I am currently a development manager for Activant Solutions Inc, located near Denver Colorado USA. I've had eleven years experience as a software engineer and manager, and I have used Scrum successfully on software development projects. My next challenge is to bring the benefits of Scrum to a software support model. 

 My current passions are my daugher, family, and boxing.  

Recent Comments by Trevor

On Performance without Appraisal
I'm a software development manager with direct reports, and I also serve as the Scrum Master on the projects that my team is responsible for. I consider performance management one of my primary responsibilities. I would boil my philosophy for perf...
On It's All in the Delivery
Great article, I agree with the conclusions at the end of article. Earned value and Agile practices have a very different opinion on what is 'value'. On Scrum projects, value means delivered software features. The value for projects using EV is co...
On It's All in the Delivery
John: Thank you for the reference to the Agile EVM paper. It was very insightful and provided details on how to adapt the EVM formulas for projects using story points estimating.
On Scrum is so easy! Why don't they get it?
Chris: Great article. Like you, I've been in the position of selling Scrum practices. Unlike you, I've only had to do it internally and never to a paying customer. I can imagine that if the customer isn't committed to providing constant feedback a...