Title: The Trials and Tribulations of Starting and Growing an Agile Organisation.
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Affiliation: Headforwards
Job title: Scrum Master & Director
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Homepage: http://www.headforwards.com
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Craig Girvan is a Scrum Master and founding director of Headforwards, an Agile software development outsourcing company based in Cornwall. Craig started his software development career as a Java, and then .Net developer at Logica. Following this, he joined Tesco.com as a C#.NET developer and then Development Team Lead working on the initial version of Tesco Direct, followed by a re-write of Tesco.com’s main grocery website. At his time at Tesco.com Craig became a Scrum/Agile evangelist working with development teams to adopt Scrum, and the overall organisation to embrace the benefits of Agile. He then returned home to Cornwall where he set-up Headforwards leading development teams working on cutting-edge cloud products offered by NTT (Japanese Telco giant). It is on a most recent cloud project for NTT that Craig’s team has implemented a continuous delivery pipeline enabling zero-downtime deployments to a multi-region and high-availability production environment.
Country: United Kingdom