Personal Details

First Name

George

Last Name

Schlitz

Employer

BigVisible

Years Experience in Agile

9

Short Bio

I am a Certified Scrum Coach and PMP, and have been involved on Agile projects since 2000- when when I was a developer on an project experimenting with a book by Kent Beck. Since then, I’ve moved on to different roles in software development - a change manager, project manager, program manager, scrum master, agile coach, and more. My interests expanded to these areas upon reading “Agile Software Development with Scrum,” which gave me hope that project management was not doomed to serve only as a source of Dilbert material.

My experience has been working primarily in companies with more than 10,000 employees - financial services and multi-industry. I now focus on the organizational change aspects of Agile introductions, enjoying the challenge of having to help groups change when there is seemingly no firm ground to stand on…culture challenges, process challenges, unachievable deadlines, troubled teams, etc. I tend to focus on long-term engagements with such organizations to help join them in their long, tough journey that is large-scale change.

I also have experience introducing Agile to programs and other multiple-project environments ($10m +, multiple team/distributed team projects).

History

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