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Founder & Managing Principal
Rowan Bunning
Rowan Bunning is a globally recognised educator and consultant in Agile product development. He has been the managing principal of Adapt WithStyle (formerly Scrum WithStyle) for over 16 years.
His Agile journey began in 2001 as a software developer adopting eXtreme Programming (XP) before becoming Australia’s first Scrum Master in 2003 and first Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) in 2006. He also played the Product Owner role as Product Manager at a tech. start-up. He was hired as an Agile Coach by the U.K.'s most prominent Agile consultancy in 2007 and became a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®) in early 2008. He has delivered over 540 high impact training courses with certification from Scrum Alliance.
His Agile journey began in 2001 as a software developer adopting eXtreme Programming (XP) before becoming Australia’s first Scrum Master in 2003 and first Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) in 2006. He also played the Product Owner role as Product Manager at a tech. start-up. He was hired as an Agile Coach by the U.K.'s most prominent Agile consultancy in 2007 and became a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®) in early 2008. He has delivered over 540 high impact training courses with certification from Scrum Alliance.
Rowan has spoken at over 20 conferences including 12 in Europe, the USA and NZ. To give back to the Agile community, Rowan has been lead organiser of the Sydney Scrum User Group for most of its 16 year history.
As a scaled Agile consultant, Rowan has guided multi-team Agile adoptions at organisations including the RBA, Westpac, Findex, Bupa, Wargaming, nib, Indue, Transport for NSW, Siemens and Symantec using Scrum, BDD, Kanban, LeSS and more. Most recently Rowan has been Delivery Manager introducing Agile change to the critical systems that settle approximately $250 billion of Australia's financial transactions each business day.
Rowan is passionate about developing leaders who are skilled at the organisational design choices and leadership behaviours required to simplify their organisation to compete at scale on the basis of agility, innovation and highest customer value.
As a scaled Agile consultant, Rowan has guided multi-team Agile adoptions at organisations including the RBA, Westpac, Findex, Bupa, Wargaming, nib, Indue, Transport for NSW, Siemens and Symantec using Scrum, BDD, Kanban, LeSS and more. Most recently Rowan has been Delivery Manager introducing Agile change to the critical systems that settle approximately $250 billion of Australia's financial transactions each business day.
Rowan is passionate about developing leaders who are skilled at the organisational design choices and leadership behaviours required to simplify their organisation to compete at scale on the basis of agility, innovation and highest customer value.
Rowan's credentials:
Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Trainer - accredited to deliver the gold standard leadership development program
Path to CSP Educator – the first in APAC to offer the full Path to CSP for Scrum Masters
Certified LeSS Practitioner (CLP) accreditation with both the creators of the highly-regarded LeSS (de)scaling approach
Certified Agile Leadership credential 2 (CAL 2) accreditation
Licensed Agile Fluency Facilitator accreditation – the highly regarded diagnostic and change planning approach
Organiser of the Sydney Scrum User Group for most years since its inception in 2008
Organiser of Regional Scrum Gatherings in Australia since 2013
Speaker at over 20 conferences in Australia, Europe and North America since 2006
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