
Chris Sterling is VP of Engineering at AgileEVM.com, an Agile focused project portfolio and release management tool to support business decision-making in the enterprise. Chris is also a Strategic Agile Management and Technical Consultant, Certified Scrum Trainer, and Innovation Games Facilitator. Chris is author of the book “Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change” and helps organizations assess, strategize, and help manage their software debt more effectively. Chris has an extensive technology, process, and consulting background allowing him to work with a diverse set of clients and teams. Chris brings his real world experience and deep passion for software development into his engagements enabling others to grasp important points and always take away something of value. Chris has created and continues contributing to multiple open source projects. He has been a speaker at many conferences and group meetings including Agile 2007-2009, SD West, Scrum Gatherings, PNSQC 2009 and others. Please email Chris at chris@agileevm.com to discuss AgileEVM.com or having him support your strategic efforts around Agile adoption across the enterprise, from development to release management to supporting organizational change.

Brent Barton is a partner at Sterling Barton, LLC. Brent has an extensive background mentoring people, enabling teams and guiding organizations toward agility. As a former CTO at SolutionsIQ, Brent has unique insights into challenges that emerge from the increased focus and intensity that iterative and incremental development brings to a business. As a Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach, Brent has helped people, teams and organizations adopt Scrum successfully for many years. Brent believes developing great software is both a creative and technically challenging endeavor. If doing it is not fun then something is wrong. We must figure out why it is not and do something about it. Brent’s passion for helping teams and organizations build great software has shown to be a considerable asset for companies he has worked with.







Finally come to your site today. Thanks for your comments and link to my blog. Sounds like we are on the same page to enable agility rather than comand and control. A mature industry shoud be simple, agile and cost efficient. IT industry in this regard still have a long way to go.
The link to my site does not seems work right. I have connected the dots of my thought to put together a book proposal “EA for dummies”. Please review and comment for me to improve.
http://e-cio.org/lea_book.htm
January 11, 2007 @ 13:13
I really enjoyed Chris’s ScrumMaster course and highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning better (the best?) ways to manage software development projects!
Better yet: anything in life that is time/resource dependent! (Isn’t that everything?)
Thanks Chris! I’ll remember you when I’m rich!
August 6, 2007 @ 22:13
Chris is an Amazing Scrum Leader; I realized that when I was working with him in Dublin, Ireland with one of our Customer while he was educating them on Agile/Scrum.
I have also worked with Chris on a True Agile Project & I enjoyed every day of that project.
Chris, you Rock!!!
November 13, 2007 @ 13:55
Hi ! I have a link to the Light Enterprise Architecture.
http://www.liteEA.com
December 11, 2007 @ 15:43
Hi Chris,
The training last week was great and I am excited to use the Scrum framework for development projects but also to apply the framework non-development projects in and outside of work!!
Cheers,
Ben
June 23, 2008 @ 17:55
Hi Chris,
I’ve enjoyed reading your blog very much. Having said that, it’d be an honor if we could work to repost some of your articles to our network (DZone). Please shoot me an email.
Cheers,
Wei Ling
August 1, 2008 @ 19:31
Intersted to read this blog. Can anybody recommend any freelance certfied SCRUM trainers operating in the UK please?
August 13, 2008 @ 15:14
Chris,
Really enjoyed your Managing software debt session at the Agile conference in Vancouver. This was an incredible eye opener for someone who is now responsible and accountible for a massive legacy code base with an enormous amount of debt.
November 7, 2008 @ 17:11
Chris,
I am trying to reply to an email you sent but my reply is being blocked by your corporate firewall. Please forgive this post, but you asked for an urgent reply.
David
November 17, 2008 @ 01:06
I noticed you RE my Twitter about Corey
Then I saw your twitters, and see you are an interesting guy!
If you have an email and talk, let me know.
Have you seen my CE book? I’d like to send you a link
Tom
April 10, 2009 @ 21:10
Hi,
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6+ Months
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September 18, 2009 @ 18:40
I never thought Scrum was so interesting. In the two weeks time, Chris made so many aspects of Scrum more than clear.
It was really great to get started on Scrum, with Chris as the trainer.
September 29, 2009 @ 05:07
Nice post. I run a tech industry news blog at techindustrynews.org – you should check it out!
March 9, 2010 @ 15:00