Richard Griffiths
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About
Richard Griffiths - Experienced in agile software development and release management with over 18 years of knowledge delivering enterprise applications through multiple release cycles. Skilled at leading teams, mentoring team members in developing architecture, design, and requirements, and establishing lightweight software configuration management and release processes to enable organizations to build stable products quickly.
I'll take the first rule of evangelising Agile in that you don't talk about agile. I'd rather spend the time finding out what the problem is and see what useful solutions that may exist. Agile is not a process, it's a way of working, allowing needs to be met on both the team and customer sides.I'd also say I'll be honest about it. In any agile adoption avoiding mention of the pitfalls only sets up the team or customer for failure. Yes, failures exist, but learning from the failure is key and that's what I like to remind people of. It's ok to fail but learning from the failure is key.
I've spent a lot of time in software development, both failures and successes, long hours, death matches and the buzz of getting a product out on time. Scrum works and I've seen it work. That's what makes my job interesting.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2016-04-18 - present - MTT (Agile Evangelist)
- 2004-06-01 - 2006-03-31 - BearingPoint (Consultant)
- 2006-04-03 - 2008-06-02 - Dell Inc. (Application Development Lead)
- 2008-06-02 - 2010-03-26 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Technical PM)
- 2010-03-08 - 2011-11-18 - Pocket Kings (Scrum Master)
- 2011-12-08 - 2016-04-15 - Globoforce (Scrum Master)