Position Papers 2023

Here are the Position Papers from 2023 Edition of Agile Coach Camp Romania. Take a look at what people wrote and be inspired to write yours!

You find the three questions in the Registration form

See you at Sinaia in September!

Adrian Suciu

My Agile Experience is:

Experienced facilitator, Certified Agile Coach by Scrum Alliance, Professional Coach by ICF

I am a “never stop learning” type of person. I learn every day from the teams and individuals I interact with.
My philosophy is about helping people working in complex organizational environments overcome their fear of change and facilitate their problem-solving abilities.
I use serious games to convey complex concepts.

I am deeply connected to the European agile community and am active in several groups (Play4Agile, #play14, Agile Lean Europe, Agile Coach Camps, Product Camp).

“I like to see great energy emerging from motivated people”

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

I want to connect with old and new friends from the agile community and enjoy the beauty of the mountain view. I am open to enjoy sessions proposed by newcomers and to participate to insightful conversations.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

I plan to experiment new facilitation techniques, do a Coaching Dojo with Solution Focused method and co-create some games together with the participants.


Mirabela Radu

Mirabela Radu

My Agile Experience is:

Scrum Master

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

As a passionate of Agile I want to know how others Scrum Masters/Agile Coachs manage to be coach for their teams and do a meaningful work.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

I want to share from my experience as Scrum Master for 2 and a half years.


Adrian Pruteanu

Adrian Pruteanu

My Agile Experience is:

Scrum Master

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Learn new things, meet new interesting people!

I plan to contribute in the following way:

I can help with facilitating one ore a few workshops.


Adrian Cănuțescu

My Agile Experience is:

What excites me is helping organizations with Agile Transformations so that they can deliver efficiently high quality work by taking advantage of Agile, Lean and XP methodologies. I use facilitation, mentoring and coaching as key activities in creating high-performing teams. My values are: care, courage and continuous improvement.

Advanced capabilities in:
• Agile and Lean
• Mentoring and coaching
• Change management
• Project Management: Prince2, Agile SCRUM
• Leadership
• Communication, presentation, negotiation, motivation
• Software Development Management
• General & Strategic Management: MBA

Certifications:
• Certified ScrumMaster® CSM
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt LSSGB
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt LSSBB
• PRINCE2® Foundation
• PRINCE2® Practitioner
• ITIL® v3 Foundation
• CompTIA A+
• CompTIA i-Net+

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Getting to know new people, learning new approaches and have fun.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

I intend to experiment new facilitation techniques and participate in creating new educational games.


Cristina Darie

My Agile Experience is:

For more than 10 years I have worked as a developer in Agile teams and sometimes I had the role of Scrum Master as well.
Last year I have acquired the Scrum Master certification PSM I.

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

I’m looking forward to meet new people and reconnect with old friends from the community.
My main interest is in the changes the pandemic brought in the Agile development and team structures, especially related to the people motivations.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Share my experience, active participate in all activities and bring a lot of enthusiasm.


Laurentiu Bold

Laurențiu Bold

My Agile Experience is:

Scrum Master / Agile Coach

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

I’m looking forward to meeting again the wonderful people that participate to the Agile Coach Camp as I always had the chance to learn new things, to find new perspectives and to have lots of fun.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

I will actively participate in the marketplace sessions where I will bring and share my perspective from the experience I have so far.


Lucian Stroie

Lucian-Adrian Stroie

My Agile Experience is:

I am an old beginner, constantly learning new things for 15 years by now in and out of the agile field. I have been team member, scrum master, agile project manager and lately agile coach.

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Ways for showing the importance of consistency and quality when building products.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

At least one session to facilitate and contribute to as many as I can


Ana Arsene

Ana Arsene

My Agile Experience is:

Scrum master

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

I want to meet new professionals and new approaches for the various challenges we are facing in the work we do.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Enthusiasm, active participating, sharing my experience and also helping with facilitation if needed.


Maria Mădălina Chirică

My Agile Experience is:

Scrum Master

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

I plan to explore and develop my agile & scrum abilities like facilitation, servant leadership and comunication.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

I will share my experience and the importance of emotional intelligence in our teams.


Simona Chirică

My Agile Experience is:

Scrum Master

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

I want to improve my scrum master skills and i want to meet people with experience

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Sharing my communication skills, good organization and communication throught the team


Silvia Ghiță

My Agile Experience is:

Agile team member (product manager) for 2 years
Product Owner since July 2022

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Learn new things, meet ex-coleagues and new interesting people, learning new approaches and have fun.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Enthusiasm, share my experience, active participate in activities


Costin Calisov

Costin Calisov

My Agile Experience is:

13 years

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

How to evaluate output vs outcome in numbers for stand alone applications?

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Share from my past experience and preaching for #NoEstimates 🙂


Olga Batir

Olga Batîr

My Agile Experience is:

3 years

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Know the community and find new ideas to apply in my day to day work.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Anything is needed :))


Paul Chitic

My Agile Experience is:

Scrum Master

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Continuously learning and integrating other professional’s experiences and practices

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Provide best personal approaches found successful during my experience years


Dan Oneata

Dan Oneață

My Agile Experience is:

Scrum Master / Product Owner

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Try my best to find what a SM does all day

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Share my personal and professional experience in managing multiple Scrum Teams


Bogdan Borza

Bogdan Borza

My Agile Experience is:

Product Owner

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Planning, Agile delivery

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Experience, fresh view on other topics


Oana Vizuroiu

My Agile Experience is:

12 months as Scrum Master and about 36 month working in digital products delivery using Scrum framework.

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Learn from others experience

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Share my experience


Andrei Teodor Popa

My Agile Experience is:

2 years as product owner

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Knowledge sharing; meet people

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Own experience


George Citan

My Agile Experience is:

Agile practitioner

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Agile and Agility. Scrum and Scrumban. Agile coaching and Listening skills

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Scrum and Scrumban. Agile coaching and Listening skills


Anca Burlacu

My Agile Experience is:

I was a Team Leader for Engineering and DevOps teams. After a career break I am now a Graphic Facilitator, Graphic Recorder, Trainer and Coach, helping individuals and teams to communicate and collaborate better using Visual World.

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Learn from the others and contribute, play, enjoy the nature and get to know new people.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

To share how 📝 I use visual experiences to create emotional connections and focus, 🎓 facilitate learning and growth , and 💭ˎˊ˗ empower individuals or teams to achieve their full potential, through Visuals, Graphic Facilitation and Coaching


Ovidiu George Sterfircă

My Agile Experience is:

I stared my carrer as a QA working in both agile and waterfall projects for the first 7/8 years and after a bit of exploring as BA and release manager i have settled as Scrum Master for the past 2/3 years .

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

It will be my first experience with an Agile camp and looking at past editions i see i have a lot to experience and learn.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Having never participated before in an event like this its a bit of a blackbox for me but i hope my openness and desire to participate with fit the crowd.


Liviu Ioan

My Agile Experience is:

Software Engineer (Computer Science degree + 10 years of on-job experience) – first, in a startup and now, in a large company, part of a big team; Agile enthusiast.

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

I plan to explore my ways of working in the past and to find better ways for the future, following the Agile Practices.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

I plan to engage in meaningful conversations, to listen and to provide insight when my experience is helpful. I plan to ask questions.


Cristian Stînă Roșu

My Agile Experience is:

8 years

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

different aproaches

I plan to contribute in the following way:

with my exeprience


Ana Maria Rusei

My Agile Experience is:

I’ve worked as a developer in agile team for more than 10 years and in 2016 I started a slow transition towards SM role.

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

I’m interested in understanding better how trust and collaboration evolve in teams. How other paricipants experience remote work and short time overlaps between distributed team members.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Engage in activities, share my experience and provide insight whenever my exposure to different situations allow me to contribute.


Daniel Moise

My Agile Experience is:

Scrum Master

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Enterprise agility

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Experience Q&A


Radu Negoiță

My Agile Experience is:

6 years as QA in Agile team, 4 years as Scrum Master of Agile team

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Fruitful conversations on multiple Agile topics, so I can share with my team new approaches and angles

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Engage in discussions and use my experience for knowledge sharing and networking


Roxana Gherghel

My Agile Experience is:

More than 7 years working in agile teams. Since 4 years I am a Scrum Master

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Tackle with other people topics that I observed like challenging in the teams; Also, to gather some new experience from topics from other areas.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

With my knowledge, my questions, and my involvement.


Mădălina Chelmuș

My Agile Experience is:

Around 4 years as a Scrum Master

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Finding ways to become better in this role, learn from others and meet new people

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Sharing my learnings, my ideas and asking questions


Adrian Sion

My Agile Experience is:

2 years studies

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Best practices from different industries + Using Agile in divisions others than IT

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Be an active participant in topics shared and group activities


Nicu Gabriel Ștefan

My Agile Experience is:

Lucrez in set-up agile incepand cu anul 2019 si ca Scrum Master 2021

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Sa cunosc oameni faini, sa impartasim experiente si sa invat lucruri noi.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Voie buna si suport in zona de facilitare.


Laurențiu Vlad

My Agile Experience is:

Scrum Master

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

How to spread the agile mindset and principles in an organization

I plan to contribute in the following way:

The ideal mindset Scrum within an team


Vlad Solomon

My Agile Experience is:

Newly Product Owner

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

I’m looking to meet new people who have the same “agile” interests as me.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

I’m pretty young, I don’t have a lot of hands-on experience, but my master degree thesis was based on better understanding the agile methods and how they can be improved.


Yuliya Zagoruyko

My Agile Experience is:

15 years

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

networking with colleges , sharing experience

I plan to contribute in the following way:

I could bring several topics for the discussion, case clinic , etc


Oana Juncu

My Agile Experience is:

17 years

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

ReConnecting with the Agile community, discover more about Agile community in Romania and how this evolved over years.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

Be at service in all ways possible, contribute to facilitate the Open Space if needed, and share some thoughts on Agile Leadership and on groupDynamics work I was exploring over last years


Alex Stan

My Agile Experience is:

10 years working as Project Manager in soft dev, applying the Agile values without knowing them, because they seemed like common sense to me – transparency, collaboration, direct interaction between developers and business, continuous improvement in processes, just enough documentation, coaching the team to be their best version without judging what it was.
5 years slowly learning and applying Scrum.
To me Agile is a philosophy and Scrum can be universally applied, I’m doing it with my own personal life and it’s awesome.

This is what I plan to explore during this Coach Camp:

Everything Agile and would love to listen to everyone’s stories about applying and being agile. I enjoy learning, reflecting and figuring out a way to apply what I find best for each context.
Also, it’s the first time I have the confidence to participate in something like this, though I’ve always been curious.

I plan to contribute in the following way:

By being myself and interacting as much as I’m comfortable, by sharing my experiences and asking as many questions as I feel are just enough for me to understand and maybe help others understand.
And by creating a fun experience for people that find me interesting enough to interact with me.