Profile: Pete Deemer
Pete Deemer is a Certified Scrum Trainer offering courses in India and Asia through GoodAgile. Pete is co-author of The Scrum Primer (www.scrumprimer.com).
Pete is an honors graduate of Harvard University, and has spent the last 16 years building software products and services at global companies. Pete has spent a number of years as adjunct faculty at University of California Berkeley, most recently in the Graduate School of Business, where he received the Club 6 teaching award.
Through GoodAgile, Pete provides training to a number of companies, including HP, Microsoft, Nokia, Infosys, Wipro, and IBM. Prior to founding GoodAgile, Pete was the executive who co-led Yahoo!'s successful large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which now encompasses more than 1,700 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Asia. During his Yahoo! tenure, he served as Vice President of Product Development for Yahoo! in the US, as well as Chief Product Officer of Yahoo!'s 1000-person Research and Development center in Bangalore, India. Pete is based in India and Singapore.
Upcoming Courses by Pete
| Course Title | Date Range | City |
|---|---|---|
| Certified ScrumMaster | 24-25 Nov 2008 | Bangalore |
| Certified ScrumMaster | 1-2 Dec 2008 | Melbourne |
| Certified ScrumMaster | 5-6 Dec 2008 | Beijing |
| Certified Scrum Product Owner | 6-7 Jan 2009 | San Francisco Bay Area |
| Certified ScrumMaster | 16-17 Jan 2009 | Bangalore |
| Certified ScrumMaster | 4-5 Feb 2009 | Gurgaon |
| Certified ScrumMaster | 12-13 Feb 2009 | Bangalore |
| Certified ScrumMaster | 19-20 Feb 2009 | Hyderabad |
| Certified ScrumMaster | 23-24 Feb 2009 | Melbourne |
| Certified ScrumMaster | 26-27 Feb 2009 | Sydney |
| Certified ScrumMaster | 12-13 Mar 2009 | Bangalore |
| Certified ScrumMaster | 26-27 Mar 2009 | Hyderabad |
| Certified ScrumMaster | 9-10 Apr 2009 | Bangalore |
| Certified ScrumMaster | 23-24 Apr 2009 | Hyderabad |
| Certified ScrumMaster | 7-8 May 2009 | Bangalore |
Resources by Pete
- Explaining Scrum to your Management Team
- A presentation to help explain Scrum and its benefits to managers and execs. Includes a Scrum walkthrough, Scrum team metrics, and strategies for successful adoption.
- The Scrum Primer
- The Scrum Primer is an in-depth introduction to the theory and practice of Scrum, and includes data on results from a large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum. Its authors are Certified Scrum Trainers Pete Deemer and Gabrielle Benefield. Yo...





