LitheSpeed specializes in the structured definition of business problems through a blend of Lean and Six Sigma techniques, and the rapid delivery of business value via Agile and Lean methods. LitheSpeed's Agile expertise covers Scrum, Lean Software Development and Extreme Programming. Our offerings include Lean and Agile management and process consulting, interactive training workshops, and just-in-time coaching services.
Our consultants and trainers have had more than a decade of experience implementing Agile methods including Scrum and eXtreme Programming (XP) at companies ranging from Fortune 100 stalwarts to startups. Our trainers are recognized experts with real life experience gleaned from multiple engagements across various industries.
Leadership Team 
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Sanjiv Augustine, President
An industry-leading agile and lean expert, Sanjiv has assisted several leading clients adopt Agile methods over the past decade. He is the author of several publications including Transitioning to Agile Project Management: A Roadmap for the Perplexed, The Lean-Agile PMO: Using Lean Thinking to Accelerate Agile Project Delivery and the book Managing Agile Projects (Prentice Hall 2005); and the founder and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile Project Management discussion group. Sanjiv is also a founder and advisory board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) ’s Agile Forum Steering Committee. As an in-the-trenches practitioner, he has personally managed Agile projects
varying in size from five to over one hundred people, trained thousands of agile
practitioners via public classes and conference presentations, and coached
numerous project teams. For more information, see Sanjiv’s website: www.sanjivaugustine.com.
Arlen Bankston, Executive Vice President
Arlen is an established leader in the application and evolution of process management methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma and BPM, as well as Agile software development processes such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Certified ScrumMaster Trainer. He also has twelve years of experience in product design, leveraging principles of information architecture, interaction design and usability to develop innovative products that meet customers' expressed and unspoken needs. Arlen has led Agile and Lean deployment and managed process improvement projects at clients such as Capital One, T. Rowe Price, Freddie Mac, and the Armed Forces Benefits Association. Arlen's recent work has centered on combining Lean Six Sigma process improvement methods with Agile execution to dramatically improve both the speed and quality of business results. He has also led the integration of interaction design and usability practices into Agile methodologies, presenting and training frequently at both industry conferences and to Fortune 100 clients.
Roland Cuellar, Vice President
Roland has years of Agile Project Management and Lean expertise - he is a leader in helping enterprise level clients to adopt the use of both agile and lean in their organizations. Roland has
helped executives prepare their organizations for agile transformation by identifying challenges and opportunities related to agile and lean implementation and developing action plans and risk
mitigation strategies to insure that agile and lean initiatives are successful. Roland has led numerous agile product development teams in the areas of marketing applications, mortgage, compliance, and
logistics. Roland has also given numerous agile training classes to both management and technology teams. Roland has prior experience leading large software development projects for IBM, Lockheed Martin,
and DHL. Roland has a B.S. in Computer Science, an MBA, and is a Certified ScrumMaster and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
David Bulkin, Vice President
David is a strong leader, technologist and process engineer with over 20 years experience in
applying lean processes to manage portfolios, projects, people, process, and technology for competitive advantage. He has helped numerous teams apply agile project management and engineering methods as a practioner and coach. He is a frequent speaker at user groups and blogs on the subject. David’s career has spanned both the public and private sector. He built an electronic commerce startup from the group up, and also managed large
scale, mission critical technology projects as a VP at JP Morgan Chase. He is frequently engaged in both strategic board level, and hands on implementation (analysis, design, coding) activities, keeping his agile coaching and training skills sharp and relevant. He is on the Board of Directors at the Center for Program Transformation (CPT) and Ocean 20 Technologies Group. With the CPT, David prepared Senate testimony on IT Oversight and contributed to federal legislation. In the 1990’s David was a key member of the Software Program Managers Network (SPMN) where he identified proven software best practices, conveyed them to managers of large-scale DoD system acquisition programs, and consulted on numerous projects.
Bob Payne is the President of Electroglide, Inc, and a leading proponent of Agile Methodologies and Agile Engineering Practices with 25 years of project management, software development, engineering and business experience. As an early adopter of Extreme Programming (XP), he has worked exclusively as an Agile Coach and practitioner since 1999. He has mentored and managed many projects ranging in size from five to over one hundred people. As host of the AgileToolkit podcast he has produced over 60 podcasts, recording a variety of industry leaders and Agile practitioners. He has been on the organizing committee of the Agile Software Development Conference in 2007 and 2008. He is cofounder of the Washington, DC XP Users Group. Bob is passionate about training development teams in the use of Agile Engineering Practices that allow them to deliver high quality software in an Agile, iterative and incremental manner. With a MSEE in Computer Architectures for Artificial Intelligence and having grown up working in his family restaurant, he brings a unique blend of technical excellence and customer service to bear on his projects and training courses.
George Dinwiddie is a Software Development Consultant and Coach. George is a teacher and mentor for software developers who favors a hands-on collaborative approach. He has over 20 years experience in software development from embedded systems to enterprise systems. George is an experienced System Analyst/Architect and Software Designer/Developer with expertise in object-oriented (OOA/D) and structured analysis and design, user-centered, task-oriented interface design, test-driven development (TDD), refactoring, and design patterns. George is especially proficient in agile software development methodologies to develop robust systems that deliver true business value. He is a strong proponent of mentoring and life-long learning.
Michael Hamman an organizational consultant, Agile coach, and facilitator. In a previous/current life, he was a composer and a writer. For 14 years, he was also a software developer, specializing in object-oriented programming, C++ and STL (and generic programming), and user interface design. Michael conducted research in computational sound synthesis and sonification, in the psychology of sound, and in creativity and computer interfaces, all at National Center for Computing Applications (NCSA) and Beckman Institute. His rather eclectic background informs his approach to his work with organizations and people. Michael tends to approach organizations as integral wholes and, as such, work to help company stakeholders discover their native strengths and build increased organizational performance upon those very strengths. As a coach and trainer, he finds a special fascination in discovering how to create learning environments in which people find themselves able to move beyond personal and institutional limitations and to create for themselves deep, transformaitve learning.
Jeff Patton has designed and developed software for the past 13 years on a wide variety of projects from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records. Jeff has focused on Agile approaches since working on an early Extreme Programming team in 2000. In particular Jeff has specialized in the application of user centered design techniques to improve Agile requirements, planning, and iterative product design and development. Some of his recent writings on the subject are found at www.agileproductdesign.com , Alistair Cockburn's Crystal Clear, and his regular StickyMinds.com and IEEE Software Magazine columns. His forthcoming book "Agile Development Outside-In" will be released in Addison-Wesley's Agile Development Series and gives tactical advice to those seeking to deliver useful, usable, and valuable software using Agile methods. Jeff is the founder and co-moderator of the Yahoo agile-usability discussion group.
Andrew Glover
Andrew is an established expert in software development processes, techniques, and tools. He has spent his career working with companies large and small in various vertical
markets such as
Health care, Financial Services, Telecommunications, and ISVs; what's more, he is the founder of multiple open source projects including easyb, which won a Jolt award in 2009. He
is the co-author of Addison-Wesley's 2008 Jolt Award winner "Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk", Wiley's "Java Testing Patterns", and
Manning's "Groovy in Action", as well as a frequent author for multiple online publications including IBM's DeveloperWorks, InfoQ, and O'Reilly's ONJava, Dev2Dev, and ONLamp portals. Andrew
is also a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences on topics ranging from Continuous Integration, Behavior Driven Development, software assurance, and Agile engineering practices.
Stacia Broderick's corporate experience spans 14 years in manufacturing and software development. Stacia has helped numerous product development teams and organizations embrace the principles of and transition to agile since 2003. Her client list spans Fortune 500 companies, government sector, and even some non-software organizations like manufacturing and consulting services. Understanding the unique challenges of organizational change, Stacia truly believes that agile practices present a humane, logical way for teams and organizations to deliver innovative products to market. She is a Certified ScrumTrainer as well as a PMP, a mix that proves valuable when assisting organizations' transition from traditional to modern practices. Stacia is active in the AgileAlliance, the Scrum Alliance, and founded AgileHarrisburg in 2007. She has collaborated with Michele Sliger to write "The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility", due Fall/Winter 2007 [Addison-Wesley].
Mark Pushinsky is an agile coach, trainer, and consultant whose broad experience in business management and team dynamics enable him to create breakthrough results for his clients and their companies. As a Certified Scrum Trainer, Pushinsky has led and supported more than 25 agile projects and has trained over 500 Certified Scrum Masters.
Pushinky is skilled at helping teams and executives through the inital change to the Scrum process and at assisting large scale enterprise adoption through assessment, strategic planning, and executive coaching. He has seen numerous failures and developed a keen sense of the project environments that are ready to accept the change and transparency that an agile process demands.
As a senior manager at a large financial services organization, Pushinsky was a member of a change team that initiated and led a two-year lean/agile adoption initiative that resulted in a time-to-market reduction of over 40% and a process execution time savings of 70%.
Xebia is an international IT services company specializing in Enterprise Java technology and Agile software development. They stand out on account of their staff, who make the difference to clients by realizing optimum returns on IT investment focusing on the business value of IT projects.
Xebia Global Services partners with LitheSpeed to offer a high-quality, high-velocity Agile Distributed software delivery model. They are internationally oriented, with offices in The Netherlands, France and India, servicing clients directly in The Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Innovel provides companies a new way of delivering innovative products at a velocity that creates competitive advantage. Innovel enables an organization to effectively transition to a streamlined and team-based approach for delivering any product where time-to-market is of utmost importance.
Innovel provides a combination of training that establishes a knowledge baseline for all those involved from team member to executive, project team coaching to empower the team and set them up for sustainable success, and management consulting to supply the expertise to make enduring change within your company.
Apply Entinex process improvement expertise to improve how products are developed, projects managed and services are delivered. Entinex leverages a powerful blend of process discipline and
lean/agile techniques to achieve sustained, continuous improvement in any domain or vertical.
As world-wide masters of implementing CMMI, whether or not achieving a CMMI level rating is a goal, our consultants and
SEI-Certified Lead Appraisers and Instructors take a reality-based approach to implementing process
models that shuns heavy-handed process 'overlay'. As leading researchers and implementers in the blending of Agile and CMMI,
whether working with 'traditional' or 'agile' techniques, Entinex clients benefit from our holistic Agile CMMI approach to development,
services, and teams so that realization of process improvement is not measured in artifacts, it's measured in value.
FGM, Inc., is an information technology company delivering sophisticated, customized solutions that improve business efficiency across the enterprise. As a trusted partner of the Department of Defense, U.S. Government civilian and international agencies, and businesses throughout the world, FGM is an agile provider of technical solutions that enable mission-critical operations and decision-making. Their solutions help customers improve their business performance through information technology transformation services focusing on architecture, information management, systems integration, and integrated solutions. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, FGM also has offices in California, Colorado, Hawaii, and Nebraska. With over 200 talented professionals and $33M in revenue, FGM is an award-winning workplace, and a thriving employee-owned corporation.
Jim Highsmith directs Cutter Consortium's Agile Project Management Advisory Service, is a fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and and is a member of the Software Development Productivity Council for Flashline, Inc.. He has 25-plus years experience as an IT manager, product manager, project manager, consultant, and software developer. Jim has consulted with IT and product development organizations and software companies in the U.S., Europe, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Japan, India, and New Zealand to help them adapt to the accelerated pace of development in increasingly complex, uncertain environments. Jim consults in the areas of Agile Project Management, Adaptive Software Development, and Team Collaboration. He has held technical and management positions with software, computer hardware, banking and energy companies. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Management.
James Grenning, founder of Renaissance Software Consulting, trains, coaches and consults worldwide. With more than thirty years of software development experience, both technical and managerial, James brings a wealth of knowledge, skill, and creativity to software development teams and their management. As his professional roots are in embedded software, he is leading the way to introduce Agile development practices to that challenging world. He is currently writing a book on applying Test Driven Development to embedded software. See James' articles for applying Agile to embedded software development. James was doing Agile before it was called Agile. He is one of the original authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. He is a seasoned extreme programming coach and trainer, coaching his first XP team in 1999. James has worked with Bob Martin, the author of many great books on software development, most of his professional career. They both share a passion for software and building it right. James was trained by the guys that started it all: Kent Beck, Ron Jeffries, Martin Fowler, and Ken Schwaber.
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