Cliff Berg

Background

About Cliff Berg

Successful entrepreneur: the tech company I co-founded in 1995, in which I was CTO, grew to 200 people in five years, was awarded for being the eighth fastest growing company in our region ("DC Fast 50"), and was acquired in 2006. · Lead consultant for planning and execution of 10+ Agile or DevOps transformations. Able to work with executives or go "hands on" with a team to understand the "on the ground" realities. · Founder of the Agile 2 movement; and lead author of the book "Agile 2: The Next Iteration of Agile". · Highly experienced IT transformation “enterprise agile coach” and change agent who also knows DevOps. · Experienced working with senior executives. Former CTO and co-founder of a startup that grew to 200 people. · Have had P&L responsibility and supported sales (important for Agilists to experience these). · Broad knowledge: able to have meaningful conversations with the CIO, CSO, Chief Architect, Release Mgmt Lead, Test Mgr, Chief Compliance Officer, Portfolio lead, and all other stakeholders to discuss challenges and help to devise DevOps and Agile oriented solutions. · Stay hands-on, to avoid becoming out of touch with on-the-ground realities. · O'Reilly Online instructor, for the course "More Effective DevOps Testing". · Author of four prior books, including (2005) application of agile methods in high assurance domains such as banking and healthcare. Sole author (1998) of Sun's first book on Enterprise Java (800 pages). · Experienced speaker, facilitator, and instructor. · One more thing: I am a scientist and engineer by training and by nature, with deep interests in mathematical physics and sometimes molecular biology.