Nigel Baker

Nigel Baker works as an Agile Coach, Consultant and Certified Scrum Trainer via his company, AgileBear Ltd. Nigel is working with a range of companies across the IT sector and beyond, helping them use Scrum to achieve their Project, Product and organisational needs.

Nigel Baker has been a world leading Agile Coach for nearly two decades. He was one of the leading Agile consultant and coaches working with BT - The largest telecommunications company in the UK. He has a BSc (Hons) from the University of Bristol in Computer Science and has been a ScrumAlliance Certified Scrum Trainer since 2007. 

His twenty five year background in the IT industry includes roles as a Software Engineer, Project Manager and ScrumMaster within tactical (RAD), waterfall and Agile project teams. Nigel has spent the last two decades as an Agile consultant travelling the UK, Europe, Middle East and the United States, acting as mentor, coach, trainer and change agent. Since 2007, Nigel has been travelling across the world using this experience to help mentor other companies through their Agile transformations. Clients range from small design houses to the largest media and telecommunication companies in the world. Nigel particularly focusses on the extremes - The largest Enterprises and the coolest SMEs. Nigel is not allowed to name the companies here - but pick any large successful technical organisation and Nigel is likely to have worked with them. He has worked all across the world helping people get the best from themselves for themselves with Scrum. 

Nigel's particular interests are in getting Enterprises back to basics. Using Scrum in distributed teams at an Enterprise scale. Nigel recently has been working in the media and NGO sectors using Scrum in non IT environments.  

Nigel is a keynote speaker around the world and he was also the Chairman of the London 2011 Global ScrumGathering. Nigel recently collaborated with the Scrumalliance in building their new Certified Agile Scaling workshop

Nigel has presented at dozens of Scrum Gatherings and conferences across the EU and US on topics ranging from change management, product management and leadership with Scrum, a deeper understanding of Scrum and the possible future of Agility. 

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