Arne Åhlander is a Senior Consultant using Agile and Lean methodologies to improve product development and management for several larger software organizations.

Arne has 14 years of experience from the software industry, to a great part in the area of product management where he have held several senior positions. Arne has managed Scrum projects, helped customers start Scrum initatives, and was appointed Certified Scrum Practitioner in May, 2007. He became one of Sweden’s first Certified Product Owners in November 2006.

Arne is based in Malmö, Sweden, employed by Softhouse and an active member of the SW Business Improvement team. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at Lund University, Sweden.

Special interests of Arne, are:

* the Product Owner role
* Business Value calculations
* Prioritization of projects based on Business Value
* Extending Scrum within organizations
* Scaling of Scrum