When I joined the Tampa Bay Agile Meetup in March of 2012, there were just about 70-ish members. Today, there are over 270 members. That’s about 300% growth in 18 months! To me, this is a great indicator of the interest and adoption of Agile across the Tampa Bay community. Just over a year ago, we used to see less than 10 people attend a meetup and now we see almost 50 people at each meetup. I call that reason enough to celebrate or rather … blog about it.
So, if you haven’t figured it out already, this blog post is indeed a shameless plug for our meetup group, of which I am co-organizer. The Salesforce guys founded the meetup group and got it off the ground and now Valpak and AgileThought are partnering to carry the baton, finding speakers and sponsoring food and facility for the meetups.
If you are local to Tampa Bay area and interested in all things Agile, please join us. Or, if plan to be in the Tampa Bay area and wish to present on an Agile-related topic, please contact us.
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About Stephanie Davis
Stephanie is now VP of Product Excellence at LeadingAgile focused on the growth, development, and delivery of some amazing agile products. Recently, she spent the past two years as Executive Director - Enterprise Agility Office at Catalina leading another top-to-bottom, inside-out agile transformation. Prior to that, Stephanie was Senior Director of Enterprise Agility at Valpak. She was with Valpak for 13 years, most of which were focused on leading their agile transformation to what became a world renowned success story published in case studies and demonstrated to over 50 different companies through the years via agile tours. Prior to Valpak, Stephanie held past positions in the project management domain with AT&T and IBM.
Stephanie's academic credentials include a BS in Marketing from the University of South Florida and an MBA in International Business from the University of Bristol in England. She also maintains the Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP), and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) credentials.
Stephanie is big on tech community involvement! Most recently, she served as an elected board member to the Agile Alliance, a non-profit organization with global membership, committed to advancing agile development values, principles, and practices. In addition, she serves her local community as an organizer for Tampa Bay Agile, the largest and most active tech Meetup in the area, and the annual Agile Open Florida event.
In 2016, Stephanie was awarded Tampa Bay Tech’s Technology Leader of the Year and the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s BusinessWoman of the Year (Tech) and Emerging Technology Leader of the Year.
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September 12th, 2013 at 7:42 am
Congratulations Stephanie and Ryan! It also shows you are listening to your “end users” and delivering value in the events you provide.
January 7th, 2014 at 4:51 pm
[…] (along with AgileThought) took over the organizing responsibilities for the Tampa Bay Agile Meetup group and grew membership by well over 300% this year! We have close to 400 members now and have […]