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Douglas E. Shimp is a Scrum Trainer (CST) with the Scrum Alliance.

 

Doug has 17 years of experience in the technology field and has played key roles in software-product development (developer, QA, Analyst, Manager, Director of IT, Leader, Coach and Consultant etc). Doug's passion is about teams and applied learning for real product development. He has established himself as a leader in this area. He believes that for real applied learing to take place you must have a solid rational understanding as well as feeling for the paradigm of agile to make a difference. To that end he focuses his efforts on applied agile is that “You must see the result for it to be real; otherwise it is all just theory”.

 

 

Additional Materials and Sites

Promises To Frame Scrum

Advanced Topics In Scrum

 

Scrum In a Nutshell

 

"Applied Scrum, where the rubber meets the road."

"Reflect early, reflect often and almost reflect always."

"Don't be afraid to learn."

"Don't let your head work alone."

 

Currently, Doug is managing partner with 3Back, a consulting business that focuses on making teams better at applied agile product development. 3back’s focus has broadened considerably in the last couple of years as Doug has been getting requests outside of classic software development to apply agile to things like architecture firms, marketing and auto auctions. Through his experiences, he has seen that the lessons from software product development are very applicable to other areas. Doug has found that software product development provides a rapid evolutionary proving ground for selecting practices “that are working” from those “that are not”.  His passion focuses on an Applied Scrum and Agile Training approach for indivduals, teams and organizations.

 

 

 

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Upcoming Courses by Douglas

Course Title Date Range City
Certified ScrumMaster - Austin, TX 8-9 Feb 2010 Austin
Certified Scrum Product Owner - Minneapolis 22-23 Feb 2010 Minneapolis
Certified Scrum Master - Chicago 1-2 Mar 2010 Chicago
Certified-ScrumMaster-Orlando 6-7 Mar 2010 Orlando
Certified ScrumMaster San Mateo 15-16 Mar 2010 San Mateo
Certified Scrum Product Owner - Hawaii 25-26 Mar 2010 Honolulu
Certified Scrum Master - Minneapolis 29-30 Mar 2010 Minneapolis
Certified Scrum Product Owner - Chicago 5-6 Apr 2010 Chicago
Certified Scrum Product Owner Orlando 8-9 Apr 2010 Orlando
Certified ScrumMaster - Toronto 19-20 Apr 2010 Toronto
Certified ScrumMaster - Chicago 10-11 May 2010 Chicago
Certified ScrumMaster - Milwaukee, WI 13-14 May 2010 Pewaukee
Certified ScrumMaster - Charlotte, NC 17-18 May 2010 Charlotte
Certified ScrumMaster - El Segundo, CA 24-25 May 2010 El Segundo
Certified Scrum Product Owner - Austin Texas 14-15 Jun 2010 Austin

Recent Articles by Douglas

Scrum In A Nutshell 21 Dec 09

Scrum is about Teams producing Results in an agile way. Scrum Teams achieve results anyway they can by using a simple set of rules to guide effort. We will describe Scrum as a simple applied model so that a central understanding of Scrum can be built. Other complexities of applied Scrum such as scaling, distribution, etc. will be explored elsewhere.

Well-Formed Teams: Innovation Engines of Extraordinary Value 04 Apr 08
Well-formed teams don't just happened. They are created and nurtured through specific practices and ideals, both agile and traditional. Find out what a well-formed team looks like and how to move your team in that direction.
Product Development Reading List 24 Jun 07

Check out this reading list, designed to help those “in the trenches” with product development and the social aspects of building great product development teams.

Resources by Douglas

Contract among members of a scrum team
In the weekly article published 5-22-06, Dan Rawsthorne and Douglas Shimp of Net Objectives offered this contract as a way to formalize the promises necessary for a successful Scrum project.
Contract between an organization and a scrum team

Recent Comments by Douglas

On What is Definition of Done (DoD)?
Really 4 levels of done is what I see. Done at the task is a simple one - convince your teammate Done at a story - commitment to the product owner Done at a sprint - sprint goals and commitment for the set of stories Done at a release - PO dec...

 

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