About the Author

Mitch Lacey, founder of Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc., helps companies reach full potential by building performing organizations through the adoption of agile practices, including Scrum and XP.

Mitch is a self-described tech nerd who started his technology career in 1991 at Accolade Software, a computer gaming company. After working as a software test engineer, a test manager, a developer, and at a variety of other jobs in between, he settled on his true calling—project and program management.

Mitch was a formally trained program manager before adding agile to his project tool belt in 2005. He first practiced agile at Microsoft Corporation, where he successfully released core enterprise services for MSN and assisted in driving ...

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