Lyssa Adkins - I am a project leader with over 15 years' project management expertise. I have gained this experience by leading teams and groups of project managers in a wide variety of industries through large and small consulting firms, commercial software companies and the Fortune 500. 

Since 2005, I have been coaching Agile teams and aspiring coaches.  I thoroughly enjoy delivering software and process projects using Agile methods. The hyper-productivity of the team yields great benefits to their company and an energized working environment for the team members. I will never go back.

 

I hold an alphabet-soup of certifications: Certified Scrum Master Practitioner (CSP), Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB).  I am also actively training in the methods and practices of Co-Active Coaching.

 

I write about various Agile topics at my blog called Cricketwing, Lyssa's Agile Musings. 

I am also collecting my most cherished and useful references in a lens called The Road from Project Manager to Agile Coach.  Check it out. 

Recent Articles by Lyssa

The Manager's Role in Agile 23 Jul 08

When a team converts to agile, managers are often left wondering what part they will play in leading an agile team to success. Just as the team must learn new skills in order to self-organize, managers should explore a new set of competencies in order to function most effectively.

Two Tips to Help Product Owners with Release Planning 03 Jun 08

In real estate, it's all about location, location, location, In agile, we could say it's all about business value, business value, business value. Lyssa Adkins gives product owners tips to keep in mind when making plans for a release so that they don't forget their ultimate goal: produce the highest business value first.

Resources by Lyssa

The Road from Project Manager to Agile Coach
The video, with narration, called “The Road from Project Manager to Agile Coach” is now on YouTube. It is in two parts of about 10 minutes each (Part1, Part 2).  This is a link to the Powerful Questions handout that w...

Recent Comments by Lyssa

On Two Tips to Help Product Owners with Release Planning
Piotr: I might be misunderstanding your question. Please correct me, if so. The team would still size the stories in the backlog. Everything I propose in this article happens after that. The insight most product owners I've worked with get fr...
On Two Tips to Help Product Owners with Release Planning
I have encountered a number of product owners who think about business value, dependencies, political priorities, and more all together when they start to slot stories into sprints. If they do this, they never have a clear read of pure business va...