Dan Mezick is a coach and trusted adviser to executives, project sponsors, managers and teams developing complex products using Agile and Scrum. Dan’s firm New Technology Solutions, Inc. delivers Agile training, coaching and consulting to businesses of all sizes. Clients include The Hartford Insurance companies, Siemens Corporation, Sikorsky Aircraft and dozens of mid-market organizations.
Dan is the author of books from McGraw Hill and is a software patent holder. His articles on Agile and Scrum appear in the Agile Journal and the Scrum Alliance web sites. His is a writer at InfoQ with dozens of articles published on Agile & Scrum topics. Dan led the Manifesting Agility Stage of the Agile2009 conference and is a past presenter at the Agile2008 and Agile2007 conference events.
Dan is the founder of Agile Boston, a regional Agile community of practice with over 1,200 members and one of the largest Agile user groups in the USA. Agile Boston convenes monthly meetings of up to 100 attending on the 4th Wednesday of the month. The group periodically arranges larger 1-day events with several hundred attending.
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- Agile expert and trusted adviser to executives, directors and managers seeking genuine Agile expertise including Lean, Scrum, and Kanban guidance.
- See the video of Dan from Agile2009. Topics: Group relations, agile game dynamics, and the PMI-Agile Community of Practice.
- Coach to executives, managers and teams in how to clarify goals and reach them using Lean/Agile techniques and the Scrum framework. Learn more about coaching here.
- Community organizer and leader of the Agile Boston and Agile CT user groups.
- Expert Lean/Agile/Scrum teacher (since 2006) delivering Agile/Scrum Training.
- Author of books and innovative articles and papers on Agile, Scrum, Lean and Kanban.
- Agile Community Reporter for Agile news outlet InfoQ.com
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Email Dan: dan.mezick [at] newtechusa[dot][com].
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Background information on Dan Mezick:
Associations & Certifications
Member, Scrum Alliance. Certified Scrum Master (CSP). See Dan Mezick’s Scrum Alliance profile here
Member, Agile Alliance. See Dan Mezick’s Agile Alliance profile (circa 2009) here.
Member, Agile Project Leader’s Network.
Member, Project Management Institute. Active in the MassBay chapter and Southern CT chapter. Serving (in 2009) as a Programs committee member, authorized to identify and engage speakers for SNEC-PMI’s monthly meetings. (see www.snec-pmi.org)
Member, USA Hockey. Certified Level 3 Hockey Coach. (See also: PCT Framework, under Personal Interests section below)
Agile Conference sessions
- Click the pic to see Dan’s InfoQ video on Group Relations.
Scrum Alliance Scrum Gathering, Orlando 2009: “Team Intimacy and the Hyper-productive state”
Agile2009 interview on InfoQ: Group relations, agile game dynamics, & PMI-Agile
Agile2009 session: BART Analysis Applied (Boundary, Authority Role and Task)
Agile2009 session: Group Relations and Social Systems
Agile2008 session: The Hidden Life of Groups
Agile2007 session: Agile and Entrepreneurial Thinking Patterns. Here is a link to the Agile training grades from Agile2007. People seemed to like this session.
- 240+ Attending GIVE THANKS FOR SCRUM, Nov. 2009
Agile Community Organizing & Volunteer Work
240++ Attending at GIVE THANKS FOR SCRUM, November 2009 and 2010, featuring Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, the co-founders of the Scrum framework.
[Manifesting Agility] Stage producer, Agile Alliance Agile2009 Conference, 2009
Organizer, Agile Boston user group, since 2007
Organizer, Agile CT user group, since 2007
Published Books, Articles and Papers
Writer: Starting 2Q2010, InfoQ- writing weekly news items from the Agile community.
Article: January 2010, Scrum Alliance: Attraction and Repulsion- Scrum’s Immune System
Article: Oct 28 2009, Scrum Alliance: Scrum and SVO-p (Subject-verb-object, present tense)
Article: August 18 2003, COMPUTERWORLD: Outsourcing 2.0: Collaborative Development
Book: April 1999, Visual Basic BOOTCAMP Certification Exam Guide, McGraw Hill
Notable Blog Posts; Other Written Works
Blog Posts: Community Notes, see the ever-evolving list
Post: Authority Maps, a Diagnostic and Agile Metric Diagram
Patents Awarded; Other Achievements
Patent: Property setting manager for objects and controls of a graphical user interface
Patent number: 5872974
Filing date: Apr 19, 1995
Issue date: Feb 16, 1999
Business Entrepreneurship Award: Deliotte and Touche FAST50 Award for 2002. Recognized again for leading one of the top 50 fastest growing technology firms in the state of Connecticut for calendar year 2002.
Business Entrepreneurship Award: Deliotte and Touche FAST50 Award for 2001. Recognized for the 1st time for leading one of the top 50 fastest growing technology firms in the state of Connecticut for calendar year 2001.
Personal Interests and Projects
The Parent-Coach Timeout Meeting: A Framework for Effective Communication in Youth Sports. Essential Scrum and Group Relations concepts applied to youth sports.
The PCT is a framework that allows Coaches and Parents to communicate clearly, such that Parents, Coaches and Kids can a) learn from experience during the season, b) make adjustments, and c) have much more FUN in pursuit of shared objectives.
Openness, Focus, Commitment, Respect and Courage are Scrum values.The PCT process contains essential core elements of Scrum with customized BART properties.
The PCT is a framework focused on youth sports.
It is optimized for generating rich, 2-way parent-coach communication at the group level. This leads to more fun for parents, coaches and especially kids. The PCT process is especially focused on youth hockey.
