
Pete Deemer is one of about 100 Certified Scrum Trainers worldwide, and he specializes in working with development teams throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim. He received his CSM training and CST sponsorship from
Ken Schwaber, who created Scrum with Dr. Jeff Sutherland. Along with Dr. Sutherland, Pete is one of the founders of
The Scrum Training Institute, and he is the co-author of
The Scrum Primer, one of the most widely read introductions to Scrum.
Pete is an honors graduate of Harvard University, and has spent the last 20 years leading teams 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 prestigious Club 6 teaching award.
Prior to founding GoodAgile, Pete was the senior executive who led Yahoo!'s successful large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which grew to more than 2,000 employees worldwide. 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 1500-person Research and Development center in Bangalore, India. Pete is based in Singapore, and travels frequently to India, Australia, China, and other countries in the region.