Richard Birch is a CSM and CSP. He acts as ScrumMaster for a software development team, and also mentors and coaches ScrumMasters in other teams, both within IT and the wider business. Richard was trained initially, in 2009, by Geoff Watts. After year of applying and using Scrum Richard submitted case studies and became a CSP. Late in 2010, Richard enjoyed a refresher course, run by Paul Goddard (and Geoff again).

Richard has found the Scrum 'journey' to be a challenging but rewarding and fruitful one, with common sense at the core of the approach which runs up against a powerful inertia in terms of 'the way things work' in a corporate environment.

As a pragmatist and an implementor; Richard enjoys working with teams to get things done, and Scrum is a great vehicle for doing just this.

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