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Caroline Gordon has built and led successful product development teams for almost 20 years. Her skills have been utilised by boutique companies through to national and international corporations in fields as varied as manufacturing, health products, smart cards and EFTPOS technologies, digital entertainment and telecommunications. Caroline is an expert in developing highly capable engineering teams. Caroline's teams are renowned for bringing cutting edge products to market within tight timeframes in highly competitive marketplaces. Starting in hardware development and embedded systems, more recently Caroline has broadened her experience through management of development teams in digital entertainment in the gambling and casino industries and telecommunications sector. Caroline has worked closely with partner enterprise customers across several sectors. She thrives on the product inception and collaboration phases and her projects are typified by the synthesis of complex programs of work into clear concise roadmaps. She has led international distributed teams. Her skills and expertise in product development have naturally led to an interest in Startups and Entrepreneurship, Caroline has worked at startups, founded a startup and been a mentor at InnovyzStart, a startup incubator program in Adelaide. She presented at the Agile Australia conference in 2013 on the topic of “Lean Startup for Project Managers”. She has a double degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Sydney.

Agile coach with >18 years coaching remote teams and organizations. Ready to advise you on how agile can improve your dispersed company or team.

Joseph Phillips, PMP, Project+, is a leader in the project management discipline. He has written several books on project management, managed and consulted on high-profile projects, and taught for organizations around the world. He has led multi-million dollar projects for technical, pharmaceutical, insurance, health care, manufacturing, and architectural industries among others.