Q A From Making Autos to Making Software: The Evolution of Lean and Agile Interview with Dr. Michael Cusumano 5 Michael A. Cusumano is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more than 30 years, he has conducted research and taught classes on software company strategy, product development and entrepreneurship, as well as (early in his career) manufacturing and product development methods in the automobile and consumer electronics industries. He has published 13 books and more than 120 articles and columns on these topics. His latest book (Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove and Steve Jobs, published with David Yoe in 2015) has been translated into 17 languages and received widespread media acclaim. He has also lectured and consulted to nearly 100 organizations around the world. In the last two years, Professor Cusumano had been on leave from MIT and served as VP and Dean at the Tokyo University of Science. Because of his extensive studies over the last four decades on software development, product development, manufacturing, and (more recently) software business strategy, he possesses unique insights on technology and technology-based business strategy and product development. 5 Michael Cusumano, MIT Sloan School of Business, Faculty and Research, accessed March 15, 2018, http://mitsloan. mit.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-directory/detail/?id=41459