About Me
Longer Bio
Doug Shimp
Douglas E. Shimp has 18 years of experience in the technology field and has played key roles in software development (developer, QA, Analyst, Manager, Leader, Coach and Consultant etc). Doug whose passion is about teams and applied learning for real product development is establishing himself as a leader in this area. He believes that the core bases for applied agile is that “You must see the result for it to be real; otherwise it is all just theory to the individual”.
One of Doug’s distinctions is his focus on the interaction of technology and corporate cultural issues. He is an active writter on numeros blogs and a budding expert in social media. He has taken his passion for bending technology to help people better communicate. Doug is actively using his passion for technology / people interactions to establish online communities and social network where individuals can build reputations and companies can build better reputation / brand identities.
Doug has also worked in the finance industry as a leader for the management and development of core finance technology. The finance company created a subsidiary company that needed an emergent business/technology trend setter to push its IT systems forward. Doug was successful in enabling the parent company to attain a dominant market position by providing incubation space for the innovation of key finance technology.
Currently, Doug is managing partner with 3Back, a consulting business that focuses on “making teams better” at applied agile product development. 3Back’s clients who are using agile practices across teams in their organizations range from 45 employees to 3000 employees. 3back’s focus has broadened considerably in the last couple of years as Doug has been getting requests outside of classic software development to apply agile to things like architecture firms, marketing houses and auto auctions. Through his experiences, he has seen that the lessons from software product development are very applicable to other areas. Doug has found that software product development has been an evolutionary proving ground for selecting practices “that work” from those “that do not work”.
Short Bio
Douglas E. Shimp has 18 years of experience in the technology field and has played key roles in software development (developer, QA, Analyst, Manager, Leader, Coach and Consultant). Doug’s passion is about teams and applied learning for product development. He has established himself as a leader in the area of agile/scrum transitions and applied practices. He believes that the core bases for applied agile is that “You must see the result for it to be real; otherwise it is all just theory to the individual”. He is co-founder of 3Back LLC that specializes in helping teams get better in applied pathways of agile, scrum, lean and PMBOK. His latest craze and focus is on social media and video conferencing. He is using tools of social media and video conferencing for improved adaptive team behaviors especially distributed teams. He is also using tools of social media and web analytics to help others and organizations learn how to approach this confusing but critical paradigm for product development.
More of his work can be found
· http://twitter.com/scrum_coach (daily scrum throughts)
· http://advancedtopicsinscrum.com (deep thoughts and book material for applied scrum)
· http://www.scrumalliance.org/profiles/29-douglas-e-shimp (Certified Scrum Trainer and published articles)
· http://3back.com (his company and their services)
· http://doug-shimp.net (just about everything else he does)
