Nanette Brown

Nanette Brown is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Software Engineering Institute. In that capacity she has worked as a researcher in the areas of agile and architecture and technical debt management and has consulted with government agencies on Agile and Lean Practices and Operational Test practices and policy development.

Nanette worked for the SEI from 2009 – 2014 on a part-time basis before joining the SEI fulltime in November 2014. Prior to joining the SEI, Nanette Brown spent over 25 years in product development starting as a developer and continuing on to lead development organizations and change initiatives as the executive director of Architecture and Quality Management of a Fortune 500 company.

Nanette has broad experience across a range of development practices including requirements, project management, test, and configuration management and has a deep appreciation of the link between practice adoption, culture and organizational structure.

Nanette has a particular interest in Lean practices and Value Stream Engineering. She has a Lean Six Sigma Certificate from Villanova University and has taken Kanban training from David Anderson & Associates. She has presented at multiple conferences on topics ranging from the use of facilitated workshops in process transformation to management of technical debt.