Tom Perry is a storyteller. In his 25-year career as a software developer and architect, he has used his talent for storytelling to lead digital transformations, including at Visa, which resulted in a 30% decrease in defects and 60% faster time-to-market, and at USAA, where his exceptional coaching skill led the development team to delivering their Orst features eight times faster than had been projected at the start of the project. Now as an instructor and educator, Tom uses stories and real-world examples to inspire his students to see Agile and Scrum training as something they can integrate into their lives and work right away to create remarkable improvements — not just the eVciency of their work, but their own engagement and morale as well. Tom is an active member of the Agile community, as past president of the PaciOc Northwest chapter of the Agile Leadership Network (ALN), a global nonproOt dedicated to expanding the impact of Agile through community building. He has written a guide to software project management called The Little Book of Impediments, and regularly writes blogs for Hyperdrive and his personal website. Tom also produced and ran the annual Agile Management Northwest conference.