Agile Guru Pete Deemer joins Calcey as Advisor

Above: Mr. Pete Deemer.

Colombo-based Calcey Technologies this week announced that Pete Deemer has joined the company as Advisor. A familiar face within the agile software community, Mr. Deemer has spent many years in Silicon Valley building products and leading teams. He played a pivotal role as VP of product development at Yahoo! after serving as SVP at c|net Networks. He is also a co-founder of the award-winning GameSpot website.

He is the founder and CEO of GoodAgile, which has offices in Sri Lanka, Singapore, and India, and is the lead author of The Scrum Primer, one of the most widely read introductory texts on agile development. Mr. Deemer was Chairman of the Scrum Alliance in 2016 and served on its Board of Directors from 2012-2017,” according to a Calcey media release.

“We are delighted to welcome Pete into the Calcey family. The standards set in the Valley are regarded the benchmark for software development. Pete’s appointment will help us keep our processes and engineering practices world-class through the next phase of our growth,” said Mangala Karunaratne, founder and CEO of Calcey Technologies.

“Having seen what Calcey has accomplished over the last 18 years, I'm very excited to help Mangala and the team grow and evolve the business even further. Moreover, Calcey’s ability to stick to its refreshingly honest principles and deliver world-class software from its beautiful innovation park in Colombo, is a testament to both Calcey’s future potential as well as that of Sri Lanka,” Mr. Deemer added.