Nicholas Cancelliere was born in Cleveland, OH.  The vast majority of his career has centered around web development and web project management.  Nick has served as a technical lead on several web projects for companies both national and international (such as QualNet, Verio, NTT Communcations, and HomeAway.com).  Today he lives in Austin, TX, working as a Scrum Master for a development firm that specializes in web-based asset management software in use by several state governments and universities in the south-eastern United States.

In his spare time he enjoys the outdoors, cooking, playing MMOs and time with his bulldog "Tank."  He's active on the Yahoo! group Scrum forums and welcomes debate, advice or just talking shop with others.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/4a7/2a1 

Recent Comments by Nicholas

On Empowering Teams: The ScrumMaster's Role
While it is important for the ScrumMaster to protect the team from outside influences, they also sometimes need to protect the team from themselves. It's a gray area though where many ScrumMasters go wrong. You have to be sure to not let your te...
On Am I, or Am I Not, Using Scrum? That is the Question.
When people say "At Company B we use X on our IT project," what they're describing is what process they are using (x). As defined a process is a series of actions or steps taken in a systematic series of operations that are performed in order to ...
On Plan of Action
I help facilitate retrospectives using techniques from Ester Derby's book "Agile Retrospectives." It's been very welcomed by the team and has taken their retrospectives from a laundry list of gripes that never got completed to a democratic goal-o...
On Scrum Reading List
This is a great list, I have over two-thirds of these titles myself. I can't think of one that you've missed except maybe Project Retrospectives: A handbook for team reviews, by Norman Kerth. Another good one is Fearless Change, by Mary Manns, PhD.
On Going Nowhere Fast
I cannot stress how much impact to the success of the project product owner vision has. In some cases the difference is night and day. When a product owner provides a clear vision the team has something to shoot for, the goal is there for them t...
On What Scrum Can and Cannot Fix
Scrum does a lot to expose issues with very little effort. Because it is so lightweight there is no where to hide. You might of been able to explain away delayed schedules, rationalize poor resource planning, etc. with waterfall - but Scrum lays...
On Keep Your Team Seeing RED
User story writing can often be something teams lack skill in doing. We're so used to being task focused (thanks to Microsoft Project), when software teams need to be more focused on story acceptance. I love that you mention Bill Wake's INVEST a...
On Am I, or Am I Not, Using Scrum? That is the Question.
I would agree with you Tobias, excepting at some point you have to recognize that someone isn't doing Scrum. It isn't enough to just be doing iterative development - a lot of methodologies use this pattern, and they're not Scrum. I don't think w...