Pentti Virtanen

Pentti Virtanen is a life-long critical thinker, dissident and change agent. He has long experience of practical software design, development and leadership. He holds a Ph.D. on Computer Science and  Certified Scrum Trainer Emeritus (CSTE) from Scrum Alliance.

Pentti's thinking is based on experimentation culture and data. He is an advocate of decentralized decision making with people and teams. In a republic people make decisions with evidence, not the authorities.               

Pentti’s academic journey finalized in his Computer Science Ph.D. thesis "Measuring and Improving Component-Based Software Development" based on several papers about effort estimation and measurable productivity improvements in software development.