Ken Collier

Ken is an Agile trainer, coach, and mentor and has worked with many organizations across a multitude of industry sectors. Ken is also a Senior Consultant in the Cutter Consortium Agile in Development and Business Intelligence practices. Ken began pioneering Agile Business Intelligence in 2004 and has continued to advance these principles and practices on real projects in a variety of domains. Ken is well versed in a variety of Agile flavors including XP, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, and others; yet he remains agnostic believing that each situation requires a tailored blend of effective practices from more than one method. Ken provides guidance in agile technical, project management, and management leadership practices. He incorporates the Agile Project Management concepts developed by Jim Highsmith and the Innovation Games™ developed by Luke Hohmann into many of his client engagements.

Ken holds an Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from Arizona State University where he studied software engineering, database theory, and artificial intelligence/machine learning. He has over 25 years of experience. Nearly half of those years as an associate professor of computer science engineering has honed Ken’s teaching and presentation skills; while the remaining years in the private sector as a developer, chief architect, project manager and team leader has honed his skills as a practitioner.