Outformations, Inc.

Agile Collaboratory

Our Agile Collaboratory division specializes in Agile Business and consists of a small group of core members with deep Agile experience. We also maintain strong collaborative relationships with an extended network of consultants and coaches, enabling us to assemble the ideal team for each project.

The Agile Collaboratory is governed by and operates using Holacracy. Each of us fills a number of different roles, which you can see online here.

 

David Chilcott	Volker Frank	Eric Babinet	Steve Bockman	Pat Reed

ForceMentor

The ForceMentor division, led by Don Robins, is an authorized Salesforce.com Training and Developer Content Delivery Partner. We have an ever growing team of senior Certified Salesforce.com Technical Instructors, regularly delivering the official Admin and Developer classes in public and private workshops, in person and online, in the US and around the world. Our senior technical associates also deliver private mentoring, architectural guidance and custom built end user and developer training curriculum.

Don Robins

Outformations History: An Evolution of Collaboration

Outformations Inc. started in 1989 as a community of independent software developers who worked together informally and formally on a wide variety of projects. In 1995, we crossed a threshold, and made the leap to becoming an incorporated cooperative business. For many years we built custom software solutions together and we have a long list of satisfied clients to show for it.

We were early adopters of Agile Software Development methods such as Extreme Programming and Scrum because they were so effective at increasing collaboration, agility, and the value we delivered to our clients. We were also an early adopter of Force.com because of the excellent platform it provided for rapid application development.

As the effectiveness of Agile methods became more widely recognized, we were increasingly interested in the process that organizations went through when adopting Agile, and how to make that transition easier.

Building this business we’ve learned that our most successful ventures resulted from working well together. To this day, we emphasize collaboration in everything we do, both within our teams at Outformations and with our clients.