Ian Culling

About

Ian Culling is CTO at VersionOne. Ian brings more than 20 years of broad IT experience to the CTO role. Ian lends tremendous expertise to his areas of responsibility, including software product management, design and development, and enterprise IT. Ian has significant practical experience with the introduction, scaling and adaptive execution of agile methods, having initially implemented strict XP with a single team in 2000. Since that time, Ian has progressed to lead and coach both small and large organizations in their transition to agile methods. Prior to joining VersionOne, Ian led the adoption of agile methods at Alogent Corporation as vice president of development, leveraging aspects of Scrum for scaling across multiple teams and products. This, combined with select XP developer practices and approach for planning and tracking, resulted in a Scrum-wrapped XP implementation (now a fairly common model within the agile community today). He can be reached at ian.culling@versionone.com.

How to Avoid Five Common Mistakes During the Transition to Agile

Through a process of continuous planning and feedback, the agile methodology ensures that value continues to be maximized throughout an organization’s software development process. Though these benefits may compel businesses to implement agile, the transition and subsequent scaling within the organization can introduce some challenges and growing pains. While there is no perfect formula to […]