Mario E. Moreira

Having experience in the nitty-gritty of business, culture, and technology change, understanding the importance of collaboration across roles within an organization, and the being continuously in touch with customer needs, Mario E. Moreira is seasoned bringing value to customers and building trust in the workplace. Mario's philosophy is "continuous customer interaction and short release and iteration cycles will help you to more effectively deliver business value, leading to more satisfied customers and company profitability".

What does Mario do when he is not writing books? Mario is an Agile and business domain expert, and has worked in the field since 1998. He has helped multiple companies implement an Agile and Digital transformation leading to better business results. He is a certified Scrum Master and Scrum Professional in the Agile arena having implemented Scrum and XP practices for product teams and organization level efforts. He holds an MA in Mass Communication with an emphasis on communication technologies. Mario also brings years of Product Management, Project Management, Software Quality Assurance, Requirement Engineering, Architecture, facilitation, AI (ChatGPT), team building skills and experience.

Mario is the author of 4 Agile and Business-related books:

The Agile Enterprise: Building and Running Agile Organizations (2017 - Apress). Discover how to implement and operate in an Agile manner at every level of your enterprise and at every point from idea to delivery. Learn how Agile-mature organizations adapt nimbly to micro-changes in market conditions. Learn cutting-edge practices and concepts as you extend your implementation of Agile through the entire enterprise to meet customer needs. You'll Learn to:

- Establish an idea pipeline to quickly and productively evolve customer value through all levels of the enterprise.

- Incorporate a discovery mindset―experimental, incremental, design, and divergent thinking―and fast feedback loops to increase the odds that what you build aligns more closely to what customer wants.

- Leverage Lean Canvas, personas, story mapping, value stream mapping, Cost of Delay, servant leadership, self-organization, and more to deliver optimum value to customers.

- Use continuous agile budgeting and idea pipelines to enable you to adapt to the speed of the market.

- Reinvent human resources, portfolio management, finance, and many areas of management toward new roles in the enablement of customer value.

- Map an end-to-end holistic view of your Agile galaxy to gauge where you are today and where to go in your Agile future.

- Be truly Agile throughout your enterprise, focused on customer value and employees above all else.

Being Agile: Your Roadmap to a Successful Adoption of Agile (2013 - Apress). Being Agile is your roadmap to successfully transforming to an Agile culture. Mario then plunges you into the nitty-gritty of the deploying Agile in a manner that will better achieve an Agile transformation.

- The book explains that in order to cross the Agile chasm, there must be a transformation to the Agile culture.

- It delves into the business benefits of Agile and that Agile can make an organization more money.

- The book highlights the important objectives of customer and employees matter, another area that often underserved. - Moreira reminds us that Agile is nothing more and nothing less than a set of values and principles.

- It briefly discusses some of the methodologies (including Scrum, Kanban, DSDM, Lean, VFQ, and XP), and the roles a team and organization can play within an Agile context.

- The book introduces the reader to the Ready, Implement, Coach, and Hone (RICH) Deployment model and provides customizable steps that can be used to help lead you toward a transformation with a special focus on readiness tasks.

Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams (2009 - Wiley). This book adds a whole new dimension to support Agile work. Agile facilitates change based on value and CM enables the change in an effective way. This is a powerful combination.

- This book starts with both an Agile Primer and then a CM Primer.

- Then it focuses on the CM infrastructure to support Agile teams.

- The primary portion of the book provides specific guidance on adapting your CM practices within an Agile context.

- It concludes with what Agile characteristics are important for technology change and how standards and frameworks can support Agile.

Software Configuration Management Implementation Roadmap (2004 - Wiley). While some books provide the "what", this book provides the "how" in Software Configuration Management (SCM). It provides step-by-step guidance for implementing SCM at the organization, application, and project level.

- "The cost of this book pays for itself many times offer because of jump-start it provides to many tasks in SCM"

- "For every challenge in SCM, there is a helpful section, template, or steps that will give me the guidance I need"