Paul Hodgetts

Paul Hodgetts helps teams improve their software development processes using lean and agile approaches. As the founder and principal coach of Agile Logic, a professional services company focusing on lean software development and agile processes, he provides consulting, coaching and training to a wide variety of clients. Since 1983, Paul has extensive experience in all aspects of software development from in-the-trenches coding to executive engineering management, on a wide variety of projects from embedded real time control to distributed internet business applications. Paul has served as a trainer, coach, mentor and team member of agile development teams since 1999.

Paul has successfully worked with many clients, including Yahoo!, SAP, Microsoft, Xerox, Cisco, PriceWaterhouse? Coopers, Union Pacific and a host of others, across a wide range of sectors and industries, including financial, e-commerce, wireless, government, robotics, supply chain, transportation, manufacturing process control and aerospace. Paul's exceptionally deep software engineering and development process expertise, combined with a solid background in business and product management, enable him to bring a balanced perspective to software process improvement, providing effective guidance in both agile business and engineering practices.

Paul is a recognized expert and authority in Lean Software Development and agile development principles, practices and leading agile processes, including Scrum and Extreme Programming. He was one of the first Certified Scrum Trainers in 2004, and has actively contributed to the evolution of the Scrum process. Paul was an early adopter of agile development approaches, and originally received training and mentoring from thought leaders including Kent Beck, Ron Jeffries, Ken Schwaber, Robert C. Martin, Mary and Tom Poppendieck and David A. Anderson.

Paul has been an early proponent and innovator in applying lean and agile principles to the entire software development effort, integrating business analysis, systems engineering, quality assurance, user experience design and project management into an overall approach. His recent focus has been on large cross-organizational adoption initiatives, and applying agile processes to large multi-product, multi-team projects, and projects in challenging enterprise, regulated and legacy environments.

Prior to founding Agile Logic, Paul was the Director of Product Development and Chief Architect at Escrow.Com, a subsidiary of Fidelity National Financial, where he led the development of missioncritical enterprise business-to-business e-commerce systems, and championed and guided the organization-wide adoption of agile rapid development methods. This adoption effort achieved an extraordinary level of success that was documented and published by Paul in the book "Extreme Programming Perspectives" (Addison-Wesley, 2003). Prior to Escrow.Com, Paul was a Java Architect with the Java Technology Center of Sun Microsystems Professional Services, where he mentored and assisted clients developing enterprise Java solutions for e-commerce, financial services and logistics applications, and participated in the definition of the enterprise Java standards (J2EE) and patterns.

Paul is a published author and a frequent and popular presenter at conferences (Agile 200x, SD East and West, Agile Development, XP Agile Universe, Java One), professional organizations and user groups. He is the co-founder of AgileSoCal? (aka XpSouthernCalifornia), the Southern California Agile User Group, and has served as a Program Director for the Agile Alliance and as a member of the Extreme Programming and Java/J2EE advisory boards at California State University Fullerton.

For more information, as well as Paul's publications and presentations, please visit Agile Logic's website at http://www.AgileLogic.com.