Shrinking budgets, increased workloads, and ever-changing demands challenge today’s product teams to adapt and learn to do more with less. Since its birth in 1775, the United States Marine Corps has faced similar trials. The key to the Corps’ survival—not unlike that of a product team—has been its ability to adapt to change. Anne Steiner uses the Corps’ leadership philosophy and its training techniques and her experience as a Marine Corps non-commissioned officer as a framework for understanding how Marines adapt, decentralize decision making, and build leaders at all levels. Through...Learn More
Anne Steiner
DevJam
A product coach at DevJam, Anne Steiner helps teams incorporate agile practices that improve product quality and customer satisfaction—without adding superfluous process. Anne has nearly twenty years in the software industry working as a front-end developer, product definition engineer, product manager, and coach. She served as a logistics specialist in the U.S. Marine Corps in the early 2000s. As the embarkation NCOIC for Marine Wing Support Squadron 471, Anne led a team of Marines who planned and orchestrated mobilizations in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.