About
Our mission:
To build a framework for collaboration between all Agile/Scrum participants through localized User Groups and support from the Scrum Alliance. To improve the Agile/Scrum maturity level in South Africa by sharing of war stories of successes and failure and good practices and through expert presentations.
The team leading the Scrum User Group of South Africa is:
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Charl Dreyer is a Product Development Executive with practical experience in a variety of industries. He is experienced in design and implementation of software product development discipline, with an emphasis on the Product Owner role. He balances the needs and expectations of business, market, customers, users, product managers, scrum masters, and development team members to produce well-rounded, successful solutions. |
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Peter is a recovering project manager helping organisations to transition to Agile ways of creating products. He introduced Scrum into a 300-person enterprise in 2006, was accredited as a Certified Scrum Coach in 2007 and a Certified Scrum Trainer in 2008. His website is found at ScrumSense |
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Karen Greaves is the Project Office Manager and Scrum Coach at Intec Telecoms Systems. She is currently responsible for rolling out scrum to the Cape Town R&D team of 85 people. She has worked in software for over 10 years in a number of different roles and environments. She is passionate about building good software, and creating a work environment which enables technology professionals to be creative, motivated and productive. |
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Starting off in risk management for a financial services provider, at some point Carlo realised he was spending more time involved in software development than managing financial risk, and that it was more fun. Since then he has been actively involved in software development. As a Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner, he’d like to see Scrum more widely accepted in South African IT. He currently works as a consulting agile coach in a number of projects. You can follow him on Twitter here. |
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Kevin Fourie has a wealth of operational and strategic software development experience in a variety of industries. Coming from a technical background in Control Systems in the early 90’s, Kevin experienced first hand the horror of large projects going wrong. Convinced there must be a better way, he was an early adopter and became a vocal advocate of Agile. |
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Evan Person started his career on SAP R/3 implementations at sugar mills, mines, and petroleum plants in remote parts of the country which you probably haven’t heard of an wouldn’t care to visit! For the last 12 years he has worked in a variety of roles in software development on projects in South Africa and the USA. In 2006 he was introduced to SCRUM as a Product Owner and was delighted to (re) discover that you can get more done with the right team of seven software developers than your previous team of twenty, and you can do so in half the time! |
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Neill is an experienced Business and Information Technology professional with 20 years of computer experience, particularly in Web 2.0, mobile, eCommerce and systems implementation. He runs a small mobile start-up and also works as a independent agile coach. Follow @geniusboywonder on twitter for updates on agile, scrum and general tech ramblings |
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Steve currently works for MagmaTec (software development shop in Cape Town) as the Technical Director. He has about 20 years IT experience and has worked on a variety of platforms and languages. He has been using and evangelising Scrum for the last 2-3 years and can’t see how we ran software projects in the past without Scrum. |
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