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Dave West is the Product Owner and CEO at scrum.org. He is a frequent keynote speaker and is a widely published author of articles, along with his acclaimed book: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. He led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and then worked with Ivar Jacobson running the North American business for IJI. Then managed the software delivery practice at Forrester research where he was VP and research director. Prior to joining Scrum.org he was Chief Product Officer at Tasktop where he was responsible for product management, engineering and architecture.

Classes Attended by Dave

  • Scaled Professional Scrum
    Rob Maher
    Nov 17-18, 2015

Latest Blogs by Dave

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Dave West
Scrum is about Value not Work. Reflections from Scrum Guide Update
November 2020 was the launch of the Scrum Guide update. It seems like only yesterday but was over 3 months ago...
Feb 23, 2021 Read blog
Dave West
Words that changed in Scrum Guide 2020 update
A brief overview of the word changes between the 2020 and 2017 version of the Scrum Guide.
Jan 10, 2021 Read blog
Dave West
Scrum Guide 2020 Update - What has been removed
Scrum is described as a framework, not a methodology. The Scrum Guide provides just enough prescription to allow Scrum to work and encourages its ‘users’ to be smart, adding practices and other things specific to them on top of the framework as needed to form their process.
Nov 18, 2020 Read blog
Dave West
Scrum Guide 2020 Update - Role to Accountabilities
With the 2020 release of the Scrum Guide, the term role was replaced with accountabilities. The purpose of this change was to place special emphasis that this is not a job description, but the bare minimum set of accountabilities necessary to execute Scrum. The blog describes how these accountabilities are split into 3 groups.
Nov 18, 2020 Read blog
Dave West
Scrum Guide 2020 Update - Self Mgt replaces Self Organization
One interesting change to the Scrum Guide for the 2020 release was the change of the term Self-Organizing to Self-Managing. This blog discusses the change.
Nov 18, 2020 Read blog
Dave West
Scrum Guide 2020 Update - Commitments
With the 2020 release of the Scrum Guide, Commitments were added for each artifact. The commitments provide a nice, structural way to describe some of the key characteristics of each artifact. The intent of this change was to provide clarity and make the Scrum Guide simpler to read and use.
Nov 18, 2020 Read blog
Dave West
Scrum Guide 2020 Update - Introducing the Product Goal
With the 2020 update to the Scrum Guide, three commitments were added to the artifacts. The idea of a commitment is to provide additional quality to the artifact to improve transparency. In the case of Product Backlog, the commitment is to the Product Goal. 
Nov 18, 2020 Read blog
Dave West
Scrum Guide 2020 Update - Scrum is Still Scrum
At Scrum.org we have used this update of the Scrum Guide as an opportunity to have some interesting discussions and our CEO Dave West has documented some of them for your review and attention. 
Nov 18, 2020 Read blog
Dave West
Update to the Scrum Guide - What it means to Scrum.org
Today, the 18th of November 2020 Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland released an update to the Scrum Guide. If you are interested in an overview of what has changed, read about the seven main changes described with some context.
Nov 18, 2020 Read blog
Dave West
Measuring the Value of Business Agility - Your Questions Answered
McKinsey and Scrum.org presented a webinar on joint research about measuring business value. There were a number of questions unanswered. This blog answers those questions.
Sep 17, 2020 Read blog

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