Trail Ridge Consulting is the leading business performance guide. We positively impact enterprise organizational agility by aligning proven organizational structures with our enterprise-enabled agile best practices.

Our enterprise IT experience is your key differentiator to a successful agile transition. Here are some of the benefits you will see from an engagement with Trail Ridge.

Principals

 Pete Behrens is the founder and principal consultant with Trail Ridge Consulting. He is an entrepreneur and executive product development leader with over 18 years in agile and adaptive development methods, product direction and management, engineering, architecture, and leadership.

He is a Certified Scrum Coach & Trainer and an active member in the agile community.

Prior to his work at Trail Ridge Consulting, Pete has led agile product direction, engineering, development process and architecture at Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Rational Software Corporation (now an IBM product line) and Roving Planet, Inc, a wireless management and security provider.

 Our Beliefs

We believe that no consultant can come in and fix an organization.
An organization with the will to change can and must be in charge of its own improvement program. But it’s hard going it alone. Our Organizational Agility Program acts like a mirror in which your organization can see itself in new ways, combined with a kit of proven organizational patterns. You select the patterns that address the problems of your organization—problems that the “mirror” helps you to identify and bring out in the open.

We believe that agility must go one step deeper than your development process.
That is, the organization itself must be adaptable and responsive to your market and business environment. Methodologies at best can give you an agile process—a necessary but insufficient step to improvement. Organizations need flexible structures that allow their processes to be agile.

We believe in being open and productive.
Trail Ridge Consulting does not prescribe a methodology; it is not a mandate; it is not a touchy-feely feel-good session. We provide guidance, inspiration, and a collection of resources that have proven valuable to organizations worldwide. We combine the concerns of business, methodology, and human effectiveness to achieve your business goals.

We believe in giving you enough structure to get started and to grow.
We do not believe in an out-of-the box method that tells you what to do at every turn. We do not believe in giving you platitudes and principals, leaving you to guess what else to do. We get our hands dirty working with you, but you own the direction and the choice of practices you adopt.

We believe in the basics.
We believe that very little that is good is new. Often, all an organization needs is the confidence that comes from legitimizing and organizing current good practices—legitimizing them in terms of industry experience. We bring you a wealth of codified experience, written in pattern form, to guide your progress.