Steffan Surdek is a senior consultant and agile coach at Pyxis Technologies. Steffan has worked in IT for over eighteen years in collaboration with many distributed teams around the world. In the last few years, Steffan was an agile trainer and coach in large companies such as IBM and the TD Bank Group. He speaks at many conferences and user groups about agility with distributed teams. Steffan is co-author of the book 'A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum' written in collaboration with the IBM Scrum Community. He blogs on his websites surdek.ca and provokingleadership.com.