Gabrielle Benefield

Current

• Founder at Scrum Training Institute

Past

• Snr. Director Methods and Practices at Yahoo!
• VP Product Development at PlanetOut Inc
• Sr Engagement Manager at CollabNet

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Education

• University of Western Sydney

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Industry

Computer Software

Gabrielle Benefield’s Summary

Collab
Yahoo

Gabrielle Benefield’s Specialties:

Agile, Scrum, XP

Gabrielle Benefield’s Experience

• Founder

  Scrum Training Institute

  (Privately Held; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  The Scrum Training Institute is the premier global provider of certified Scrum training and consulting. Founded by four of the leading Scrum experts in the US, Europe, and Asia, STI provides a complete solution for companies seeking high-impact results from Scrum and Agile development

• Snr. Director Methods and Practices

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  March 2005 — February 2008 (3 years)

  Head of the Methods and Practices group at Yahoo! helping to improve the way people develop products. The M&P group includes the Agile coaching team, community and Hack.

• VP Product Development

  PlanetOut Inc

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2002 — 2005 (3 years)

  VP of Product Development & Technology 02/04 to 02/2005
  
  * Manager of the technology department including engineering, web development, technical operations, and QA
  * Implemented Agile process (Scrum and XP) resulting in a 100% increase is productivity in the development groups
  * Directed major platform and architecture re-build porting from TCL to java
  * Led operations major initiatives in Security, DoS and Business Continuity Planning.
  * Drove product roadmap definition and product management

• Sr Engagement Manager

  CollabNet

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2001 — November 2002 (1 year 1 month)

  • Engagement and Project manager for Sun Microsystems (Jxta, Jini, NetBeans, OpenOffice, Gridengine, Sunsource,), Oracle and Motorola.

Gabrielle Benefield’s Education

• University of Western Sydney

  Masters of Design, , Digital Media , 1996 — 1998

Additional Information

Gabrielle Benefield’s Groups:

•    Agilistas
•    PlanetOut Employees and Alumni

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