Suzette Johnson

Suzette Johnson

Agile Center of Excellence Lead, Northrop Grumman

Dr. Suzette Johnson works for Northrop Grumman Corporation near Baltimore, Maryland. As a Certified Agile Enterprise Coach and Scaled Agile Program Consultant, she has an interest and passion for promoting and implementing Agile engineering in large-scale systems environments. Her initial experience with Agile-related practices began over 15 years ago with product development for a commercial company focused on financial and enterprise management systems. She has worked on many government programs as a systems engineer and Agile Coach. She has led organizations and large programs in their transition from traditional engineering approaches to more Agile and adaptive practices focused on product quality and regular delivery of value. Suzette enjoys leading, mentoring, and working with programs, customers, and organizations as they seek to transition to or mature their Agile practices. She has supported many government agencies through Agile coaching and consulting, has delivered over 200 speaking engagements, and has trained and presented Agile principles and practices to over two thousand people. She currently leads Northrop Grumman’s Agile Center of Excellence. She received a Doctorate of Management at the University of Maryland with a dissertation focus on investigating the impact of leadership styles on software project outcomes in traditional and agile engineering environments.

Commonalities of Agile and DevOps Transformation for Large Teams and Organizations

Harrisburg University

As the adoption of Agile DevOps has been steadily growing over the years, many organizations have been taking a proactive approach to prepare for the changes this is creating. This means preparing our people and organizations with the skills and resources they need to be successful and working with our customers and users for improved […]

Track 2: Agile Lean Transformations (I)
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