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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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 currently the Software Development Manager at Fundamo. She was previously the Scrum Coach at Intec where she was responsible for their Scrum roll out to approximately 100 people in Cape Town R&D. She has worked in software for over 12 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. You can read her blog here. |
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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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Marius has been an avid practitioner of Agile Engineering Practices since 2002 as technical lead and mentor. In 2008 he also started coaching in Agile Management Practices and completed an Agile Apprenticeship in the USA and Canada which included his Scrum Master Certification with Ken Schwaber. Marius has mentored teams in implementing Scrum and Kanban. |
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