Kane Mar is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and Scrum Coach (CSC) specializing in Scrum and Extreme Programming. He has been working exclusively with Agile software development teams since 2001 and has worked with clients such as QPass, Microsoft, Capital One, Progressive, and TransCanada Pipelines. Kane's focus is on creating highly performing Agile teams that are focused on delivering high quality software and maximizing business value.

Kane is also experienced in guiding organizations that are transitioning to an Agile organization. This includes preparing senior management and business partners for changes resulting from the introduction of Scrum.

Prior to his work with Agile software development, Kane had 15 years of experience as a developer and project manager for Waterfall and RUP projects working with Java, Smalltalk, C, SQL and PL/SQL. Kane's recent technical interests have turned towards Ruby primarily because of its similarlity to Smalltalk.

Kane lives and works in Seattle, Washington. His blog can be found at: http://www.KaneMar.com
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Upcoming Courses by Kane

Course Title Date Range City
Certified ScrumMaster 5-6 Aug 2008 Seattle
Product Owners: Drivers of Organizational Change 7 Aug 2008 Seattle
Certified ScrumMaster 14-15 Oct 2008 Seattle
Certified ScrumMaster 18-19 Nov 2008 Seattle
Certified ScrumMaster 16-17 Dec 2008 Seattle

Recent Articles by Kane

What's your sign? Find out what your burndown signature says about your team. 23 Oct 06
Burndown graphs are commonly used in Scrum projects to give the team an understanding of the amount of work remaining for the Sprint (or iteration). In Ken's own words: “As a team works together, it develop its own style of creating ...
Technical Debt and Design Death: Part II 24 Jul 06
My last article dealt with technical debt and design death. This article is going to expand upon those ideas. In a far-from-academic way, I’d like to discuss what happens once you already have legacy code. What are your options for dealing w...
Technical Debt and Design Death 17 Jul 06
At a recent Scrum gathering, Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland spoke about technical and design death. Although the concepts themselves are not new, Ken and Jeff have identified a number of characteristics that (I believe) are original insights. In...