Jennifer Madel

Agile Coach - Ultimate Software
Jennifer Madel has been leading teams in the IT industry for over 18 years. Her career path has included managing and scrum master-ing several technical teams as well as agile coach.  She currently works on the Lean Agile Process Improvement team at Ultimate Software as Agile Coach.  This role allows her to use her leadership and Agile experience to train and coach teams on Kanban and Lean principles.  She also utilizes these principles to parent her 3-year-old twin boys!​

Pull The Goalie

​How much time do we spend between getting the signal that things are going wrong and taking action? 

What are the social contracts that stop us from making the right decisions at the right time.

What can we learn from hockey and football about bringing objectivity into professional and personal decision making? 

How can we overcome social pressures and the strategy of hope to make early interventions to help people, processes and products?​