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. Doug is currently developing a Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) course.  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.