149. How to become an Agile Change Agent

London, UK & Malaga, Spain

Melanie is Chartered Management Consultant and experienced change, programme and project management consultant, author and trainer. Melanie works with clients to build competency and capability, drawing on a wealth of practical experience.

Passionate about professional development, Melanie is an APMG accredited trainer for AgilePM, Agile Change Agent & Change Management. She is also a Certified Scrum Master, Certified SAFe 4.0 Practitioner and Lean Kanban Practitioner.

Melanie is the Chief Examiner and course architect for the popular APMG Agile Change Agent course and certification.

Tomasz Manugiewicz is the General Manager of Grand Parade Poland. An engineer at heart. A speaker by passion. He has delivered speeches at the largest European IT conferences, also as a keynote speaker. He has had presentations for brands such as Devoxx Belgium, Devoxx Poland, Agile Tour London, Agile Central Europe, DevDays Europe, and many more.

He has been in the IT sector since 2006 . Tomasz worked as an Engineering Manager and, at the beginning of his path, when he was a Java developer Engineer, he helped to create the first Polish online banking systems. He also worked for international global corporations, including in the banking and ICT telecom sectors.

Tomasz is an Agile enthusiast and coach - conducted his first Agile Transformation in 2009. He is a co-author of the leadership book "The LiGHT BOOK2 - Leaders' insights for leaders based on true stories". At the AGH University of Technology, he is a lecturer, supporting young engineers on their way to the world of IT.

• Keynote Speaker at DevDays Europe 2022 conference

My proudest achievement is my daughter – Zosia

Besides that, I am proud that I had a chance to speak to 2500 + software engineers during Devoxx Poland conference.

Although partly retired, Adrian is Head of Governance and Trustee of MyMelanoma, a new cancer research organisation. He is author of various works, notably the book Agile Beyond IT, adviser, coach, visiting lecturer and writer on organisational and project management agility.

Adrian is a 35 year project professional in 11 commercial industries and the public sector, in the UK and abroad.

Now a Fellow of the Association of Project Management, he has been an active member since the early ‘90s, especially in programme, portfolio and stakeholder management, governance, agility and a diversity champion.

• Fellow of the Association of Project Management
• Author of Agile Beyond IT and Agile Beyond IT LinkedIn newsletter
• Co-author of the Gower Handbook of programme management management (1st Edition)
• Co-author of APM Guides on Directing Agile Change and Agile assurance
• Lead author for programme management for APM BoK7
• Contributor to UK government standards for programme and portfolio management and PMOs. 

Adrian's proudest achievement is publishing Agile Beyond IT which brings together over a decade of research, 35 years of experience and learning by himself and others into the adaptation of agility to the project profession as a whole.

Orlando is a trainer and change guide at Lagant. Orlando was previously a Project Manager at Parnassia Group, Director of Projects and Implementation at ABN AMRO bank. He is passionate about helping teams and organisations with change to create more effectiveness, results, and fun.

Orlando's team had a long history of distrust, not listening to each other and little psychological safety. He helped them to create a sparkle of trust, motivation, and energy among a team of leaders of a Police Department in order to get on the same page and grow together collaboratively in the future.

With a master's degree in IT and having applied tech to various domains since he was 16, he eventually ran a $100M FinTech business. Having built three startups so far, his current mission is to help redefine the future of work through this company, Mangtas: a remote staffing platform.

Fun fact:

Growing up, Wouter won several football national championships, and prior to the pandemic, represented Belgium in the Ironman 70.3 Triathlon World Championships.

 Wouter's Proudest achievement is starting up Mangtas – and making it the market leading platform for remote staffing of full-timers.