Michael McCalla
About
Michael McCalla is a technology leader, transformation specialist, and avid agile practitioner that has a passion for building great products, strong teams, and valuable business outcomes. Michael has over 15 years of product management experience in the financial services industry where he has led the delivery of high quality business solutions. He grew up in a number of start-ups, playing multiple roles, and seeing the software development lifecycle from a variety of lenses. Michael has spent the last five year’s leading enterprise-wide agile adoption initiatives. He has broad range of experience applying agile to small teams, large distributed teams, and portfolio management. He enjoys “coaching” and assisting new agile practitioners. He prides himself on being a true student of the game, consistently looking to improve his craft by networking, speaking, reading, and being engaged on social media. He is the President and Owner of Achieving Agility in the Philadelphia area. Michael holds certifications from the Scrum Alliance, SAFe, and PMI institutes. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Scranton and his MBA from Saint Joseph University.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 11/01/2014 - present - The Macquarie Group (Chief Agile Coach)
- 08/01/2015 - 11/01/2015 - Collections Marketing Center (CMC) (Chief Agile Coach)
- 08/01/2014 - 08/26/2015 - Barclays (Agile Coach)
- 11/26/2012 - 06/30/2014 - ION Trading (Consultant)
- 03/01/2006 - 07/20/2012 - SunGard Capital Market Systems (Scrum Master of Scrums)