greghutchings
Personal Details
- First Name
- Greg
- Last Name
- Hutchings
- Employer
- Valtech
- Years Experience in Agile
- 5
- Short Bio
Greg Hutchings
Based in Paris, France, I presently lead large distributed agile projects for Valtech and coach teams and companies on agile adoption and best practices. I spend most of my time launching and coaching new distributed agile projects for clients in France with mixed Valtech, client and third party teams throughout Europe and India. In addition to launching new agile programs, I have also helped transform troubled projects into successful agile engagements, increasing customer collaboration, focusing on working software and closing communication gaps. I have been sharing my applied agile project experience in agile seminars in Paris in talks on “Agile adoption patterns and anti-patterns”, and have been a key contributor in defining and evolving agile best practices at Valtech in France and India, and on a global level. I have been lucky to work with Craig Larman, Valtech’s Chief Scientist, and executive and project teams in the 8 countries Valtech operates in. (http://www.valtech.com)
Before moving to France and Valtech I was with ThoughtWorks out of San Francisco, where I led agile engagements on the West Coast as a client principal. I worked with a lot of great people there, including Naresh Jain, Martin Fowler, David Rice, Amit Rathore, Matt Simons, Murray White, Gregor Hohpe and Matt Short (and who can forget Roy!), and we successfully delivered software and taught agile methods in an applied setting for some great clients. (http://www.thoughtworks.com)
I have over 20 years of experience in leading teams to build software products with client-centric feature driven focus using short iterations and automated build and test tools. My interest areas include cross cultural communication, collaboration tools that bridge distance and gaps in understanding, emerging processes and roles in distributed agile development, retrospectives, test driven development, contractual forms that favor collaboration and support agile teams, better team alignment with business value, and helping to spread and adapt agile and lean thinking at the team and executive level with clients.
History
- Member for
- 40 weeks 4 days