S.M. Kripanidhi is the managing director of Binary Essentials Consulting, Pvt. Ltd.(www.binaryessentials.com). He has been consulting, coaching, and training software project professionals on agile values, principles, and practices since 2001. In his career, spanning 30 years of executive experience, he has worked in the software industry for the last 20 years and has successfully managed over 35 software development projects and six software product developments. He has trained more than 10,000 software professionals in leading multinational software development organizations in India and abroad. In his early career, he served for eight years as a commissioned pfficer (Flt. Lt.) in the India Air Force assigned to air defense control, cryptography, and other projects. S.M. Kripanidhi can be reached at kripa at binaryessentials.com.