Alan Shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With almost 40 years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader.

He helps companies transition to Lean and Agile methods enterprise wide as well teaches courses in Lean, Scrum, Design Patterns, and Object-Orientation.

Alan has developed training and coaching methods for Lean-Agile that have helped his clients achieve long-term, sustainable productivity gains using these methods. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide.

He is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams and is currently writing Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility and Essential Skills for the Agile Developer.

He Masters in Computer Science from M.I.T as well as a Masters in Mathematics from Emory University.