James Coplien

Helsingør, Denmark

My certifications

Certified Scrum Trainer® badge
Certified Scrum Trainer®
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster badge
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster
Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner badge
Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner
Certified ScrumMaster® badge
Certified ScrumMaster®
Certified Scrum Product Owner® badge
Certified Scrum Product Owner®

About

Jim Coplien is the founder of the Pasteur Organizational Patterns project, which was the foundation for the Borland QuatroPro for Windows study that inspired the Daily Scrum as well as much of Extreme Programming. In a former life Cope is best known for his design and programming books such as Advanced C++, Multi-Paradigm Design, and the pioneering two books of the PLoPD series of edited works. He is also one of the founders of the pattern discipline, and was Product Owner for ScrumPLoP. His book Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development Is the most authoritative work on Agile foundations today. His newest book, together with The Scrum Patterns Group, is A Scrum Book. He is a partner with Gertrud & Cope in Denmark.

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2008-02-01 - present - Gertrud and Cope (Lean/Agile Process and Architecture Coach)
    • 1991-01-01 - 2001-05-31 - AT&T Bell Laboratories (Principle Investigator / Researcher)
    • 2000-07-03 - 2002-06-28 - Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Vloebergh Endowed Chair)
    • 2002-08-01 - 2004-07-31 - North Central College (Associate Professor)
    • 2005-01-03 - 2006-05-31 - DAFCA (Object Architect)
    • 2006-06-01 - 2008-01-31 - Nordija (Senior Agile Coach and Software Architect)