Rob Myers, Principal Instructor & Coach
Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) · 40 years in software development · 28 years training and coaching Agile engineering practices · 1,000+ developers trained · Clients include Intel, Microsoft, LG, Apple, Netflix, HBO.
About
“Rob Myers is to agile software development what Yoda is to practical use of The Force.”
— JM
Rob has 40 years of professional software development experience, including six years as full-time developer-coach on a variety of Extreme Programming (XP) teams, and has been training and coaching organizations in Agile engineering practices since 1998. His courses blend fun, practical, hands-on coding labs, "Training From the Back of the Room” techniques, and relevant first-person stories from both successful and not-so-successful Agile implementations. He’s a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer specializing in Advanced Certified Scrum Developer courses (A-CSD), and the author of Essential Test-Driven Development.
Written by Rob Myers
Foreword by Richard Sheridan
Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2026
Mission
To help you create worthwhile software & a sane workplace.
To provide clients with enjoyable, pragmatic courses & coaching that will strengthen their teams’ essential skills; so that those teams can provide the most valuable, maintainable, high-quality software possible.
We accomplish this by offering highly interactive, immersive, and fun courses on the testing and development practices that make Agile methods—such as Scrum or Kanban—work as expected at your organization.
History
Hi, I’m Rob Myers, principal instructor, coach, and founder of Agile Institute. I work with teams to encourage and strengthen Agile skills and practices, and to help organizations customize and improve their software development methods.
Agile Institute was established in 2008, and I’ve been delivering my flagship course, Essential Test-Driven Development, to developers all over the planet ever since. I’m grateful to my many clients (primarily Intel, Microsoft, and LG) for showing me the world: Argentina, Canada, China, Denmark, England, India, Ireland, Japan, Puerto Rico, South Korea, and numerous cities throughout the US. I’m also grateful for the opportunity to work with over 1000 talented developers, to help them establish good habits towards safer software delivery and more engaging careers.
Before that, I started out as a professional programmer in 1986. My first taste of what would become known as “Agile” was in 1998, on an Extreme Programming (XP) R&D project for StorageTek. For six years, I worked as XP “player-coach” (i.e., developer plus Agile mentor) for a variety of long-term clients. I had the pleasure of working closely with industry luminaries such as James Shore (The Art of Agile Development), Joshua Kerievsky (Refactoring to Patterns), & Richard Sheridan (Joy, Inc.).
I started teaching various Agile-related technical courses in 2002. My clients have ranged from tiny startups to massive Fortune 100 international conglomerates, including: Adobe, American Express, Apple, Blueport, Capital Group, CivicPlus, Dart Container, Fugro, Global Shop Solutions, Halliburton, HBO, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, iZotope, Jobvite, JustAnswer, LG, MakeMusic, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Nationwide Insurance, Netflix, Nike, Optum, Press Ganey, Prezi, Relativity (nee kCura), Riot Games, SalesForce.com, Samsung, Schilling Robotics, Ship Sticks LLC, Symantec, Vanguard, Visa, VSP, & ZocDoc.
I look forward to working with you and your teams!
— Rob Myers