Deliver new features without losing existing customers!
"...On Monday we can start implementing what we've learned to make our product better."
"...A noticeable reduction in rework and improvement in overall code stability as a direct result of the training."
"The software releases since taking this class as a team are much more solid than the ones before it."
"It was by far one of the most useful trainings I have done in my career."
"Rob’s experience and expertise are world class and this separates his training from the pack by a large margin."
Mission
To help you create worthwhile software & a sane workplace.
To provide clients with enjoyable, pragmatic courses & coaching that will strengthen their teams’ essential skills; so that those teams can provide the most valuable, maintainable, high-quality software possible.
We accomplish this by offering highly interactive, immersive, and fun courses on the testing and development practices that make Agile methods—such as Scrum or Kanban—work as expected at your organization.
Bio
In Brief
“Rob Myers is to agile software development what Yoda is to practical use of The Force.”
— JM
Rob has 38 years of professional experience in software development roles, spent six years full-time as developer-coach on a variety of Extreme Programming (XP) teams, and has been training and coaching organizations in Agile engineering practices since 1998. His courses blend fun, practical, hands-on coding labs, "Training From the Back of the Room” advanced learning techniques, and relevant first-person stories from both successful and not-so-successful Agile implementations.
Rob is also writing a book, Essential Test-Driven Development, for Addison-Wesley, due out late 2024.
History
Hi, I’m Rob Myers, lead instructor, coach, and founder of Agile Institute. I work with teams to encourage and strengthen Agile skills and practices, and to help organizations customize and improve their software development methods.
I started out as a professional programmer in 1986. My first taste of what would become known as “Agile” was in 1998, on an Extreme Programming (XP) R&D project for StorageTek. For six years, I worked as XP “player-coach” (i.e., developer plus Agile mentor) for a variety of long-term clients. I had the pleasure of working closely with industry luminaries such as James Shore (The Art of Agile Development), Joshua Kerievsky (Refactoring to Patterns), Richard Sheridan (Joy, Inc.), Alan Shalloway (Design Patterns Explained), & Bob Hartman.
I’ve also been teaching various Agile-related courses since 2002. My clients have ranged from tiny startups to massive Fortune 100 international conglomerates, including: Adobe, American Express, Apple, Blueport, Capital Group, CivicPlus, Cord Blood Registry, Dart Container, Fugro, Halliburton, HBO, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, iZotope, Jobvite, JustAnswer, LG, MakeMusic, Mayo, Microsoft, Nationwide Insurance, Netflix, Nike, Omnyx, Optum, Press Ganey, Prezi, Relativity (nee kCura), Riot Games, SalesForce.com, Samsung, Schilling Robotics, Symantec, Vanguard, Visa, & ZocDoc.
Agile Institute was established in 2008, and I soon found myself delivering my flagship course, Essential Test-Driven Development, to developers all over the planet. I’m grateful to my many clients (primarily Intel, Microsoft, and LG) for showing me the world: Argentina, Canada, China, Denmark, England, India, Ireland, Japan, Puerto Rico (not technically a separate country, but a wonderful place), South Korea, and numerous cities throughout the US. I’m also grateful for the opportunity to work with over 1000 talented developers, to help them establish good habits towards safer software delivery and more engaging careers.
I look forward to working with you and your teams!
— Rob Myers (updated April 2024)