Bio

Rob Myers

I’m lead instructor, coach, and founder of Agile Institute, and a founding member of the Agile Cooperative.

I have 26 years of software development industry experience, and have enjoyed consulting for leading companies in the aerospace, government, medical, software, and financial sectors.

I’m a veteran Agile coach and mentor. My first taste of Agile was in 1998: an early Extreme Programming project for our software research & development team at StorageTek. Since then, I’ve trained and coached numerous successful Agile, Scrum, and Extreme Programming (XP) teams. My clients have ranged from small Silicon Valley start-ups to Fortune 100 international conglomerates. My large-scale Agile transitions include a leading cloud-computing firm, one of the most-recognized investment firms, and one of the largest insurance companies in the US.

I teach courses and workshops on a variety of Agile and software-development related topics, including Essential Test-Driven Development, Essential Agile Principles and Practices, and Essential Agile Testing. Every course includes practical, hands-on experiences, advanced adult-learning techniques, and my sincere enthusiasm for the health of your organization. (Click here for the course catalog.)

I’m an active writer and speaker on all things Agile. (Click here for my blog.) I frequently give tutorials and talks at conferences, including SQE’s Better Software Agile Development Practices, and the Agile Alliance’s yearly Agile conference.

I’ve enjoyed training and coaching teams in numerous cities in the US, Puerto Rico, Canada, Western Europe, and East Asia.

I frequently visit teams for a few days or a few weeks, to encourage and solidify the Agile practices, and to help organizations improve and customize their processes. I will help you employ solutions that will work for your organizational culture: Together we will build from Agile, Lean, the Theory of Constraints, and our own intelligent observations.

Thank you!

Rob