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John Duncan works with and leads creative people doing difficult work. His career started in news, with the Guardian newspaper in London where he b... Read More
John Duncan works with and leads creative people doing difficult work. His career started in news, with the Guardian newspaper in London where he became general manager of the Observer newspaper in 1999. His approach even then was showing hints of an agile style, running 10-minute project meetings that became notorious in the company for actually getting stuff done. After moving to the United States John consulted with news organizations around the world on processes for the digital newsroom, acting as a process coach to restructure newsrooms who were having to rethink how they operated in a new digital era. Now with the agile manifesto in his back pocket, John introduced newly consoidated newsrooms to new ways of making and keeping committments to each other in multiple workflows in what were effectively daily sprints. After winning a Knight Fellowship to work at Stanford in the D School and Computer Science departments for a year, John took his newly updated vision of agile development to a news startup Hearsay.it before landing at Mad Mobile in Tampa. At Mad, John reorganized a talented but failing development team and built a scrum process into the company's DNA. As a vendor selling to and producing for multiple clients, the challenges to a workable scrum environment were significant. But through multiple iterations and experiments the company soon became recognized in mobile web development as one of the best software implementers in the business. In the process of implementing scrum at Mad, John has coached multiple external client teams on how to interact with a scrum framework and has coached developers and project managers on how to build a workable scrum process within their own business.
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