smichaud

Personal Details

First Name: Stephen
Last Name: Michaud
Employer: Luxoft Canada
Years Experience in Agile: 4
Short Bio: I have had five years of telecom software and hardware development experience at Nortel Network as a verification engineer, team leader, and project manager. I then suffered severe SQA culture shock when I moved into software tools development at IBM Canada (formerly Rational Software) as a development and QA manager. Moving from a market reality that demanded five nines of quality to the development tools industry where rebooting a desktop daily is acceptable release criteria opened my eyes and gave me a flexible perspective on SQA. My next stop was with Blackboard Inc (formerly WebCT) producing enterprise level e-learning software tools as a senior development manager in charge of SQA. Balancing the needs of an enterprise, mission critical software product being sold into a market where budgets are almost universally tight led to a very fast evolution in development practices which when combined with the development organizations move into agile gave rise to many novel approaches and solutions. Currently, I am the General Manager for Luxoft Canada where we consult on development and SQA practices