Mitch Lacey, PMP, CST

Current

Agile software practicioner, coach and author. at Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc.

Past

Agile Practice Manager / Technical Project Manager at Ascentium
Program Manager at Microsoft
Senior Program Manager at Webforia

Senior Project Manager at Homegrocer.com
Quality Assurance Manager at Internet Development Group
Software Tester at GTE Entertainment

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Education

University of Washington
San Diego State University-California State University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Mitch Lacey, PMP, CST’s Summary

Mitch Lacey is an agile practitioner and trainer. Mitch has been managing projects for over twelve years and has numerous plan-driven and agile projects under his belt.

Mitch honed his agile skills at Microsoft Corporation, where he successfully released core enterprise services for Windows Live. While at Microsoft, he transitioned from Program Manager to Agile Coach, working hand-in-hand with groups throughout their transition to Agile practices.
Mitch continues to grow and refine his skills on the agile projects he runs every day.

As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a registered Project Management Professional (PMP), Mitch shares his experience in project and client management through Certified ScrumMaster courses, Agile coaching engagements, conference presentations, blogs and white papers.

He is the author of “Adventures in Promiscuous Pairing” presented and published at the Agile 2006 conference, “Transitioning to Agile: Key Lessons Learned in the Field” presented and published at the Fall 2007 PMI Global Congress in Atlanta, Georgia and "The Impacts of Poor Estimating - and How to Fix It" presented and published at the winter 2007 SQE Agile development conference in Orlando, Florida. He is presenting at Agile 2008 in Toronto Canada on a variety of topics, as well as the Better Software Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada in June 2008.

Mitch is currently under contract with Addison Wesley to publish a book titled "Adopting Agile: 101 Tips for Surviving Your First Year" scheduled for publication in 2009.

Mitch Lacey, PMP, CST’s Specialties:

Facilication, coaching, project management, people development.

Mitch Lacey, PMP, CST’s Experience

Agile software practicioner, coach and author.

Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc.

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )

Working with software development teams to help them realize improvements through communication, collaboration and engineering practices that focus on delivering customer valued software to market sooner.
Agile Practice Manager / Technical Project Manager

Ascentium

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

2006 — 2008 (2 years )

• Agile Practice Manager responsible for delivering technical training to software engineering groups worldwide.
• Managed and built a custom software solution for a worldwide vehicle manufacturer using Scrum and XP.
• Managed and released the Games for Windows website on Sharepoint Server 2007
• Drove corporate business improvement to improve overall capacity of development and delivery organization
Program Manager

Microsoft

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

2001 — 2006 (5 years )

• Pioneered best practices using agile software development practices through a pilot project, resulting in shorter development time, higher quality and lower overall development costs
• Evangelized and showcased the benefits of agile software development across the company
• Built a collaborative team environment through adoption of agile development practices
• Pioneered analysis of subscriber usage behavior, detailed performance data and pricing models, to create a patented “POP-timization” system, which dramatically reduces cost by optimizing the assignment of subscribers to POPs.
• Fostered and nurtured complex cross-group relationships to ensure the successful delivery of team projects.
• Consistently delivered high impact presentations with complex subject matter, which were very well received at the highest levels of management. This resulted in getting the approvals and support we needed.
Senior Program Manager

Webforia

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

• Innovative program development of “Clickbar Communicator” software package
• Enlisted customer collaboration to produce custom software applications for customers, resulting in improved customer satisfaction.
• Wrote internal sales production process for custom and prototype software applications.
Senior Project Manager

Homegrocer.com

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; HOMG; Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )
Quality Assurance Manager

Internet Development Group

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years )
Software Tester

GTE Entertainment

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1994 — 1996 (2 years )