Profile: Robin Dymond

Robin Dymond, CST
VP, Managing Partner
Innovel, LLC
Assistant Producer, Learning and Education, AGILE 2008

Robin Dymond is a proven leader and innovator in training for Scrum, Agile, and Lean methods. He regularly achieves 100% increase in productivity of teams he trains and supports. These results are achieved by a deep understanding of Lean and Agile principles, team dynamics, and many Agile change experiences. Dymond developed Scrum, Lean, and Agile training for teams and trained hundreds of “new to Scrum” team members. At Agile 2007 Dymond co-presented an innovative new class for Scrum Product Owners that lead many to re-think their role and how business value is achieved.

A frequent speaker and organizer in the Agile community, Dymond co-organized and facilitated both the APLN National Leadership summit and the Agile Executive Consortium in 2007. He is a co-founder and board member of APLN Richmond, organizing Agile events. Dymond is assistant producer of Learning and Education stage at Agile 2008.

Dymond was a key member of a team that led the largest enterprise adoption of Scrum in financial services to date. This lean/agile initiative resulted in a time-to-market reduction of over 40% and process execution time savings of 70%. He worked as trainer and mentor to teams, coaches, and management for over 20 teams.

In 02/03 He lead the first large enterprise application development that used Agile and Microsoft .NET in Canada. Since then Dymond implemented Agile in service of multi-national retail companies, startups, and Fortune 500 clients.

Dymond has 17 years experience delivering complex products and services. His current focus on change, integrating Lean with Agile methods, and Return on Investment (ROI) analysis of Agile methods keep his clients on the cutting edge. Dymond holds a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary. He is currently VP, Managing Partner at Innovel, LLC.

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Agile Community Support by Innovel

AGILE 2008
Robin Dymond, Assistant Producer, Learning and Education Stage.
David Douglas, Reviewer for French Stage

Agile 2008 Main stage talk (90 min): "We suck less!" Isn't mediocrity great?

Agile 2008 Tutorial (180 min): Beer Rewards! The Product Owner Simulation.

Agile Executive Consortium 3/2008
David Douglas, board member and facilitator

Agile Project Leadership Network, APLN Maryland Chapter
November 2007 David Douglas, Speaking on implementing Agile in non-IT Teams.

Agile Richmond (formerly APLN Richmond)
Robin Dymond, Co-founder, Board Member and Treasurer.
October 2007 David Douglas, Agile in non-IT Teams.

2007 APLN Leadership Summit, Richmond, VA Planning Committee
Robin Dymond, Think Tank Sessions and Speakers
David Douglas, Think Tank Session host

Agile 2007 Conference, Washinton, D.C.
Robin Dymond and Mark Pushinsky, Product Owner Tutorial Presenters

Agile 2006 Conference, Minneapolis, MN
Robin Dymond and Deborah Hartmann, Appropriate Agile Metrics Discovery session and experience report

2005 University of Calgary Senior ebusiness Projects, Professor Frank Mauer, Phd.
As Technology Director Robin Dymond sponsored a CPSC student Agile project team to develop an internal web application for Critical Mass.

2004 XP Agile Universe XPAU 2004 Conference, Calgary:
Robin Dymond organizes attendance by 24 Critical Mass staff and colleagues in Calgary.

2003 Microsoft Canada Special Presentation on using Agile and .NET
Robin Dymond presents the results of using Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Continuous Integration, and Automated testing on a 350,000 line ASP.NET application developed at startup RPM Software.

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