Paul Hodgetts was one of the very first North American ScrumMaster Trainers, and has been training ScrumMasters since 2004. He has over seven years of in-the-trenches experience helping clients such as Yahoo!, Microsoft, Xerox, SAP, Fidelity, Union Pacific and PricewaterhouseCoopers with their Scrum adoption initiatives. There are few in the industry with more practical, real-world Scrum experience.

 

Paul has more than 23 years of experience in all aspects of software development from in-the-trenches coding to executive engineering management, on a wide variety of projects from embedded real time control to distributed internet business applications. He has successfully worked with many clients across a wide range of sectors and industries, including financial, e-commerce, wireless, government, robotics, supply chain, transportation, manufacturing process control and aerospace. Paul’s exceptionally deep software engineering and development process expertise, combined with a solid background in business and product management, enable him to bring a balanced perspective to software process improvement, providing effective guidance in both agile business and engineering practices.

 

Paul is a recognized expert and authority in lean and agile development processes, including Scrum and Extreme Programming. He has been an early proponent and innovator in applying lean and agile principles to the entire software development effort, integrating business analysis, systems engineering, quality assurance, user experience design and project management into an overall approach. Paul’s recent focus has been on large cross-organizational adoption initiatives, and applying agile processes to large multi-product, multi-team projects in challenging enterprise and legacy environments.

 

Paul is a published author and a frequent and popular presenter at conferences (Agile Development, XP Agile Universe, Java One), professional organizations and user groups.