Dave West

About Dave West

Dave West is the product owner and CEO at scrum.org. He is a frequent keynote at major industry conferences and is a widely published author of articles and research reports. He also is the co-author of two books, The Nexus Framework For Scaling Scrum and Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. He led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational. After IBM/Rational, West returned to consulting and managed Ivar Jacobson Consulting for North America. Then as VP, research director Forrester research where he ran the software development and delivery practice. Prior to joining Scrum.org he was Chief Product Officer at Tasktop where he was responsible for product management, engineering and architecture. As a member of the company’s executive management team was also instrumental in growing Tasktop from a services business into a VC backed product business with a team of almost 100.

Experience

1. Product Owner CEO

   Scrum.Org

   Oct 2015 — Present

   Helping people and teams solve complex problems. For a more detailed description of why I joined Scrum.org -

Skills

• Soa
• Solution Selling
• Business Intelligence
• Saas
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Integration
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Strategy
• Software Project Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Open Source
• System Architecture
• Java
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Software Design
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Agile Methodologies
• Vendor Management
• Management
• Perl
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Rup
• Software Engineering
• Sdlc
• Consulting
• Solution Architecture
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Design Patterns
• Product Marketing
• Start-Ups
• Architecture