Ahmed Sidky

Doctor Agile

Ahmed Sidky, also known as Doctor Agile, is a well-known thought-leader in the Agile community. Ahmed combines over fifteen years of software development experience; with research from his Ph.D. in Agile transformation and agility assessment to help leaders and knowledge workers achieve measurable and sustainable organizational agility by being Agile not just doing Agile.

Dr. Sidky guides enterprise agile transformations in Fortune 100 companies as well as small to medium companies, and educates people on the agile mindset and how to create lean high performing teams, starting from CEOs to junior developers in companies around the world such as: Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, Siemens, Blackboard, Verizon Wireless, Caterpillar, ITWorx, Oracle, Nationwide Insurance, ConAgra, Riot Games, Cisco, Raytheon, Booz Allen Hamilton, Vodafone, and several agencies in the US Government. As the Principal Consultant at SCG Inc., he divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing. Ahmed is the co-author of a top-rated Agile adoption book; “Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World.”

Ahmed co-founded the International Consortium for Agile and sat on the steering committee for the creation of the PMI-ACP® certification and was the program chair for the Agile 2009 conference. He has been an invited speaker at numerous Agile Conferences around the world.