Michael James

About Michael James

I help businesses learn to develop software effectively, without the usual pain and anxiety. I train you and your employees through fun group activities (and little or no PowerPoint), then facilitate small and large group discussions to resolve organizational impediments. My work is quoted in several bestselling Agile books, my articles have been translated by enthusiastic volunteers into Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Portuguese, and Vietnamese. Thousands of people use my animated e-learning modules each day.Please connect with me to read the 100+ recommendations my clients have written on this profile.Specialties: Agile/Lean approaches to getting things done, including Scrum and test-driven development. Small and large group facilitation, particularly retrospectives. I\'ve also been coding since the late 70s; my first professional experience was embedded systems for aircraft and spacecraft. I am a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), and Certified LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) Practitioner. I can help you find alternatives to SAFe!An Example ScrumMaster\'s Checklist:http://ScrumMasterChecklist.orgSix-page Illustrated Scrum Reference Card:http://ScrumReferenceCard.comCartoon elearning series on Scrum with tough quizzes:http://ScrumTrainingSeries.comDZone interview with Michael James:http://agile.dzone.com/news/scrum-interviewSDTimes article about Michael Software article by Michael James \"What Your HR Department Doesn\'t Know About Scrum\"http://scrumreferencecard.com/WhatHRDoesntKnowAboutScrum_BetterSoftwareMagazine.pdf\"Obstacles To Enterprise Agility\"(Gantthead

Experience

1. Agile Coach and Scrum Trainer

   Seattle Scrum Company

   Jan 2002 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Skills

• Project Management
• Pmp
• Groovy
• Agile Project Management
• Leadership
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Software Engineering
• Java
• Teaching
• Saas
• Program Management
• Less
• Xml
• Toyota Production System
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Sdlc
• Integration
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Hibernate
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Tdd
• Test Driven Development
• Japanese
• Continuous Integration
• Training
• Testing
• Soa
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Team Building
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Workshop Facilitation
• Subversion
• Distributed Systems
• Architecture
• Spring