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Derek Huether

#Coffee Drinker | #Marathon Runner | #STEM Advocate | Atlassian

Chances are, if you meet me in the real world, I'll have a cup of coffee in my hand. 

Derek Huether is a Principal Solutions Engineer within Atlassian's Enterprise Strategy and Planning group. He designs solutions to improve the outcomes of Atlassian's largest and most complex customer accounts. Prior to Atlassian, Derek helped transform how people work at companies such as Walmart, GEICO, and Capital One and federal agencies like the National Archives and National Institutes of Health.

He was one of the Delivery Management track founders for the International Consortium of Agile, which included him defining and detailing learning objectives in areas of Agile Project and Delivery Management and Delivery at Scale. He is the author of Metrics Cookbook and Zombie Project Management. With over 600 articles posted, he writes about improving things and less about controlling and managing them.

He founded Agile Baltimore, an organization dedicated to promoting Agile in the Baltimore, Maryland region.

• Enterprise Insights for Jira Align (6/10/2022)

• Interview with Dave Prior on Drunken PM Radio (04/09/2021)

• Working in Quarantine - Week 3 (04/13/2020)

• Working in Quarantine - What We Learned - Week 1 (04/04/2020)

• An introduction to leading and lagging indicators

• What do you do when you can’t finish the work in a Sprint?

• Transforming a Long-Standing Traditional Organization to Agile

• Metrics and Tools

• Estimating and Meeting Sprint Commitments

• Heart of Agile - Productivity Triangle