Mike is a founding member of the Scrum Alliance, Inc. and currently serves as Chairman on the Board of Directors. He founded and operates Mountain Goat Software, a process and project management consultancy and training firm.

Mike has over twenty years of experience in a variety of environments and specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques in order to build extremely high performance development organizations. He has previously served as a technology executive in organizations of various sizes, from start ups to Fortune 40 companies. Mike ran his first Scrum project in 1995 and has been a vocal proponent of Scrum ever since. He has helped with the adoption of such processes at numerous companies, including Bioware, Capital One, Electronic Arts, Google, High Moon Studios, Intuit, JDA Software, Lexis Nexis, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Nielsen Media Research, Pearson, Phillips Electronics, Sabre, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Turner Broadcasting, Ultimate Software, and Yahoo.

Mike is a frequent featured conference speaker at industry events and a recognized magazine contributor. He has authored numerous books, including Agile Estimating and Planning, User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, and Succeeding with Agile Software Development using Scrum, as well as several books on Java and C++ database programming. In addition to his service with the Scrum Alliance, Inc., Mike was also a founding member of the Agile Alliance and is a member of IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. Mike is a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer.

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