KentMcDonald
Personal Details
- First Name
- Kent
- Last Name
- McDonald
- Employer
- ProjectConnections.com
- Years Experience in Agile
- 4
- Short Bio
Kent J. McDonald has more than a decade of experience guiding successful projects and designing business solutions in a variety of industries, including financial services, health insurance, performance marketing, human services, non profit, and automotive. His background includes delivering data-intensive and web-enabled application development projects that provide outstanding business value and helping organizations find practical ways to deliver the right results. When he is not helping organizations get more done by doing less, Kent writes and speaks on leadership, business analysis, and agile approaches. Kent is currently Director of IT Content for ProjectConnections.com where he is developing and organizing practical resources for teams involved in Information technology projects and interested in agile approaches.
Kent has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University and an MBA from Kent State University. His work in the non-profit community includes serving as the Chair of the 2005 Central Iowa JDRF Hope Gala, Co-chair of the 2006 Central Iowa JDRF Hope Gala, and Vice President of Strategic Planning for the Central Iowa chapter of Juvenile Diabates Research Foundation. He co-founded the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) (http://www.APLN.org) and currently serves as President. Kent founded the Agile Iowa (http://www.agileiowa.org) organization and has been on the planning committees for several APLN Leadership Summits and the Agile 2007 and Agile 2008 Conferences.
Kent is co-author along with his partners in Accelinnova of Stand Back and Deliver, a book that describes a set of leadership models that organizations can use to improve their own effectiveness. The book is due out in late fall of 2008.
History
- Member for
- 1 year 12 weeks