David’s background in operations, agile production, and front-end development enables him to provide strong Scrum and Agile facilitation to a team.

David’s career in digital products began while he was a production and product manager at the Financial Post and then at Canada NewsWire where his work focused on the publication of financial information products for the professional investor markets.

More recently, he has focused on improving project results through the building of high-performance teams.

Speaker Session

Intro to Agile Practices in the Agency track.

The presentation intends to introduce participants to the Agile Manifesto and then through a hands-on team-based exercise demonstrate show these principles in action.

What do you want people to learn from your presentation?

I hope that participants will leave the session able to begin applying basic Agile methods to the development practices.

Why did you decide to speak?

Since returning to Toronto in 2013 I’ve had first-hand experience working with agile producing large-scale projects. Its practices can help any project team produce better work and achieve more for their efforts.

Passing on Agile and Scrum concepts to other people seems the best way I can give back to the open-source community.

What attracted you to WordPress in the first place?

WordPress is a strong tool for the disintermediation of information.

What’s your favourite WordPress plugin or theme, andy why?

That changes over time, but these days I rely on Clean Yeti Basic as a starter theme. I’m a fan of Zurb Foundation so this theme appeals to me.

What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?

Meeting new people and new ideas.