Timothy Bowler

Before starting, I would like to tell you the two reasons why I want to share this. Firstly, the many books on scrum that I have read all talk about scrum in large corporate companies where the team might work on a project at a time. As I work in a small creative digital agency where we have many projects on the go, not to mention other influencing work - how does scrum fit in with us? The second reason is how to introduce scrum into a place where the core management do not really understand the scrum process and do not wish to know.

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After one and a half years of using scrum, I have finally been accepted as a Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP). But, this is only the beginning! I think the next step is to go for certified scrum trainer status. During the last year or two I have learned a great deal of scrum implementation which of course I will be sharing fairly soon.

Four weeks after the first London Scrum Users Group, Austin and myself devoted some of our free time organise the second meet up. The meeting was kick started by a small welcome followed by everyone introducing themselves to the group. Following that, I started off the main proceedings by presenting to the group a case study of introducing scrum into a small/medium sized digital agency. Afterwards there was a question and answer session (The case study and questions/answers will be posted as another article).

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Early this year I was looking for a better development process to introduce into the company that I work for, and I came across SCRUM. After reading a few books I realised that by using SCRUM our whole development process would be a lot more efficient. Therefore, in June I successfully introduced part of the SCRUM process. I say only part of SCRUM because we did not follow every guideline. In Novemeber I completed the Certified Scrum Master (CSM) course.

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