Don Gray Email & Phone Number

Waynesville, Us

Through n-th Order Systems, I work with executives and managers to: • Quickly deliver user value • Improve project management • Align stakeholder expectations • Increase productivityThis includes assessments, focused coaching, public and private workshops.My experience across a variety of industries, from small startups to Fortune 50 organizations, provides a solid platform for assisting clients through their transition to Agile development practices.Partial Client List:• Cisco• Shore Group• CIT• Capital One• T-Mobile• Autodesk• GlaxoSmithKline

DevOps, Scrum, and other approaches only address a small part of the problems facing modern organizations. In the Agile Manifesto we wrote, "We are uncovering better ways of developing software…" We're still uncovering and discovering just what it takes to succeed in complex, rapid changing environments. Join us and discover the missing pieces.

Learn and practice a leader’s most valuable asset: the ability to think and act creatively—to solve problems, and to create the environment for teams to succeed.https://www.congruentchange.com/problem-solving-leadership/

San Jose, Ca, Us

I review session submissions for the annual Agile Alliance conference. I work with the authors to improve their session submission to increase the change their session will be selected for inclusion in the conference. I've reviewed for the Coaching & Mentoring, Boot Camp, and Teamwork stages.I presented the following sessions:• Building Great Teams• Shaping Your Agile Adoption Path• Leadership in Self-Organizing Teams• Coaching Beyond the TeamFor the 2015 Conference I co-chair the "Leadership" TrackIn 2016 I chaired the "Leadership" track

I co-founded AYE Enterprises, LLC, with Jerry Weinberg, Esther Derby, and Johanna Rothman. For 13 years, we produced and hosted the annual AYE Conference, Exploring Human Systems in Action. AYE was created specifically to fill a need in the agile community for long-format experiential sessions. The week-long experiential conference was designed to directly improve an individual’s ability to collaborate effectively. AYE was profitable year after year and grew to become a highly regarded, sell-out conference. Over the thirteen years, my responsibilities included: Finance/Legal, Project Chair, Program Development, Marketing and Logistics.We have since moved on to develop in-house and publicly delivered workshops on a variety of agile topics to target specific issues in small-group settings.