Meet Growing Agile

Hello! We are agile coaches who live and breathe agile in everything we do. Our greatest joy comes from helping people and teams achieve what they never thought was possible. Their success is our reward.

Karen Greaves and Samantha Laing have a combined 25+ years in software development, ranging from development to testing to managing. Of these, 15 years have been dedicated to our passion for agile development. We founded Growing Agile in 2012.

We believe that if we want to get better as an industry everyone should have access to basic agile training, which is why we have a free online course covering the Scrum basics. And have a range of affordable courses and books to help you grow your agile knowledge and skills.

Our goal is as simple as our name, to keep growing agile…

Karen Greaves

Agile Coach

Karen is a recovered project manager who loves the simplicity and fun that agile brings to work. She’s usually the loudest person in the room, and loves anything to do with numbers or excel.

email: karen@growingagile.co

Sam Laing

Agile Coach

Sam lives by her tattoo “Be Brave” and embraces new challenges. As a coach she excels at asking powerful questions that help you reflect. She is also the creative genius behind all our hand drawn slides and sketch notes.

email: sam@growingagile.co

Kevin Pedersen

Agile Coach

From IT support, Programming through to UX Design, Kevin has dabbled in it all and somehow stumbled into the role of an agile coach. He loves being part of the community and enabling people to be the best they can be.

email: kevin@growingagile.co

Rebecca Cameron

Agile Coach

Rebecca is a little bit of a lot of things – agilist, entrepreneur, once-a-lawyer, philosophiser, Millennial, and adventurer. Rebecca leverage her wide interests and loves to cross-pollinate the wonderful things she learns from these different domains.

email: rebecca@growingagile.co

We have extracted massive value from our engagement with Karen and Sam over the past year. Their values based approach to guiding our teams in their Agile and Scrum adoption has assisted in creating an environment where teams truly embrace the principles. We are 4 years into the adoption of Scrum and the positive morale and self-organisation we enjoy is in large due to Growing Agile’s involvement.

Philip Manning

Director of Engineering, Clickatell

The Agile Requirements workshop offered by Growing Agile is a breakthrough programme for teams who may be struggling to realise value from their Scrum implementation. Packed full of insight and from-the-trenches techniques, the Agile Requirements workshop is a must-do for anyone looking to go beyond the ordinary with their team and deliver maximum value to their clients.

Sven Agnew

Developer, Unboxed Consulting

The knowledge that I took away from the experience proved to be so valuable. Coaching circles give you the opportunity to explore and share your experiences and also to know that the decisions you make will be guided by two very effective and knowledgeable coaches.

Claudette Moore

ScrumMaster, SafariNow

The workshops with Growing Agile not only enhanced our teams efficiency and effectiveness, but also reinvigorated them, and empowered them to own their ability to succeed. Every single team member found the workshop valuable, believe they can actually apply their learnings to their day-to-day activities, and would recommend the workshop to other teams.

Regardt Olivier

Program Manager, ACI Worldwide