Four Kitchens

Suzy
Bates

Web Chef Emeritus

Suzy Bates

Location: Austin, TX

Suzy was the Vice President of Professional Services, helping the entire team responsible for delivery to engage effectively. Suzy has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and many years of website development under her belt—including being a client, a project manager, developer, product owner, implementer, and even just a user of these systems. Her experiences and insights allow her to advocate for the team, the client, and the project managers. Agile workflow is a particular passion for Suzy: she took Agile Scrum Master training in 2007 and it immediately resonated. Since then, she has advocated for agile practices and recently attended Certified Scrum Product Owner training.

Recent Insights

By Suzy Bates

When you go distributed, how do you manage the managers?

How did we make the transition to a distributed office and what impact has it had on managing a team of Project Managers?

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Four Kitchens – where are your recipes?

When you work at a company whose name does not immediately describe what it does, you end up explaining what “Four Kitchens” means a lot. After the explanation, the first question is some version of “Are you all a bunch of foodies?” While not universally true, many 4Kers ARE foodies.

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