Title:
Successful Agile Transitions: Patterns to ensure success (or failure)
Bio:
Author of “The Scrum Field Guide: Practical Advice for your first year”.
Mitch Lacey is an agile practitioner and consultant and is the founder of Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc., a software consulting and training firm. Mitch specializes in helping companies realize gains in efficiency by adopting agile principles and practices such as Scrum and Extreme Programming.
Mitch is a self-described “tech nerd” who started his technology career in 1991 at Accolade Software in San Jose, CA, a computer gaming company. After working as a software test engineer, a test manager, a developer, and a variety of other jobs in between, he settled on his true calling, project and program management.
As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), Mitch shares his experience in project and client management through Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum courses, agile coaching engagements, conference presentations, blogs, and white papers. Mitch works with companies across the world, from Austria to Colombia, California to Florida, Portugal to Turkey, and just about everywhere in between.
Mitch has presented at a variety of conferences worldwide, is the conference chair for Agile 2012, in on the board of directors for the Agile Alliance and was on the board of directors of the Scrum Alliance.
Agile Africa 2013 