About Lee Cunningham
Lee Cunningham is an experienced Agile coach, trainer, and practitioner who is passionate about working with organizations to help them consistently deliver high-value, high-quality products and services. He characterizes himself as a “real person who likes to roll up my sleeves and help real people achieve their potential”.
Before entering the technology sector full-time, Lee served in the United States Air Force and subsequently spent several years in commercial real estate investment analysis. Throughout his technology career, he has worked in many different traditional roles, including analyst, software engineer, development manager, QA manager, release manager, project manager, and program manager. His adoption of Agile was a natural progression, as it resonated with his experience that success is more likely if teams are empowered and the customer is involved in the decision-making and the value delivery process.
Lee is energized by working with people at all organizational levels, employing a common-sense approach to help make Agile practices relevant and effective. He has trained and consulted with hundreds of teams in organizations of all sizes in the US, Canada, and the UK. In his role as an Agile Coach with VersionOne, Lee typically works with several different groups each month.
There can be many reasons organizations struggle with their agile adoptions, but often it is because they’re clinging to the idea that only a select few people can be trusted to do the real thinking. Design decisions are left in … Continue reading →
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Tagged adaptive leader, Adaptive Leadership, agile development, agile project management, agile software, agile team, leadership, waterfall, waterfall management
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Quite frequently, I hear folks in the agile development community splitting hairs over their favorite approaches to delivering products and services. There are those who will argue over whether or not one should be allowed to mention “Scrum” and “Lean” … Continue reading →
Posted in Agile Adoption, Agile Development, Agile Management, Agile Methodologies, Agile Teams, Enterprise Agile, Extreme Programming, Kanban, Lean Software Development, Scrum Development
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Tagged Agile, Agile Adoption
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“Agile Transformation”: now there’s a search phrase that can keep you busy on Google for quite a while. But what do we really mean by “transformation”? A quick peek in the dictionary tells us that a transformation involves a change … Continue reading →
My youngest son loves to play the game “Mouse Trap”, and last Christmas vacation, I had the opportunity to play many rounds of it with him. The object of the game is to build the mouse trap contraption piece by … Continue reading →
I enjoy discussions of the technical theory and mechanics of agile development as much as the next person, but it is the human aspect of what we do that truly intrigues me. I found out about the Whitehall Studies a … Continue reading →