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Personal Details

First Name: Chris
Last Name: Sterling
Employer: SolutionsIQ
Years Experience in Agile: 6
Short Bio: Chris Sterling is an Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Trainer with expertise in assisting teams and organizations in their transition to agile methods since 2003. Chris has worked with companies ranging in size from Fortune 50 to technology start ups. Chris has extensive experience in software architecture and development across a spectrum of industries including information technology, cellular, telco grade data center management, and consulting. Chris is an original developer for the open source tool Story Test IQ (STIQ), a project that combines utility from Fit, FitNesse, and Selenium to create automated acceptance tests (http://storytestiq.sourceforge.net/). As founder of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) Puget Sound Chapter, Chris is very involved with coding and evangelizing good coding practices like Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration, and collective code ownership, each a staple of the environment he has fostered and encouraged working at Solutions IQ. Chris is currently involved in the Seattle Scrum Users Group (http://seattlescrum.wordpress.com/) as an community organizer.