Michael Baldwin has been engineering software since 1994.   My early days were spent in progressively responsible engineering roles - at first building systems for a wholesale mortgage lender and later for team that was building learning management systems.

For the last 10 years I have been working for Sun Microsytems and Oracle Corp..  I have moved through a series of engineering and management roles. For several years, I was the Manager of Technical Project Services for Services Engineering.   In that role, I was responsible for overall Project and Portfolio Management for a set of 50 systems and tools that support the Services business.

It was in that role that I led the implementation Scrum and Agile practices across our entire portfolio (250 people, 50 applications, 6 countries, 5 languages, etc.).  As part of that implementation we have been through the good, the bad and the ugly of agile practice!  I am happy to report that today, it is mostly good and always getting better!

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