SCRUM April 21, 2010

Scrum as emerged as the most widespread method of implementing an Agile development process. With Scrum development teams are achieving high levels of customer satisfaction, improved development effectiveness, and increasing team satisfaction. This evening Jeff will be giving a brief overview of Scrum and be available to answer your specific questions about what, why and how of Scrum.

Speaker

Roger Brown is an experienced Agile Coach who provides training, consulting and coaching services in Agile software development areas including Scrum project management and enterprise agile adoption. Roger also does training and mentoring in agile engineering practices such as Test-Driven Development, automated acceptance testing and continuous integration. Roger’s business is to help companies, teams and individuals find their own best approaches to the use of agile methods.

Roger is an experienced software engineer, technical project manager and staff manager. He has experience working with both large and small companies in many industries. His clients include large and small organizations in banking, insurance, gaming, internet services and networking. His work experience includes Dartmouth College, Vicinity Corporation, Microsoft and TeleAtlas. Roger is a Certified Scrum Trainer and Certified Scrum Coach. He is a member of the Scrum Alliance, the Agile Alliance and the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). Roger is a founding member and certification board member for the Certified Scrum Coach program.