Sanjiv Augustine, President
An industry-leading agile and lean expert, Sanjiv has assisted several leading clients adopt Agile methods over the past decade. He is the author of several publications including Transitioning to Agile Project Management: A Roadmap for the Perplexed, The Lean-Agile PMO: Using Lean Thinking to Accelerate Agile Project Delivery and the book Managing Agile Projects (Prentice Hall 2005); and the founder and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile Project Management discussion group. Sanjiv is also a founder and advisory board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) ’s Agile Forum Steering Committee. As an in-the-trenches practitioner, he has personally managed Agile projects varying in size from five to over one hundred people, trained thousands of agile practitioners via public classes and conference presentations, and coached numerous project teams. For more information, see Sanjiv’s website: www.sanjivaugustine.com.
Arlen Bankston, Executive Vice President
Arlen is an established leader in the application and evolution of process management methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma and BPM, as well as Agile software development processes such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Certified ScrumMaster Trainer. He also has twelve years of experience in product design, leveraging principles of information architecture, interaction design and usability to develop innovative products that meet customers’ expressed and unspoken needs. Arlen has led Agile and Lean deployment and managed process improvement projects at clients such as Capital One, T. Rowe Price, Freddie Mac, and the Armed Forces Benefits Association. Arlen’s recent work has centered on combining Lean Six Sigma process improvement methods with Agile execution to dramatically improve both the speed and quality of business results. He has also led the integration of interaction design and usability practices into Agile methodologies, presenting and training frequently at both industry conferences and to Fortune 100 clients.
David Bulkin, Vice President
David is a strong leader, technologist and process engineer with over 20 years experience in applying lean processes to manage portfolios, projects, people, process, and technology for competitive advantage. He has helped numerous teams apply agile project management and engineering methods as a practioner and coach. He is a frequent speaker at user groups and blogs on the subject. David’s career has spanned both the public and private sector. He built an electronic commerce startup from the group up, and also managed large scale, mission critical technology projects as a VP at JP Morgan Chase. He is frequently engaged in both strategic board level, and hands on implementation (analysis, design, coding) activities, keeping his agile coaching and training skills sharp and relevant. He is on the Board of Directors at the Center for Program Transformation (CPT) and Ocean 20 Technologies Group. With the CPT, David prepared Senate testimony on IT Oversight and contributed to federal legislation. In the 1990’s David was a key member of the Software Program Managers Network (SPMN) where he identified proven software best practices, conveyed them to managers of large-scale DoD system acquisition programs, and consulted on numerous projects.
Bob Payne, Vice President and Head, Agile Coaching
Bob Payne is a leading proponent of Agile Methodologies and Agile Engineering Practices with 25 years of project management, software development, engineering and business experience. As an early adopter of Extreme Programming (XP), he has worked exclusively as an Agile Coach and practitioner since 1999. He has mentored and managed many projects ranging in size from five to over one hundred people. As host of the AgileToolkit podcast he has produced over 60 podcasts, recording a variety of industry leaders and Agile practitioners. He has been on the organizing committee of the Agile Software Development Conference in 2007 and 2008. He is cofounder of the Washington, DC XP Users Group. Bob is passionate about training development teams in the use of Agile Engineering Practices that allow them to deliver high quality software in an Agile, iterative and incremental manner. With a MSEE in Computer Architectures for Artificial Intelligence and having grown up working in his family restaurant, he brings a unique blend of technical excellence and customer service to bear on his projects and training courses.
