With over 20 years of experience in a wide range of industries and roles in technology, Heidi brings a pragmatic approach to her work through the use of Open methods. She collaborates with leaders and teams to create more responsive, effective, and resilient teams with engaged employees. Heidi is currently Director of Agile Transformation at Tenable, a cybersecurity firm based in Maryland. She trains and speaks at events and conferences worldwide and co-hosts a popular virtual meetup series for Agilists at www.coachingagilejourneys.com. Her forthcoming book is The Agile Open Practitioner: Growing High Performing Teams.
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Multilingual English, Spanish, Russian
Founder of openagility.org: understanding that agility is a mindset and not a fixed framework, and seeking and supporting solutions for tailoring to the situation and need as well as where the organization is now.
Experienced in agile transformations and scaling from 2 to 40+ teams. Coaching, training, mentoring on Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, Lean processes; tailoring the framework to customer need and incremental adoption. Coach agile teams & projects in all stages of development. Experience working entirely & partially remotely for extended periods of time; managing collocated, distributed & offshore teams; handling multiple & large software projects end to end.
Project Management, Operations & Leadership Skills. Experience as PM in projects ranging from small to over $100 million (Agile, Iterative & Waterfall) and implementing all aspects & phases of IT projects. Set up Agile PMO at a rapidly scaling startup.
Business Process Efficiency Expert. Implemented continuous improvements to Agile and Lean software development processes to create efficiencies, cut slack time, and better reflect development processes. 15+ years’ experience in application development and business analysis/documentation.