cesaridrovo
Personal Details
- First Name
- Cesar
- Last Name
- Idrovo
- Employer
- Tacit Knowledge
- Years Experience in Agile
- 5
- Short Bio
I started my career in 1996 in London as a software developer in investment banking. In 2000 I recruited a highly heterogeneous development team and promoted “continuous collaboration”. This resulted in pairing across skills and functions and the creation of a large number of software solutions, visibly outpacing traditionally-run teams with several times the budget. In 2003 I joined the team that formally introduced me to XP and Scrum theory, providing me with the missing pieces needed to make breakout performance a common occurrence. I helped this team apply XP and Scrum in practice and in 2005 used it to enable a complex business transformation in only five months. Later it took an army of developers three years just to re-implement enough functionality to migrate the same business to another platform. In early 2007 I moved to San Francisco as an Agile development manager at another bank.
It was in California that I developed a passion for Agile community building, helping to organize monthly events for BayAPLN.org. When the credit crunch hit me twelve months ago, I chose not to return to the UK to pursue gainful employment and instead devoted all my available attention to supporting this local Agile community. During this time we were able to grow attendance to our events from 20 to 70, we organized several special events with even larger audiences, we grew the community membership to over 300, we formally constituted BayAPLN, and we secured the first five sponsors. I have also been an organizer for the Agile Open California conferences for 2008 and 2009. Since January 2009 I have followed and supported Ed Kraay’s inspiration to create a local Agile Philanthropy chapter. I also collaborate with Joanna Zweig on the application of Group Coherence research to Agile project teams. We are writing a series of articles on this topic for the Agile Journal and developed a workshop that we are presenting at Agile 2009.
I am currently in the UK and will return to San Francisco in October to work for a boutique software consultancy. This opportunity will allow me to build Agile awareness for clients both as a member of delivery teams and as a coach/mentor.
History
- Member for
- 2 years 6 weeks