Mike Bowler
Coach and Trainer, specializing in Agile, Lean, technical software practices and human behaviour.
Overview
Mike is an experienced coach and trainer who helps teams, and their management, improve the way they work. What makes Mike’s approach different is in the range of skills that he brings to your organization.
- Human behaviour, psychology, and applied neuroscience, to improve how people work, both individually and in groups.
- Workflow design and implementation, to improve how the work flows through the system and how value is created.
- Technical skills to improve how the value is actually implemented and maintained.
- 25 years of experience with Agile methods to put it all together.
Mike is based in Canada and has travelled around the world, provide training classes, coaching and facilitation services to his clients. Today, preference is being given to coaching that can be done remotely.
Credentials
- Professional Kanban Trainer (PKT) from ProKanban.org
- Professional Kanban I (PK1) from ProKanban.org
- Professional Kanban II (PK2) from ProKanban.org
- Professional Agile Metrics I (PAM) from ProKanban.org
- Scaling with Portfolio Kanban (SPK) from ProKanban.org
- Registered Education Provider (REP) from Scrum Alliance
- Kanban Management Professional (KMP) from Kanban University
- Scaled Agile Framework® Agilist from Scaled Agile
- Certified Consulting Hypnotist from National Guild of Hypnotists
Contact Mike
- mbowler@GargoyleSoftware.com
- +1 (905) 409-7052
- Mastodon
If you heard Mike speak recently and are looking for more information on that topic, you’re probably looking for this page.
Where else does Mike post content?
- He writes about the intersection of unconscious behaviour and Agile at Unconscious Agile
- He writes about various Kanban topics at Improving Flow
- He writes about technical programming topics at Agile Technical Excellence
- He posts nature photos on Flickr
Recent articles by Mike
Date | Title | Location |
---|---|---|
2024-03-16 | Quickstart for JiraMetrics | Improving Flow |
2024-03-11 | My people aren’t participating | Unconscious Agile |
2024-03-06 | Stalled work | Improving Flow |
2024-02-29 | Warning levels | Agile Technical Excellence |
2024-02-25 | “This is a safe space” | Unconscious Agile |
2024-02-21 | Slicing epics | Improving Flow |
2024-02-17 | Six Thinking Hats Retrospective | Unconscious Agile |
2024-02-11 | Remote work vs in-person: What does the data say? | Improving Flow |
2024-02-04 | Inattentional blindness | Unconscious Agile |
2024-02-01 | Linguistic Antipatterns | Agile Technical Excellence |
Books
Mike was a contributor to the following books.
- “Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide” Author: Dave Astels, Published: 2003
- “Mob Programming” Authors: Woody Zuill & Kevin Meadows, Published: 2016