Rowan Bunning

Rowan Bunning is an Australian pioneer of Scrum having become Australia's first recognised ScrumMaster in 2003, Australia’s first Certified Scrum Practitioner® (CSP) in 2006 and Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) in early 2008. In 2019 he became the first Path to CSP® Educator in Australia to be accredited to offer the full suite of professional development offerings for Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches through to Certified Scrum Professional®.

With a background in software development including with eXtreme Programming, he was hired as an Agile Coach by one of Europe's foremost Agile consultancies in 2007. Since then, Rowan has guided organisations ranging from banks to video games companies through accelerated Agile adoptions including Scrum, Kanban Method and Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) as well as consulting to management on outcomes-oriented Agile capability assessment and change leadership.

Rowan is Managing Principal at boutique Agile services provider Adapt WithStyle. As a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) since 2008, he has delivered over 540 Certified Scrum courses in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia making him one of the most experienced Agile trainers in the region. In 2020, he redesigned all active training offerings to fully leverage state-of-the-art virtual training tools. This has resulted in glowing feedback from participants.

Rowan is:

• a casual lecturer in Agile Project Management at the University of Sydney,
• the first in Australasia to offer the full Path to CSP for ScrumMasters,
• licensed as an Agile Fluency Facilitator - the gold standard in Agile adoption pathway charting, alignment and investment decision-making,
• a LeSS Friendly Scrum Trainer accredited to teach Certified LeSS Basics courses,
• a Certified LeSS Practitioner (CLP) having been accredited by both LeSS creators (Bas Vodde and Craig Larman) in the highly-regarded Large-Scale Scrum (de)scaling frameworks,
• Certified Agile Leadership 2 (CAL 2) accreditated,
• Organization and Relationship Systems at Work (ORS@Work) coach accredited,
• a regular speaker at conferences in Australia, Europe and North America since 2006, and
• organises the Sydney Scrum User Group having been heavily involved since its inception in 2008.

Rowan specialises in: advanced Scrum training and management consulting on scaling and organisational design to achieve agility, value maximisation and related culture change.