Partners
In order to serve you better, Conscires currently maintains partnerships and associations with:
Lyssa Adkins / Coaching Agile Teams
Lyssa Adkins, a certified Scrum trainer and an Agile Coach with over fifteen years’ project management expertise, holds an alphabet-soup of certifications: Certified Scrum Coach (CSC), Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB).
Lyssa’s agile experience, along with her professional coaching and training abilities, gives her the perspective needed to guide teams and agile leaders to harness agile as the competitive advantage weapon it was meant to be.
For the last four years, she has been coaching teams in the financial services industry and coaching coaches who represent the gamut of agile implementations, from small consulting firms to the giants of industry.
Lyssa is also a professionally trained Co-Active Coach which gives her the skills to coach people one-on-one.
Alan Cyment / Cyment
Alan Cyment loves seeing software development from a human perspective. He strives for honest, passion-driven, great-but-not-perfect emergent design. For software for humans, rather than machines; looking people in the eyes, rather than reading e-mail.
He organized the first open CSM certification in Latin America in 2006, created the largest, most active agile-software related discussion group in Spanish, and is currently co-organizing the first all-agile Latin American conference, to take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in October 2008.
Alan is currently the only native Spanish-speaking CST in the world, and is continually aiming at expanding the frontiers of Scrum, especially in countries where agility is finding it hard to make its way forward.
Manoj Vadakkan / Vadakkan
Manoj Vadakkan, has been working in the IT Industry for close to two decades. He has been managing Software Development projects of various sizes for the last 10+ years and has been practicing Agile/Scrum principles and practices for 5+ years.
In his current assignment as an Agile Coach, he works with multiple software development groups, training, coaching, and mentoring teams in Agile/Scrum principles and practices. He also works with Project Management Office and senior leadership to drive organizational and cultural changes for the organization.
Manoj is passionate about transitioning the world of work using Agile/Scrum principles and practices.
He is a Certified Scrum Master & Certified Scrum Professional (CSM, CSP) and is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He frequently speaks and writes about various aspects of Agile & Scrum. His Industry experience includes Telecommunications, Insurance, Media, and Federal Govt. Agencies.
Tobias Mayer / Agile Thinking
Tobias is an Agile Coach and Trainer from London, UK, currently residing and working in the USA, with frequent trips to Europe. He has a background in software development, graphic design, theatre arts, and team/groupwork facilitation. He also has a keen mind, an anarchic edge and a passion for corporate enlightenment.
Tobias currently work as a change agent, trainer and facilitator, providing coaching and consulting services to teams and organizations making the transition to more agile, trustful and team-centered ways of working. His current core focus is on the Scrum framework, offering both public and private training classes to explore the principles and practices of Scrum. He has developed a fast-moving and energizing style of “immersion training” for teams that provides an extremely high yield of knowledge for participants: knowledge that is not just learned, but embodied.
Tobias’s coaching work is essentially at a grass roots level within an organization, but more recently he has been exploring how the Scrum principles can be applied within the field of organizational development. He is interested in how management by consensus, and the qualities of self-organization, empiricism and emergence can be used across the wider corporate culture to free the creative spirit and improve both human relationships and productivity.
Carlton Nettleton / Look Forward Consulting
Carlton Nettleton, is an Agile software development coach, consultant and thought-leader in San Diego County. He provides advice, mentoring and training to teams and programs looking to better software quality, improve productivity, build great teams and apply Lean Thinking to software projects.
He has over ten years of experience with software development as a contributor, facilitator and leader.
He is a Certified Scrum Trainer and has been practicing Scrum since 2005.
Erin Beierwaltes
Erin Beierwaltes has led teams from growing start-ups to multinational global companies with emphasis on improving efficiency of development groups and enhancing business processes since 2003.
As an Agile Coach and Certified ScrumMaster she has transitioned groups from waterfall to scrum and has seen the positive effects Agile processes can play in a company. In an effort to improve the next generation of developers and business leaders, Erin routinely acts as a guest lecture for graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Colorado.