David Anderson is a thought leader in managing highly effective software teams. He is President of Modus Cooperandi, in Seattle, Washington, a consulting firm dedicated to improving leadership in the IT and software development sectors, and Chief Process Scientist for Valtech, Inc. in Dallas, Texas.

David has been part of the agile and lean methodology movement since 1997 when he was part of the team in Singapore that developed Feature Driven Development at United Overseas Bank. He has a total of 26 years experience in the software development business starting with computer games in the early 1980’s. As a pioneer in the agile software movement David has managed teams at Sprint, Motorola and Corbis delivering superior productivity and quality. At Microsoft he developed the MSF for CMMI Process Improvement methodology - the first agile method to provide a comprehensive mapping to the Capability and Maturity Model Integration from the Software Engineering Institute.

His first book, Agile Management for Software Engineering – Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results, published in 2003 by Prentice Hall, introduced many ideas from Lean and Theory of Constraints in to software engineering.

David was a founder and is a current board member of the APLN, a not for profit dedicated to promoting better standards of leadership and management in knowledge worker industries.

David is a popular and entertaining conference speaker. He has written or co-authored many articles and papers and is best known for his Agile Management blog.

He holds a degree in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.  He has six U.S. Patents and another five pending for his work in telecoms and the Internet. He lives in Seattle, Washington, USA.