Joseph Little

Joe Little is an Agile coach and Certified Scrum Trainer.  His goal is to use Lean-Agile principles and practices to help firms deliver more business value for customers, to make workers’ lives better and to benefit stakeholders.  Discovering business value is one of his passions.  And helping teams discover new avenues to greater productivity. He is proud for several people he has mentored, who now themselves are very strong in Agile.

Joe learned Scrum from Ken Schwaber and later mentored with Jeff Sutherland, with whom he continues to co-teach. He also works with several other CSTs (and friends).  He produces Lean Software training with the Poppendiecks.  His preference is to practice Agile as a combination of Scrum, XP and Lean principles and practices.  Joe was a speaker at Agile2007 and at Agile2008.  He started Agile-Carolinas.

He started off as an English major and international banker, but after getting an MBA, got into the software industry and became a management consultant.  Having worked on so many SW Dev projects over 20+ years, he is possibly a real geek now. He started his own firm in 1991.  Many years ago, he was a Big 6 management consultant (Senior Manager).  He has been a senior business and IT consultant to a small number of household names in New York, London, and Charlotte.  He has worked with relatively few clients, since his clients tend to invite him back.  He named his firm Kitty Hawk in part because of the Wright Brothers’ success in turning an idea into reality.

To see attendee comments on Joe's courses, please see: http://leanagiletraining.com/CommentsByAttendees/CommentsByAttendees.html

Born in Virginia, he lived in NYC for 20+ years.  Joe now lives with his family in Charlotte.  He has a BA from Yale and an MBA from NYU.

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Phone: (704)376-8881

E-mail: jhlittle@kittyhawkconsulting.com