OpenAgile Institute

The OpenAgile Institute is a non-profit organization whose vision is "To create an environment in which people are free to express their true nature and capacities to contribute to the betterment of their organization." The OpenAgile Institute's Board of Directors serves as the kernel of OpenAgile. Their primary paths of service are to:


 * ensure the integrity of OpenAgile
 * foster learning-driven development of OpenAgile
 * administer the capacity recognition program
 * serve the OpenAgile community

Board of Directors

 * Executive Director: David D. Parker


 * Growth Facilitation for the OpenAgile Community: Mishkin Berteig


 * Process Facilitation for the OpenAgile Community: Paul Heidema


 * Member: Travis Birch


 * Member: Garry Berteig

History
Prior to its incorporation, many names were considered by the founders and early adopters before they settled on "OpenAgile Institute". Those suggestions were captured via online discussions and are listed here to help shed light on the intent and vision of the founders:
 * OpenAgile Development Community
 * OpenAgile Research Association
 * OpenAgile Learning Centre
 * OpenAgile Society
 * World OpenAgile Society
 * OpenAgile Alliance
 * OpenAgile Institute
 * Corporate Development (Institute)
 * Education of Business Growth (Institute)
 * Corporate Empowerment (Institute)
 * Catalyst for Corporate Education (Institute)
 * Catalyst for Corporate Empowerment (Institute)
 * Institute for Corporate Education - aka ICE
 * Institute for the Promotion of Corporate Learning - IPCL
 * Corporate Learning Institute - CLI
 * The Agile Resource Institute
 * OpenAgile Human Development Institute
 * Professional Development Institute

Similar Organizations
This is a listing of organizations with at least a partial mandate to increase organization capacity or value delivery:

Not for profit

 * Community Collaboration
 * Leader to Leader Institute
 * ValueBasedManagement.net
 * Agile Project Leadership Network
 * May want to consider contacting local/national chapters.
 * Canadian council on Learning (Workplace Learning)
 * The Bridgespan Group
 * The Learning Institute for Non Profits
 * Charity Village
 * The Bumble Bee (Bioteams)
 * Perhaps a competing theory, but supportive of self-organizing teams.
 * More about bioteams.
 * Agile Alliance
 * May want to consider contacting local/national chapters.
 * Scrum Alliance
 * Agile Canada
 * May want to consider contacting local/national chapters.
 * PMI Agile Community of Practice
 * May want to consider contacting local/national chapters.
 * AgileOrganizations.com (under construction)
 * BPMInstitute.org
 * "A Peer to Peer Exchange for Business Process Management Professionals". May be a good place to publish future OpenAgile articles and research.
 * The Agile Skills Project
 * The Agile Skills Project: community-owned software development standards.

For profit

 * Collaborative Strategies LLC

Books/Authors

 * The Leader's Guide to Radical Management
 * "Re-inventing the Workplace for the 21st Century"