Peter Stevens' mission is to help companies realize complex projects effectively. He provides coaching, training and project management to help companies getting started with Scrum, saving projects in crisis and making IT operations leaner and more effective.

Peter Stevens started his career in 1982 as a System Software Engineer for Microsoft in Seattle, Washington. After moving to Zürich in 1985, he became one of the pioneers of Open Source Software in Switzerland. 1994 he started work what became known as SFI Director, an open source system management tool for Unix and later Linux, which was used to manage UNIX Client Server environments at SIG; ASCOM and the Swiss Stock Exchange. He founded SFI Technology Services, an early adopter of Linux and served on the Board of /ch/open, the Swiss Open System User Group from 2000 until 2007.

From 2006 to 2008, he was a Principal Consultant for namics ag, Switzerland's leading Internet Consulting Firm. At namics he introduced Scrum development, using it to manage the development of Publisherconnect, a white label platform for publishing classified advertisements. Publisherconnect is the basis of NZZexecutive.ch, Publicjobs.ch, osthome.ch, pilote.ch and many others. Publisherconnect won a Best of Swiss Web "Gütesiegel" in 2007 for Business Efficiency.

Peter Stevens is a Certified Scrum Master and, since April 2008, an independent Consultant and Coach focused on helping IT organizations deploy Scrum and transform themselves into lean organizations.

Certified Scrum Master (2007)
MySQL Certified Developer (2005)
Private Pilot/Instrurment Rating (1983)

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