Principal Instructor & Coach @ Agile Institute
Rob is the author of the new book, Essential Test-Driven Development (Addison-Wesley, Jan 2026). He has 40 years experience in the software industry (as UNIX programmer, Java developer, XP coach, and Agile instructor), and has been training and coaching organizations in modern software development practices since 1998. His courses--such as "Essential Test-Driven Development" and "Behavior-Driven Development Essentials"--use "Training from the Back of the Room" techniques and are full of fun and pragmatic technical exercises. He became a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) solely to deliver "Advanced Certified Scrum Developer" courses (in other words, stealthy Extreme Programming) to teams with little dust in their eyes.
