David J. Anderson

David J Anderson

David has been a manager and leader of great software teams delivering cutting edge software products since 1991. He has a successful track record of building progressively bigger teams capable of hyper productive performance and superior quality.

David is a founder of the Lean Software & Systems Consortium, a not for profit organization that seeks to bring a new level of professional conduct and capability to the software and systems engineering professions. David also helped create the Limited WIP Society a loosely affiliated organization to encourage the development of a community of people using Kanban (and other pull) Systems in software engineering and project management.

David has been part of the agile and lean methodology movement since 1997 when he participated in the team that developed Feature Driven Development at United Overseas Bank in Singapore. He has 26 years experience in the software development starting in the computer games business in the early 1980’s. As a pioneer in the agile software movement David has managed teams at Sprint, Motorola and Corbis delivering superior productivity and quality. At Microsoft, in 2005, he developed the MSF for CMMI Process Improvement methodology - the first agile method to provide a comprehensive mapping to the Capability and Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI).

His first book, Agile Management for Software Engineering – Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results, published in 2003 by Prentice Hall, introduced many ideas from Lean and Theory of Constraints in to software engineering.

David was a founder of the APLN, a not for profit dedicated to promoting better standards of leadership and management in the technology sector.

David is a popular and entertaining conference speaker. He has written or co-authored many articles and papers and is best known for his Agile Management blog. Most recently, David co-authored a Technical Note from the Software Engineering Institute titled, CMMI and Agile: Why not embrace both!

He holds a degree in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He has six U.S. Patents and another five pending for his work in telecoms and the Internet. He lives in Seattle, Washington, USA.

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About David J Anderson & Associates

David J. Anderson and Associates is a consulting firm dedicated to new collaborative methods of leadership and management for 21st Century knowledge worker industries.

David has teamed up with Daniel Vacanti, Dennis Stevens and Carol Dekkers to create a team of experienced thinkers and innovators in management and leadership that will offer their coaching and training throughout the world.

For more information, please visit David J Anderson Associates.