Leadership CoP: Servant Leadership in Disciplined Agile Delivery!

About the Speakers:

Derek Ketterer has been practicing Agile for 14 years and loves Agile’s flexibility and methods.  He is part of teams as Scrummaster role and helps coordinate delivery as a Release Manager.  Last year he became a SAFe Certified Practioner and helped roll out two Agile Release Trains.  He is currently the Release Train Engineer and SAFe Coach.  Derek has been the chairperson of the NC PMI Agile CoP since 2015 and has a steady attendance level of 40 people.  He is very much into “showing the data” through metrics/charts so people have the information to make decisions and prioritize.  He enjoys woodworking and projects around the house and just recently designed and built a custom bench for the front porch.  He helped organize his son’s Robotic team. He teaches software programming and mechanical design/fabrication.  He loves playing frisbee disc golf, mountain biking, and ultimate frisbee.

John Leonard, PMP is a US Coast Guard senior officer military veteran and environmental Geographic Information Systems PhD who has been an active volunteer member of PMI North Carolina Chapter since 1998.  John is a waterfall IT PM who since 2009 has become an agile program manager and trainer leading scaled scrum and digital transformation technology projects for large global enterprise clients.  He is a PMI-ACP and holds a number of other agile-lean-scrum certifications.  In 2020 John is Disciplined Agile Delivery Champion for our 4000 chapter members and also NCPMI Agile CoP co-chair with Derek Ketterer.

Learning Objectives:

• What is a Servant Leader?
• How can a Servant Leader help the team?
• What are methods to accel as a Server Leader?