Partner with Us
Empowering Collaborative Growth
Welcome to our Partners page! Here, we’re all about building meaningful relationships that drive innovation in the medical device field. By collaborating with you, we aim to enhance product development processes and deliver results that matter. Ready to take your projects to the next level with our agile coaching?
Meet Our Dynamic Team
- Tailored Scrum education:
- Scrum Fundamentals
- Scrum Master
- Product Owner
- Product Owner Bootcamp
- Scrum Team Bootcamp
- Scrum coaching:
- Product Owners
- Scrum Masters
- Development Teams
- Whole Scrum Teams
- Certified Agile Regulatory Specialist™ (CARS™) Education and Coaching
- LeSS coaching
- SAFe Coaching and Training
- Keynote speaking
- Whole-System Agile Adoption engagements
Jeff is a Partner at agilityIRL, where he focuses on coaching at the team and leadership levels as well as training individuals and organizations. He takes pride in his ability to help teams reach their full potential while helping the organization support team success.
Jeff’s extensive consulting experience has exposed him to a wide variety organizations and industries with uniquely different paths to success. In the earlier stages of his career, Jeff held development, business analysis and testing roles before moving into project management where he spent 10 years as a PMP-certified project manager, managing large programs for a variety of Fortune 500 clients.
This wide-ranging background led Jeff to eventually focus on Agile development, working as a Scrum Master and Program Manager in Agile environments. He has worked on and with Agile teams in a variety of industries and environments where he’s seen Agile work in industries as diverse as medical device manufacturing and online retail.
As an Agile coach and trainer, Jeff is able to leverage his unique experience to help organizations gain a clearer picture of their full operating system in order to identify their true constraints and opportunities and unlock their full potential through the application of Agile.
Jeff’s Agile certification credentials include: PST, PSM-III, CSPO, CLP, SPC, CARS, and he still has his PMP
- Certified Scrum Training:
- CSM
- A-CSM
- CSPO
- Tailored Scrum Education:
- Scrum Fundamentals
- Scrum Master
- Product Owner
- Product Owner Bootcamp
- Scrum Team Bootcamp
- Scrum coaching:
- Product Owners
- Scrum Masters
- Development Teams
- Whole Scrum Teams
- Agile leadership coaching
- Whole-System Agile Adoption engagements
Mike is a Co-Founder and Partner at agilityIRL where he educates, coaches and consults with individuals, teams, and organizations in pursuit of building products that delight their customers. His expertise lies in Scrum, but he is experienced with many other Agile frameworks and has been a lifelong student and practitioner of leadership.
He is a recognized teacher, leader, story-teller and coach who blends theory with real-world experience, along with an occasional attempt at humor, to help his clients be the best version of themselves. Mike has helped teams in a variety of scenarios from helping a team at a Fortune 500 company reduce delivery cycle times from 18 months to 10 weeks using Scrum to helping an Operations Team achieve their best ticket response time using Kanban.
Mike brings a diverse background to his work. He has been a software developer (apologies to anyone who had to maintain his code), business analyst, tester, and project manager (recovering) while also having served in formal management roles in companies both large and small. Mike has also been a Scrum practitioner and Agile advocate for a number of years having stumbled across both the philosophy and the Framework in the early 2000s.
Mike’s Agile certification credentials include: CSM, CSPO, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, CST and PMI-ACP.
- Leadership & Organizational Agility Education & Coaching
- Leading Whole-System Agile Adoption engagements
- SAFe coaching and Training
- Keynote speaking
Patrick is a Partner at agilityIRL, a results-driven senior management consultant with a distinguished career spanning 25+ years dedicated to spearheading aggressive and effective agile transformations for medium-to-large organizations.
Patrick’s extensive consulting experience has exposed him to a wide variety of organizations and industries with uniquely different paths to success. In the earlier stages of his career, Patrick held sales and program management roles with Digital Equipment before moving into consulting leadership with Compaq and HP, where he spent 10 years as a PMP-certified project manager, managing large programs for a variety of Fortune 500 clients.
After leaving HP to co-found a software company, Patrick had the opportunity to implement a lighter weight approach that he had been seeking for some time. After learning Scrum from Ken Schwaber and using it at his start-up, he came to eventually focus on Agile training and coaching and has successfully orchestrated numerous transformation engagements, leaving a lasting impact on several Fortune 500 companies from financial services to online retail and even medical devices.
As an Agile coach and trainer, Patrick is adept at translating technical concepts into clear, business-focused language, facilitating seamless collaboration between technical teams and leadership. His commitment to excellence has consistently driven measurable results, enhancing digital value delivery and fostering sustained organizational success.
Patrick’s Agile certification credentials include: CSP-SM, CSP-PO, PMI-ACP, SAFe SPC, and he still has his PMP.