Michael Bode
About
Michael Bodé
Experienced agile / IT process coach for international software development and IT service teams, Michael spent the past decade helping organizations adopt Scrum, Kanban, Lean, ITIL, and other best practices. Most recently he works for ARUP Laboratories (https://www.aruplab.com) as an agile coach and scrum master. Prior to working full time with ARUP, Michael founded Agile Heroes (http://www.agileheroes.com) in 2013, a coaching firm dedicated to helping software development groups adopt Scrum and other Agile practices.
Michael found he passion for coaching teams after serving as COO, CIO and Director of the Prague office of Bohemia Interactive Simulations (http://www.bisimulations.com), leader in video game-based training and simulation software for militaries around the world. While in Prague, Michael transitioned the organization to agile practices, spanning many different areas of influence including continuous integration, automated testing, Kanban-based operation pipelines and more. During those four years, he managed eleven departments and 40 direct reports. He led implementation of new services, systems and processes throughout the organization, across 5 international offices.
Michael is a capable servant leader and has developed many high performing, cross disciplined teams. Prior to working for Bohemia Interactive, he was the Executive Producer of America's Army 3 (http://aa3.americasarmy.com). During this development he managed a studio of 35 and outsourced teams at their peak of 80 developers. It was during this development effort that he first stumbled onto agile and Scrum, transitioning the studio over to this radical new approach.
Now, Michael is in the CTI certified coaching program, seeking his Professional Certified Coach credential. He also actively conducts training seminars on Scrum, Kanban, ITIL, and other topics in his local Salt Lake City area.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2015-06-15 - present - ARUP Laboratories (IT Agile Team Lead II)
- 2013-05-01 - present - Agile Heroes (Founder, Agile Coach)
- 2008-01-01 - 2009-11-02 - Northrop Grumman (Executive Producer)
- 2012-05-01 - 2013-05-01 - Bohemia Interactive Simulation (Chief Information Officer)
- 2009-11-02 - 2013-05-01 - Bohemia Interactive Simulation (Chief Operations Officer)
- 2014-11-01 - 2015-06-01 - Ledge Software (Chief Operations Officer)