Agile Partners
Our network of Professional Agile Partners have undergone an extremely rigorous and demanding selection and training process through Scrum.org. We have decades of experience helping diverse firms achieve business agility. Learn more and help us find the right partner for your unique needs.
MARK NONEMAN
Scrum Coach
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Mark Noneman helps clients realize the benefits of Agile software development and pursue organizational Agility. He leverages over 25 years of experience to serve industry leaders in the roles of Enterprise Agile Coach and Professional Scrum Trainer, the latter in partnership with Scrum.org, led by the co-creator of Scrum, Ken Schwaber. Mark focuses on helping organizations apply Agile principles and practices to improve quality, increase productivity and deliver value faster.
As a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Mark is one of a select few PSTs who regularly teaches Scrum.org’s entire curriculum, including Professional Scrum Foundations (PSF), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) and Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) courses. In addition to serving as a PST, Mark holds certifications with Scrum.org for Professional Scrum Master (PSM, PSM II, PSM III), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I, PSPO II) and Professional Scrum Developer (PSD).
As an Enterprise Agile Coach, Mark helps organizations develop and execute strategies for extending and expanding Agile across their enterprise. He is certified in and frequently utilizes scaling approaches such as Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Scaled Professional Scrum (Nexus).
Mark earned a BS in Engineering from the University of Los Angeles, California and an MS in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University.
Dr. CHARLES SUSCHECK
Scrum Coach
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Dr. Charles Suscheck specializes in agile software development methodologies, and project management. He is one the few people in the world certified to teach the entire scrum.org curriculum. He has over 25 years of professional experience in information technology, beginning his career as a software developer. Dr. Suscheck holds a Doctorate, Masters, and Bachelors in Computer Science and is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), Professional Scrum Master (PSM I and II), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I and II), Scaled Agile Framework Process Consultant (SPC), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) and certified RUP specialist. An educator at heart, he has over 30 published articles, has taught nearly 1000 students software development, and is a highly respected conference speaker.
RICH VISOTCKY
Agile Trainer & Coach
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Rich is a seasoned agile trainer and coach, bringing years of experience in helping hundreds of people learn agile concepts and put them into practice in their daily work and lives. Rich loves to help connect people with the principles behind leaner, agile processes and practices so they build elastic skills and can adapt their approach as the problems they are faced with change. He has a background in software development, having put to practice what he preaches. Constantly at the intersection between those who want something done and those who want to do good work, Rich helps to bridge the gaps in communications between all.
STEPHANIE OCKERMAN
Agile Trainer & Coach
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We are proud to add Stephanie Ockerman as a SmoothApps partner. Stephanie is a results-driven, compassionate coach, professional trainer, and speaker and enjoys helping people who believe in the art of the possible. She brings over a decade of consulting experience in banking, insurance, government, retail, and energy industries helping people solve complex problems and deliver valuable business solutions. Stephanie is passionate about enabling high performing teams, cultivating agile mindsets, and helping people discover their capacity for growth and learning. Throughout her career, she has formally trained hundreds of professionals in a variety of processes and skills. She is Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org and is the steward of the Professional Scrum Master Training Course.
HIREN DOSHI
Agile Trainer & Coach
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Hiren R. Doshi, Author, Scrum.org professional Scrum trainer and coach, is a Scrum enthusiast and an agent for organizational change. He has a distinguished 22-years career in leading the full life cycle software development.
He has facilitated over 50 2-days Scrum.org workshops on PSF, PSM, PSPO and SPS and trained over 1200 participants.
MAGDALENA FIRLIT
Scrum & Agile Coach
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Magdalena Firlit is a Scrum and Agile Coach, consultant, trainer, mentor, life and business coach (graduated Coach according to postgraduate university course ICF). She obtained an accreditation from Scrum.org and can provide certified trainings Professional Scrum Master and Professional Scrum Foundations.
She has had over 17 years of professional experience. Currently Magdalena is focused on Agile transformations of both organisations and teams. She cooperates with different size companies and with all levels in organisation. She provides trainings and workshops related with Agile, Scrum, Kanban and soft skills. She is present as a speaker at conferences, meetups communities of practice and leads workshops and trainings.
JILL GRAVES
Agile Coach
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Jill is an Agile Coach and Trainer at the Canada Revenue Agency. Recently, she won the Government of Canada 2015 GTEC Award in Leadership for her role in the CRA Agile Transformation. Jill continues to work at the Agency level, helping teams and executives adopt Scrum and Agile. She also holds external training sessions for interested participants, bringing her experience as a Scrum Master, coach and trainer, in addition to her knowledge of government and crown corporations.
SUMEET MADAN
Enterprise Agile Coach
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Sumeet Madan is an experienced SAFe trainer, Enterprise Agile Coach and PST from Scrum.org. His mission drives him connecting with people to help them explore their own values, and enable people to make sense out of their life to become a better human being.
His Agile knowledge, along with coaching and training abilities, offers him the perspective needed to guide teams and agile leaders to harness Agile as the competitive advantage. Sumeet trained more than 500 people (Scrum Master and Development team) on Agile, Scrum and SAFe.
He is an Active speaker @ Scrum Bangalore and Scrum Gurgaon. Sumeet worked at organisations like Tesco, RBS, ABB.
NAGESH SHARMA
Enterprise Agile Coach
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Nagesh Sharma is an experienced SAFe trainer, Enterprise Agile Coach and PST alumni. Trained more than 2000 people and has over 15 years of experience in various industries as a Systems engineer, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Test Manager, Technical Manager and Program Manager. He has helped large enterprises like Philips, Societe Generale, Cisco and Shell in their agile transformation. He has served organisations like Essar, ABB, Honeywell and Schneider that gives him a diverse perspectives of large and distributed organizations. He is an active speaker at international conferences like Scrum Day Europe 2017, Scrum Day Germany 2017, Scrum Day India 2017 and various SAFe meet ups in India. Attendees of Nagesh’s training, workshops call him a Visual Facilitator as he uses his sketching skills to draw engagement and awesome learning experience for his students.