Pete Deemer is a founder of GoodAgile, and co-founder of the Scrum Training Institute, which is headed by Dr. Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum.  Pete is based in Singapore and specializes in helping companies in India, China, and Australia succeed with Scrum.  He has provided Scrum training and coaching to some of the largest companies in the world, including services companies such as Infosys, Wipro, TCS, and Cognizant and product companies such as Nokia, Ericsson, GE, and EMC. Pete is the co-author of The Scrum Primer, one of the most widely read introductions to Scrum, and lead author of The Distributed Scrum Primer, a guide to distributed and multilocation Scrum.

Pete is an honors graduate of Harvard University, and has spent the last 22 years leading teams building products and services at global companies.  Most recently he served as Vice President of Product Development for Yahoo!, where he led Yahoo’s global adoption of Scrum, which grew to over 2000 developers worldwide during his tenure.  He spent a number of years as adjunct faculty at University of California Berkeley, where he received the prestigious Club 6 teaching award.  Pete is a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore for the 2010-2011 academic year.

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