Tom hates impediments - so much so that he wrote a book about it. Tom has been in software development for over 20 years. He has worked with teams at startup companies, large corporations in the Fortune 100 and the State and Federal Government. His background includes testing, development, project/program management, agile coaching/mentoring and training. Tom speaks at a wide variety of software development conferences all over the world on a wide variety of agile project management topics. He can be reached at @tlperry on Twitter and by email at tom.perry@acm.org