David teaches and coaches the adoption and improvement of agile methods as powerful delivery tools. Sometimes he is pairing with developers and testers, while other times he is helping to plan and create product roadmaps. David often works with leadership groups learn to pragmatically use agile methods to foster innovation and competitive business advantage.

David Hussman

Prior to working as a fulltime coach, David spent years building software in a variety of domains: digital audio, digital biometrics, medical, financial, retail, and education to name a few. David now leads DevJam. As mentors and practitioners, DevJam focuses on agility as a tool to help people and companies improve their software production skills. DevJam provides seasoned leaders that strive to pragmatically match technology, people, and processes to create better and cooler products in competitive cycles.

Along with teaching and coaching, David participates in conferences around the world and continuously publishes to a variety of sources. He has contributed to several books as well as helping to create agile curriculum for The University of Minnesota and Capella University.

You can find out more about him at http://www.devjam.com/

Talk at OpenAgile 2010:

Open Space Session at OpenAgile 2010 on storymapping:

Interviews:

David Hussmann “Agile Geek at Large” on Helping Organizations Adopt Agile at InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/interview-david-hussman-agile

Presentations:

Coaching and Scaling Agility at Qcon 2008
Cutting and Agile Groove. Coaching Agility.
Automating Business Value with FIT and Fitnesse
David Hussman on Helping Organizations Adopt Agile
Presentation on Planning and Budgeting
Omaha Java User’s Group
BayAPLN Agile Expert Panel
Adopting Agile
Prelude – The Agile Experience

Publications:

Better Software Publications
Agile 2008 – Coaching and Producing
Agile 2008 – Dude Where’s Our Release Plan?
Agile 2008 – Pragmatic Personas
Agile Vancouver 2008 – Cutting an Agile Groove
CodeFreeze 2008 – Regression Deficit
MPLS UX Group 2009 – Writing and Telling User Stories
NFJS 2007-Executable Documentation
NFJS 2008 – Agile Management and Managing Agility
NFJS 2008 – Automating Customer Acceptance
QCON 2008 – Coaching and Scaling Agility

Conferences:

UPA-MN – Products over Process
NFJS Twin Cities Software Symposium
Sustainable Use of Agile Methods
Code Freeze 2010
Agile Conference – Mumbai India
Agile Conference – Bengaluru India
Northern Virginia NFJS
Agile Dev Practices
Great Lakes NFJS
InfoQ
BayAPLN Talk: Designing Agility
QCon
Designing Agility
Agiles2009
Twin Cities NFJS
AgileEE 2009
Pragmatic Personas
Agile 2008 Conference
No Fluff Just Stuff
Agile ITX conference
NFJS – Milwaukee WI
NFJS – Minneapolis, MN.
Practical Agility – Minneapolis, MN.
NFJS – Chicago IL.
NFJS – Reston, VA
Agilepalooza – San Francisco, CA

Trainings:

Adopting Agility with XP, Scrum and Lean Thinking
Agile Product Planning
Coaching Agility
Tuning and Improving Your Agility
Introduction to Groovy
Introduction to Grails
Test Driven