Derek W. Wade is a collaboration expert and team coach at Kumido Adaptive Strategies.  His passion for helping teams apply group-centered models -- and his 14 years of experience across a broad range of industries -- has enabled him to improve many group efforts, especially those leveraging distributed teams.  Derek is the author of "Multidimensional Management: Avoiding Calcification or Fragmentation on Distributed Teams" (with J. Puopolo) and "Emergent Design: Leveraging Agile Retrospectives to Evolve Your Architecture" (with Scott Barnes).

Derek is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Innovation Games(tm) Qualified Instructor, Core Passion Authorized Facilitator, serves on the Board of Directors for the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), and is a founding member of the APLN-Chicago.  He has spoken at numerous public forums, including ScrumGathering, Agile2008, the Chicago APLN, the Tulsa Area Agile Group (TAAG), CITCON, Ignite! Chicago, and OOPSLA.  Derek is also a licensed Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor; these have more relevance to the Agile world than he expected. 

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