Personal Details

First Name

Alan

Last Name

Padula

Employer

Intuit

Years Experience in Agile

10+

Short Bio

Alan is a Senior SW Engineering Process Manager at Intuit where he is currently both an Agile Coach and a TSP Coach. He has been at Intuit for 3+ years. He started consulting on Agile back in the early 90’s with the EVO (Evolutionary SW Development) process. He now coaches several Agile teams at Intuit with an Intuit process called “Agile Done Right” that is a derivative of the Scrum process. He also coaches teams using a process he developed called the “TSP-Agile Blend”. It is a methodology that integrates the Scrum process into the Team Software Process (TSP) framework. Finally, he created a multi-day training course to help others become coaches at Intuit.

Prior to that, he was a Senior Technology & Business Process Consultant in Product Generation Consulting (PGC) at Hewlett-Packard (HP). The last 10 years of his 28 year tenure at HP was spent consulting with R&D Labs on software (SW) technology and process improvement in a variety of areas. Some of the areas he directly consulted with clients on include:

• Engineering Management: SW Lifecycles, Core Competency Planning, SW Management Training, Partnering & Strategic Alliances, Visioning, Evolutionary SW Development, & Change Leadership
• General SW Engineering: Requirements Management, Reverse Engineering, Maintainability Index, SW Maintenance Process, SW Configuration Management, SW Architecture, and Fusion.
• SW Quality & Testing: Quality Assessments, SEI CMM Assessments, Improvement Planning & Execution, Quality & Test Planning, Risk Management, Test Outsourcing, Root Cause/Failure Analysis, SW Testing Fundamentals, Metrics, Software Inspections, & Test Strategies

The first 15 years of his HP career was spent in the R&D Labs of various Product Generation Divisions in various roles as a SW Project Manager, Program Manager, Project lead, and Engineer. Products developed include HP SRC (revision control system), HP TOOLSET (Development Environment), HP BROWSE, HP SEARCH, & RAPID/3000 (a fourth-generation programming language development system).

Alan has written technical papers & presented at various technical conferences (IEEE, SEI, etc) in Kyoto, Montreal, Brussels, Boston, Phoenix, Nice, Capri, La Jolla, Lawrence Livermore Labs, and San Francisco. Alan graduated from Lousiana State University with a MS in Computer Science, a BS in Physics, & a BS in Astronomy

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