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These are exciting times in the IT industry. The cloud, DevOps, the Internet of Things, machine learning, and countless other innovations are rapidly changing our marketplace.…
Tom Grant
Tom Grant is an independent consultant (GameChange LLC) who help clients break through the barriers to successful software innovation. In his practice, he combines Agile, Lean, and serious games to change the rules of innovation when they're not working as well as they could. Tom has worked with a wide variety of clients, from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups, from IT to software companies.
Some of Tom's areas of specialization include technical debt, Lean and Agile, management and leadership, Agile in highly regulated industries, requirements, tools, and frameworks. Tom's great passion is using serious games in Agile to get better customer insights, test strategies through simulated outcomes, adopt new practices and principles through experiential learning, and make smarter decisions.
Tom is a contributor to the Agile Alliance's working group on technical debt. Previously, Tom has worked as practice director at Cutter Consortium, as a consultant at Net Objectives, and an analyst at Forrester Research. A native Californian, Tom now lives in Washington, DC.
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As an executive, you know that, by quickly delivering innovative, high-value-added features, you gain new customers and market share from your competitors.
All too often rele…
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What is this game about?
Reducing technical debt is important. So why doesn’t everyone do it?
What happens in the game?
In this game, you’re a software development team worki…
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The adage, "Act in haste, repent at leisure," definitely applies to technical debt. People under deadline pressure take shortcuts, which is one of several ways in which projec…
Agile Games
This game illustrates the importance of dealing with technical debt. Over the course of 10 sprints, a software development team will try to deliver as much software value as p…
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Stephen Denning, Ron Jeffries, Melinda Ballou, Andre Girard, Tom Grant, and James Newkirk discuss Agile Trends and Future Discussions on the industry panel for Agile2015…
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Agile Trends and Future Directions- Come join the leading industry analysts as they discuss the latest trends and emerging best practices around Agile software development. Le…
Event Sessions
You often hear technical debt described as a personal failing. Why didn't you code with greater rigor? By creating technical debt, how could you have made life harder on peopl…
Event Sessions
Technical debt is a burden on software innovation that we would rather avoid, and certainly clean up whenever possible. However, in most organizations, people don't prevent te…
