Agile
Action's founder is Jeff McKenna.
Jeff McKenna has been a practicing software professional since
1962 and has covered all technical aspects of software development
including analysis, design, coding, testing, maintenance and
training. He has fulfilled roles of team player, consultant,
mentor, entrepreneur and gun for hire. He has always been on the
leading edge of computing from just being in software in the early
1960's to the development of mini computers and micro processors,
to artificial intelligence and object oriented development and
currently in the area of agile development practices. He helped
start and contributed for over a decade to the very long-lived and
successful OOPSLA conference. He is very proud of his role in that
conference helping to bring together practitioners and academics.
In the last decade Jeff has focused on mentoring and training and
brings a wealth of experience and stories to his seminars and
classes. Jeff has consulted with and taught software engineers at a
number of companies including Tektronics, Cigna, Qwest, Sprint,
United States Air Force, Amdahl, Lockheed, Millennium
Pharmaceuticals, Microsoft and a number of small startups. His
extensive outside reading has a focus on theoretical physics,
Buddhist thought and practice, human psychology and science
fiction.
