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Personal Details

First Name: Steve
Last Name: Hayes
Employer: Cogent Consulting Pty Ltd (Australia)
Years Experience in Agile: 10+
Short Bio: Steve Hayes is a principal of Cogent Consulting. He has been involved in agile development, mainly Extreme Programming, since 1999, as a developer, coach, team leader and as a software development manager. After a career in Silicon Valley and Wall St Steve returned to Australia in 2001, and since then has been involved in growing and supporting agile development in Australia. He has been a presenter at software conferences (Borcon Australia, Software Education agile conferences), has written columns on agile development and the Ruby programming language for Builder.com, and presented courses to industry on Extreme Programming, Test Driven Development and the Ruby language. Lately Steve has been involved in developing the Suncorp agile training curriculum and managing the redevelopment of ateam of 30 developers using agile methods.