Agile Leadership Laurens Bonnema

Chris Williams is author and host of the Badass Agile Podcast. He has spent the past 20 years of his career teaching and consulting in technology and management. He has seen every kind of trend come and go, and has met every kind of leader. But Chris also has a long background as a musician, audio engineer, business owner and entrepreneur, coach – and even boxing instructor. All of these challenges were opportunities in mastery – and the diverse subject areas taught him one important lesson – leadership is leadership, and excellence is gained the same way in every domain, from athletics to arts to business. It is his passion to light people up and equip them with the tools they need to emerge as powerful leaders. Chris believes in leadership as service, guided by vision, and he lives to help others find theirs; focusing next on fundamentals, and then enhancing practice to tweak and evolve their leadership game.

A Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org, Ryan Ripley has experience as a software developer, manager, director, and ScrumMaster at various Fortune 500 companies in the medical device, wholesale, and financial services industries. Ryan is committed to helping teams break the cycle of “bad Scrum” so they can deliver valuable software that delights their customers. The host of Agile for Humans, the top Agile podcast on iTunes, Ryan lives in Indiana with his wife Kristin and three children. He blogs at ryanripley.com and is on Twitter @ryanripley. Ryan loves talking about all things Agile and promises not to speak in the third person if you come up and ask him a question.

Dave West is the CEO at Scrum.org. He is a frequent keynote at major industry conferences and is a widely published author of articles and research reports, along with his acclaimed book: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, that helped define new software modeling and application development processes. He led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational. After IBM/Rational, West returned to consulting and managed Ivar Jacobson Consulting for North America. Then as VP, research director Forrester research where he ran the software development and delivery practice. Prior to joining Scrum.org he was Chief Product Officer at Tasktop where he was responsible for product management, engineering and architecture. 

A show about Agile leadership as seen through the eyes of experienced practitioners. The hosts, Ron Eringa and Laurens Bonnema, interview Agile leaders to highlight their unique take on Agile leadership.