Dana Pylayeva via Agile Play Consulting LLC

As an Agile/DevOps coach and trainer with over 20 years of diverse experience in IT, I bring unique perspective and stories ”from the trenches”. I’ve had an opportunity to work with co-located and distributed teams in US, Canada, Ireland, Japan, UK, India and Russia, and can share with you their distinct challenges, successes and effective practices. 

In the last 4 years, I trained over 2000 people, coached 30 + teams and delivered workshops and lectures at 50 conferences in 15 countries. I am actively involved in Agile community in various roles as a volunteer, reviewer, track chair, program chair and conference chair. I am the founder of Big Apple Scrum Day conference and NYC Liberating Structures meetup in NYC.

I am an educational games designer and author – check out my “Introduction to DevOps with Lego, Chocolate and Scrum” book published by Apress, “Self-selection game” on Leanpub and “Fear in the Workplace” game on The Gamecrafter.

My list of certifications includes:

 Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) by Co-Active Training Institute

Associate Certified Coach (ACC) by International Coaching Federation

ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), 

Scrum Alliance:

Certified Enterprise Coach® (CEC), Certified Scrum Professional® (CSP), Certified Scrum Master® (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO)

Certified Trainer, Training from the Back of the Room (TBR-CT), 

Certified LeSS Practitioner, Certified Practitioner Scrum@Scale, 

Kanban Management Professional, Lean Kanban University