Ken Schwaber (born 1945 in Wheaton, Illinois) is a software developer, product manager and industry consultant.

[1] Schwaber and Sutherland are two of the 17 initial signatories of the Agile Manifesto.

[citation needed] He is a founder of the Agile Alliance, and he is responsible for founding the Scrum Alliance and creating the Certified Scrum Master programs and its derivatives.

He resigned from the Scrum Alliance in 2009 after a disagreement with the board regarding assessments, certification, and a developer program.

At Scrum.org, he led the development of new courseware, assessments, and partnerships to improve the quality and effectiveness of Scrum.