Dean J. Kynaston

Dean J. Kynaston is an experienced scrum master, coach, author and mentor with nearly 20 years of experience empowering leaders, teams, and individuals to become more agile. With Steve, he taught the agile project management curriculum at Ensign College in Salt Lake City, Utah for post-secondary institutions. Dean is also a co-author of both Agile Project Managment For Dummies and Scrum For Dummies and the author of multiple Platinum Edge blog articles.

A Platinum Edge alumni himself and former Project Management Professional (PMP), Dean has worked with multiple organizations and seen much success applying agile values and principles. He has worked with executive leadership and individual teams in both for-profit and non-profit industries, particularly in real estate, construction, automotive, healthcare, logistics, and pharmaceuticals. He holds an MBA from Boise State University, is a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM and CSP-PO), Certified Psychological Safety Coach and earned a B.S. in Business Management with an emphasis in finance from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University and a Masters of Business Administration from Boise State University. As a busy father of a large blended family (including 3 adopted sons), and a grand-father, Dean finds many opportunities to use scrum with his family team as well.