Ron Lichty has been alternating between consulting with and managing software development and product organizations for over 20 years, the last 14 of those in the era of Agile.Principal and owner of Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc. (www.RonLichty.com), he has trained teams in Scrum, transitioned teams from waterfall and iterative methodologies to agile, and coached teams already using agile to make their software development “hum”.Ron’s most recent book is Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams – http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net. Published by Addison Wesley, it has been compared by reviewers to software development classics, The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware.Ron has repeatedly been brought in as an acting CTO and interim vice president of engineering to solve development team challenges. He has led products and development across a wide range of domains for companies of all sizes, from startups to the Fortune 500, including Charles Schwab, Fujitsu, Razorfish, Stanford, and Apple, and has been an adviser to a half-dozen start-ups.