Rocio Briceno

Co-Author, Social Impact Agile Manifesto, and Co-Founder of the SiAgile Movement

Session Title

SiAgile: The Agile Manifesto for Social Impact
Can Agile be used to Create a Better Society? Improving the Fundamental Problems of a Country?

Abstract

Rocío Briceno was a Vice-President Candidate in the last elections of Costa Rica, her original country with a proposal for agile in the government applied in social impact development.

Agile is 21 years old but in 2019 in Virginia, the USA a new manifesto for Social Impact Agile: SiAgile, was written with the participation of Rocío Briceño and Alistair Cockburn (one of the authors of the agile manifesto)

Its first applications have already been used by multilateral organizations. At this event, Rocío will comment on her application experiences in Latin America and in the USA.

Bio

Vice-President Candidate for Costa Rica's past elections 2022-2026 with a proposal of Agility and Digital Transformation for the country.

Rocío moved to Washington DC, USA, after the elections to continue her working as a consultant and coach in topics regarding IT Management, Agile, Project Management, and Social Impact.

Rocío is one of the PMI's reviewers for world standards as part of the global standards and consensus committee.

Graduated from Harvard University in the USA, and from Costa Rica Institute of Technology. Rocío is a Computer Engineer, MBA, Cybersecurity certified, Coach, PMP, SAFe, Disciplined Agile, Scrum Master, and she is currently studying for her Ph.D.

She is co-author of the Social Impact Agile Manifiesto, and co-founder of the SiAgile Movement, as well as part of the leaders of several agile international communities and PMI communities.

Rocío has worked as a leading expert and technical reviewer for guides about Agile and Project Management at the IDB Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC.

Recognized as one of the 10 most influential women in Costa Rica by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications MICITT.

She is also a business writer for the newspaper velero.cr and co-author of the book about cultural organization and agile, agile at scale.