Kevin Pedersen
About
I started off my career in England as a developer working on the Y2K bug all those years ago.
In the mid 2000's I took a few years off to become a photographer in Austria. Whilst there I met my wife and moved back to her homeland of Cape Town, South Africa.
I first learned of Agile and Scrum in 2008 when we tried unsuccessfully to introduce it to the development team I was working in as a Systems Analyst. We knew the current waterfall methods were not working, but we also couldn't quite work out how Scrum was supposed to work either. Eventually we managed to make a mish mash 'Wagile' or 'Scrumfall' approach which was better than what we had, but still didnt quite work.
Later on I joined Unboxed Consulting who are Agile specialists in all they do. Agile runs through the whole philosphy of the company, and its here that I learned how to properly implement Scrum. I have been working with agile methodologies since 2010 and I believe seeing the worst of waterfall implementations before that has helped me to appreciate what agile is all about.
I then joined Intervate as the next step in my career as a Scrum Master to help them move from a waterfall based approach to an agile approach. In this role I am not only Scrum Master, but a Product Owner and then became an Agile Coach as I progressed.
I also volunteer as a committee member for the Scrum User Group of South Africa. We organise monthly meetups for guest speakers and monthly lean coffee's held in 2 locations in Cape Town. We also organise a Coaching Retreat and a Regional Scrum Gathering annually.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 02/01/2020 - present - Growing Agile (Managing Director / Agile Coach)
- 03/05/2018 - 01/31/2020 - IQbusiness (Agile Coach)
- 12/01/2016 - 03/02/2018 - DStv (Scrum Master)
- 11/01/2012 - 11/30/2016 - Intervate (Agile Coach)
- 11/01/2010 - 10/31/2012 - Unboxed Consulting (ScrumMaster)
- 06/02/2008 - 06/30/2010 - Aurecon (Product Owner)