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David Gentry

David Gentry

Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Bass Player, Groove Keeper

Evans, Georgia, United States

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David Gentry is a Scrum Master and Agile Coach. He has seven years of hands-on experience with Agile, Scrum, and Lean and has served in a variety of roles during his 25-year IT career including developer, data analyst, business analyst, quality assurance analyst, project manager, and Agile coach.

He is actively involved in the community through his personal blog (agile.cool) and local user group, Agile Augusta. When he isn’t busy speaking or helping colleagues, clients, and companies to advance their agile journey, he can be found playing bass guitar and interpreting how groove applies to life and agility.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Agile Mindset
  • Agile Coaching
  • Scrum & Agile
  • agile

Does Your Team Groove? What You Can Learn from a Bass Player!

If your team made music, what would it sound like? Would it be closer to a loud, unrefined, but enthusiastic garage band or a beautiful, precise, well-orchestrated symphony?

Your Agile team has more in common with a band than you may realize. I didn’t initially see the connections, but as I became a better bass player, I became a better Scrum Master and vice versa.

You don’t need to play an instrument or be a great singer to be musical. Longfellow called music the “universal language of mankind” and everyone enjoys music in some shape, form, or fashion.

This session is for anyone who is interested in expanding their connection to music and using that knowledge to create unique connections with colleagues and team members. Please join me and experience how space, dissonance, and groove can be applied to your teams and organizations.

Agile Midlands May Meeting

Presented an updated version of "Anarchy"

May 2019 Columbia, South Carolina, United States

Agile Augusta March Meeting

Presented "Developing the Agile Mindset in Organizations"

March 2019 Augusta, Georgia, United States

PMI Professional Development Day

Presented two topics in a combined lecture and workshop format: "Introduction to Lean" and "User Story Mapping"

November 2018 Augusta, Georgia, United States

Global Scrum Gathering Minneapolis

Presented "Anarchy"

April 2018 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

David Gentry

Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Bass Player, Groove Keeper

Evans, Georgia, United States

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