Session Title

Scrum MythBusters

Abstract

Pete Deemer will share some of the most widespread myths and realities about Scrum from his work of teaching and coaching Scrum teams globally.

Bio

Pete Deemer is a well-known figure in the Agile software community, and has spent the last 25+ years leading teams building products and services at global companies. Pete served on the Board of Directors of Scrum Alliance from 2012-2017, and as Chairman of Scrum Alliance in 2016. He is a CSM, CSPO, CSP, and CST. Pete is the lead author of The Scrum Primer, one of the most widely read introductions to Agile development, as well as The Distributed Scrum Primer, a guide to multi-location Scrum.

 

Pete was VP of Product Development at Yahoo! in the early-mid 2000's, and prior to that served as SVP of c|net Networks. Pete was the co-founder of GameSpot, which was acquired by c|net, and is now owned by CBS Interactive.

 

Pete is an honors graduate of Harvard University, and studied computer science at Stanford University, and is currently working on a masters’ degree in psychology and neuroscience at King’s College London. Pete spent a number of years as adjunct faculty at University of California Berkeley, most recently at the Haas School of Business, where he received the prestigious Club 6 teaching award. Pete has been a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore since 2010.