Damon Poole is Founder and CTO of AccuRev, a leading provider of Agile Development tools. Damon has eighteen years of software development methodology and process improvement experience spanning the gamut from small collocated teams all the way up to 10,000-person shops doing global development. Damon is President of the Agile Bazaar (http://agilebazaar.org) in Boston. He writes frequently on the topic of Agile development and as one of AccuRev’s two product owners works closely with AccuRev’s customers developing and implementing state of the art Agile techniques which scale smoothly to large distributed teams. Damon has spoken at numerous software development and Agile-related conferences, including SD Best Practices, Software Test & Performance, SCQAA, ACDM Conference, CCIUG, Q-Con, and Deep Lean. Upcoming conferences include Agile 2008 and Agile Development Practices. He earned his BS in Computer Science at the University of Vermont in 1987. His Agile Development Thoughts blog is at http://damonpoole.blogspot.com