Scott is a brilliant, passionate, driven and quality focused individual. He not only understands software, but he understands team dynamics and the mental model of end users. We've been extremely lucky to have his contributions to the Minggl vision and I hope to be among those extremely rare creatures who have proven him wrong, if only once!! I recommend him highly to all executives who need a passionate leader on their project.

Scott is one of those rare individuals with strong opinions, strong technical skills and experience, and a clarity of purpose and character that demands the highest expectations of himself and the people around him. Never have I met someone who is both so open-minded and yet so passionately outspoken. If people like me are priests of a technical religion, then Scott is the prophet in the wilderness, dressed in sackcloth and ashes, preaching to a growing community of people who want to see software 'done right'. Anyone who is involved in the development of software, whether they agree with Scott or not, needs to listen to what he has to say.

Scott Bellware is a legend, and for good reason. His approach to the profession of software development is simple - continuous improvement. Scott is always asking 'How can we improve the way we do this? How can we shorten the cycle, while producing better results? What can we learn from what we've done thus far? Scott's blog, his presentations, and the events he organizes are always respected and always receive positive attention in the software development community, because the members of that community know that they will learn and improve by paying attention. Scott has been a change agent for the good wherever he has gone - be it work, presenting and training, or writing.

Scott is a true software professional. Of the literally thousands of software developers I know Scott is number one in terms of keeping up with best practices and putting them to work in the real world. I would recommend Scott to any organization that's looking for a dynamic leader for a software development team that wants to get it right the first time.