I've been using Scrum since 2005, probably, I am the first Scrum master of Ukraine. Then the company Encode.dk (Ciklum) from my submission, we began to use Scrum. This company and its Kiev team are alive to this day (2018) and use Scrum within the company. Scrum is well established, if correctly understood.

In 2007, together with a group of "interested" made an inspiration community Agile Ukraine . So in Ukraine they started talking about flexible development. It all started with a Google group. Then a dozen half-day free conferences throughout Ukraine. The wave began to roll.

Since 2008, I have been active in the arena of the Agile community as a producer of conferences and a speaker. Since the same year - an independent agile-consultant, perhaps, is also the first in Ukraine.

The author of one of the most popular training Scrum simulation games: lego4scrum .

Author of the book on retrospectives translated into several languages. The author's translation of the Russian book has the name Quick start in Agile-retrospective .

Last years (from 2013) I spend a lot of time in the world of product development of central and eastern Europe as an agile-coach. I am actively interested in the development of the Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) approach and I use its principles when using agile at the corporate level.

A graduate of the Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC®) program in 2016.

Cesario Ramos is a agile management coach and product development expert. He works as an organisational design consultant on large scale Scrum adoption worldwide. He is also a Certified LeSS Trainer and Qualified Innovation Games® Instructor. In 2010 he founded AgiliX, a consulting company, that provides consulting and training worldwide.

Cesario is the author of the book ‘EMERGENT – Lean & Agile adoption for an innovative workplace’ and co-author with Jeff Sutherland and James Coplien et. al. of the book A Scrum Book.

He is a frequent invited speaker at conferences around the world and organiser of the international Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) conferences.

You can read more about Cesario Ramos at www.agilix.nl.

Agile Coach, Scrum Master. Has had a significant work experience in other areas before IT, which made her well prepared for dealing with many different types of tasks and characters. Scrum Master for over 5 years, helping two great distributed teams achieve goals and remove obstacles by asking puzzling questions and making people discuss it all. A people-oriented manager from whom you will always hear constructive feedback and who is ready to take one for herself.

Passionate traveler, trouble solver, agile coach and a Scalepointer - all in one.

Agile Coach, Certificated Scrum Master. Before that project manager, team manager, product owner and teacher of polish language. Teaching in school gave her an idea that asking questions that will lead people to find their answers is much more fun than just give answers to them. Works in IT for almost 10 years and during that time experimenting with many different approaches to the same issues, trying to find a perfect angle to every single one.

For past year working with distributed teams, where fun helps pick up the toughest challenges.

Over 9 years of experience in leading IT companies.
Behind more than 10 large successful projects.

I have experience in the role of: QA, QA Lead, Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master and Agile Coach.

How Project Manager coped with projects ranging in size from 30 to 70 people.
He organized and successfully coordinated offshore development of a multi-million project.
Among the first things that was undertaken, the project was rebuilt on Agile rails already in the first weeks of involvement in the project. That immediately began to bear fruit in the form of a transparent and predictable development, a quick response to changes and the successful delivery of the product on schedule.

In IT world started as a Business Analyst and through Project Manager position she found her destiny as Scrum Master. On everyday basis she works with distributed between three countries teams, guiding them through meetings and help with everyday planning. Next to 2 other Scrum Masters and head of Scrum Masters helps organization to improve processes and supports agile spirit.

Agile Coach with technical background.
From Java developer to VP of Engineering, I used Agile practices in “trenches” since 2009.
Starting 2016 I help organizations adopt Agile and Scrum as an external consultant.

As a part of Agile Drive team, I consult Ukrainian companies on Agile and Scrum.
As a freelance scientific editor, I participate in translating Agile-related books to Ukrainian.

I have been an Agile Practitioner and change agent for the last 5 years. My passion is working with co-located and distributed teams helping them build trust and make communication as boundary-free as possible. I’m a fast learner (CSM, CSPO, CSP, KMP II, Certified LeSS Practitioner) and teaching and mentoring help me keep the knowledge balance.

I’m people-oriented and team-focused, so Agile values coincide with my personal ones. I’m into Innovation games, facilitation and coaching.

A happy mom of two.

За моими плечами более 10 лет опыта в Agile окружении с клиентами от США до Гонконга. За 2017 год провел более 1000 часов работая с командами таких компаний, как Ukrsibbank BNP Paribas Group, ПУМБ, Roche, WorkFusion, Tonic Health Ukraine, Visa, ДТЕК в разрезе стратегических организационных изменений.

Использую Scrum с далекого 2008 года. Именно в тот кризисный период я впервые увидел, что будущее за Agile подходами в управлении. С тех пор, я проделал большой путь постигая современные методы управления командами и организациями.

С 2011 года начал работать в крупной украинской аутсорсинговой компании, где был один из основных адептов Scrum. За 6 лет провел более 30 проектов используя передовые практики с Agile.

В 2015 году одним из первых в Украине начал использовать Agile практики в не-ИТ, первым клиентом стал один из крупнейших банков Украины - Укрсиббанк. Вот уже 2й год мы вместе работаем в разрезе стратегической Agile трансформации. С тех пор я - один из ключевых экспертов в Украине в разрезе Agile подходов в финансовых компаниях.

Являюсь большим поклонником Large Scaled Scrum как инструмента построения Agile организаций. На сегодня успешно строю его в 3 разных ИТ и не ИТ компаниях.

Agile Enterprise and Executive Coach

I work with leaders, executives, managers and teams in organizations that create intellectual (not just IT) as well as manufacturing products.

I help people rethink their organizational dynamics, mindset, processes and practices, so that they can do business effectively in the 21st century.

In over 20 years of professional experience I worked with organizations in three different continents, as big as the United Nations’ FAO and as small as dynamic post-startup companies.

I have a wide range of expertise, in both the public and private sectors, with large and small organizations and with different cultures.

I'm based in Italy but I've also worked for four years in the USA on a O-1 visa for "extraordinary abilities in Sciences”.

As part of my regular activities, I enjoy sharing what I know by speaking at major international conferences.

Having joined the IT field in 2004 as a tester, Nadia moved on to project coordination role around the time when Agile has become known in Ukraine. So she was among the first to try out agile approaches in Ukrainian outsourcing context.

For the past 10 years Nadia has helped build an Agile organization at Scalepoint, starting as a Scrum Master of a small team and ending up Development Manager of a 100+ people in IT organization distributed over 3 countries working on related products. More on that in Nadia's talk.

Помогаю компании развиваться в Agile и Lean. На данный момент активно развиваю направление Agile вне IT - провожу эксперименты с использованием гибких процессов в не IT командах.

Naama is an Agile thinker and process tinker.

She has vast experience in implementing Lean and Agile from a single team to a scaled organization.

She bring deep understanding of agile and organizational processes, and loves finding the right path for the organization to implement these principles in the day to day practices.

She loves working with various parts of the organization - Management, Engineering and Product, and leading the organization to a holistic and systematic improvement.

Катерина Сушкова более 4 лет работала менеджером проектов и ПМО лидером в небольшой аутсорсинговой компании, после чего работала скрам мастером и коучем, сейчас - менеджер проектов и драйвер PM Community

"Верю в команды, kaizen и потенциал людей".

I am an experienced independent coach, consultant, and trainer from Braunschweig, Germany, for agile software development. My know-how in agile processes is based on over twenty years experience in project and product development. I am an experienced agile process coach and trainer. I have worked with teams using agile processes successfully on medium-sized to large mission-critical projects. As a coach I’m focusing on the process as well as on the quality and on soft factors like communication. I work also as a facilitator for retrospectives. With retrospectives I help my clients to improve their way of working.

I have presented work in my main areas at different European and American conferences. I am a member of the AgileAlliance (I have served the board of directors from 2003-2007), a supporter of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and a member of several Interest Groups. I am a partner of IT communication.

Angel has 20+ years’ experience in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) market. In 2007 he founded the company Proyectalis which is today considered the leading Agile consulting and coaching company in Spain and Latinoamerica. Also, one of the most well-known Agile experts in Europe, offering Agile training, consulting and implementation services to a wide spectrum of software, telecommunication and IT enterprises worldwide.

Customers include Ericsson, Vodafone, Electronic Arts, EADS, Oracle, SAP, BBVA, Allianz ,AXA, SURA, Bancolombia, Odigeo, Auchan, Tui Travel, Schibsted, Thomson Reuters…

Angel is a well-known speaker at Agile conferences in Sweden, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, United States, Ireland, Israel, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal, France, Colombia, Uruguay and, of course, Spain.

He is the author of the books Agile Management (Springer) and “Agile Kaizen: Continuous Improvement Far Beyond Retrospectives’ (Springer). He also contributed to the publication Beyond Agile: Stories of Agile Transformations, (Modus Cooperandi).

Angel is Management 3.0 Licensed Trainer, certified SAFe Program Consultant and member of both the Scrum Alliance and the Agile Alliance. He is also a well-known member of the Spanish Agile community, co-founder of Agile Spain and also a sponsor and chairman of the pioneer Agile events in Spain: Agile Open Space 2009 and Agile Spain Conference 2010.

Artur Margonari is passionate about Agile, which he applies daily in his personal life. He works as Agile Coach, Trainer and Facilitator at Wemanity Belgium and has more than 4 years experience in practicing and helping organizations to be more Agile, to form powerful teams and to deliver great products. He is board member of the Agile Consortium Belgium, a non-profit organization that offers an independent platform where Agile knowledge is created and shared.

One of his favorite quotes, which represents big part of his essence: "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi.
Some of the certifications he holds: CSM, CSPO, CSP, LeSS Practitioner, SAFe Agilist, Lean-Kanban Practitioner, SMC, Management3.0, Agile Facilitator and Coaching Agile Teams 3.0.

Hobbies & passions: guitar, ukulele & harmonica, accelerated learning, archery, beer tasting, martial arts and traveling.

As Trust Artist and Certified Enterprise Coach with the Scrum Alliance, Olaf is a veteran and a leader in the international agile community.

In 20 years, he has visited and helped hundreds of organisations to transform. In that work, exploring culture and making sense of leadership have become his speciality. His strategy: increasing trust and responsibility through invitation and clarity. Olaf doesn’t hesitate to show up as kind and blunt – discomfort grows his capacity to love what he dislikes.
Olaf invites us to trust ourselves and others. He believes: You deserve to love what you do.

Olaf is one of the founders of TrustTemenos Leadership Academy. We work with leaders increasing their clarity of identity and intention, and help growing organisations where safe spaces are available for people to show up and grow. In 2016 we published a workbook for leaders: Showing Up, available on LeanPub. We invite leaders to consciously Show Up: to become aware of how our clarity of who we are and what we want determines the results that emerge from our context – in leading our lives, leading our team, as well as leading whole organisations.

Коуч-консультант в организациях (WAPP), экзистенциальный коуч (Школа экзистенциального коучинга Ю.Кравченко), обучающийся психотерапевт (Экзистенциальный анализ А. Ленгле, Позитивная кросс-культурная психотерапия Н.Пезешкиана).

Agile coach, Certified ScrumMaster (Scrumalliance.org), Professional Scrum Product Owner (Scrum.org).

Со-ведущая группы об отношениях в организациях "О чем молчат Скрам Мастера?"

Веду частную консультационную и менторскую практику.

I love to support things to emerge and evolve. And my journey towards agility began back in early 2000 when I as a Software Developer got in touch with something called eXtreme Programming and Pragmatic Programming. Whatever it is - something called like this has to be cool...in 2005 I added Scrum to my backpack and 2008 Kanban came in…

Since 2006 I help teams and organizations to explore agility in different facets. I love to see “Aha!” - moments and as a trainer and coach I help people and organizations to get their own “Ahas” by facilitating workshops and journeys.

Anna Obukhova is an Agile Coach working with Agile methodologies since 2004 as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Project/Programme Manager and recently as Agile Portfolio Delivery Manager for a large investment bank in London. Anna is mainly interested in distributed and dispersed projects and the effectiveness of team communication in such conditions. Her passion is to collect and share the best industry and company practices in Agile management. She helps Agile teams and programmes to improve their processes and implement the transition from Waterfall to Agile in corporate environments (her clients are major banks and very large companies from other industries).

Additionally, Anna Obukhova is using neuroscience and biology to explain Agile productivity and enhance Agile coaching techniques. This perspective of Neuroscience and Agile was agreed to be novel and worth sharing by many conferences, to name a few: ALE Bucharest, Agile Days Moscow (2012-2019), Global Scrum Gathering Paris, Agile Cambridge, Agile Tour London, Agile on the Beach (UK, 2017, 2018, 2019), Agile 2017 (Orlando, USA), Agile 2018 (San Diego), Agile Business Conference (Moscow 2017, 2018), Global Scrum Gathering Dublin, Manage Agile (Berlin).

She uses her educations in Biology, Psychology and Coaching to connect working tips and recommendations with the natural processes that happen in our bodies (especially in the brain). She believes it can explain a lot and she`s very excited how naturally Agile works.

Gitte Klitgaard is an agile coach with more than a decade of experience working for companies as well as coaching individuals. She lives and loves agile, and hates turf wars, which is why she took the oath of non-allegiance. Why fight over methods, when we can use that energy to help people?

Gitte wants to change the world by helping people work better together and feel better about themselves. She is known for speaking her mind in a way that helps people actually listen to what she says; maybe because her main working tools are listening and caring. As an active part of the agile community, Gitte often engages in discussion online and offline, and is part of the organiser team of German Agile Coach Camp as well as a facilitator at other events.

Working in different companies in Europe and developing training as needed, her expertise now centre on soft skills, as she has found this to be something missing in many organisations. The past few years she has been focusing on creating psychological safety.

Since 2013 Gitte has been speaking and doing workshops, and keynoting at international conferences across three continents (mainly for developers, agile professionals and testers). Her talks are often about the topics we don't talk about: stress, mental health, inclusion, vulnerability and courage.

Albina has vast experience in IT industry. She has been working for companies developing embedded systems, SAAS products, big data projects, building a large social network. She has played a role of software developer, project manager, ScrumMaster, product owner and a team lead. Regardless of the role, she has been always experimenting with various management approaches and helping companies become more agile and improve the company culture overall.

12 years in IT. Certified Scrum Master since 2007. He built effective processes in both collocated and fully distributed teams. I am convinced that flexible approaches in project and business management are directly related to increasing profitability and competitiveness.