COLABERS
Our team of CoLabers have a mix of skills, experiences and reasons as to why we each love working in an agile way.
We are all professional trainers and practitioners, and couple real-world experience with agile principles and frameworks. We love learning from the people and organisations we train and coach, and feed real-world learning back into our training courses and coaching reflecting up-to-date trends, challenges and technologies.
We empower you to transform yourself, your teams and your wider organisation.
What brings us together as Agile CoLab is a strong collective interest in accelerating our learning through sharing our experiences with each other. As a team, we regularly spend time together to problem-solve, share ideas, create IP, as well as challenge and support each other in our work.
AGILEPETE
AGILE PERFORMANCE COACH & TRAINER
agilePete has worked in the IT industry delivering software projects for over 30 years. For the past 10 years, he’s worked exclusively in coaching and training agile leaders and teams. He is particularly effective at clarifying complex ideas and making agile principles and approaches accessible for everyone. He’s an experienced agile trainer and has developed numerous specialist agile training courses.
In his own time, agilePete loves the freedom of the road. He enjoys exploring our beautiful country in his VW campervan and often sets off with no destination in mind letting the adventure unfold in front of him. He’s a keen golfer and is always open to the offer of a game.
ALFRED ENSLIN
AGILE COACH & TRAINER
Alfred loves helping teams and organisations build products that solve real user problems. He’s an expert in Lean, Agile, and DevOps practices, and is particularly skilled in teaching Continuous Delivery pipelines. His hands-on coaching style helps teams to adopt these techniques and improve their workflows, resulting in better and faster delivery of value.
In his downtime, Alfred enjoys gardening, playing golf, and teaming up for co-op video games. He’s also a fan of Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Action, and Animation TV series and movies, and is always on the lookout for his next great watch.
ALLAN ATKINSON
AGILE COACH
Allan's 35 year career has seen him change incrementally from a Stop/GO sign operator (actually controlling traffic) to becoming an Agile Coach and influencing the way that people work. He likes to understand the way that work flows through a team and uses agile thinking to create simple solutions to work flow.
Allan passionately believes in the power of people and knows that they are always the key to solving any workplace problem. He is constantly learning and looking for improvement in his own performance so he can better support his teams. He enjoys facilitation and brings a bit of comedy to his work. Dad joke anyone?
Outside of work, Allan can be found at the Randwick Archery Club, either coaching, shooting or on the ride-on lawn mower! He's the current New Zealand record holder for the Men's 165m event and has coached a Junior Archer through to a National Indoors title. If he's not at the range then he's probably out walking with his dog, Hoani, around the Petone Beach and Hutt River area.
CEEDEE DOYLE
AGILE COACH & TRAINER
Ceedee is a pioneering AI trainer and experimenter, dedicated to helping individuals and organisations harness the power of artificial intelligence. With her extensive knowledge of AI tools, techniques, and applications, she helps individuals and teams to adapt to the rapidly evolving technological landscape. Ceedee's expertise lies in demystifying AI, making it accessible and practical for both personal and professional growth.
While her primary focus is on AI, Ceedee also brings valuable experience as an agile coach and facilitator. Ceedee's passion for making work both productive and enjoyable shines through in her coaching. Known for her energetic leadership and ability to foster collaboration, Ceedee excels at creating a shared understanding among diverse groups.
When she’s not working, Ceedee is passionate about board games and organises WellyCon – the biggest board game convention in New Zealand. She’s a keen gardener and likes growing anything edible. In the kitchen she’s partial to cooking extremely fiery dishes so watch out if you get a dinner invitation!
MURF (MARK MURPHY)
ENTERPRISE COACH & TRAINER
Murf is a passionate agile coach and trainer. He is particularly talented at investigating end-to-end systems of work, assisting clients to get work done at scale, aligning technology with business, and optimising the whole operation. Murf always takes a humanistic approach to how he works with clients and finds solutions. He believes everyone should enjoy the work we do and that implementing the agile mindset is a great way to succeed in that.
Outside of work hours, Murf enjoys social time with his family and friends. He’s currently honing his negotiation skills (and patience) with his young daughters as apparently, 4am is the perfect time to play games.
PETER BINK
DEVSECOPS COACH
Peter is a passionate DevSecOps coach, dedicated to improving the delivery of value, whether that’s faster, better, or safer. His expertise lies in combining agile delivery methods with a deep understanding of technology to bring the DevOps mindset into organisations. For Peter, successful DevOps comes from balancing the right technology with people, culture, and processes, ensuring they all work together to deliver the most efficient and valuable outcomes.
When he’s not helping organisations optimise their delivery pipelines, Peter enjoys getting his hands dirty with DIY projects, having recently completed a full renovation of his second bathroom. He’s also a keen organic gardener and loves escaping into the NZ wilderness for tramping adventures.
AMANDA MILES
CUSTOMER TRAINING & SUPPORT
Amanda is a motivated and enthusiastic CoLaber. She provides support to both Agile CoLab clients and our own team members, particularly around organising training course. She believes there’s always enough time in the day to achieve what needs to be done and loves finding new ways to work more efficiently. She is a highly organised and task-orientated person, who thrives on working towards valuable outcomes.
When she’s not at work, Amanda loves dance and is a passionate ballet teacher and supporter. She’s a self-confessed ‘crazy dog lady’, a voracious reader and likes putting her feet up with a good Thriller.
TONI WILSON
CEO
As CEO of Agile Colab, Toni is the driving force behind the scenes. She has a background in analysis and as a product owner and is intuitively agile. She’s a firm believer in ‘less is more’, meaning she likes to keep deliverables and processes lean and meaningful to ensure that effort is always directed to where it’s needed most. She is passionate about empowering people to enjoy being at work and seeing the value of what they’re doing.
At home, Toni’s happy place involves singing, dancing, and cooking vegetarian food – often at the same time. She’s currently adapting to life without her twin girls living under the same roof, which has created a combination of deep grief and intense excitement as she realises just how much freedom she now has!