Ken Schwaber

Ken Schwaber is a software developer, product manager and industry consultant. Ken worked with Jeff Sutherland to formulate the initial versions of the Scrum development process and to present Scrum as a formal process at OOPSLA'95.^[1] They have extended and enhanced Scrum at many software companies and IT organizations. Schwaber and Sutherland are co-authors of the definitive Scrum Guide, which is made available for free by Scrum.org. Today Schwaber runs Scrum.org, which provides Scrum resources, training, assessments, and certifications for Scrum Masters, Scrum Developers, Scrum Product Owners, and organizations using Scrum.

He is one of the leaders of the agile software development movement. He is a founder of the Agile Alliance, and he is responsible for founding the Scrum Alliance and creating the Certified Scrum Master programs and its derivatives. When unanimously asked by the Scrum Alliance board of directors [1], Schwaber resigned from the board in the fall of 2009.

Works

• Schwaber, Ken (1 February 2004). Agile Project Management with Scrum. Microsoft Press. ISBN 978-0-735-61993-7. 
• Schwaber, Ken; Beedle, Mike (18 February 2002). Agile Software Development with Scrum. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-130-67634-4. 
• Schwaber, Ken (2007). The Enterprise and Scrum. Microsoft Press. ISBN 978-0-7356-2337-8. 

Personal life

Ken Schwaber was born in Wheaton, Illinois in 1945. He attended US Merchant Marine Academy. In 1975, he married Christina Sarstedt. Together, they have lived in the Boston area for the last 30 years. Ken has two daughters.

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