Steven J Ostermiller

Steven J Ostermiller is a trainer, coach, and mentor who helps organizations evolve to maximize business value and minimize risk through lean and agile principles and practices. He is the founder and executive director of Utah Agile (in partnership with Agile Alliance, Scrum Alliance, and Silicon Slopes), a nonprofit professional community committed to increasing agility for businesses, technology, and individuals. Steve developed and taught the agile project management curriculum for Ensign College and serves on its project management advisory board. He is co-author of Agile Project Management For Dummies, Scrum For Dummies, and technical editor of Pearson Education’s Agile Foundations Complete Video Course. Steve’s expertise comes from nearly 20 years of successes and failures as a project manager, product manager, operations executive, scrum master, agile coach, trainer, and consultant. He has worked with executive leadership and product development teams in a variety of industries on the Fortune lists. He is a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified Agile Leader (CAL II), ICAgile Certified Professional in Coaching and Facilitation (ICP-ACC & ICP-ATF), Project Management Professional (PMP), and holds a B.S. in Business Management/Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management.