Hillel Glazer Senior Consultant

Hillel Glazer, a Senior Consultant with Cutter's Agile Product & Project Management practice, is recognized as the world's leading authority on introducing lean and agile concepts into the regulated world. In particular, he's the "AgileCMMI guy" (agilecmmi.com) and is the SEI's go-to authority on Agile, having co-authored their only paper on the topic and contributed the agile content in new CMMI for Development v1.3. Hillel has helped companies of all sizes and locations successfully blend agile with CMMI and achieve performance benefits, not just artifacts and ratings.

Hillel's professional passion is to work with companies who are motivated to achieve world-class operations and excellence. He is among the few CMMI High Maturity Lead Appraisers and CMMI Instructors working almost exclusively with agile teams. Recently, as a Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, and now as an independent contractor, he contributes to the SEI's Services constellation where the concepts of Kanban fit well with the Service model. As such, he is working with more and more companies to adopt Kanban and CMMI to achieve their performance objectives.

His diverse experience base includes aerospace/defense and systems engineering, large and small consulting practices, Federal agencies, dot-com operations and financial, medical and transportation systems development and support. This is probably what gave him the necessary perspective to pioneer how to bring CMMI and Agile together as far back as 2001 when no one was ready to think about marrying the two.

Hillel is an in-demand speaker and presenter, he is widely read, broadly published, and appears worldwide on the topics pertaining to operational excellence in regulated industries. His approaches have successfully harmonized lean- and systems-thinking into highly regulated industries that demand adherence and governance while in pursuit of excellence and profits. His new book, High Performance Operations: Leverage Compliance to Lower Costs, Increase Profits, and Gain Competitive Advantage lays out exactly how he does it.

Hillel is founder and Principal of Entinex, a company with global reach that focuses on generating powerful results for high performance operations among companies motivated to be lean, agile, and achieve world-class levels of operational excellence. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.