Diana Larsen

FutureWorks Consulting, LLC

Presentation(s): Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Team Great!, Stimulating Success: Agile Managers as Facilitators, The First Thing to Build: Leveraging Trust on Agile Teams, LS3: Agile Leadership Clinic, Lightning Talks

A specialist in the human side of software development, Diana Larsen expands teams’ capabilities to interact, self-organize, and improve project performance. She co-authored Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (Pragmatic Programmers, 2006) with Esther Derby. Clients come to Diana because of her experience and expertise; they stick with her because of her candor, compassion and courage. She leads group processes for collaborative thinking and planning, as well as guiding teams through project retrospectives. She presents workshops, speaks and writes on self-organizing team development and team leadership, innovation development, leading retrospectives and influencing organizational change. A former board member of the Agile Alliance, Diana works with a wide network of colleagues. She co-founded the International Retrospective Facilitators Gathering and the Agile Open Northwest 2007 conference.