Our Partners
Collective Edge works in cooperation with a number of different organizations and individuals to provide a variety of services to fit the unique needs of each client, and because ‘pairing’ is the most effective way to coach. Current partnerships and associations include:
Jane Patterson and her partner Bill Abbate are behind Cornerstone, which focuses on developing and coaching teams, as well as leaders. Jane and I are at work on a campaign to bring the Team Diagnostic Assessment to the Pittsburgh area this Fall, as well as proposing team coaching engagements.
Edge of Change / Corinne McElroy
Corrine and I went to coaching school together, both Co-Active Coaching at the Coaches Training Institute and the Organization and Relationship Systems coaching from Center for Right Relationship. We are both rather outrageous and work well together, especially when in new territory (way out on the edge).
CultureTek (CDG)
Bill Schneider and the Corporate Development Group are the originators of the CultureTek model, which is a typology for organization culture (Control, Competence, Collaboration and Cultivation). Bill and I have been collaborating since about 1997 on various projects, including applying his culture model to the Agile Enterprise.
Outformations / David Chilcott
Outformations does both Agile software development and Agile coaching and consulting on the full range of Agile transformation. David is a ‘wild man’ who speaks truth in a calm, implacable way.
Cricketwing / Lyssa Adkins
Cricketwing is the inspiration of Lyssa Adkins, who is currently writing a book in the Mike Cohn signature series on Agile coaching. Lyssa and I have collaborated around several things, most prominently the Compleat Agile Manager course aimed at helping middle managers thrive and contribute in an Agile world.
Agile Thinking / Tobias Mayer
Tobias Mayer is a one of a kind guy. I would describe him as Agile coach, poet and disturber of conventional thinking. Tobias and I have worked on Scrum training together, plus he invited me to his “west coast” Scrum Gathering back in 2006. I value Tobias keeping us all honest.
CC Pace
CC Pace provides both out- and in-sourced Agile development, as well as Agile Coaching and Implementation services. Their Lean-Agile practice was one of the earliest in the industry to embrace Lean and large scale Agile adoption. We have partnered on several large-scale Agile clients, primarily in the Financial Services industry.
Innovel
Robin Dymond and Dave Douglas at Innovel have a wide range of experience implementing Agile at scale. We worked together in a large scale client for almost 2 years, learning and teaching each other a great deal.
Ten Pearls / Ahmed Sidky
Ahmed Sidky took on the first serious implementation of an Agile maturity framework, doing research for his Ph.D. dissertation. We hit it off right away and have had many exchanges on what makes a mature Agile organization. Ahmed and his partners do Agile coaching and implementation. He was chair of the Agile 2009 conference.
Implementing Scrum
Mike Vizdos is known to much of the Agile community for his famous chicken and pig cartoons, illustrating numerous Agile lessons. Mike is a prolific Certified Scrum Trainer (he’s always somewhere else than he was 10 minutes ago). He may have discovered Star Trek transport mechanisms two centuries early. We partnered and learned a lot from each other at a large client for several years.
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