Scott Bellware

Scott is a software product designer, developer, manager, and agile coach living in Austin, TX. Scott helps teams to adopt agile development and to improve existing agile development practices, and to help integrate new agile development teams into their surrounding organizations.

Scott speaks at software industry conferences and teaches agile development practices and software production methodologies in workshops in the US, Canada, and Europe. He is the founder of the AgileATX community of agile software practitioners in Austin. Scott organized the ALT.NET Open Space and Continuous Improvement conferences in Austin, and is a champion of progressive software development in the Microsoft community. Scott served as the track chairman for the agile development track at the DevTeach conferences, the software track chairman for the InnoTech conferences, and the chairman of the INETA Speaker Committee. Scott is a five-time recipient of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award.