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Personal Details

First Name
Clement "James"
Last Name
Goebel
Employer
Menlo Innovations
Years Experience in Agile
10+
Short Bio

James is a founding partner in a product design company that uses highly collaborative project teams to design and implement innovative products for clients that place a high value on user adoption.

He has worked with a variety of organizations from start-up firms as small as 2 employees up to billion dollar organizations. As a coach and change agent, James has helped organizations achieve dramatic transformations in both process and culture. He enjoys sharing the lessons he has learned at conferences and other professional speaking engagements.

The team he has built at Menlo Innovations has successfully blended an Extreme Programming development team, usability design specialists, and formal project management. The company has moved twice to accommodate growth and maintain its open collaborative floor space. Representatives from small start up companies as well as large Fortune 500 firms routinely tour Menlo’s Software Factory environment.

James Goebel is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a certified SCRUM master, a licensed Michigan Residential Builder, and has an MBA from Eastern Michigan University. He has practiced software product development for more than twenty years as a developer, team lead, system architect, project manager, practice director, and executive coach. The past ten years have been spent building and managing Agile software teams.

History

Member for
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