Michael Kelley Harris, Software Engineer + Trainer
Michael Kelley Harris, Agile Software Player-Coach (Engineer + Coach + Trainer)
Kelley is a kind, collaborative, and pragmatic software engineer, coach, & trainer, working from the C code to the C suite. He has 20+ years of Agile software development experience, in roles including software engineer, architect, manager, director, consultant, coach, & trainer. He's one of the approximately 250 Certified Scrum Trainers® (CST) worldwide.
He helps teams, entrepreneurs, investors, and product owners evaluate & validate products and features. He helps innovative teams keep the process simple & essential, so they get on with thrilling customers. He brings a spirit of help, kindness, humility, service, collaboration, creativity, bias towards action, innovation, & entrepreneurship.
He has developed software in the domains of scientific instrumentation, nanotechnology, semiconductors, solar energy, automotive diagnostics, investment, real estate, music, eCommerce, web apps & services, etc. Since embracing Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum in 2002, he has helped a wide variety of teams utilize Agile principles. He has helped teams develop software in a more Agile manner via refactoring, test-driven development (TDD), simple design, etc. He has led efforts to gradually rearchitect difficult legacy code bases. He has worked with leading Agile consulting/training/coaching companies including ThoughtWorks, Industrial Logic, Solutions IQ, etc. He has been fortunate to have worked with Agile thought leaders Ward Cunningham, Ron Jeffries, James Grenning, Robert Martin, Joshua Kerievsky, and many other Agilists. He founded SourceCell in 2004, and currently does software engineering, consulting, coaching, & training.
He has a B.S. Physics UCSB, B.A.Economics-Math UCSB, and 34 units of Computer Science, plus extensive continuing software education. He is a certified SEI Software Architecture Professional. He has a special interest in the Lean Startup perspective to quickly find out what the world really wants and needs. He holds three software patents in nanotechnology. He holds the following Scrum certifications from the Scrum Alliance: Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST), Certified Scrum Professional® (CSP), Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO), and Certified Scrum Developer® (CSD), plus the related advanced & professional certifications. He lives and works mostly in the US West. (Extra connected to Palo Alto, California, Santa Barbara, California, Olympia Washington, Boulder, Colorado)
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