Gilbert, AZ | Phoenix, AZ | Queen Creek, AZ
Also known as: Derek
Pragmatic Idealist
Also known as: Derek
Derek W. Wade is a collaboration expert and team coach at Kumido Adaptive Strategies. His passion for helping teams apply group-centered models and his years of experience across a broad range of industries have enabled him to improve many group efforts, especially those leveraging distributed teams. Derek is the author of "Multidimensional Management Avoiding Calcification or Fragmentation on Distributed Teams" (with J. Puopolo) and "Emergent Design Leveraging Agile Retrospectives to Evolve Your Architecture" (with Scott Barnes). Specialties Derek is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Innovation Games Qualified Instructor, Core Passion Authorized Facilitator, serves on the Board of Directors for the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and APLN-Chicago. He has spoken at numerous public forums, including ScrumGathering, Agile, the Tulsa Area Agile Group (TAAG), CITCON, Ignite Chicago, and OOPSLA. Derek is also a Commercial Pilot and Flight Instructor these have more relevance to the Agile world than he ever expected.
