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Lyssa Adkins - I am a Certified Scrum Trainer and Coach.  I came to Scrum as a project leader with over 15 years’ project management expertise.  Even with all that experience, nothing prepared me for the power and simplicity of Scrum done well.

My Scrum experience, along with my professional coaching and training abilities, gives me the perspective needed to guide teams and leaders to harness Scrum as the competitive advantage weapon it was meant to be.  I know the transformation path is rocky.  As a former large-scale program manager and director of Project Management Offices, I have lived it myself.  This makes me uniquely able to help others translate their existing world to the Scrum world.

For the last four years, I have been coaching teams in the financial services industry and coaching coaches who represent the gamut of Scrum  implementations, from small consulting firms to the giants of industry.

I believe that Scrum is more than an alternate project management methodology and am passionate about deepening the roles in Scrum to help it move into its fullest expression.

I hold an alphabet-soup of certifications: Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB). I am also actively training in the methods and practices of Co-Active Coaching.

I’ve also become interested in using Scrum in church organizations.  Scrum in Church is an information sharing site for people trying it out in church.

And, if you’d like to e-mail me feel free to use lyssaadkins@cricketwing.com.

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Upcoming Courses by Lyssa

Course Title Date Range City
Certified ScrumMaster 17-18 Mar 2010 Toronto
Certified Scrum Product Owner 24-25 Mar 2010 Boston
Certified ScrumMaster 30-31 Mar 2010 San Francisco
Certified ScrumMaster 15-16 Apr 2010 Amsterdam
Certified ScrumMaster 20-21 Apr 2010 Luxembourg

Recent Articles by Lyssa

The Manager's Role in Agile 23 Jul 08

When a team converts to agile, managers are often left wondering what part they will play in leading an agile team to success. Just as the team must learn new skills in order to self-organize, managers should explore a new set of competencies in order to function most effectively.

Two Tips to Help Product Owners with Release Planning 03 Jun 08

In real estate, it's all about location, location, location, In agile, we could say it's all about business value, business value, business value. Lyssa Adkins gives product owners tips to keep in mind when making plans for a release so that they don't forget their ultimate goal: produce the highest business value first.

Resources by Lyssa

The Road from Project Manager to Agile Coach
The video, with narration, called “The Road from Project Manager to Agile Coach” is now on YouTube. It is in two parts of about 10 minutes each (Part1, Part 2).  This is a link to the Powerful Questions handout that was part...
Coaching the Coaches Deep Dive
Project Manager Turned Agile Coach - Essential Deprogramming for the Road Ahead

Recent Comments by Lyssa

On Two Tips to Help Product Owners with Release Planning
Piotr: I might be misunderstanding your question. Please correct me, if so. The team would still size the stories in the backlog. Everything I propose in this article happens after that. The insight most product owners I've worked with get fr...
On Two Tips to Help Product Owners with Release Planning
I have encountered a number of product owners who think about business value, dependencies, political priorities, and more all together when they start to slot stories into sprints. If they do this, they never have a clear read of pure business va...
On Scrum Games
Thank you both, Michael and Don. Great ideas for learning games both in this article and at Tasty Cupcakes (I just *had* to type that name).

 

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