About the Author

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, 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.

Mitch was a formally trained program manager before adding agile to his project tool belt. He began developing agile skills at Microsoft ...

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