LS2: The Agile Enterprise: Real World Experience in Creating Agile Companies

CTO/VP of Engineering or VP of Object Technology at 9 software companies since 1983. Three were startups. Cofounded two of them. Conceived the Scrum Agile development process in four of them and implemented Scrum companywide in five of them. Currently doing consulting engagements for Scrum training, certification, assessment, and team motivation in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Well known as the Co-Creator of the Scrum Agile Development Process which influenced the design of the other leading Agile process in the U.S., i.e. eXtreme Programming (XP). With over 10000 Certified ScrumMasters, Scrum is now deployed on projects worldwide in some of the largest (and smallest) companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Siemens, SAP, Fidelity, British Telecom, the BBC, etc. Scrum is a team organization process that brings focus, clarity, and enthusiasm to any project team in any domain. Distinguished Graduate of the U..S. Military Academy and Top Gun USAF RF4C Phantom Aircraft Commander with 100 missions over North Vietnam. Advanced degrees from Stanford University and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Past Secretary of the ANSI X3H7 Object Information Management Technical Committee, and liaison to the X3H2 SQL Database Committee. Chair of the Joint Committee of X3H7/X3H2 and ODMG (Object Database Management Group). Object Databases, Easel Corporation, VMARK Software, IDX Systems Corporation, and PatientKeeper representative to the Object Management Group and a former board member of the Smalltalk Industry Council. Chair, OOPSLA 1995-2000 Workshops on Business Object Component Implementation and Design. Facilitated research into object-oriented architectures for enterprise component systems.