Fred Heath - The Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) Guide

Successfully practice Scrum in real-world projects and achieve PSM I certification with confidence

Fred Heath

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To my wife, Julie, and my daughter, Sophia. They make it all worthwhile.

- Fred Heath

Fred Heath is a senior software engineer with 24 years' experience. Fred has worked at every level of the software development lifecycle and has used a multitude of technologies, platforms, and programming languages. His professional interests include programming in Ruby and Elixir, behavior-driven development, and semantic analysis.

Fred holds B.Eng and M.Sc. degrees (Cardiff University) and is a Microsoft Certified Professional (SQL Server 2000), a certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I), and a certified Professional Agile Leader (PAL-I). He enjoys blogging about software development topics and is a frequent speaker at conferences and meetups.

Fred has also authored Managing Software Requirements the Agile Way (Packt, 2020).

Tarun Gupta is a certified Scrum Master with around 14 years of experience in IT. He has several credentials, including PMI-ACP, PSM II, CSM, ASM, SAFe Agilist 4.5, and PMP.

He started his career as a QA engineer in the telecom domain after graduating with a master's degree in computer applications (MCA) from Pune University in 2007. He has helped teams to transition from Waterfall to Agile and has coached them to achieve maximum efficiency and the highest product value by successfully completing sprints.

Tarun believes that Scrum has some important values, such as focus, commitment, openness, respect, and courage, that can be adopted in life to be more productive and successful. He believes that any organization can be Agile if there is transparency, continuous improvement, continuous delivery, and adaptability.