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Agile Alliance 2009 Board Nomination

“Since late 2007 I have focused on community building, event organizing and philanthropy, all in an Agile context. A lot of communities already do a good job of fostering Agile education so my goal was to foster Agile adoption and help create a strong, self organizing and mutually supportive local community (in the San Francisco Bay Area).


With the opportunity to participate on the Agile Alliance board, I would firstly continue to help build communities that not only put on regular events, but that also offer regular clinics, come up with actionable guidance to members' adoption challenges, and will actively increase the overall health of the local Agile community. Having contributed to such efforts as a coordinating committee member of BayAPLN.org, I realize that Agile adoption challenges can be widely different in each culture and context. I support the creation of chapters of the Agile Alliance to help identify local needs well beyond Agile education. I would also like to see them supported by the global resources that the organization has at its disposal.


Secondly, I would advocate for stronger support for the use of Agile software development to amplify the reach and impact of charities and non-profit organizations. This is achievable by delivering software through a community of local developers (for which Ed Kraay is my local guide in San Francisco), or at conferences (e.g. Bob Payne's LiveAid Lab), or new approaches that haven't been invented yet. The Agile Alliance is in a unique position to foster these initiatives in a way that would allow us all to take part and create a highly viral wave of goodwill around the globe.”

In August 2009 I joined the Agile Alliance Board of Directors as well as that of the Agile Project Leadership Network. The position statement for my nomination is quoted below.