Sydney Markle

Agile Coach in Austin, TX

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Syd Markle is a native Texan, who graduated from the University of Texas, Austin, with a Bachelor of Journalism (Public Relations) in 1998. She started working at IBM in RTP as a contractor in 2002. She was hired on to IBM as the first ScrumMaster for the NYC Marketing Design Lab studios in 2012. Most recently, she's been obsessed with scaling impact for marketing running the Amplify Agile program designed to train, coach, and enable change advocates globally.

Syd has been married for ten years, and she and her husband have two boys, aged 9 and 4. The family stays organized with a kanban board and weekly family retrospectives. But no amount of Agile wizardry will help them tame the mountain of LEGOS in their home.

  • Work
    • IBM
  • Education
    • University of Texas, Austin