Jamie Lynn Cooke has 25 years’ experience as a senior business analyst, project manager, and solutions consultant, working with more than 130 public and private sector organizations throughout Australia, Canada, and the United States.
She is the author of Agile Productivity Unleashed: Proven Approaches for Achieving Real Productivity Gains in Any Organization, a book written specifically to explain Agile methods in nontechnical business terms to managers and executives outside the IT industry; Agile: An Executive Guide: Real Results from IT budgets, which gives IT executives the tools and strategies needed for bottom-line business decisions on using Agile methods; Everything You Want to Know about Agile: How to Get Agile Results in a Less-than-Agile Organization, which gives readers strategies for aligning Agile work within the reporting, budgeting, staffing, and governance constraints of their organization; and The Power of the Agile Business Analyst: 30 Surprising Ways a Business Analyst Can Add Value to Your Agile Development Team, which details 30 core activities that Agile business analysts can undertake to ensure that Agile development teams deliver the highest possible business-value solution for the organization.
Jamie is a well-regarded speaker on both business and technology topics, most recently presenting on issues such as “Getting Management and Business User Support for Using Agile” and “When Is Agile Not the Answer?” at the Business Process Modelling world conference in Brisbane, Australia and at the AgileCanberra professional forums.
Jamie is a Certified Scrum Product Owner and Certified ScrumMaster who has been working hands-on with Agile methods since 2003, and has researched hundreds of books and articles on Agile topics. She is a signatory to the Agile Manifesto, has attended numerous Agile seminars, and has worked with prominent consultants to promote Agile methods to organizations worldwide.
She has also been actively involved in a range of successful PRINCE2 projects in her work with the Australian Government.
Jamie has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Psychology (Human Factors Engineering) from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and a Graduate Certificate in e-Business/Business Informatics from the University of Canberra in Australia.