Larry Cooper, B.Sc., M.A., is a Portfolio/Project Manager and strategic advisor in the public and private sectors in Canada and the USA and holds close to 25 industry certifications in Agile, Project Management, and ITIL. He has been published in books, magazines, and on industry leading websites, having achieved top ITIL download for his white paper “Implementing ITIL using the PMBOK in Four Easy Steps” on Forbes.com.
Involved in the training industry since 2007 he has developed over 30 courses on ITIL, Project Management, Agile, and Value Management. He has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences and symposia for the PMI, BAWorld, and the itSMF. Most recently he presented global webinars with BrightTalk on topics ranging from DevOps, to ITSM, to the future of Agile in organizations.
Larry is an executive on the Board of Directors for PMI Ottawa and was Axelos’ North American Mentor for PRINCE2 Agile.
Jen Stone, B.Sc., MCIS, with an extensive background in IT operations, has observed that when organizations begin to adopt Agile and DevOps concepts, the resulting shifts in methodologies can disrupt an ops team’s ability to keep systems stable, secure and performant. Jen begins by helping ops teams modify their infrastructure, processes, communication paths and cadences to integrate with changes occurring in other parts of the organization, and then expands that type of systems thinking to integrate teams across the entire organization.
Jen has over 30 years’ experience mentoring and teaching adults, over 25 years speaking, presenting and writing, and over a decade developing and delivering courses to professionals in IT and business. She has held leadership positions in the Society for Information Management and the Help Desk Institute, was an active member of the Lean Technology Institute, and served as a submissions proctor for the Agile Roots conference.
As Managing Director of the International Consortium for Agile, Jen was responsible for bringing together experts from around the world to develop certifications for learning paths across the organization, including Leadership, Project Management and Business Value Management.
Jen also served as a reviewer for the PRINCE2 Agile guide, which is due to be released in Q1 2015.
Jen and Larry are working on a white paper for Axelos called “Next Generation Agile” which is due to be published in summer 2015
