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Agile expert
and trusted adviser to executives, directors
and managers seeking genuine Agile
expertise
including Lean,
Scrum, and
Kanban guidance.
See the video of Dan from Agile2009. Topics:
Group relations, agile game dynamics, and the PMI-Agile Community
of Practice
Coach to executives, managers
and teams in
how to clarify goals and reach them using Lean/Agile techniques
and the Scrum framework. Learn
more about coaching here.
Community organizer and
leader of the Agile Boston and Agile
CT user groups
Expert Lean/agile/Scrum teacher (since
2006) delivering agile/Scrum Training
Author of books and innovative
articles and papers on agile, Scrum, Lean and Kanban
Agile Community Reporter for Agile
news outlet InfoQ.com
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here if you are looking for extraordinary
agile & Scrum training
in CT, MA and beyond.
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(@DanMezick)
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Send Dan an email at dan.mezick [at] newtechusa[dot][com].
THANK YOU for your attention !!
The following is some background information
on Dan Mezick:
Associations & Certifications
Member, Scrum Alliance. Certified Scrum Master
(CSP). See Dan
Mezick's Scrum Alliance profile here
Member, Agile Alliance. See Dan Mezick's Agile
Alliance profile (circa 2009) here.
Member, Agile Project Leader's Network.
Member, Project Management Institute. Active
in the MassBay chapter and Southern CT chapter. Serving (in 2009)
as a Programs committee member, authorized to identify and engage
speakers for SNEC-PMI's monthly meetings. (see www.snec-pmi.org)
Member, USA
Hockey. Certified Level 3 Hockey Coach. (See also: PCT
Framework, under Personal Interests section
below)
Agile Conference sessions
Scrum Alliance Scrum Gathering, Orlando 2009:
"Team Intimacy and the Hyper-productive state"
Agile2009 interview on InfoQ: Group
relations, agile game dynamics, & PMI-Agile
Agile2009 session: BART
Analysis Applied (Boundary, Authority Role and Task)
Agile2009 session: Group
Relations and Social Systems
Agile2008 session: The
Hidden Life of Groups
Agile2007 session: Agile
and Entreprenuerial Thinking Patterns. Here is a link to
the Agile
training grades from Agile2007. People seemed to like this
session.
Click the picture to see the interview on
InfoQ
Agile Community Organizing & Volunteer
Work
240++ Attending at GIVE THANKS FOR
SCRUM, November 2009
Organizer, Agile
Boston OPEN SPACE 2010 (250++
attending), featuring keynote Ken Schwaber, Amr Elssamadisy and
over 250++ open space participants. We followed the event with
our regular monthly meeting featuring JEAN TABAKA and DOC LIST.
[Manifesting
Agility] Stage producer, Agile Alliance Agile2009
Conference, 2009
Organizer, Agile Boston GIVE
THANKS FOR SCRUM event, November 2009 (240++ attending),
featuring Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, the fathers of
the Scrum framework.
Organizer, Agile
Boston user group, since 2007
Organizer, Agile
CT user group, since 2007
Published Books, Articles and Papers
Writer: Starting 2Q2010, writing
weekly news items from the Agile community, for InfoQ.
Article: January 2010, Scrum Alliance: Attraction
and Repulsion- Scrum's Immune System
Article: Oct 28 2009, Scrum Alliance: Scrum
and SVO-p (Subject-verb-object, present tense)
Article: August 18 2003, COMPUTERWORLD: Outsourcing
2.0: Collaborative Development
Book: April 1999, Visual
Basic BOOTCAMP Certification Exam Guide, McGraw Hill
Notable Blog Posts; Other Written
Works
Post: Community Notes, see the
ever-evolving list here
Post: April 22 2009: Entrainment,
a key to how Scrum works
Post: April 15 2009: Attraction
and Repulsion: Scrums Immune System
Post: April 27 2009: BART:
Boundary, Authority Role & Task as Related to Scrum
Post: August 11 2007: Inattentional Blindness: an Obstacle to Agile
Web article: May 11 2009: MegaScrum:
A Scrum Structure for Massively Distributed, non-IT, All-Volunteer
Efforts
Web article: April 2001: Enter
Late and Dominate: Mezick's Theorem of Open Source
.....Web article Addendum: Mezick's
Theorem Addendum page
.....Web article Summary: Responses
Around the Web to the Theorem, plus Q&A
.....Interesting responses: Quick
Google list of "here and now" responses around the
web
Click the picture to see the interview on
InfoQ
Patents Awarded; Other Achievements
Patent: Property
setting manager for objects and controls of a graphical user
interface
Patent
number: 5872974
Filing date: Apr 19, 1995
Issue date: Feb 16, 1999
Business Entreprenuership Award: Deliotte
and Touche FAST50 Award for 2002. Recognized again
for leading one of the top 50 fastest growing technology firms
in the state of Connecticut for calendar year 2002.
Business Entreprenuership Award: Deliotte
and Touche FAST50 Award for 2001. Recognized
for the 1st time for leading one of the top 50 fastest growing
technology firms in the state of Connecticut for calendar year
2001.
Personal Interests and Projects
The Parent-Coach Timeout
Meeting: A Framework for Effective Communication in Youth Sports. Essential Scrum and Group Relations concepts applied to youth
sports.
The PCT is a framework that allows Coaches
and Parents to communicate clearly, such that
Parents,
Coaches
and Kids can a) learn from experience during the season, b) make
adjustments, and c) have much more FUN in pursuit of shared objectives.
Openness, Focus, Commitment, Respect and Courage
are Scrum values.The PCT process contains essential core elements
of
Scrum with customized
BART properties.
The PCT is a framework focused on youth sports.
It
is optimized
for generating rich, 2-way parent-coach communication at
the group level. This leads to more fun for parents, coaches
and especially kids. The PCT process is especially focused
on youth
hockey.
Follow me on twitter (@DanMezick)
Send me an email at dan.mezick
[at] newtechusa[dot][com].
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