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PUBLIC WORKSHOPS AND CORPORATE TRAINING IN THE SCRUM MANAGEMENT PROCESS
Innovel LLC maintains this website to provide information and resources to organizations and individuals adopting Scrum.

Instructors

Scrum Training Instructors
The ScrumTraining.com Instructors work together to continually improve our training methods to bring the best most impactful Scrum training to our clients.

In addition to these instructors, we often work with other leading instructors and Certified Scrum Trainers.

Robin Dymond
Instructor, Coach, Consultant, and CST

Producer, Main Stage Sessions, AGILE 2009

Robin Dymond is a proven leader and innovator in training for Scrum, Agile, and Lean methods. He regularly achieves 100% increase in productivity of teams he trains and supports. These hard to believe results are achieved by a deep understanding of Lean and Agile principles, team dynamics, and many Agile change management experiences. Dymond developed Scrum, Lean, and Agile training for teams and trained hundreds of “new to Scrum” team members. At Agile 2008 Dymond presented an innovative new class for Scrum Product Owners that has lead many to re-think their role and how business value is achieved.

A frequent speaker and organizer in the Agile community, Robin Dymond is pleased to be producing the Main Stage sessions at Agile 2009. Dymond co-created the Agile Executive Consortium, a corporate that and actively supports AEC events across the US. Dymond co-organized and facilitated both the APLN National Leadership summit in Richmond in 2007. He is the co-founder and board member of the APLN Richmond VA chapter, organizing local Agile events.

Dymond (with Pushinsky) was a member of a change team that initiated and led the largest enterprise adoption of Scrum in the financial services at a Fortune 200 Financial Services company. This two-year lean/agile adoption initiative resulted in a time-to-market reduction of over 40% and a process execution time savings of 70%. Dymond worked with more than 20 teams as trainer, coach, and mentor to teams, other coaches, and management.

Dymond has lead teams using Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development since 2002. In 2003 Dymond lead the first large enterprise application development in Canada that used Agile and Microsoft .NET. Since then Dymond implemented Agile in service of multi-national retail companies, startups, and Fortune 500 clients.

Dymond has spent 18 years helping companies deliver complex software products and services through his broad understanding of software best practices in team leadership, system design, software patterns, and development processes. His current focus on change management, integrating Lean process engineering with Agile methods, and Return on Investment (ROI) analysis of Agile methods keep his clients on the cutting edge of adoption. Robin Dymond holds a BSc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary. He is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Innovel, LLC.