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Bob Gower

San Francisco Bay Area

Bob Gower is passionate about developing great organizations that change the world.

An author, speaker, and consultant, Bob spent more than 15 years leading complex, creative projects across myriad sectors. Bob was Director of Design and Production at the SF Examiner and later worked on early digital presences for MSNBC, Elance, Newsweek, Discovery, and many other properties.

After receiving his MBA in Sustainable Management from the Presidio Graduate School, Bob managed products for Silicon Valley startups, including MaestroConference and Genius Inc. He’s currently an Agile Coach for Rally Software, where he specializes in enterprise-level Agile transformations. He's worked with Kaiser Permanente, Ford, Travelers, eBay and many other organizations.

Bob is the author of the bestselling book "Agile Business: A Leader’s Guide to Harnessing Complexity" (available on Amazon.com) and maintains a popular blog at bobgower.com, where he writes regularly on building better workplaces, leadership, Agile, and systems theory. Bob's writing has been featured on PandoDaily, Productive Flourishing and several other publications.

When not traveling, Bob lives in New York City.

$4.17/min

Bob donates to charity: water ($0.00)

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Bob brings a great combination of marketing and people skills with him. He is a joy to work with and a true asset when it comes to solving difficult problems.

Jørgen Vos Source: LinkedIn

Bob is a marketing powerhouse; he knows how to drill down the the essence of a client's objectives. Bob looks at all angles of a project and creatively comes up with solutions that get the job done. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Bob and definitely recommend him for any difficult challenge. In addition to his business acumen, he's a pretty nice guy as well!

Rob Beahm Source: LinkedIn

I worked with Bob at IAB and Circle.com. As the manager of the technical team that implemented Bob's design strategies, I was always impressed by his work, professionalism and creativity. Understanding that quality means more than just the beauty of design, Bob created plans that helped the engineering team successfully fulfill his vision. His attention to detail, and focus on the end user, made his design solutions work and satisfy the customer's needs. I was happy to work with Bob, would do so again, and would recommend him to others.

K. Eric Mittler Source: LinkedIn

Bob is a bright creative thinker full of great ideas. He is authentic in his passion for the environment and social justice, and his entreprenuerial drive and business acumen make him a valuable recourse for his clients. I would highly recommend Bob for a variety of mission critical roles in any organization.

Chris Bartle Source: LinkedIn

I worked with Bob as part of the Examiner launch team in 2000, and as we moved the paper into tabloid format. Bob brought to those projects an incredible graphic vision and ability to translate that vision to the news designers. He was a calming influence in periods of great stress and turmoil at the paper, and helped to make it something lasting for San Francisco.

Adriel Hampton Source: LinkedIn

Bob came to Genius and brought his extensive process and coaching experience into our agile development environment. Bob is very process oriented and takes a coaching approach to his work, which helps disarm contentious situations. Bob helped refine processes, grease communications, and drive effective meetings.

Scott Mersy Source: LinkedIn

Bob is an excellent agile product manager, and it was such a pleasure to work with him. Bob is very detailed oriented, and is very skilled at managing the product development road-map from concept to post-launch. He has a track record for delivering according to plan/budget and has the gift of exceeding expectation. Bob is also keenly aware of identifying key product differentiators for strategic competitive displacement. Bob is a rare talent!

Deon Booker Source: LinkedIn

Bob's arrival at Genius marked the beginning of an evolution of the Product Management team. His excellent grasp of Agile development processes rivaled (and surpassed) that of the Engineering team at times. He directly improved our process for choosing, sizing, and tracking stories. He helped us to grasp the bigger picture and put transparency in to the product backlog and the decisions being made about it. Bob's ability to run a meeting helped us stop wasting our already stretched time and simply get more done.

Bob was an excellent Product Manager but I think an even better process consultant and coach. When you are in the middle of it all, it can be hard to see what you could do better. We were, for a long time, constantly missing our sprint targets and thus larger targets as well. He made concrete suggestions and changes which directly improved our speed and quality. His willingness to adapt when necessary and push back when appropriate is a skill not everyone has.

Angelo DiNardi Source: LinkedIn

Bob is The Agile Guru. His commitment to building and incrementing the process is impressive. He embraces the cultivation of relationships and learning from third parties to strengthen and inform the organization.

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Bob is focused on results, and brings a passion for clear design and usability. A year later, we still get lots of compliments from customers and prospects for the application design that Bob brought to MaestroConference. I highly recommend his work.

Brian Burt Source: LinkedIn

Bob brings his wealth of knowledge about Agile development and experience to help teams produce great end products. Bob significantly influenced the way our team performed retrospectives, how we managed the product backlog and made countless other contributions to the process. He kept himself actively involved in the back and forth of design and development; clearing up ambiguity and bringing insight into the future of the product. Bob's knowledge, experience and attitude would be an asset to any Agile team looking to get started with Agile or just improve their process.

Cheston Lee Source: LinkedIn

Member since September 2013