Who is Winnow Management?
Winnow Management was founded by Peter Borsella, an IT professional with over 25 years of experience in application development and leadership. Peter is also a Project Management Professional (certified by the PMI), a Certified Scrum Trainer (certified by the Scrum Alliance), and a Certified Large-Scale Scrum Practitioner (certified by The LeSS Company). An active and contributing member to both the PMI and the Scrum Alliance, Peter's speaking engagements focus on bridging the gap between traditional Project Management and Agile Project Management. His goal is to help others understand how to get the best return from any project by achieving higher levels of software quality, increased customer satisfaction, and cohesive teams that enjoy increased productivity.
James Smith's 30 year IT career began at IBM in mainframe sales and at AT&T in product development. James's central focus is now on Scrum. Every one of the 26 Teams James worked with as ScrumMaster taught him that Scrum was the most efficient and profitable way of developing software. As a member of Winnow Management, James is pleased with the opportunity to share all of his learnings assisting in the launch of new Agile Teams. He feels that Scrum, when properly implemented, makes life better for all involved. James is a Certified Scrum Trainer (certified by the Scrum Alliance), a Certified Large-Scale Scrum Practitioner (certified by The LeSS Company) and holds an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.
Kiran Thakkar, an IT professional with 22 years of experience in global application development and leadership. is a Project Management Professional (certified by the PMI) and a Certified Scrum Trainer (certified by the Scrum Alliance). Kiran also holds an MBA and an MS in Computer Science. Kiran worked at Siemens Medical Solutions and played an instrumental role in one of the largest agile/scrum implementation in the world. Kiran was an overall program release manager at Siemens for a very large-scale, globally distributed, and FDA compliant agile initiative (40+ teams, over 500 members). Kiran laid the groundwork for agile practices still in use and highly effective in Siemens today. Kiran brings real life scrum implementation experience to his class. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Penn State Great Valley.
We're adept in administering all aspects of project management, as well as providing authentic leadership to create effective teams. Our ability to contribute across a wide range of environments has taken us to companies such as Hilton and Cisco, and outside the United States to countries such as India, China, Israel, and Hungary.
"He [Peter] put forth a superior work effort in our European development office. We needed to fully understand our readiness to implement Scrum. His observations and recommendations were accurate and practical, helping us avoid pitfalls associated with moving to a new development methodology." - Shashi Kapur, CTO, Ygomi, LLC
"We were faced with a large backlog of projects and a development team that was far too small. Peter was able to increase our development staff from 20 to 80 in less than 12 weeks, increasing our productivity dramatically and quickly. He created new hiring procedures, developed an accelerated training program, and implemented a new agile development process (Scrum). As a result, we completed all critical work expectations, created a more positive work environment, and our customers were extremely satisfied." - Larence Park, co-founder and former CEO of WildCard Systems, Inc. (now FIS)
"What I find particularly beneficial about the work we've done with Winnow Management is their ability to bridge the gap between technology and business while taking very practical measures to maximize project ROI. Additionally, we were able to accelerate our response to new business by cutting our project ramp up time by 75%." - Tim Dorsey, The Dorsey Group, LLC
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From classroom training (ranging from 2-hour overview sessions to 2-day Certification Training) to organizational consulting, we can help with all your IT project needs. If you would like to learn more, call us at 954-784-3674, or email us at info@winnowmanagement.com
...and why Winnow?
Our goal is to help your organization extract the good "grain" while discarding the useless "chaff." There's usually some amount of waste in any software development process accompanied by some amount of customer dissatisfaction and employee discouragement. We can show you how the agile Scrum framework employs a set of principles with less waste. This framework creates an environment where team members can make the best decisions possible to produce the best results possible.
Certified Scrum Master Classes
This two-day Certification session will provide participants with detailed insight into the workings of Scrum and the expectations of a Scrum Master. Just some of the subjects covered include:
- The Scrum Framework and Fundamentals
- Why Does Scrum Work?
- Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Team Member roles
- Self-Managed and Cross-functional Teams
- Defined vs. Empirical methods
- Agile Planning and Estimating
- Optimizing Value (ROI)
- Additional subjects may be covered based on participant interest and time
A Short Summary of Scrum:
Even projects that have solid, well-defined project plans encounter some degree of change. Shifting market conditions, budget cuts, staff restructuring, or any number of influences will disrupt the best plan. Projects that begin with changing or unclear requirements make it difficult to even establish initial project expectations. Scrum is the agile development process that allows teams to deliver usable product results periodically throughout the life of the project, absorbing change and new requirements as the project proceeds.
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