Pete Tansey

Pete is passionate about coaching and training software teams in the use of Agile principles. With a strong emphasis on pragmatic advice, Pete regularly applies what he recommends, actively working with delivery teams in the early stages of a project to set them up for success.

Pete has over 30 years' experience in software development. His experience covers a wide range of organisations having worked with Agile project teams in small entrepreneurial and large corporate businesses, various size government departments and a number of software vendor organisations. His industry domain knowledge includes insurance, banking, education, mobile marketing, energy, health, post, local government and central government.

Pete is also a popular public speaker having been invited to talk locally on various Agile topics by the New Zealand Computer Society, Project Management Institute, the International Institute of Business Analysis, the Agile Professionals Network and as a guest lecturer for 3rd year Information Systems students at the University of Auckland. He is also an accomplished conference speaker having delivered Agile sessions at the New Zealand Prince2 conference, BA World conferences in Sydney and Melbourne and the Agile Alliance sponsored XP2010 conference in Norway.

Pete is an experienced analyst and relishes the opportunity to lead the requirements efforts on Agile projects. His practical approach with Agile requirements and User Stories is based on many years of traditional and iterative project experience that has reinforced for him what works well and not so well for a project to deliver real value to the business.