KenSchwaber

KenSchwaber is an experienced software developer, product manager, and industry consultant. He is one of the leaders of the agile process revolution, as a signatory of the Agile Manifesto, founder and director of the AgileAlliance , and one of the developers of the ScruM agile process.

He has been in the industry for over 30 years, starting as a programmer and, by 1984, managing IT for one of Wang’s divisions. In 1985 he founded Advanced Development Methods (ADM), a company dedicated to improving the software development practice. He initiated the process management product revolution of the early 1990s, when methodologies were automated and put to practical use on ADM’s Mate process manager. He worked with Jeff Sutherland to formulate the initial versions of the Scrum development process and, since then, has helped numerous product and IT organizations implement, run projects, and build products using Scrum and agile processes. He has been a visible proponent of adaptive, lightweight, empirical process for software development.

Ken can be reached at [email protected]