About us
About the company
With two Certified Scrum Trainers, Scrum WithStyle is Australia’s leading Scrum training service provider and Scrum-friendly Agile consultancy. The company was founded in 2008 by Rowan Bunning - a pioneer of Scrum in Australia who has worked as an agile coach with one of Europe’s leading agile consultancies as well as a wide variety of organisations in Australia. The company’s experience with agile methods spans a decade in Australia and Europe.
Scrum WithStyle’s vision is to be Australia’s leader in bringing project and product delivery success for customers with the world’s most authoritative and well-proven agile approaches.
About our people
Scrum WithStyle is proud to offer clients some of Australia's most experienced Scrum consultants.
Rowan Bunning is a pioneer of Scrum in Australia. With a background in object-oriented software design, web architecture and information systems, Rowan was introduced to Agile development techniques over a decade ago as "the way good Smalltalkers develop software". Seeing the need for deep organisational and project management change to better leverage such disciplined technical practices, Rowan became Australia's first Certified Scrum Practitioner and Certified Scrum Trainer.
Rowan has built extensive experience training, leading and coaching Agile adoptions across Australia, New Zealand, the U.K, and Ireland. This includes working as an Agile Coach and ScrumMaster at one of the leading agile consultancies in the U.K. (Conchango). Since 2008, Rowan has trained well over 1,000 people in Scrum, Product Ownership, Effective User Stories and Agile Estimating and Planning. He has built a reputation for using an encouraging and empathic style to facilitate training that is both challenging and highly interactive.
Rowan is highly active in the Agile community internationally and has spoken at several conferences in Europe and North America including Scrum Gatherings in London (2007) and Munich (2009). In Australia, Rowan founded a successful Agile special interest group supported by the Australian Computer Society and helped to initiate Scrum User Groups in Sydney and Brisbane. Rowan holds a Bachelors degree in Information Technology, is a PRINCE2 Practitioner, is Cognitive Edge accredited and is a trained Innovation Games® facilitator. Based in Sydney, Rowan is available throughout Australia for training, agile coaching and consulting.
Simon Bennett has been delivering Software Projects ranging from $300M F-16 mission simulator programmes through to hosted web applications across Australia, Asia, the middle east, USA and Europe. The last 11 years have been focused on delivering solutions in an Agile Fashion. Since moving to the UK, Simon worked as project manager in online gaming before taking a position as a CTO in the Finance Sector where he successfully ran on and offshore development using Agile Methods.
After over 10 years as a practitioner of Agile, Simon turned his hand to consulting, first with his own venture Taien Enterprises, and then later joining Conchango where he worked with many blue chip organisations through the EU, US and Asia. Whilst at Conchango, Simon served as the Product Owner for the popular Scrum for Team System, Team Foundation Server process template and its associated products such as Task board for Team System (one of the first real time electronic task boards).
After Conchango was acquired by EMC, Simon become the Head of Lean, Agile and Systems thinking and worked toward blending all three disciplines to focus on Enterprise wide transformations.
After 9 month stint as an advisor to the Scrum Alliance itself, Simon is now the Principle Coach & Trainer for LASTing benefits UK as well as a Principle Trainer for Scrum WithStyle (Australia).
Simon is a popular speaker and has featured at many Agile (and other) conferences. His subjects tend towards the wider organisational issues and blend in other disciplines (such as Game Theory) into areas such as Agile Contracting, Employee Motivation and systemic resistance to Agile & Scrum Adoption.
Lachlan is an agile consultant and coach with over fifteen years of application development experience. He has deep experience in Project Management, Iteration Management, Team Leadership, Scrum and Agile methods. Based in Sydney, he is a Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Professional and co-ordinates the Sydney Scrum User Group. His industry experience includes retail and online banking, insurance, telecommunications, media, and government.