Oleksandr (Alex) Yakyma of Kyiv, Ukraine, is an agile trainer and consultant who has been applying agile practices in the software industry for over a decade. Alex has worked with Dean Leffingwell on a number of larger accounts over the last few years, often providing support for the Europe and India offshore development shops of larger clients.
Formerly, as program manager and agile master at leading outsourcing software provider, Luxoft, Inc., he built a number of successful agile teams. He also served as director of software development for Internet identity company ProQuo, Inc., headquartered in San Diego, CA. He is an agile thought leader and has published a number of whitepapers on agile methods to his Ukrainian and Russian audience. Alex is fluent in English, Ukrainian, Russian, XP, Scrum and Test-Driven Development.
Alex typically delivers the following workshops: Scrum for Teams, Scrum Master, Agile Product Owner, Advanced Scrum Master and Agile Engineering Manager. In the sometimes-neglected area of agile technical practices, Alex also delivers workshops in Test-Driven Development, Acceptance-Test driven development, Pair Programming, Agile Object-Oriented Design and Modeling, and Specification by Example.
Alex Yakyma
Oleksandr (Alex) Yakyma of Kyiv, Ukraine, is an agile trainer and consultant who has been applying agile practices in the software industry for over a decade. Alex has worked with Dean Leffingwell on a number of larger accounts over the last few years, often providing support for the Europe and India offshore development shops of larger clients.
Formerly, as program manager and agile master at leading outsourcing software provider, Luxoft, Inc., he built a number of successful agile teams. He also served as director of software development for Internet identity company ProQuo, Inc., headquartered in San Diego, CA. He is an agile thought leader and has published a number of whitepapers on agile methods to his Ukrainian and Russian audience. Alex is fluent in English, Ukrainian, Russian, XP, Scrum and Test-Driven Development.
Alex typically delivers the following workshops: Scrum for Teams, Scrum Master, Agile Product Owner, Advanced Scrum Master and Agile Engineering Manager. In the sometimes-neglected area of agile technical practices, Alex also delivers workshops in Test-Driven Development, Acceptance-Test driven development, Pair Programming, Agile Object-Oriented Design and Modeling, and Specification by Example.