10 Agile Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow on Twitter
09 September 2020
Agile Workflows
🔥 The top 10 list was updated. You can see the latest version here.
This is a select list of agile project management thought leaders and influencers on Twitter. We started with over 200 prominent accounts and we got it down to the top 10. We're transparent about the criteria for making this list, so here's how we did it. To qualify, Twitter accounts were required to meet all of the following characteristics:
- account is for a person or a professional association,
- account is 3 or more years old,
- account is active (1 or more tweets in the last 30 days),
- 1,000 or more tweets,
- 7,000 or more followers, and
- 90% or more of tweets have engagement (e.g., likes and retweets).
The list is sorted by engagement level, presented in descending order. In cases where multiple accounts have the same engagement level, the number of followers breaks the tie. Data source: Twitter. Data is as of September 9, 2020. Disclosure: Scott M. Graffius is the author of Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions. Source of screen shot images: respective Twitter accounts. Names, marks, and images are the property of their respective owners. Here are the top 10 accounts meeting all of the criteria described above.
#1
Scott M. Graffius
- Twitter handle: @scottgraffius
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/scottgraffius
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "I'm an agile project management consultant, practitioner, award-winning author, and keynote speaker. Thinkers360 named me a top thought leader and influencer."
- Account is 10 years old
- 187 tweets in the last 30 days
- 4,292 tweets
- 8,053 followers
- 100% of tweets have engagement
#2
Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Twitter handle: @pminstitute
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/pminstitute
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Our mission—Making you and your projects more successful."
- Account is 11 years old
- 175 tweets in the last 30 days
- 23,118 tweets
- 128,093 followers
- 99% of tweets have engagement
#3
Scrum Alliance
- Twitter handle: @scrumalliance
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ScrumAlliance
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "We are Transforming the World of Work. Since 2001, we have supported the agile movement as the only member-driven nonprofit certifying body in the agile space."
- Account is 11 years old
- 23 tweets in the last 30 days
- 9,835 tweets
- 59,324 followers
- 98% of tweets have engagement
#4
PM Voices
- Twitter handle: @pmvoices
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/pmvoices
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Insights on all things PM, created by and for project practitioners"
- Account is 11 years old
- 47 tweets in the last 30 days
- 10,873 tweets
- 52,250 followers
- 98% of tweets have engagement
#5
Mike Cohn
- Twitter handle: @mikewcohn
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/mikewcohn
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "I'm an agile software development consultant, trainer, author and practitioner. I blog at http://mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog #MGSClasses"
- Account is 11 years old
- 11 tweets in the last 30 days
- 5,187 tweets
- 48,218 followers
- 97% of tweets have engagement
#6
Jeff Sutherland
- Twitter handle: @jeffsutherland
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/jeffsutherland
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Co-Creator of #Scrum"
- Account is 12 years old
- 6 tweets in the last 30 days
- 2,523 tweets
- 49,615 followers
- 96% of tweets have engagement
#7
Alistair Cockburn
- Twitter handle: @TotherAlistair
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/TotherAlistair
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Chaotic-good Lawful-neutral project witchdoctor. Bard. Dancer, specialty massage, poet. Sits underwater. Playful, wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting."
- Account is 11 years old
- 67 tweets in the last 30 days
- 30,365 tweets
- 29,342 followers
- 96% of tweets have engagement
#8
Lisa Crispin
- Twitter handle: @lisacrispin
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/lisacrispin
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Now available, Amazon & LeanPub: _Agile Testing Condensed_! See AgileTestingFellow.com, agiletester.ca, She/her. Quality owner, @OutSystems R&D, #o11y-bound!"
- Account is 12 years old
- 413 tweets in the last 30 days
- 134,332 tweets
- 19,618 followers
- 96% of tweets have engagement
#9
Agile Alliance
- Twitter handle: @agilealliance
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/agilealliance
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Agile Alliance is a nonprofit global member organization dedicated to promoting the concepts of #Agile software development as outlined in the #AgileManifesto."
- Account is 10 years old
- 127 tweets in the last 30 days
- 9,636 tweets
- 34,045 followers
- 93% of tweets have engagement
#10
Roman Pichler
- Twitter handle: @romanpichler
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/romanpichler
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Product management expert. Author of 'How to Lead in Product Managment’, ‘Strategize', and 'Agile Product Management with Scrum.'"
- Account is 10 years old
- 2 tweets in the last 30 days
- 1,819 tweets
- 14,151 followers
- 93% of tweets have engagement
Follow the 10 Twitter accounts listed above to join the conversation and learn ideas for implementing agile.
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Scrum Alliance Awarded AGILE SCRUM Author Scott M. Graffius with Scrum Foundations Educator Credential
16 March 2021
Agile Workflows
The Scrum Alliance awarded agile project management author Scott M. Graffius with the Scrum Foundations Educator credential. Scott now holds eight professional certifications:
♦️ Certified Scrum Professional - ScrumMaster (CSP-SM)
♦️ Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO)
♦️ Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
♦️ Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
♦️ Scrum Foundations Educator (SFE)
♦️ Project Management Professional (PMP)
♦️ ITIL Foundation (ITIL)
♦️ Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB)
His updated bio follows below and is listed at: https://www.scottgraffius.com/bio.html.
About Scott M. Graffius: Short-Form Bio
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Scott M. Graffius, PMP, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, CSM, CSPO, SFE, ITIL, LSSGB has generated hundreds of millions of dollars of business value in aggregate for the organizations he has served. He is an agile project management practitioner, consultant, award-winning author, and international speaker. His expertise spans project, program, portfolio, and PMO leadership inclusive of agile, traditional, and hybrid approaches. Content from Scott's books, workshops, speaking engagements, and more have been featured and used by businesses, governments, and universities including Gartner, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Ford, Qantas, Atlassian, Bayer, the National Academy of Sciences, the United States Department of Energy, the United States Army, the New Zealand Ministry of Education, Tufts University, Texas A&M University, Penn State, Virginia Tech, University of Waterloo, Loughborough University London, and others. Thinkers360 named Scott a global top thought leader and influencer in three domains: Agile, Digital Transformation, and GovTech. His full-length bio is available at https://www.scottgraffius.com/bio.html.
About Scott M. Graffius: Long-Form Bio
Scott M. Graffius has generated hundreds of millions of dollars of business value in aggregate for the organizations he has served. He is an agile project management practitioner, consultant, award-winning author, and international speaker. His expertise spans project, program, portfolio, and PMO leadership inclusive of agile, traditional, and hybrid approaches. Content from Scott's books, workshops, speaking engagements, and more have been featured and used by businesses, governments, and universities including Gartner, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Ford, Qantas, Atlassian, Bayer, the National Academy of Sciences, the United States Department of Energy, the United States Army, the New Zealand Ministry of Education, Tufts University, Texas A&M University, Virginia Tech, University of Waterloo, Loughborough University London, and others. Thinkers360 named Scott a global top thought leader and influencer in three domains: Agile, Digital Transformation, and GovTech.
Scott is the CEO of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions™, a professional services firm, where he helps client organizations strengthen their project management capabilities and realize their strategic objectives and business initiatives. The consultancy provides advisory, training, and facilitative consulting services related to governance and project, program, portfolio, and PMO management. The firm’s expertise spans agile, traditional waterfall, and hybrid approaches. While every engagement is unique, outcomes typically include getting more projects done, faster delivery time, improved on-budget performance, improved customer and stakeholder satisfaction, and more. Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions™ confidently backs its services with a Delighted Client Guarantee™.
A fantastic agile transformation experience and result with a client organization in the entertainment industry was the inspiration for Scott’s first book, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions (ISBN-13: 9781533370242). It helps technical and non-technical teams develop and deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement—which supports innovation and drives competitive advantage. The book garnered 17 first place awards from national and international competitions. His second title, Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change (ISBN-13: 9781072447962), was named one of the best Scrum books of all time by BookAuthority. Scott and his works have been featured by media outlets and publications including Yahoo Finance, Computer Weekly, the Boston Herald, MobileAppDaily, NBC WRAL, Thinkers360, Informa (UAE), the Dallas Business Journal, Innovation Management (Sweden), the PM World Journal, ip-label (United Kingdom), BookLife by Publisher’s Weekly, NASSCOM (India), Software Quality Management, Nimble Ways (Morocco), The Hiring Analytics Playbook, ALLAGIS (Guatemala), Business Application Monitoring, Human-Station (France), Learning Solutions, The Marketing Factory (Netherlands), Innovation Ecosystem Metrics, DZone, Savills (India), BRP Creative (Australia), People Performance (Singapore), Innovation Project Management by Dr. Harold Kerzner, TopDevs (Canada), Shelf Unbound, Epicos (Greece), Luxembourg Trade and Invest (Luxembourg), Better Humans, Serendipity (Netherlands), NHD Podcast, and others.
Scott is a former vice president of project management with a publicly traded provider of diverse consumer products and services over the Internet. Before that, he ran and supervised the delivery of projects and programs in public and private organizations with businesses ranging from e-commerce to advanced technology products and services, retail, manufacturing, entertainment, and more. He has experience with consumer, business, reseller, government, and international markets, as well as experience spanning 20 countries.
Scott has a bachelor's degree in Psychology with a focus in Human Factors. He holds eight professional certifications: Certified Scrum Professional - ScrumMaster (CSP-SM), Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Foundations Educator (SFE), Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB), and IT Service Management Foundation (ITIL). He is a member of the Scrum Alliance, the Project Management Institute, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
He has been actively involved with the Project Management Institute (PMI) in the development of professional standards. He was a member of the team which produced the Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures—Second Edition. Scott was a contributor and reviewer of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge—Sixth Edition, The Standard for Program Management—Fourth Edition, and The Practice Standard for Project Estimating—Second Edition. He was also a subject matter expert reviewer of content for the PMI EMEA Congress 2019, and he served as a member of the review team for the Scrum Alliance’s Global Scrum Gathering—New York City 2020.
Scott delivers dynamic and engaging talks at in-person and online events around the world. His speaking engagements include in-person and online conferences and other events in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States. Scott delights audiences with sessions on technology leadership and project, program, portfolio, and PMO management inclusive of agile, waterfall, and hybrid approaches. He uses everyday language and vibrant custom visuals to make complex topics clear, and he provides audiences with practical information they can use. For details, visit the public speaker section of his website.
He resides in Los Angeles, California.
About Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive.
There are a variety of frameworks supporting the development of products and services, and most approaches fall into one of two broad categories: traditional or agile. Traditional practices such as waterfall engage sequential development, while agile involves iterative and incremental deliverables. Organizations are increasingly embracing agile to manage projects, and best meet their business needs of rapid response to change, fast delivery speed, and more.
With clear and easy to follow step-by-step instructions, Scott M. Graffius's award-winning Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions helps the reader:
- Implement and use the most popular agile framework―Scrum;
- Deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement; and
- Support innovation and drive competitive advantage.
Hailed by Literary Titan as “the book highlights the versatility of Scrum beautifully.”
Winner of 17 first place awards.
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions is available in paperback and ebook/Kindle worldwide. Some links by country follow.
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About Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change
Thriving in today's marketplace frequently depends on making a transformation to become more agile. Those successful in the transition enjoy faster delivery speed and ROI, higher satisfaction, continuous improvement, and additional benefits.
Based on actual events, Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change provides a quick (60-90 minute) read about a successful agile transformation at a multinational entertainment and media company, told from the author's perspective as an agile coach.
The award-winning book by Scott M. Graffius is available in paperback and ebook/Kindle worldwide. Some links by country follow.
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10 Agile Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow on Twitter: Updated for 2021
24 April 2021
Agile Workflows
🔥 The top 10 list was updated. You can see the latest version here.
Follow these top agilists to learn ideas for implementing agile.
This is a select list of agile project management thought leaders and influencers on Twitter. We started with over 220 prominent accounts and we got it down to the top 10. We're transparent about the criteria for making this list, so here's how we did it. To qualify, Twitter accounts were required to meet all of the following characteristics:
- account is for a person or a professional association,
- account is 3 or more years old,
- account is active (defined as 1 or more tweets in the last 30 days),
- 1,000 or more tweets,
- 7,000 or more followers,
- 90% or more of tweets have engagement (e.g., likes and retweets), and
- Tweets were retweeted 0.75 or more times on average.
The list is sorted by engagement level (weighted at 4) and the sub-factor of average retweets per tweet (weighted at 1). In cases where multiple accounts have the same engagement level or average retweets, the number of followers breaks the tie. Data source: Twitter. Data is as of April 24, 2021. Disclosure: Scott M. Graffius is the author of Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions. Source of screen shot images: respective Twitter accounts. Names, marks, and images are the property of their respective owners. Here are the top 10 accounts meeting all of the criteria described above.
#1
Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Name: Project Management Institute (PMI)
- Twitter handle: @pminstitute
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/pminstitute
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Our mission—Making you and your projects more successful."
- Account is 12 years old
- 269 tweets in the last 30 days
- 25,331 tweets
- 131,844 followers
- 100% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 2.78 times on average
- Project Management Institute (@PMInstitute) placed 1st
#2
Scott M. Graffius
- Name: Scott M. Graffius
- Twitter handle: @scottgraffius
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/scottgraffius
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Agile project mgmt. practitioner and consultant. CEO @Exceptional_LLC. Author @AgileScrumGuide. International speaker. Named a top thought leader & influencer."
- Account is 11 years old
- 275 tweets in the last 30 days
- 6,222 tweets
- 8,423 followers
- 100% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 3.44 times on average
- Scott M. Graffius (@scottgraffius) placed 2nd
#3
Jeff Sutherland
- Name: Jeff Sutherland
- Twitter handle: @jeffsutherland
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/jeffsutherland
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Co-Creator of #Scrum and #ScrumatScale and Signatory of the #AgileManifesto"
- Account is 13 years old
- 1 tweets in the last 30 days
- 2,537 tweets
- 51,129 followers
- 98% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 10.25 times on average
- Jeff Sutherland (@jeffsutherland) placed 3rd
#4
Scrum Alliance
- Name: Scrum Alliance
- Twitter handle: @scrumalliance
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/ScrumAlliance
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "We are Transforming the World of Work. Since 2001, we have supported the agile movement as the only member-driven nonprofit certifying body in the agile space."
- Account is 12 years old
- 55 tweets in the last 30 days
- 10,142 tweets
- 60,437 followers
- 98% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 2.44 times on average
- Scrum Alliance (@ScrumAlliance) placed 4th
#5
Mike Cohn
- Name: Mike Cohn
- Twitter handle: @mikewcohn
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/mikewcohn
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "I'm an agile software development consultant, trainer, author and practitioner. I blog at http://mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog #MGSClasses"
- Account is 12 years old
- 16 tweets in the last 30 days
- 5,288 tweets
- 49,137 followers
- 97% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 7.66 times on average
- Mike Cohn (@mikewcohn) placed 5th
#6
Alistair Cockburn
- Name: Alistair Cockburn
- Twitter handle: @TotherAlistair
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/TotherAlistair
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Chaotic-good Lawful-neutral project witchdoctor. Bard. Dancer, specialty massage, poet. Sits underwater. Playful, wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting."
- Account is 12 years old
- 74 tweets in the last 30 days
- 32,299 tweets
- 30,044 followers
- 96% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 1.62 times on average
- Alistair Cockburn (@TotherAlistair) placed 6th
#7
Lisa Crispin
- Name: Lisa Crispin
- Twitter handle: @lisacrispin
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/lisacrispin
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Now available, Amazon & LeanPub: _Agile Testing Condensed_! See http://AgileTestingFellow.com, http://agiletester.ca, She/her. Let's succeed w continuous delivery together."
- Account is 13 years old
- 383 tweets in the last 30 days
- 140,849 tweets
- 20,088 followers
- 96% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 0.78 times on average
- Lisa Crispin (@lisacrispin) placed 7th
#8
Roman Pichler
- Name: Roman Pichler
- Twitter handle: @romanpichler
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/romanpichler
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Product management expert. Author of 'How to Lead in Product Managment’, ‘Strategize', and 'Agile Product Management with Scrum.'"
- Account is 11 years old
- 3 tweets in the last 30 days
- 1,882 tweets
- 15,188 followers
- 94% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 8.7 times on average
- Roman Pichler (@romanpichler) placed 8th
#9
PM Voices
- Name: PM Voices
- Twitter handle: @pmvoices
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/pmvoices
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "Insights on all things PM, created by and for project practitioners"
- Account is 12 years old
- 61 tweets in the last 30 days
- 11,296 tweets
- 53,205 followers
- 95% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 1.33 times on average
- PM Voices (@PMvoices) placed 9th
#10
Agile Alliance
- Name: Agile Alliance
- Twitter handle: @agilealliance
- Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/agilealliance
- Bio/description as shown on Twitter account: "#Agile Alliance is a global nonprofit membership organization dedicated to people and organizations that apply the values and principles of the #AgileManifesto"
- Account is 11 years old
- 98 tweets in the last 30 days
- 10,526 tweets
- 35,036 followers
- 90% of tweets have engagement
- Tweets were retweeted 1.84 times on average
- Agile Alliance (@AgileAlliance) placed 10th
Follow the 10 Twitter accounts listed above to join the conversation and learn ideas for implementing agile.
Connect with AgileScrumGuide.com on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Pinterest.
And connect with agile project management practitioner, consultant, award-winning author, and international speaker Scott M. Graffius on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
This story was simultaneously published here at https://agilescrumguide.com and at https://www.exceptional-pmo.com.
The short link for this article is: bit.ly/twitter-agile.
© Copyright 2021 Scott M. Graffius, AgileScrumGuide.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the express written permission of Scott M. Graffius/AgileScrumGuide.com.