Scott Richards

Scott is Serious about Scrum.

Scott is passionate about self-development and being a forever learner. He loves being part of the Serious Scrum community and is highly engaged with the Road to Mastery cohorts. This makes Scott a respected guide and trainer for the Road to Mastery.

Scott has worked in Technology for over a decade, with the past 5 being in software development, starting in large waterfall projects as a Defect Manager, but then taking the red pill and starting the journey of Scrum Mastery.

Scott works as a freelance Scrum Master, Facilitator, and all-round Agile aficionado - Lean, Kanban, he loves it all. Scott gets excited about helping teams to realise that they have the answers within themselves.


Scott is on his way to PSMIII, and some of his stops along the way have been:

  • Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM) - Scrum.org
  • Professional Scrum With Kanban 1  - Scrum.org
  • Professional Kanban 1 - ProKanban.org
  • Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) - ICAgile
  • Coaching in the Enterprise - ICAgile
  • Professional Scrum Master 2 (PSM II) - Scrum.org
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO II) - Scrum.org
  • Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner - Scrum INC
  • Professional Agile Leader (PAL 1) - Scrum.org
  • Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) - Scrum.org
  • Road to Mastery - Serious Scrum

Scott lives with his family in York, UK. In his spare time, Scott loves spending time with his family, eating far too much pizza, strength & conditioning, basketball & riding his motorcycle through the Yorkshire dales.

"Limitations, like fear. Are only an illusion." - Michael Jordan.

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