Chris Lucian

I'm Chris Lucian, the Director of Global Software Development at Hunter Industries, a founder of mob programming, co-host of the Mob Mentality show and international keynote speaker. I am passionate about the advancement of software craftsmanship and machine learning. I seek the continuous improvement of myself, my family, my company, and my community. I believe that we can explore the unexplored potential in all things when looking at our processes with automation and creativity in mind. Growing up I learned a lot about both the importance of Psychological Safety and what it can look like when it does not exist. I was fortunate enough to go to a project based middle school where I learned the importance of public speaking, research, technology and delivering my work quickly and frequently. I worked full time when going to university for both my masters and bachelors and in doing so I learned the importance of time management and deliberate deep work. In my career I have found that all of these skills are important to be effective. When I'm have a moment of free time, I spend it gaming or reading sci-fi and fantasy.


I wrote my masters thesis on Computer Vision, Evolutionary Algorithms, and Machine Learning.

Speaking Events:

• Agile 2024: Generate Organization-wide Understanding with Cross Discipline Causal Loop Diagramming
• Improving technical quality with Mob Programming and Collective Habits LAST MEL 2023
• GameDev Guild 2023: Unit Testing in Unity3d without Humble Object Pattern
• Talabat Tech Talks 2022
• DevOps Days Tokyo 2022 Keynote 
• Agile 2021 Improving technical quality with Mob Programming and collective habits
• XP 2021 Cross functional understanding and empathy continuous improvement
• DevOps Days Tokyo 2021 Mob DevOps & Mob Programming
• Open Source North 2021 Technical Excellence through Mob Programming
• Code Freeze 2021 Mob Programming Workshop
• Remote Mob Programming Ask the Experts: Key Takeaways
• Experience Agile 2020 (Lisbon, Remote) Applying Chaos Engineering to collaborative teams
• Deliver Agile Live 2020! Remote Mob Programming AMA (Ask Me Anything)
• AllTheTalks 2020 Create High-Performance DevOps Teams with Mob Programming - Chris Lucian & Austin Chadwick
• Agile 2019 Automation as a Lofty Goal
• Agile 2019 Innovation pipelines and the need for Lean Startup in large organizations
• QCon New York 2019 Psychologically Safe Process Evolution in a Flat Structure
• Mob Programming New England Conference 2019 Flat Department; Being More Productive with No Managers  
• Scrum Gathering Tokyo 2019 (Keynote) Learning to Experiment 
• Rakuten Technology Conference 2017 (Japan) Mob Programming at Hunter
• Santa Barbara Agile Group 2016 Mob Programming with the Hunter Mob
• Agile Success Metrics 2013
• Agile Alliance Experience Reports and Lightning talks
• Agile 2018 Experience Report: Learning to Experiment 2018 (Pay Wall)
• Agile 2017 Experience Report: Growing the Mob (Pay Wall)
• Lightning Talk: #NoEstimates Getting executive Buy-in

Agile Alliance Experience Reports:

• Learning to Experiment 2018 (Includes Podcast)
• Growing the Mob 2017

Pod Casts:

• Mob Programming with the MobProgramming Team
• Mob Mentality Show

Also I love to build games and apps.

Among my inventions is a colorblindness aid that highlights colors the user is deficient in.

My wife loves to cook and runs a cooking blog. I get to eat the food. I love her. :)