About Lancer
Lancer Kind grew up on a farm in Montana where his nearest neighbor lived two miles away. This means he had a lot of time to read his mom’s science fiction. It’s this genre that he blames to this day for getting him into trouble while growing up, such as the time he made an electric go-cart with a Radio Flyer wagon, an electric motor, and his dad’s favorite extension cord.
Radio Flyer wagon
His job as a computer consultant puts him in strange situations faster than he can write about using the short story or novel form. After recounting such a situation to his boss, it was suggested he write them into white papers. Lancer pretended to mishear white paper as comic and instead produces Scrum Noir, an online comic.
Each episode tells the adventures of a hard-boiled computer consultant named Ace who helps software teams overcome trouble during their transition to agile methodologies.
Today, Lancer is active in the SF community. When not snowboarding, or doing Agile Software consulting, he’s writing fiction that entertains and attempts to make you think about the problems of today. His work appears in several anthologies such as Ruins Terra (ed. Eric T. Reynolds), Speculative Realms (ed. Sasha Beatie), and The Book of the Exodi (ed. Michael K. Eidson).
He also has a YouTube channel where you can see a teaser about Moss Memoirs, Scrum Noir, and learn about Agile software development. He produces three podcasts: Agile Thoughts, SciFi Thoughts, and 敏捷理念 (the Mandarin edition of Agile Thoughts)。
Lancer’s current project Agile Grande , a business novel (like The Goal ) is about “next level Agile” with multiple teams. It’s an IT thriller that entertains and teaches how to do Agile at a large scale. Agile Grande is available on LeanPub and is a follow on to Agile Noir, which teaches the reader how to do Scrum with a single team and getting started with multi-team Scrum and available for purchase (available on Amazon for North American and Europe, Pothi.com for India/south Asia, and Lancer’s WeChat store for the Mandarin edition). So Agile Noir is great for a someone who wants to get started with Scrum and Agile. Agile Grande is for someone who has been doing Scrum for a while and wants to learn how to get Scrum to work in a medium to big organization. Both books are enjoyable reads and even a season Agile practitioner will get a new understanding about Agile from them.
You can contact Lancer at:
- Twitter: @LancerKind
- call: 208-964-0837
- WeChat/微信: LancerKind1234
- skype: lancerkind
