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Nicholas Cancelliere is a Ruby on Rails developer and certified (CSM/CSP) Agile web application project manager living in Austin, TX. He has over a decade and a half of experience in web application development working in companies of all sizes: from large multi-national corporations (NTT Communications, Verio), to mid-sized dot-com start-ups (HomeAway), and a couple of small privately owned businesses.

He is also member of AgileAustin and helps organize monthly workshops where facilitators, volunteered from the community, give talks and hands-on exercises to teach Agile concepts in a half-day classroom setting.

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...
On Top Ten Organizational Impediments: In my experience the biggest impediments I've run into are: superficial adoption, thinking it's all about the developers, lack of training and individual performance evaluation. I just left a company where the business wanted to dictate specif...

At a Glance

Nicholas Cancelliere

Certified:	CSM, CSP
Location:	Austin, TX

Profile: Nicholas Cancelliere