Scrum Alliance - Profile: David Martin

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David Martin Much abridged biography. Many years ago, the company I was working for was using a very paper heavy Prince2 based process. It had re... Read More

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Agile Coach at iSoft (Now CSC Healthcare)

Isoft is a major producer of healthcare software from applications for primary care (GP surgeries etc) right up to national healthcare systems. There are a number of development teams worldwide using a number of development processes with varying levels of success. My role in the solutions architecture group is to introduce best practices across the organisation and move towards a company wide adoption of Scrum as the primary development methodology.

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2011-Present

Software Development Manager at Citect/Schneider Electric

At Citect I was brought in to introduce Agile development into their product development team. The initial pilot project took a team that had struggled for 2 years to release a service pack and through Scrum delivered a major product release in 12 months with 6 monthly releases planned after that.

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2007-2010

Asia Pacific Development Manager at IMS Health

IMS is a global company specialising in medical data for drug marketing. The Asia Pacific development team developed a number of products using a very paper heavy Prince2 based process. This process was causing delays and frustration so I was tasked with finding an alternative. That alternative was Scrum. Under the Scrum process the team saw significant improvements in productivity and business satisfaction.

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2005-2007