Gary is a Principle Consultant with Improving Enterprises' Agile Practice. He entered the craft in 1986 and has played roles from Analyst Programmer to educator to CIO. Gary's passion is centered in forming and nurturing high-performance teams, and he has found agile methods to be the perfect companion. Being an old fogey, he is witnessing the pendulum swinging back to the simpler, common-sense methods that prevailed when our industry was newer and it was fun to solve our friends' problems with shiny new technology. His appreciation for technical excellence and higher thinking formed during his time at ObjectSpace, where he met and worked with the founders of Improving Enterprises. Gary is a Certified ScrumMaster and possesses strength in product, project, requirements and testing control, and most often gets to play the role of mentor and coach to those seeking to adopt agile methods.