Doug Shimp – Agile Scrum Coach

Watch the first Livestream presentation today on Scrum product development channel.

It is my experience that these groups are driven by people who are not use to some necessary deliberate (self included) structure.
…. structures help groups sustain their existence.

So, I found a new tool to play with and it is pretty slick. The tool is free and allows you to make some interesting word art for little to no effort. Here is what you do. Visit Wordle Navigate to the create tab Enter an Url ( For example, I used an atom feed [...]

Catch Me as a Certified On Demand Coach.   Remote coaching or distributed coaching can be done through numerous mechanisms.  You can connect with me via phone, Various Online Meetings, Skype, ooVoo, or high definition video. You can connect with me directly on my Contact. Follow my micro blog on Daily Scrum on Twitter or ping [...]

The purpose of this post is to consider Four Pillars of Software Development and Simpley Rules Project Management is mainly about “managing the work” or stimulating the environment so the work gets done with minimal telling people how / what to do. Source Control if it’s only one file then, I don’t need it of [...]

Scrum is framework for managing complex product development. It is a management wrapper around that can be used for developing any product or managing any work. With Scrum, teams can regularly deliver a potentially shippable (releasable) set of functionality every sprint (iteration). Scrum uses a strategy of iterative and incremental delivery to provide the agility [...]

I find that when people think they are beyond the Scrum basics, they are not. It like saying you know how to dribble the basketball and therefore you no longer need to practice dribbling. Whatever you know today, you must work to keep it. It is not yours and can be lost. That’s the price [...]

The Scrum Alliance is rolling out a new Scrum certification exam. As a Certified Scrum Trainer. I had the opportunity to proctor the exam. After delivering my first Kansas City CSM class 5 of my students elected to stay late and take the exam with me. I have mixed feelings about the exam. Will it [...]

Just recently I setup an account on Twitter, called Scrum_Coach. I’m not sure how this tool will work out or really it’s overall purpose in establishing and building a professional image around. I will be using this image for the things I do related to agile and scrum as a coach.