About

Dan Prager (PhD) is a long time Agile coach and consultant based in Melbourne, Australia.

An early adopter of Agile, Dan coaches and trains people in Agile and DevOps in startups, scale-ups, and larger organisations. Dan is a passionate supporter of the Australian Agile community, and a regular speaker and participant at conferences and meet-ups. In 2019 Dan created The Facilitation Dojo in collaboration with Lan Diep and Ross MacIntyre to help lift the level of facilitation skills in the Agile, IT, and wider business communities.

After completing his PhD in computational mathematical physics Dan left academia for a career in software development. He quickly discovered that trying to plan everything up front made very little sense, and went looking for better approaches. This led him to iterative and incremental approaches to creating software, fore-runners of Agile. Later he learned that Agile approaches generalise to all forms of knowledge work.

Dan is passionate about martial arts. He helped establish the Monash University Jiu-jitsu club while a graduate student, and has taught a weekly class at the Monash Caulfield campus since 2005. He holds third degree black belts in both Japanese Jiu-jitsu and classical Judo, and a first dan equivalent in Hung Kuen Chinese Boxing.

Dan is married to Andi Herman. Together they created YouPatch (a web site for turning images into patchwork quilt designs), and have three children.