Linda Cook

Biography

Linda Cook is a Lean/Agile Coach and Certified ScrumMaster & Product Owner with over twenty years experience in the IT industry.  Linda understands team dynamics like few others.  Her extensive background both as a software developer and as a program/project manager is the perfect compliment to her innate knack for figuring out what makes people tick.  Linda’s expertise ranges from Agile coaching and mentoring to formal training programs in Scrum, Kanban, Lean Software Development, and Agile Project Management.  She has worked in a variety of industries, mentored colleagues, established formal and informal training programs, and has established/improved the processes of numerous software development teams during her career.

Linda Cook serves as the Secretary of the Agile Alliance (2011 - 2012), and is a board member of the Agile Leadership Network.  Linda currently chairs the Agile Leadership Network Summits and speaks at several professional conferences.