About the Authors

Ron Eringa is a Leadership Developer. His mission is to create organizations where people love to work and where real customer value is created. In the last 20 years, he has built expertise on how to lead IT organizations that use agile and Scrum. After an initial education in electrical engineering and software engineering, Ron ended up in different leadership roles. In these roles he discovered the leadership capabilities that are essential to create autonomous teams with a high level of maturity and creativity. He believes that autonomous teams are the fundamental core of a modern organization that thrives in this complex and ever-changing world. Many of the stories in this book were shaped while Ron was developing the Professional Agile Leadership class together with leadership experts in the Scrum.org community. By mixing in his expertise on cultural change and leadership development, Ron hopes to inspire a large audience of leaders to reach their full potential.

Kurt Bittner has been delivering working products in short, feedback-driven cycles for nearly 40 years and has helped many organizations do the same. He is particularly interested in helping people form strong, self-organizing, high-performance teams that deliver solutions that customers love, and helping organizations use empirical feedback to achieve customer outcome-focused goals. He is an author or editor of many books on agile product development, including Mastering Professional Scrum, The Zombie Scrum Survival Guide, The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum, The Professional Scrum Team, and Professional Agile Leadership, as well as The Guide to Evidence-Based Management and The Nexus Guide.

Laurens Bonnema is an Agile Trainer and Management Consultant and a mentor to leaders creating resilient organizations at any scale. He has a strong background in IT, with experience in almost every role. As a Professional Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Certified Agile Master, Agile Master Assessor, IPMA Agile Assessor, and PRINCE2 Practitioner, Laurens strives to merge classic and agile management in the conviction that it is the future of professional management. As a Professional Scrum Trainer and SAFe Program Consultant, he helps to improve the profession of software delivery as well as marketing, human resources, and finance. Laurens brings to his teaching his experience in enterprise IT since 1999 and on Scrum Teams since 2006. He is a driving force in the Agile community and a sought-after speaker at conferences and events.