"The Universe is a friendly place"
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Name: Boris Gloger
Birth City: Wiesbaden, Germany
Current Business Role: Founder of SPRiNT iT, Germany, & Certified Scrum Trainer
Business Address (City, State): Ettlingen, Germany
Business Telephone: +49 170 525 63 48
Cell Phone: +49 170 525 63 48
Email Address: boris.gloger@sprint-it.com
Favorite Website: www.43folders.com
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Salsa Music, I love to dance Salsa
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Reconnect with the community, I learned a lot that I did not expect
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"The readiness is all."
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Name: Joe Little
Birth City: Danville, VA
Current Business Role: Scrum Master, master coach
Business Address (City, State): Charlotte, NC
Business Telephone: 704-376-8881
Cell Phone: 917-887-1669
Email Address: jhlittle@kittyhawkconsuling.com
Favorite Website: http://online.wsj.com/home/us
One Personal Note: Spoon River Restaurant is good; "drink" was too quiet tonight
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Opera: Nessun Dorma; R&B: such as Born Under A Bad Sign (Clapton)
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Meeting with, learning from and encouraging others infected with the Agile virus
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"My name is Kevin,
this is my first SA meeting,
and I've been sober for 5 sprints.
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Name: Kevin Neher
Birth City: Seattle, WA
Current Business Role: Scrum Master
Business Address (City, State): Microsoft
Business Telephone: 425-706-2208
Cell Phone:
Email Address:
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: "Rock and Roll ain't noise pollution..."
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Learn from the experienced and wise so as to not duplicate their errors or invent new ones
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Name: Anne Moon
Birth City: Glens Falls, NY
Current Business Role: Scrum Coach
Business Address (City, State): Albany, NY
Business Telephone: 518-391-1177
Cell Phone:
Email Address:
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note: enjoy motorcycles
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one:
Interests for Scrum Gathering:
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Making the world a better place, one IT department at a time
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Name: Stefan Ahrensdorf
Birth City: Bremen, Germany
Current Business Role: IT Management, Agile Coach
Business Address (City, State): Seattle, WA
Business Telephone: (206) 330-8929
Cell Phone:
Email Address:
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note: Look me up on LinkedIn and connect!
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Randy Newmans "Faust".
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Meet, network, ...
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Name: Alan Atlas
Birth City:
Current Business Role: Development Manager/Scrum Master
Business Address (City, State): Seattle, WA
Business Telephone: 206-266-8408
Cell Phone: 425-445-1219
Email Address:
Favorite Website: TheOnion
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Little Feat
Interests for Scrum Gathering: New wrinkles on scrum
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"Culture eats strategy for breakfast."
(Ken Schwaber)
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Name: Jiri Lundak
Birth City: Prague, Czech Republic
Current Business Role: Scrum Master, Technical Lead
Business Address (City, State): Lucerne, Switzerland
Business Telephone: +41 41 418-44-99
Cell Phone: +41 76 534-38-96
Email Address: jiri.lundak@loewenfels.ch
Favorite Website: http://www.turnofftheinternet.com/
One Personal Note: Dakota Jazz Club in Downtown Minneapolis was just awsome with the performance of Bettye LaVette.
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Jazz like Wayne Shorter, Southern Rock like The Allman Brothers Band, Funk like the Client Funk Society.
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Get amunition for my fight for Agile values. Sharing war stories.
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If you want to garden, you have to bend down and touch the soil.
Gardening is a practice, not an idea."
(Thich Nhat Hanh)
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Name: Pascal Gugenberger
Birth City: Aix-en-Provence, France
Current Business Role: Scrum Master, Head of Research & Development
Business Address (City, State): Berlin, Germany
Business Telephone: +49 30 74 79 93 0
Email Address: pascal@gugenberger.net
One Personal Note: Filming the Scrum video was just awesome!
Interests for Scrum Gathering: sharing new ideas, exchanging working approaches to everyday problems.
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Just sayin'...
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Name: Dan Rawsthorne
Birth City: Oakland, California
Current Business Role: Certified Scrum Trainer, Coach
Business Address (City, State): Seattle, Washington
Business Telephone: 425-269-8628 (cell)
Email Address: dan@danube.com
One Personal Note: I'm a certified bowling coach
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: oldies
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Getting more tools for my toolbox, and (perhaps) adding tools to others' toolboxes
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I like Scrum because it is smart, safe and fun.
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Name: Roger Brown
Birth City: Eugene, Oregon, USA
Current Business Role: Agile Coach, Systems and Software Consortium
Business Address (City, State): Herndon, VA, USA
Business Telephone: 603-359-8119
Cell Phone: 603-359-8119
Email Address: roger.w.brown@valley.net
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note: I live in New Hampshire. My favorite pastime is playing guitar. I can't count, apparently.
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Blues and almost anything on guitar.
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Networking with other people doing what I am doing. Sharing experience in both directions. Seeing people I like enjoy spending time with.
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Name: Bob Jacobson
Birth City: Lynwood, CA
Current Business Role: ScrumMaster
Business Address (City, State): eFunds, Woodbury, MN 55125
Business Telephone: 651.361.2625
Cell Phone: 651.249.6448
Email Address: bob.jacobson@efunds.com
Favorite Website: www.controlchaos.com
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Thunder - AC/DC
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Learning and sharing with others
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Name: Ronica Roth
Birth City: White Plains, NY
Current Business Role: Agile Coach, Rally Software
Business Address (City, State): Washington, DC
Business Telephone:
Cell Phone: 303.520.3191
Email Address:
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: House, Jam
Interests for Scrum Gathering:
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"There is no one right way."
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Name: Marilyn Lamoreux
Birth City: Ida Grove, Iowa
Current Business Role: Architect, Agile Coach
Business Address (City, State): Minneapolis, MN
Business Telephone:763-514-8531
Cell Phone:
Email Address: marilyn.lamoreux@medtronic.com
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Folk, Classical
Interests for Scrum Gathering:
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Create dangerously! - Albert Camus
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Name: Pam Rostal
Birth City: Chicago, IL
Current Business Role: Business and Systems Analysis
Business Address (City, State: Minneapolis, MN
Business Telephone: (952) 595-7970
Cell Phone: (651) 308-0917
Email Address: pmrostal@comcast.net
Favorite Website: http://dictionary.com
One Personal Note: I want to go to Antarctica on vacation.
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Oldies, Folk
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Reconnect and watch the levels of concern Scrum addresses move up the organization
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"You suck and that makes me sad." - Ken Schwaber
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Name: Geoff Watts
Birth City: Cheltenham, England, UK
Current Business Role: Leaving BT to become an independent consultant
Business Address (City, State): England
Business Telephone: +44 845 017 8150
Cell Phone: +44 7717 111199
Email Address: geoff@inspectandadapt.com
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note: Have a lovely wife and 2 great kids
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Pretty much anything acoustic
Interests for Scrum Gathering: See what's new and share experiences of Scrum in large companies (like BT) plus catch up with some old faces.
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"Hasten slowly and you will arrive early"
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Name: Hubert Smits
Birth City: Riethoven, Nederland
Current Business Role: Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer for Rally
Business Address (City, State): Boulder, Colorado, USA
Business Telephone: +1 (303) 565 2823
Cell Phone:
Email Address: hubert@scrumtools.com
Favorite Website: hubert.blogs.com
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Keep on rocking
Interests for Scrum Gathering: I missed the people, old friends, new friends, I was locked away :-(
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"There is no one right way."
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Name:Pete Deemer
Birth City:Nashville, TN
Current Business Role: CPO, Yahoo! India R&D
Business Address (City, State): Bangalore, Karnataka
Business Telephone:
Cell Phone:
Email Address:petedeemer@yahoo.com
Favorite Website: http://www.linerider.com/
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Sound of people having fun at work
Interests for Scrum Gathering:
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"There is no one right way."
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Name: Stacia Broderick
Birth City: Tyler, Texas
Current Business Role: Certified ScrumTrainer, Consultant, Coach
Business Address (City, State): 558 Royal Road, Palmyra, PA USA 17078
Business Telephone:
Cell Phone: 610-909-5124
Email Address: stacia_broderick@yahoo.com
Favorite Website: http://www.scruminations.blogspot.com
One Personal Note: It's all about the people.
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: ColdPlay rocks!!
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Event centered around people getting to know each other more. Ideas for continued pairing and group work.
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"It doesn't have to be this way...."
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Name: Esther Derby
Birth City: Minneapolis (for one month, then was transported to Harrisburg, PA)
Current Business Role: Consultant focusing on team dynamics, management coaching, organizational change and effectiveness especially around adopting Scrum.
Business Address (City, State): Minneapolis, MN
Business Telephone: 612-724-8114
Cell Phone:
Email Address: derbyatestherderbydotcom
Favorite Website: hmmmm. thinking.
One Personal Note: My dogs have always been great teachers.
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Talking Heads. Brave Combo.
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Buidling community
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"There is no one right way."
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Name: Jeff Sutherland
Birth City: North Attleboro, MA
Current Business Role: CTO PatientKeeper
Business Address (City, State): Newton, MA
Business Telephone: 617-987-0394
Cell Phone: 617-947-7400
Email Address: jeff.sutherland@computer.org
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one:
Interests for Scrum Gathering:
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"Turning Vision into Reality"
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Name: Ann Atkinson
Birth City: Tucson, AZ (a rare native)
Current Business Role: Scrum Master, Management Consultant
Business Address (City, State): Plymouth/Minneapolis, MN
Business Telephone: 763-519-8474
Cell Phone:
Email Address: ann.atkinson@visiality.com
Favorite Website: www.maps.google.com
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Nickleback, Evanescence, Big Band/Swing
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Growing Scrum Communities
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Current favorite: "I never predict. I simply look out the window and see what is visible but not yet seen."
-- Peter Drucker
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Name: Diana Larsen
Birth City: Anderson, IN
Current Business Role: Consultant - team dynamics, development & leadership; collaborative leadership development for agile environments; organizational change; processes to help large groups think and act together; coaching agile coaches
Business Address (City, State): Portland, OR, USA
Business Telephone: +1 503-288-3550
Cell Phone:
Email Address: dlarsen@futureworksconsulting.com
Favorite Website(s): http://www.mythic-cartography.org/ and http://www.librarything.com/
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Can you dance to it? If so, I like it. And for other moods, Classical or World music, especially percussion.
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Helping the Community become what it wants to be for its members. Learning about each other and the work we're doing. Face time to ease future communication.
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"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the
product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
-- Marcus Aurelius
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Name: Paul Comeau
Birth City: Appleton, WI
Current Business Role: Consultant
Business Address (City, State): Minneapolis, MN
Business Telephone: +1 612.379.1440
Cell Phone: +1 612.868.0987
Email Address: pmcomeau@gmail.com
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Social Distortion, Philip Glass, anything 89.3 plays.
Interests for Scrum Gathering:
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"Everything in moderation, including moderation
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Name: Colin Bird
Birth City: London
Current Business Role: CTO
Business Address (City, State): London, UK
Business Telephone: +44 1784 222255
Cell Phone: +44 7831 097 867
Email Address: colin.bird@conchango.com
Favorite Website: Google!
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Current Favourite - Bob Dylan, Things have changed
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Talking to like minded people
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"I am amazed how much exchange, contacts and information you can put into a single day"
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Name: Christoph Mathis
Birth City: a little village 90 miles west of Heidelberg
Current Business Role: Scrum Master / Consultant
Business Address (City, State): Munich, Germany
Business Telephone: +49-89-5003520
Cell Phone: +49-172-7256944
Email Address: mathis@gopas.com
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note: A fool with a tool is a fool
Favorite Music: Tom Waits, sober or drunk
Interests for Scrum Gathering: connecting to the community, watch it moving and help it gain momentum
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"In My Own Way" (Title of autobiograhy by Alan Watts: Double meaning implying both doing things the way you do, as well as impeding yourself by being in the way of your progress)
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Name: John Hill
Birth City: Los Angeles, CA
Current Business Role: Commercial Software Program Manager, ScrumMaster, Internal Scrum Coach
Business Address (City, State): Calabasas, CA
Business Telephone: (818) 737-7607
Cell Phone:
Email Address: johnhillcsm@yahoo.com
Favorite Website: scrumalliance.org (beginning in 2007!)
One Personal Note: When mixing cocktails, I "never use the same ice twice" (good advice from Harry Craddock, Savoy Hotel Bar, London, published in 1926)
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: MANY musical interests (eclectic beyond reason), currently focused on "Golden Era" jazz guitarists (Barney Kessel, George Barnes, Johnny Smith, Tal Farlow, Harry Volpe, Al Caiola, Tony Mottola...).
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Empowering Teams and Offshore/Distributed Scrum
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Name: John Heil
Birth City: Bryn Mawr, PA
Current Business Role: Agile Coach
Business Address (City, State): King of Prussia, PA
Business Telephone:
Cell Phone: (610) 864.5807
Email Address: john@infusionlabs.com
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: hmmmmm...it depends on the mood...
Interests for Scrum Gathering:
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Name: Will Menner
Birth City:
Current Business Role: Certified ScrumMaster, Group Level Supervisor, JHU/APL
Business Address (City, State): Laurel, Maryland
Business Telephone: 240-228-5354
Cell Phone:
Email Address: will.menner@jhuapl.edu
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one:
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Product Owners, Metrics, Training
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Name: Wim van de Goor
Birth City: Horst, the Netherlands
Current Business Role: Software project team leader, ScrumMaster
Business Address (City, State): Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Business Telephone: +31 40 27 42556
Cell Phone: +31 6 230 315 83
Email Address: wim.van.de.goor@philips.com
Favorite Website: allmusic.com
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music: From Beatles&Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young, Jackson Browne via the garage bands of the 80s to soul and world music.
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Training, Making the next step
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"tis better to be silent and leave others wondering if you're a fool than to speak up unwisely and remove all doubt.
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Name: Jim Schiel
Birth City: Milton, Florida, USA
Current Business Role: Agile Transition Program Manager, Certified Scrum Trainer, Scrum Master
Business Address (City, State): Malvern, PA, USA
Business Telephone: +1 610 219 3033
Cell Phone: +1 484 941 4273
Email Address: james.schiel@siemens.com
Favorite Website: www.google.com
Favorite Music: beatles
Interests for Scrum Gathering: offshoring, large scale implementation, retrospectives, metrics
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Name: Jim York
Birth City: Berryville, VA
Current Business Role: Senior Practice Manager, CC Pace Lean-Agile Practice
Business Address (City, State): Fairfax, VA
Business Telephone: 703.251.6948
Cell Phone: 703.431.2176
Email Address: jfyork@gmail.com
Favorite Website: Google
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Eclectic, but you can always find a Buffett CD in my car.
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Leading Agile Change and the people side of Scrum
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"You can be rich. You can be famous. But blind luck beats all! (my dad)
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Name: David Tannen
Birth City: Dayton, Ohio
Current Business Role: ScrumMaster (officially a project manager ;-)
Business Address (City, State): Topeka, Kansas
Business Telephone: 785-438-6115
Cell Phone: 785-230-5339
Email Address: tannen@jcdisciples.org
Favorite Website: http://www.jcdisciples.org
One Personal Note: I would rather be playing my guitar right now...
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Any style of blues - country, Chicago, Texas, Delta, West Coast, etc.
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Practical training and connecting with other Scrum Masters.
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"Think of managers like a new puppy. If you don't throw them a bone now and then you can be sure they'll chew your shoes
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Name: Mark Pushinsky
Birth City: Pittsburgh
Current Business Role: Agile Coach, Trainer, Change Agent
Business Address (City, State): Richmond, Virginia
Business Telephone: 804-784-7111
Cell Phone:
Email Address: agilerocks@gmail.com
Favorite Website: www.implementingscrum.com
One Personal Note: Teams are what make agile fun!
Favorite Music -- I'm a redneck at heart....Country
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Scrum beyond software development
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"Productivity does not have to come at the cost of Quality"
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Name: Chris Sterling
Birth City: Bothell, WA
Current Business Role: Managing Consultant, Agile Coach, & Certified Scrum Trainer
Business Address (City, State): Redmond, WA
Business Telephone: (425) 571-2727
Cell Phone: (425) 503-6925
Email Address: CSterling@SolutionsIQ.com
Favorite Website: http://www.freshmeat.net/
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Rap/Poetry - like to hear great lyrics
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Meeting a community of people that I was not aware existed before this previous year
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If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research.
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Name: Peter Clark
Birth City: Cleveland, OH
Current Business Role: Software Development Manager
Business Address (City, State): Minneapolis, MN
Business Telephone: Phone? That's so last century. Skype me at pete.clark!
Cell Phone:
Email Address: pclark@umn.edu
Favorite Website: https://my.secure.yahoo.com
One Personal Note: Wife and two kids - has definately cut down my quality keyboard time
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Michael Manring, and http://www.daisycutter.us
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Meeting people who are like-minded about tools for dealing with the complexity of software development. More detail in requirements earlier in the process isn't the answer.
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Name: Chris Doss
Birth City: Lynchburg, VA
Current Business Role: Senior Manager
Business Address (City, State): 15000 Capital One Drive, Richmond, VA
Business Telephone: 804-855-3886
Cell Phone: 804-338-3248
Email Address: christopher.doss@capitalone.com
Favorite Website: cbssportsline.com
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one:
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Seeing where other corporations are pushing the envelope and developing a network from which to learn.
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"You stay here and make sure he doesn't leave." "Right" "Where are you going?" "We're coming with you." "No, it's really quite simple. You stay here, and make sure he doesn't leave." "Right."
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Name: Kelly Weyrauch
Birth City: Minneapolis, MN
Current Business Role: Senior Principal Software Engineer, Medtronic
Business Address (City, State): 7000 Central Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55432
Business Telephone: 763-514-6118
Cell Phone:
Email Address: kelly.weyrauch@medtronic.com
Favorite Website: allmusic.com
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one:
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Gathering nuggets from other's experience.
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"In life, there are three kinds of people, people who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who wonder, what happened?"
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Name:Dennis Luhn
Birth City: Milwaukee, WI
Current Business Role: Account Leader, Project Manager, Mentor
Business Address (City, State): Bloomington, IL
Business Telephone:
Cell Phone: 309-838-5798
Email Address: dennis_luhn@msn.com
Favorite Website: space.com
One Personal Note: Husband, father, father-in-law, grandfather, friend
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: Strauss,Beethoven & Billy Joel
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Decide where I want to invest my energy to further the cause. I have 30+ years of working with "traditional" project management and product development practices (I have most of the appropriate pedigrees), they don't work very well. How can I help?
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Name: Cheryl Neeser
Birth City: Austin, MN
Current Business Role: Enterprise Implementation Lead for Scrum
Business Address (City, State): Woodbury, MN
Business Telephone: 651-361-2185
Cell Phone: 612-804-0129
Email Address: cheryl_neeser@efunds.com
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note: like to travel, seeing the world from the perspective of people who live there rather than passing through
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one: right now it's Jay Chou
Interests for Scrum Gathering: offshoring, large scale implementation, retrospectives, continuous improvement, human components
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Name: Tom Mellor
Birth City: Billing, MT
Current Business Role: Project Manager
Business Address (City, State):
Business Telephone: 309-763-9594
Cell Phone: 309-287-5998
Email Address: tom.mellor.c5t2@statefarm.com
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music: Bluegrass
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Anything
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Name: Brent Barton
Birth City: San Jose, CA, USA
Current Business Role: Agile Coach, CST
Business Address (City, State): Redmond, WA, USA
Business Telephone: 425-652-1475
Email Address: brentbarton@yahoo.com
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note: I enjoyed my time with so many of you. I wish I got to meet so many more!
Favorite Music: An eclectic variety of classical, jazz and rock. Musicality over poetry seems to be the best categorization.
Interests for Scrum Gathering: Seeing old friends and meeting new people in a thought-provoking environment with creative, intelligent people.
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Name:
Birth City:
Current Business Role:
Business Address (City, State):
Business Telephone:
Cell Phone:
Email Address:
Favorite Website:
One Personal Note:
Favorite Music -- Pick at least one:
Interests for Scrum Gathering:
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