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Mitch Lacey & Associates is a family run software training, consulting and development firm. The company was founded by Mitch Lacey in 2008 and works with a variety of industry experts including Mike Cohn (US), Jeff Sutherland (US), Jim Newkirk (US), Geoff Watts (UK), Brad Wilson (US) and more. The company specializes in customized training programs built to suit the needs of clients from variety of industries. Some past clients include Waste Management, Sony, Microsoft (US, Austria, Portugal, South Africa and Sweden), Sybase, Alberta Gaming & Liquor Commission, Costco Travel, The University of Washington, PSL Columbia, and more. Our wide network allows us to offer a broad range of service offerings to suite a variety of needs and scenarios. If you don't see something on the website that fits your needs, please contact us.

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About Mitch Lacey

Mitch Lacey is an agile practitioner and consultant and is the founder of Mitch Lacey & Associates, Inc., a software consulting and training firm. Mitch specializes in helping companies realize gains in efficiency by adopting agile principles and practices such as Scrum and Extreme Programming.
Mitch is a self-described “tech nerd” who started his technology career in 1991 at Accolade Software in San Jose, CA, a computer gaming company. After working as a software test engineer, a test manager, a developer, and a variety of other jobs in between, he settled on his true calling, project and program management.

Mitch was a formally trained program manager before adding agile to his project tool belt. He began developing agile skills at Microsoft Corporation, where his team successfully released core enterprise services for Windows Live, where he has two patents pending. Mitch’s first agile team was coached by Ward Cunningham, Jim Newkirk, and David Anderson. Mitch cut his agile teeth working as a product owner or ScrumMaster on a variety of projects. He continued to grow his skills to the point where he was able to help other teams adopt agile practices. Today, with more than 16 years of experience under his belt, Mitch continues to develop his craft by experimenting and practicing with project teams at many different organizations.

As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and a PMI Project Management Professional (PMP), Mitch shares his experience in project and client management through Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum courses, agile coaching engagements, conference presentations, blogs, and white papers. Mitch works with companies across the world, from Austria to Colombia, California to Florida, Portugal to Turkey, and just about everywhere in between.

Mitch has presented at a variety of conferences worldwide, is the conference chair for Agile 2012, in on the board of directors for the Agile Alliance and was on the board of directors of the Scrum Alliance.