Joseph Pelrine

Joseph Pelrine has worked with Agile methods since the beginning,  starting as Kent Beck's assistant helping him develop eXtreme Programming. As Europe’s first Certified ScrumMaster and trainer, he played a major role in introducing Scrum to Europe. For almost 25 years, Joseph has been defining and refining processes to help some of the world’s most well-known companies improve their ability to satisfy the needs of their customers. As a psychologist, his focus on people and his experience in applying leading-edge techniques from social complexity and psychology to process optimisation goes far beyond the domain of software development, and extends to the whole organisation. A noted international speaker, he conducts research in novel applications of psychology to agile processes, and in his free time is trying to finish his PhD in psychology and psycholinguistics.