Hi, my name is Allen Hurst. I’m proud to be a Principal Consultant and the Assistant Director of Rural Sourcing at Improving Enterprises. I spend most of my time developing applications for our clients using the .NET platform. My passion is for improving the way people develop software by focusing on agile values and strong development practices.

As a committed Agilist and Certified ScrumMaster, I’ve spent my career learning, working, leading, and mentoring in a variety of environments, striving to recreate the positive experiences and learn from the negative ones. Along the way, I’ve found a fondness for continuous improvement, Agile values and practices, rapid delivery of quality working software, and well-designed object-oriented systems. I’m a Computer Science graduate from Texas A&M, the leader of the Aggieland .NET User’s Group, an avid practitioner of GTD, and a producer of Improving Podcasts.

I started this blog because I wanted to get used to expressing the junk that goes on in my head. My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer, or even myself more than a day after I write them.