Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Beedle
or merge) to Scrum (software development) - This is a sightly difficult case.  doesn't apply here as the person wasn't an academic. The argument that "Beedle's books have received in excess of seven thousand citations. That is a clear pass of " is not exactly correct. If you look at https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Mike+Beedle%22 Google Scholar, the first book "Agile software development with Scrum" is notable (coincidentally I am reading it right now). However, the figure of "Cited by 3615"seems to be inflated. A look at https://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100437642&coll=DL&dl=ACM&trk=0 citation count on ACM digital library gives 364 citations. The second and third items on google scholar are actually the same document: "Agile Manifesto" which was signed by 17 people including Beedle. I wouldn't count this as an academic publication and the citation count is inflated as Google takes into account various unpublished technical reports. Overall, the subject's claim to notability is for being one of people involved in describing "Scrum" along with Ken Schwaber in the book "Agile software development with Scrum" (mentioned above). The subject is notable for one contribution  and it seems fitting to redirect  this to Scrum (software development
— User:DreamLinker, 08:50, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:PROF||WP:BLP1E (Wikipedia:Notability)