Brandon Raines

Fairfax, VA

My certifications

Certified Scrum Alliance Trainer™ badge
Certified Scrum Alliance Trainer™
Certified Enterprise Coach - Emeritus badge
Certified Enterprise Coach - Emeritus
Certified Enterprise Coach badge
Certified Enterprise Coach
Certified Team Coach™ badge
Certified Team Coach™
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster badge
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster
Certified Agile Leader® 1 badge
Certified Agile Leader® 1
Certified ScrumMaster® badge
Certified ScrumMaster®
Certified Scrum Product Owner® badge
Certified Scrum Product Owner®

About

Brandon Raines. 

Over a career spanning 20 years,  Brandon has been a developer, tester, project manager, architect, Certified Scrum master, Certified Scrum Practitioner and Certified Scrum Coach. Mr. Raines has helped teams mainly in the federal government as an Agile coach in their transition to Agile ranging in size from 10 people to 1500. Mr. Raines was first introduced to Agile through eXtreme Programming techniques. Since then, he has helped teams doing mission critical work in the U.S. Federal Government and commercial entities using Scrum, xP and Lean principles to work more effectively by focusing on work that provides the highest business value and continuously improving. In addition to project teams, Brandon has been instrumental in helping these government agencies usher in the acceptance of Agile principles to such an extent that it is the preferred way of working for software projects and the enterprise. His passion is working with motivated people to achieve success.

25+ Years of IT Experience
20+ Years of Agile Experience
10+ Years as Systems and Leadership Expert
Speaker at several noted conferences

 

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