Tom Stapleton

Tom Stapleton is the Agile Practice Lead with NTT DATA Services. Tom works with development teams, projects & programs, and enterprises in unlocking the elegance of Agile when trying to find the best way to deliver the right product. Tom helps organizations in regulated industries make the leap from traditional, large scale development methodologies into a adaptive process that leverages the abilities of the team to deliver the solution the business needs, rather than the one they think they want.

Tom has almost 30 years of experience in a wide variety of areas of IT, mainframe developer in FORTRAN, Unix sysadmin, project manager for a enterprise system used by 98,000 people, one-man IT shop, to head of IT Governance and Compliance for a global corporation, all in a wide variety of industries. This diverse background has given Tom a broader perspective on the challenges of a successful project team, as well as the many, many, many pitfalls.