
The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting
the concepts of Agile software development, as outlined in the
the globe, the Agile Alliance is driven by the principles of Agile
methodologies and the value delivered to developers, organizations and end
users. The Agile Alliance organizes the annual Agile Conference, the
industry's leading event that attracts practitioners, academia, business and
vendor-partner community members from around the globe. The Agile2010
Nashville. For more information about the organization, visit
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