Van Even Stijn – Agile New England https://agilenewengland.org Networking Events for Agilists, Agile Software Development, GamingWordPress Mon, 23 May 2022 10:21:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://agilenewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-ANE_Logo_512x512Transparent-32x32.png Van Even Stijn – Agile New England https://agilenewengland.org 32 32 20 Years of Agile: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly https://agilenewengland.org/20-years-of-agile-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 23:53:03 +0000 https://dev.agilenewengland.org/?p=3923 The Agile Manifesto was signed 20 years ago. Since then, Agile principles and practices have created many successes–and experienced more than a few failures. Looking back, what can we conclude about what has worked and what hasn’t? We will be asking a panel that includes a Scrum Master, and Agile Coach, a VP of Engineering, and others.

About the Panelists:

 

Aletha Barnes

Aletha Barnes, Senior Technical Program Manager, Pluto TV Aletha has over 20 years of experience serving in just about every capacity of the software / product development lifecycle across a wide range of industries.  Her areas of focus are agile delivery, team development, and workflow improvement. Aletha prides herself on leveraging curiosity and empathy to extract and address the root causes of business issues.

 

Peter FernandezPeter Fernandez, Product Manager, Google
Peter has spent the last 25 years building large scale internet applications for travel, publishing, healthcare and education. Having written code, managed large enterprise projects with external vendors, and driven large scale product features end to end, Peter has experienced agile from many perspectives.

 

Wayne HaberWayne Haber, Director of engineering at GitLab
Wayne is director for the threat management and growth departments. He has 20+ years experience in security and engineering and has mobilized teams in Agile transformations from Scrum to Spotify.

 

Michael HilbornMichael Hilborn, Director, Platform Engineering & Operations, Harvard Business School Online
During his tenure with the Academic Technology Group at Harvard University, Michael and his team enhanced their software development lifecycle by adopting resourceful Agile project management processes. He continues his work with Agile teams and processes at Harvard Business School Online.

 

Kim RobinsonKim Robinson, Enterprise Agile Coach, Assurant Consulting
Kim is a seasoned Agile and software delivery consultant with 18 years of
success transforming, coaching and managing large scale programs within large to midsize companies. Her experience includes 10 years implementing Agile in a technical capacity.

 

Stijn Van EvenStijn Van Even, VP Development, Speech Recognition Solutions, Nuance Communications
Stijn has more than 20 years of experience in software development for the consumer and healthcare industries, focusing on efficient processes implementation, performance, analytics, and AI speech recognition.

 

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