In the spring of 2016 I started calling myself a “Scrum Caretaker”. I had to come up with a job title after leaving behind my positions with the more traditional sounding titles of Partner of Ken Schwaber and Director of the Professional Scrum Series at Scrum.org (2013-2016) and of Global Scrum Leader and Principal Consultant at Capgemini (2010-2013). And, for that matter, all titles and positions I’ve held throughout my lifelong professional journey (1992-2010).
In that spring of 2016, as I renamed my one-person company to “Ullizee-Inc” (what I like to call my ‘business vehicle’ to bring my Scrum Services to the market), I started calling myself a “Scrum Caretaker”. Every other, more traditional sounding title felt silly, because, after all, my company was (and still is) just…me (one person, literally).
Some time later I added “independent” to my self-chosen title of “Scrum Caretaker” to emphasize that I am not a part of any fixed corporate structure with hidden commercial liabilities or intentions (after all, there is a reason why I never created some custom ‘framework’ and related certification scheme). In a next step I expanded “an independent Scrum Caretaker” with my mission “on a journey of humanizing the workplace with Scrum”.
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