Dave Todaro Books

For the last 35 years, Dave has been a technology leader involved in all aspects of product vision, software engineering and entrepreneurship. Dave is CEO at Ascendle, which specializes in agile coaching and custom web and mobile app development with Microsoft .NET and Xamarin. Ascendle helps companies produce the highest business value in the shortest amount of time by utilizing and teaching the Scrum agile framework. Dave graduated from the honors program at the University of New Hampshire with a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering. He joined BID2WIN Software in Portsmouth, NH as a startup as employee number 2 in 1994. For 18 years Dave managed the software development team and drove the technology vision as the chief technology executive. He built the team, designed the process, and produced multiple award-winning products. He started programming at age 11 and shipped his first commercial software at age 15. Dave is the former chairman of the Software Association of New Hampshire and currently volunteers his time as a member of the UNH Computer Science Industry Advisory Board. When not working or volunteering you can find Dave on the golf course or flying above New England piloting his single-engine Cirrus SR22 airplane. Genre: non-fiction This book is a comprehensive cheat sheet, saving you the years of heartache and frustration you’d experience if you were forced to learn all of this through trial and error. It has everything you need, from an overview of Scrum and why it works, to practical tips to create and guide your Scrum team to deliver at a world-class level. Most important, it has explanations of the technical tools and techniques your team needs to deliver rock-solid software on a consistent and predictable basis. However, it’s not written for a technical audience. Everything is spelled out in plain English, so you’ll be able to understand it even if you’re not technical.