Ken Schwaber

Ken Schwaber, born in 1945 in Wheaton, Illinois, is a software developer, product manager and industry consultant who is one of the leaders of the agile software development movement. Together with Jeff Sutherland he formulated the first versions of the Scrum framework and presented Scrum as a formal process at the OOPSLA conference in 1995. He is one of the seventeen original signatories of the Agile Manifesto and a founder of the Agile Alliance, and he created the Certified Scrum Master programme through the Scrum Alliance, which he left in 2009 after a disagreement over assessments and certification. He then founded Scrum.org, which provides training, assessments and certifications. His books include Agile Software Development with Scrum, Agile Project Management with Scrum and Software in 30 Days, and he and Sutherland co-wrote the Scrum Guide.