About the Author

Doug Rose has been transforming organizations through technology, training, and process optimization for more than 20 years, and he now specializes in providing agile coaching and training for teams, programs, and organizations. He’s especially adept at introducing agile and Lean into organizations that take a traditional project-management approach to product development. Author of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) first major publication on the agile framework, Leading Agile Teams, Doug helps his clients improve their organizational agility by coaching, instructing, and facilitating on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, Lean Software Development, Iterative Project Management, User Stories, Use Cases, and Retrospectives.

Doug has a master’s degree (MS) in Information Management, a law degree (JD) from Syracuse University, and a bachelor of arts degree (BA) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He’s also a Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant (SPC), Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PMI Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP), Project Management Professional (PMP), and Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCDH).

You can attend Doug’s lively and engaging business and project management courses at the University of Chicago or online through Lynda.com or LinkedIn Learning.

Doug works through Doug Enterprises, an organization with an office ...

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