Rod Claar has been designing, developing and implementing software since the late 1980s. His early work was driven by a desire to learn and solve work related problems that required custom software. This led to a career change to the software industry. He spent over 10 years developing software, implementing solutions and managing software products used by the largest retailers in North America.  This experience makes him especially valuable to retailers.  Many of the solutions Rod has been involved with have been data centric. His experience in this area and agile process experience have led him to start working on a book dealing with the problems of managing enterprise data in an agile environment.  His broad business and software development background give him the insight and experience to effectively help software teams of any size. Rod is a Certified ScrumMaster Practitioner (CSM-P), Agile Coach and teaches Scrum, User Stories and Estimation, Agile Software Development, and Test-Driven Development.