Aaron Sanders provides leadership for software organizations to deliver high-value applications to the market in a continuous, sustaining flow with fast adaptability to changing conditions.

Utilizing his talents as an accomplished and passionate software developer on enterprise class network enabled, data-driven software applications, Aaron has established himself as a courageous, focused, energetic software coach with deep insight into the motivations behind Lean and Agile processes.

Looking for a better way to do business, Aaron discovered Agile processes in the early 2000’s, and has implemented techniques to successfully transform organizations since that time. Recently Aaron has been involved in pushing the definition of Agile to new levels at Yahoo!. Beyond enabling Scrum within organizations, he is also an emerging thought leader in Lean techniques using Kanban Systems for Software Engineering with Feature Driven Development.

Specialties include:
Engaging in clear, user-facing software application definition for successful delivery with cross-functional teams. Building trust in teams to allow healthy conflict, enable commitment and effective accountability to produce results. Enterprise-level software design, development, and implementation. Identifying and eliminating the system constraint. Enabling team collaboration and self-reliance with mentoring and leadership. Writing, editing and delivering presentations and instruction. Integrating methods of TDD, pair programming and Continuous Integration. Refactoring to patterns. Creating opportunities for innovation. Measuring performance and objectively predicting accurate completion trends.

Aaron attempts to relate some of what he is doing on his blog, Constant Change