Author, developer, and Agile Consultant Lance(r) Kind lives in China, Seattle, and places in between. After four years of Waterfall he and his team were introduced to eXtreme Programming by Kent Beck and achieved the ability to make a “ship or no-ship” decision with test automation within four hours.

As a publishing author of science fiction he poured creativity into SCRUM NOIR, a project management comic series, and AGILE NOIR, a business novel about a project manager's struggles to transform his company to Agile in order to survive a project funded by the mob. Check out his podcast Agile Thoughts at http://AgileNoir.biz/AgileThoughts