I am certified as a Scrum Trainer and I am an Agile Coach. I came to Agile 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 Agile done well.
My Agile experience, along with my professional coaching and training abilities, gives me the perspective needed to guide teams and Agile leaders to harness Agile 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 Agile world.
For the last four years, I have 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.
I believe that Agile is more than an alternate project management methodology and am passionate about deepening the roles in Agile – specifically Agile Coach and Agile Manager – to help Agile 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 Agile 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.
July 9, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Hello there, nice blog. I linked to it in a recent post. I am up in Marin Co. taking my co-active coaching course and was blogging about it, I am from Chicago.
July 17, 2008 at 9:39 am
[...] Lyssa Adkins is a very experienced project manager and PM consultant with over 15 years of experience in a wide variety of industries and teams – large and small. In the following video she talkes about how the role of a project manager should develop towards an agile coach – quite interesting. [...]
March 17, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Lyssa Adkins,
I love to see that you are interested in applying SCRUM to the Church. I’m a CSM and an ordained minister that actively uses Agile principles in my ministry. Are you interested in collaborating on creating an article?
March 17, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Brian:
Yes, let’s talk. I might also suggest that you get to know the two ministers I have been working with, but that’s a little down the road. In the meantime, check out this blog: http://spiritkeeper.wordpress.com. It’s the chronicle of starting with Scrum at a church last year. That church is still using Scrum and has invited me back to see an upcoming retro and planning so that I can witness their progress. They are very proud. So, please respond to lyssaadkins@cricketwing.com and let’s see where we go. –Lyssa