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Geir Amsjo has been working with software development since late 1980's in many different roles. At first as a programmer, but very soon he was project managemer for a large project. After a while he relized that he was most interested in the more generic and wide questions - like how to repeatedly be sucessful with IT projects. While working for Siemens in Oslo he participated in several European and Norwegian research projects aimed to develop better, practical methods for software process improvement (SPI).

In the late 1990's he joined Q-Labs as a consultant and Business Area Manager in the area of SPI and CMM. He now works as an independent consultant as a Scrum / Lean coach and teacher. He has since 2001 had a 20% position at the University of Oslo teaching Process and Product Improvement in systems development at Master level.

Geir is known as a active spirit in the Norwegian IT industry and has arranged numerous seminars and workshops and participated in research projects. Geir arranged the first Certified Scrum Master courses in Norway together with Jens Østergaard and the IT-organisation Abelia.

Currenlty Geir is training and coaching several Scandinavian organisations helping them to benefit from good Agile practices.

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Upcoming Courses by Geir

Course Title Date Range City
Certified Scrum Product Owner 22-23 Mar 2010 Oslo

Recent Articles by Geir

Scrum is Not the Point. Agile is! 09 Oct 07
The simplicity of Scrum is both its strength and its weakness. A true understanding of agile principles is necessary for Scrum (or any other agile method) to succeed.

Recent Comments by Geir

On Going Nowhere Fast
Just a comment on the issue of responsiveness of the PO. I just recently evaluated a Scrum project facing a lot of problems with real engagement from the team. The Scrum team was really laid back both during planning and under the Sprint. It was o...
On Destination: Agile
Thank You for this excellent summary of arguments for adopting Agile. I particularly liked how you split the reasons for adoptation into Customer/PO and Team/Management.
On Writing the Product Backlog Just Enough and Just In Time
Thanks Mike, this is an area in need of some better guidance! I have experienced Sprint planning with almost no preparation or understanding of the Product Backlog; Very frustrating and the Sprint suffers from day one. And I have experienced t...
On Agile and CMMI: Better Together
Thank you for a great article on a highly interesting topic, Cindy! It strikes me over and over what huge differences there are in the software industry, and I must say that I prefer the (young) small companies with almost no structure or disc...

 

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