Ralph Jocham

Ralph Jocham is founder of effective agile. an agile consulting company. He works there globally as an agile change agent helping customers of various business domains to improve their productivity, quality and throughput by using agile practices.  Currently, Ralph's main focus is targeted towards enabling management to understand agile and see how Scrum will benefit them in their given context. 

Ralph co-designed the Professional Scrum Developer (Java) course and is Europe’s first Professional Scrum Master Trainer for Scrum.org since 2010.

The book The Professional Scrum Product Owner was written by Ralph Jocham and Don McGreal.

Biography

Ralph has over 20 years of global (DE, UK, USA, CH) development experience in various technologies and blue chip business domains. Since 2000, when he came in contact with XP, Ralph considers himself as ‘test infected’ and believes that state of the art development practices and a clear business value focus are crucial for the ROI.
In 2003 Ralph combined XP with Scrum. Since then he has been a Scrum evangelist. He is a CSM (2005), CSP (2008), PSM I & II (2009), PSPO I & II (2011) and Professional Scrum Trainer for Scrum.org.
Before founding effective agile. he worked for Zühlke in Switzerland, ThoughtWorks in San Francisco, USA and Oracle in the UK.

You can read more about Ralph Jocham at www.effectiveagile.com.