Hi, my name is Chad Holdorf and I call myself the Agile Ninja because I hate being called a Process Pro. The reason I hate the title Process Pro is because I love delivering products. In 2008 I was asked to lead a team in the development of a software project using Agile. My response was, “WHAT?!?!” Today I’m proud to say I am all in on Agile | Lean Methodologies and teach it every day.
I work for John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group in Des Moines, IA as an Scaled Agile Coach. I’m not sure that is the right title, but my role is to roll out and support Agile at all locations.
The challenges I blog/tweet/talk about are related to how John Deere is tailed around hardware and waterfall processes. This drives me bonkers when we try to make are software follow a hardware process!
I’ve been applying Agile practices since Feb08. As an Agile Coach, I orchestrated the first large-scale Agile transformation within the company. This project included over 200 people and 30+ managers and was initiated, successfully, just four months prior to a critical product launch. I specializing in organizational change, optimization and business value delivery while making work a little more enjoyable. Today 1000+ people are practicing what I call “Scaled Agile Delivery Methodology” within John Deere.
It’s never been a better time to be a part of Deere as we feed the world through software development! If you want to join Deere, you can see the job listings here. If you to talk more, fill out the form below and I will get in touch.
The http://www.scaledagiledelivery.com/ blog is my personal blog. The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer’s view in anyway.
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Hey Chad – nice to meet you!! I like the Kanban Board Day 1 pic.
continue blogging
cheers
siraj
Siraj,
This should be fun. Can’t wait to start utilizing it everyday.