To advance as a field, We need Arlo.

Arlo Belshee has contributed significant ideas to agile practitioners. His groundbreaking paper "Promiscuous Pairing and Beginner's Mind: Embrace Inexperience" has on its own influenced the way many individuals and teams work day to day.

Arlo exemplifies the leadership the agile community sorely needs: an experimenter at heart, he tries his ideas in real-life situations, then reports his results. He has the courage to run a business that holds many of these ideas at its center. In a field where many theorize, he applies.

Arlo gives the agile practitioners more tools for their tool belts and we wanted both to recognize his past work and encourage further work.