Working with software developers and organizations to help realize the potential of software product development

Expertise in software development and delivery, offering development services as well as coaching and training in:
  • Lean Software Development
  • Agile Software Development
  • Kanban
  • Scrum
  • Team Organization
  • Process Improvement
  • Product Design
  • Test-Driven Development
  • Behavior-Driven Development
  • Quality Assurance and Testing
  • Continuous Integration
  • Software Design and Architecture
  • Modeling
  • User Experience

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Upcoming Events

I will be presenting and teaching at the following events. I look forward to seeing you there!

  • Lean Software Austin - September 20th
    I'll be facilitating a discussion on Lean Testing
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  • Agile Vancouver Conference - November 1st - 5th - Vancouver, BC
    I'll be presenting, "The Inflection Point - How Long You Can Safely Avoid Automated Testing, and Why You Should"
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Recent Events

  • Austin Lean Startup Circle - August 10th - Austin, TX
    I'll be co-facilitating a discussion with Ash Maurya of WiredReach on building and scaling problem/solution teams
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  • Lone Star Ruby Conference - August 26th - Austin, TX
    I'll be teaching the pre-conference tutorial: Rapid, Light-Weight Test-Driven Web UI with Rails, RSpec, and Selenium
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  • Norwegian Developers Conference - June 16th to 18th - Oslo, Norway
    Lean Software Development and Ruby for .NET Developers
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  • LeanSSC 2010 - April 21st to 23rd - Atlanta, GA
    Lean Web Design: Living with Specialization in Rapid Startups
    more...
Scott helped our successful software development team become more successful. He showed our team how greater productivity is achieved through software design, and challenged them to see the potential productivity pitfalls and communications barriers. He worked with our team, teaching our people to use behavior-driven development and test-driven design to improve our code, productivity, and communications. He helped our testers improve their ability to automate testing and become a more integral part of our product development process. Through Scott's network we connected with people who would continue to help us improve and who would ultimately join the VersionOne team. Scott challenged us to go further than we'd come, and these challenges pay off.
Ian Culling
CTO
VersionOne
Scott worked with our team for two years, and in that time our development organization fundamentally transformed. We were a culture of individuals working in closed offices on disconnected projects. Now we're an integrated product development group working together in a collaborative environment, using more effective ways of software design and development. I continue to learn from Scott in conversations about product design through a professional relationship that goes well beyond the work he did for us, and I continue to benefit from his insight and the community of professionals that he brings together for innovative events and exchanges. Scott came to our organization to introduce some contemporary software development techniques and left us on a whole new path pursuing new markets in new ways.
Gary Sherman
VP of Development
Dovetail Software
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