About Mitch Lacey
Mitch Lacey is a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®), agile practitioner, and author of The Scrum Field Guide. He has worked with agile teams since 2002 and founded Mitch Lacey & Associates in 2008 to provide practical Scrum training, coaching, and consulting.
Mitch’s work is grounded in real delivery experience. His classes combine clear explanations, hands-on exercises, humor, and the lessons that come from helping teams apply Scrum in complex organizations.
Mitch has trained and coached people from organizations including Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Waste Management, Costco Travel, Demonware, the University of Washington, and many others across the United States and Europe.
Public courses are available live online and in person. Private courses and customized workshops can be adapted to the needs of your organization while preserving the learning objectives of any Scrum Alliance-approved certification course.
About Mitch Lacey
Mitch Lacey is an agile practitioner and trainer. Mitch has been managing projects for over fifteen years & is credited with many plan-driven & agile projects. He is the author of “The Scrum Field Guide”, a book targeting teams adopting Agile and Scrum practices.
Mitch honed his agile skills at Microsoft Corporation, where he successfully released core enterprise services for Windows Live. Mitch’s first agile team at Microsoft was coached by Ward Cunningham, Jim Newkirk & David Anderson.
While at Microsoft, he transitioned from Program Manager to Agile Coach, working hand-in-hand with groups throughout their transition to Agile practices. After Microsoft, Mitch was the Agile Practice Manager at Ascentium Corporation where he practiced agility on the projects he ran every day while coaching customers on agile practices and lessons on agile adoption worldwide.
As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), PMI Project Management Professional (PMP®) and Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP®), Mitch shares his experience in project and client management through Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum courses, agile coaching engagements, conference presentations, blogs & white papers.
He has published many papers including “Adventures in Promiscuous Pairing”, “Transitioning to Agile: Key Lessons Learned in the Field”, “The Impacts of Poor Estimating - & How to Fix It”, a variety of papers for Microsoft and “Immersive Interviewing - Building Great Agile Software Teams”.
He has keynoted and presented at a variety of conferences including the Agile Alliance “Agile” conference, the Better Software Conference, the SQE Agile Development Practices conference, Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft ALM Forum, Scrum Alliance User Groups in South Africa, China, Vietnam and more. He has managed tracks for the Agile conference between 2008 and 2015 and was the conference chair for Agile 2012 and Agile 2014.
Mitch has served on the Board of Directors for the Agile Alliance (2011-2012) and the Scrum Alliance (2010-2011, 2014).