Personal Details

First Name

Israel

Last Name

Gat

Employer

Self

Years Experience in Agile

6

Short Bio

Israel Gat is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium’s Agile Product & Project Management practice. He is recognized as the architect of the Agile transformation at BMC Software. Under his leadership, BMC software development increased Scrum users from zero to 1,000 in four years. Dr. Gat’s executive career spans top technology companies, including IBM, Microsoft, Digital, and EMC. He has led the development of products such as BMC Performance Manager and Microsoft Operations Manager, enabling the two companies to move toward next-generation system management technology. Dr. Gat is also well versed in growing smaller companies and has held advisory and venture capital positions for companies in new, high-growth markets.

Dr. Gat currently focuses on enterprise-level agile deployments. His activities include consulting on R&D transformation, coaching executives on how to implement agile, and developing business designs that take full advantage of agile methods.

Dr. Gat holds a PhD in computer science from the Israeli Institute of Technology and an MBA from Clark University. In addition to publishing with Cutter, he posts frequently at http://theagileexecutive.com/. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com

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