Stephen Antony
About
In 2011 I was first introduced to Scrum as a software developer on a Scrum team. It was so refreshing that Scrum at least attempted to mitigate the inherent risks I have been seeing writing code for the last 10+ years. I immediately gravitated toward relative estimation and short sprint iterations, which address the most obvious short coming of most development teams I've been on. Estimates are close to worthless, and giving a team too much time is akin to digging one's own grave. After several years of being a Scrum team member, watching my Scrum Masters do their thing and having an excellent Scrum Mentor coach us into performant teams, I thought to myself; "I think I could do a good job at this." In 2013 the Scrum Master position became available, I applied for it and got it. In the last three years I have been the Scrum Master for 4 Teams. Transitioned one of them from no process to a Scrum process. Have done numerous onboard training for new team members and presented various topics of Scrum like "The Benefits of Backlog Refinements" and "How to get Teams to Vertically Slice User Stories." It's been challenging and I have to say quite exciting and humbling when I ponder the depth of what it takes to master my new Craft.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2013-04-01 - present - Heartland Payment Systems (Scrum Master)
- 2007-01-02 - 2009-01-04 - Technical Business Consulting (.NET Developer)
- 2009-01-04 - 2010-01-04 - Rich Dad (Database Architect)
- 2010-01-04 - 2013-01-04 - Heartland Payment Systems (Software Developer)