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graduate: Faculty

Ainsley Nies, MS. PMP
Title:
Adjunct Professor, Project Management
Campus:
San Francisco

  • 415-442-6500

Ainsley has a BA in Criminology, an M.S. in Educational Psychology and spent 20+ years at Hewlett Packard as a software developer, business process consultant and project manager before launching on her own. While at HP she initiated and led the Retrospective and Agile Special Interest Groups. Ainsley is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Scrummaster (CSM).

 

Ainsley’s consulting work is focused on development of sustainable environments for learning and continuous improvement, and includes methods such as chartering, retrospectives, Open Space Technology, and World Café. She speaks at conferences, facilitates public workshops and teaches a variety of Agile Management courses.

COURSES TAUGHT

OP 342
Agile Management for Project Managers

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Agile Project Management

EDUCATION

  • BA (Criminology), U.C. Berkeley

    MS (Educational Psychology), Cal State Hayward

    Project Management Professional (PMP) PMI Credential

    Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Acorn Consulting, Owner and Principle

Hewlett Packard, Business process consultant, software developer, project manager (former)

Adjunct Professor, Golden gate University

Instructor, U.C. Berkeley Extension

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Co-author with Diana Larsen of "Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams and Projects" (Onyx Neon Press, 2011).

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

  • Director of the Agile Alliance Agile Open Program

  • Practice Team Lead, PMI Agile Community of Practice

  • Co-founder, Agile Open California conferences

  • Committee Member, Bay Area, Agile Leadership Network

  • President, Pacifica Branch AAUW