The following people have offered that they /may/ be available to offer advice to those unfamiliar with Scrum, new to Scrum, or having a question about Scrum. It is assumed that the advice sought is relatively small. Be aware that all these people have a day job. Be aware that, like you, most of these people get very busy from time to time, and may not be able to respond as quickly as they would like.
Some of these people would consider themselves more of a scrum-buddy than a mentor.
Scrum Alliance makes no warranty, explicit or implied, about the quality of the advice of these mentors. If you are looking for professional advice, please use good judgment in selecting a consultant.
Name: Joe Little, CST Role: ScrumMaster, coach, master coach, trainer Firm: Kitty Hawk Consulting City/State: Charlotte, NC Contact: at kittyhawkconsulting DOT com with prefix jhlittle, also http://agileconsortium.blogspot.com Business Telephone: 917-887-1669 (cell) Interests: Agile and scrum. My interests are broad. I have an MBA, which is consistent with an interest in the business side of projects. Although I am sometimes taken for a real techie. |
Name: Michael Vizdos, CST (Certified Scrum Trainer) Role: ScrumMaster, Coach, Mentor, and Trainer Firm: Independent City/State: Earth, Third Rock From The Sun Business Telephone: 619-709-1716 (cell) Interests: Scrum and working with teams. I have a blog located at http://www.implementingscrum.com that deals with real-world issues encountered when working with Scrum teams. |
Name: Ann Atkinson, CSM Role: ScrumMaster Firm: Visiality, Inc. City/State: Plymouth/Minneapolis, MN Business Telephone: 763-519-8474 Interests: Agile and Scrum within and beyond software development. Co-located, distributed and global teams. |
Name: Hubert Smits, CST Role: Certified Scrum Trainer Firm: Rally City/State: Boulder, CO Business Telephone: (303) 565 2823 Interests: Scaling, outsourcing, reporting, burndowns |
Name: Lowell Lindstrom Role: CST, Transition Coach, Business Coach Firm: The Oobeya Group City/State: Glen Ellyn, IL Business Telephone: 630-335-0889 Interests: Organization effectiveness; minimizing the stresses of change; Agile as a means, not an end; well factored code and systems; designing for automated testing. |
Name: Chris Doss Role: Certified Scrum Practitioner, Management Coach, PMP Firm: Capital One City/State: Richmond, VA Business Telephone: 804-855-3886 Interests: Organizational adoption of Scrum, Managing in an Agile environment, Continuous improvement of business and the employee experience |
Name: Boris Gloger Role: Founder of SPRiNT iT, Certified Scrum Trainer Firm: SPRiNT iT City/State: Karlsruhe, Germany Business Telephone: +49 170 525 63 48 Interests: Scaling, Scrum & CMMi, Honesty, Emotions in Scrum and the business world. |
Name: Jiri Lundak, CSM-Practicing Role: ScrumMaster, Coach, Team Lead, Developer Firm: Loewenfels Partner AG City/State: Lucerne, Switzerland Business Telephone: +41 41-418-44-99 Interests: Scrum and Agile values in general. Scaling Scrum (currently with up to 5 teams). Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile. Backlog Management. Metrics and Reporting to Upper Management. |
Name: Mark Pushinsky, Certified Scrum Trainer Role: Agile Coach, Change Agent, Team Advocate Firm: Capital One City/State: Richmond/Virginia Business Telephone: 804-784-7111 Interests: Team Effectiveness, Enterprise adoption of Scrum, Distributed Scrum, and Executive Education on Scrum |
Name: Deborah Hartmann Role: Agile Process Improvement Coach, Open Space facilitator Firm: Independent Agile Coach, Agile Community Editor for InfoQ.com City/State: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Business Telephone: fouronesix 996-4337 Interests: introducing Scrum, leading a team, scrum product owners, getting benefit from retrospectives, appropriate metrics, Open Space facilitation |
Name: David Höhn, CSP Role: Agilist, Mentor for agile processes, Consultancy Firm: TBD City/State: London, UK Business Telephone: none yet Interests: Improving human interactions to better facilitate and environment where agile works. Scaling and improving communication patterns, engineering practices, Presentations and Open spaces. |
Name: Mark Levison Role: ScrumMaster, Agile Coach Firm: City/State: Ottawa, On, Canada Business Telephone: 613 761 9821 Blog: Notes from a Tool User Interests: Improving communications, introducing Agile Software development, Agile outside of software development. |
Name: Pete Deemer, Certified Scrum Trainer Role: Chief Product Officer, Yahoo! India R&D Firm: Yahoo! City/State: Bangalore, INDIA Business Telephone: contact petedeemer AT yahoo.com Website: www.scrumprimer.com Interests: Scrum and Agile in India and Asia: feel free to contact me if you're interested in learning more about Scrum, connecting with other people and companies using it, getting data on real-world results, or if you'd like to hear about Scrum certification (CSM) courses in India and Asia. |
Name: Esther Derby, Certified Scrum Trainer Role: Consultant Firm: esther derby associates, inc. City/State: Minneaoplis, MN Business Telephone: 612.724.8114 Website: www.estherderby.com Interests: Scrum, helping organizations foster change, collaboration skills, interpersonal skills, productive work environments |
Name: Jim York, Certified Scrum Trainer Role: ScrumMaster, Coach, and Trainer Firm: FoxHedge Ltd City/State: Leesburg, VA Business Telephone: 703.431.2176 Website: www.jim-york.com Interests: Scrum, Lean, Agile, helping others create environments where change can occur, navigating emotional reactions to change |
Name: Douglas E Shimp , Certified Scrum Trainer Role: Senior Consultant Firm: 3Back.com City/State: Chicago Business Telephone: 414-617-7073 Website: www.3back.com Interests: ScrumMaster and Product Owner Training, Implementation, Use Cases, Stories, Planning, Blog, Scrum, Lean and Crystal |
Name: Michele Sliger, CST Role: Consultant Firm: Sliger Consulting, Inc. City/State: Denver, CO USA Contact: Business Telephone: 720-377-1741 Website: www.sligerconsulting.com Interests: Transitioning from traditional project management to Scrum, coaching, facilitation, mentoring future servant-leaders |
Name: Kane Mar, CSP & CST Role: Scrum Coach and Trainer Firm:Danube Technologies, Inc City/State: Seattle, WA USA Contact: Business Telephone: 310-593-3666 Website: Adventures in Agile software development and Scrum Interests: Organizational change from traditional project and product management to Scrum; coaching; Extreme Programming (XP) engineering practices including Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development. |
Name: Roman Pichler, CSP & CST Role: Consultant, Trainer, Coach Firm: Pichler Consulting Ltd City/State: Nottingham, UK Business Telephone: +44 (0) 7949 203772 Website: www.romanpicher.com Interests: Large and distributed Scrum projects, the Product Owner, functional managers and Scrum, organisational change and Scrum, Scrum and Lean. |
Name: George Schlitz, CSP Role: Consultant City/State: Boston, MA Business Telephone: (508)688-7864 Interests: Org change, introduction of Scrum and Agile to the large, traditional enterprise. |
Name: Chris Sterling Role: Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach Firm: SolutionsIQ City/State: Redmond, WA Contact: SolutionsIQ point com with prefix csterling Business Telephone: 425-503-6925 Website: http://www.solutionsiq.com/ Blog: http://chrissterling.gettingagile.com/ Interests: Coaching teams and organizations on implementing Scrum and Agile, User Stories, Extreme Programming (XP) development practices (TDD, Continuous Integration, Pair Programming) |
Name: Bil Simser Role: CSM, Mentor, Lead Developer, Architect Firm: Consultant City/State: Calgary, Alberta Business Telephone: 403-399-9375 Website: http://www.bilsimser.com Blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser Interests: Coaching teams on implementing Scrum and Agile through the use of alternate development practices (TDD, DDD, BDD) in a Microsoft world. |
Name: Peter Hundermark, CSM, CSP, CSC Role: Scrum and agile coach and trainer Firm: SPRiNT-iT Africa City/State: Cape Town, South Africa Contact: peter dot hundermark at ... Business Telephone: +27 84 261 3860 Website: www.sprint-it.com Interests: Evanglising Scrum and agile practices, helping teams and organisations transition to Scrum, growing servant leaders |
Name:Marc Evers Role:Agile coach and trainer, Open Space facilitator Firm:Piecemeal Growth City/State:Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (available for coaching and training work across Europe) Contact:marc at piecemealgrowth dot nl Business Telephone:+31 6 44 55 000 3 Website:http://www.piecemealgrowth.nl Blog:http://blog.piecemealgrowth.net Interests:Coaching teams to improve their performance and joy in work through Lean, Scrum, XP, or whatever is appropriate in a specific situation; coaching Scrum masters and agile coaches; systems thinking & systemic coaching |
Name: Tobias Mayer Role: Agile Coach and Trainer, Organizational Change Agent Firm: Agile Thinking City/State: Antwerp, Belgium and London, UK Contact: Tobias [at] Agile Thinking [dot] Net Business Telephone: +1 650-796-0325 USA only), Skype: tobyanon (elsewhere) Website: Agile Thinking | Agile Thoughts Blog Interests: People, Self-organization, Release, Emergence |