Michael Marchi

Michael Marchi is an accomplished Agile Coach and Trainer, and founding member of the Agile Professional Learning Network (APLN) Chicago.  Within two days of receiving his CSM from Jeff Sutherland in February 2006, he began as Scrum Master for the first of two pilot scrum teams at Siemens Building Technologies.  A second scrum team soon followed, and then a year later two offshore teams were added to the project. Through the use of Scrum of Scrums Michael coordinated with the offshore Scrum Master to lead the project to a series of on-time and on-budget deliveries. Following his success with the pilot project, Michael was given the opportunity to travel to Switzerland, Italy and India, training over 300 engineers to follow the same strategies in implementing Scrum at their locations.  In 2009, he obtained his CSPO certifcation and then worked with the PMO at Siemens to formalize an agile process using Scrum as the driving framework. He spent a year as a Product Owner, and even worked as a developer on another team under the process framework he helped design. Since 2008, he has been the driving force behind the Agile Professional Learning Network, a monthly meetup group that gets together to explore the edges of the agile space. He spent a year as Director of Engineering for a Indigo Interactive, where he built an scrum team and served as Scrum Master. As Manager of Management Consulting with Strive Consulting he spent much of his time as an Agile Coach, Trainer and Scrum Master, helping organizations navigate through agile transformations. Through this work, he trained and mentored members of the organization from the team level up through senior managment, guiding Team members, Product Owners and Scrum Masters in a ever-continuing improvement cycle. It is in this role that he has found his purpose, serving as a teacher and enabling others to make a difference in their organization.