Mike is the founder of Agendashift, author of the book Kanban From The Inside, consultant, and trainer. In recent months he has been the interim delivery manager for two UK government digital "exemplar" projects and consultant to public and private sector organisations at home and abroad. Prior to his consulting career, he was global development manager and Executive Director at a top tier investment bank, and IT Director for an energy risk management start-up.

Allan Kelly helps companies and teams make software in a better way. He works with developers, managers, analysts and everyone else to make the making better. Usually this goes by the name of Agile or Lean but ultimately its about making work practices and processes better. He mostly works with software intensive companies and companies whose very business depends on software. When he is not with clients he writes far too much. He is the author of three books: "Xanpan - team centric Agile Software Development", "Business Patterns for Software Developers" and "Changing Software Development: Learning to be Agile"; the originator of Retrospective Dialogue Sheets and a regular conference speaker.