Grigori is a Senior Product Planner at Microsoft patterns & practices (msdn.microsoft.com 
).
Grigori is a former faculty member of SAIT Polytechnic, University of Calgary, and Humber College. He is a founding moderator of the Calgary Agile Methods User Group, The Canadian Agile Network (CAN) - Le Réseau Agile Canadien (RAC) and is the primary contact for The Data Workshop.
Grigori was the Workshops Chair for Xp Agile Universe Two Thousand Three and Xp Agile Universe Two Thousand Four, the Educators' Symposium Chair for Agile 2005, the Assistant Research Chair for Agile 2006 Conference, the Research Chair for Agile 2007 Conference.
He is a Program Chair for Agile 2008 Conference - www.agile2008.org
Grigori conducted Employee Satisfaction Study, a study to verify the claim that agile teams are "happier" teams.
www.gmelnik.com
Together with Ron Jeffries, Grigori co-edited the IEEE Software Special Issue on Test-Driven Development (July/Aug 2007). See the Call for Papers at Ieee Software Special Issue On Test Driven Development
See original on c2.com