Mishkin Berteig leads, mentors, trains and coaches teams and organizations, managers and executives. Mishkin helps organizations become more effective by using methods such as Agile Work, Scrum and Lean. These methods present the best balance between chaos and bureaucracy; they allow human creativity and problem solving to flourish in the service of tangible corporate and organizational goals.

Mishkin has served as a coach, a project manager, a senior consultant, a mentor, a methodology consultant, an instructor, a senior software architect and a team lead on various projects, mostly in the financial services industry, but also including education, healthcare, engineering, high-tech, oil and gas, and others. Mishkin has 15 years of professional experience. Mishkin publishes articles and thoughts about agile on Agile Advice.  Mishkin is also the author of the Scrum Study Guide, an interactive reference guide for new ScrumMasters.

Some of Mishkin's past and current clients, through Berteig Consulting, include Siemens, Nortel, CapitalOne, Workbrain, Charles Schwab, Wachovia, Telus, Liberty Mutual Insurance, the United States Department of Defence, and numerous smaller organizations.  Mishkin has trained people from Canada, the United States, India, China, the Middle East and Europe.  If your organization is looking to improve its use of agile methods such as Scrum, consider trying the Agile Clinic service which gives you two expert-level coaches for a day to help look at the challenges you are having.

"Mishkin really kept it real in relating the topics to real world situations.  Made learning easier and fun." - Jeff Pick, Quest

"Mishkin's seminar was broad, pragmatic, and brimming with real world wisdom.  His focus on the core concepts was exactly what I was looking for." - David LeBlanc

Mishkin Berteig is President and co-founder of Berteig Consulting Inc.