Richard Ross

I never realized to what extent being a scrum master is, until I met Richard. From the very first day, Richard did jump in with no worries, as it was so natural for him. I can say that without much noticing, Richard was able - in a short time - to improve a quite shapeless state of the whole R&D community, not only the teams he was put in.

I was lucky by having a chance to work with Richard on a long-term telco/wfo software project in ZOOM International. I've experienced the situation before and after Richard joined the company/project and I have to say the difference was tremendous in a very positive manner.

Richard as a Scrum master played a key role in the successful transition of our project from waterfall based approach to the agile mode. Even after the initial "transformation phase", Richard was always trying to enhance the process by introducing numerous improvements; all ceremonies were fun and well structured.

Riki was one of the key co-organizers of the ALE 2017 pan-European unconference that hosted 247 people from 29 countries. Riki took many initiatives: found the eventual venue, was the main “Relationship Manager” with the venue, designed our website, and over the months contributed major efforts to its evolution, plus contributed with many other necessities.

If you want to increase your team scrum capability, hire an agile coach. If you want to include also lot of fun and joy, hire Richard Ross. Richard (together with his colleague Karel) joined our newly created cross functional team in January 2018 as an agile coach/scrum master. At that time the team had zero experiences with the agile way of working. During one and half year the team made an incredible shift in usage of scrum processes and agile way of working; and as well delivered the expected product, a digital tool for selling life insurance product called Stela.