Hi, this is Greg Kielstrom. Welcome to season three of the Agile World, where we discuss customer

employee experience, organizational and workforce transformation, and how business can adapt and

continually improve at an Agile age. The Agile World podcast is brought to you by tech systems,

an industry leader in full stack technology services, talent services, and real world application.

For more information, go to techsystems.com. To read more about the topics discussed in the show,

you can go to my website at theagile.world and read my latest articles or get a copy of my latest

book, The Agile Workforce, now available on Amazon and other retailers. My name is Greg Kielstrom,

and I'm the host of the Agile World podcast. Even though many organizations have embraced Agile

methods in their technology and other areas, they're still researching, trying, and buying,

using older, often outdated means. Today, we're going to talk about evaluating software using

more Agile practices. Tell me, discuss this topic. I'd like to welcome Phil Strasula,

founder of Select Software Reviews. Phil, welcome to the show. Thanks a lot for having me.

So, why don't you start by giving a little background on your career, kind of what got you here,

as well as what you do at Select Software Reviews? Sure. So, I started my career off in venture

capital, doing early stage software, investing into SaaS and consumer internet companies.

I always wanted to start a company, and so I went to Business School and talked to myself about

program, I was there. I started hacking on a bunch of projects, one of which turned into an HR

software business that about two and a half years ago, I hired somebody to run as a general manager,

teaching myself out of the day today. And so, I had all this free time for the first time in a

long time. I still had the desire to start another company, and I personally want to learn,

I want to teach what I've learned, and saw this gap in the market where a lot of HR teams

are really struggling with what technology they should be purchasing, because there are so many

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