Brian M. Rabon

Brian M. Rabon

CSP, CST, PMPUT, US
Husband, entrepreneur, consultant, author, speaker, trainer, and all around Agile enthusiast!

Brian M. Rabon, CST, PMP is an IT professional with over 17 years of industry experience. Brian holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Auburn University and a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Information Engineering and Management program.

Brian is President of The Braintrust Consulting Group, a worldwide leader in Agile transformations. Through practical, hands-on training and enterprise and team coaching, Brian helps his clients learn, plan, and implement Agile processes, such as Scrum and Kanban. His goal is to teach his clients how to increase predictability of delivery, decrease time-to-market, and improve overall client satisfaction.

When not in the classroom, Brian can be found around the globe evangelizing the benefits of Agile to the likes of Agile 20XX, the Project Management Institute's (PMI) many chapters, and the Scrum Alliance's Scrum Gatherings. Brian is the author of Scrum For The Rest Of Us and an avid blogger writing for his company's blog at http://www.braintrustgroup.com/blog. Brian is a founding member of Agile Birmingham and a past board member of PMI Birmingham and TechBirmingham. Brian is a professional member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and a local chapter member of the NSA Mountain West chapter.

Brian M. Rabon, CST, PMP is an IT professional with over 17 years of industry experience. Brian holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Auburn University and a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Information Engineering and Management program.

Brian is President of The Braintrust Consulting Group, a worldwide leader in Agile transformations. Through practical, hands-on training and enterprise and team coaching, Brian helps his clients learn, plan, and implement Agile processes, such as Scrum and Kanban. His goal is to teach his clients how to increase predictability of delivery, decrease time-to-market, and improve overall client satisfaction.

When not in the classroom, Brian can be found around the globe evangelizing the benefits of Agile to the likes of Agile 20XX, the Project Management Institute's (PMI) many chapters, and the Scrum Alliance's Scrum Gatherings. Brian is the author of Scrum For The Rest Of Us and an avid blogger writing for his company's blog at http://www.braintrustgroup.com/blog. Brian is a founding member of Agile Birmingham and a past board member of PMI Birmingham and TechBirmingham. Brian is a professional member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and a local chapter member of the NSA Mountain West chapter.

Leading An Agile Life

Do you find it can be a struggle waking up every day with energy and passion for what is to come? Do you find balancing your work, personal, and family "to-do list" to be a challenge? Do you yearn for work projects that consistently succeed and leave everyone feeling great? Agile is founded upon a set of 4 values and 12 principles. These values and principles, when applied to how we live our lives, can help us accomplish amazing things. We can; find our passion, take control of our to-do...

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Tribes, The Secret To Implementing Agile Successfully

Whether we realize it or not we all affiliate with one or more tribes. For example, many of us have very strong affiliations with the university that we graduated from. Failing to recognize that these tribes exist within organizations today can lead to disastrous results when implementing Agile/Scrum. In this session you will learn how to recognize the tribes that currently exist in an organization today. Also, we will look at how to form new Agile/Scrum tribes and the tremendous benefits...

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