Community Scrum Club Sign-Up Form

A free monthly meetup for charity, public, and community teams to learn, reflect, and grow together using Agile and Scrum practices — not titles.

While some nonprofit agile networks focus on senior leaders and organisational transformation, Community Scrum Club begins and ends with the team, the fundamental unit of Scrum: self-organising, cross-functional, and committed to delivery with courage, focus, commitment, respect, and openness (the 5 Scrum Values) .

If you’re applying Scrum or Agile in the real world of charities, public bodies, or community orgs — often without the ideal conditions — this is your club.

Why Join?

• We practice, not preach
  Real-world Agile isn’t textbook. This space is where we explore what works and why, together.

• We don’t centre hierarchy
  Scrum honours teams, not titles. Community Scrum Club is open to anyone involved in delivery — no gatekeeping, no top-down thinking.

• We support peer learning
  Share your wins, stumbles, and adaptations in a psychologically safe, jargon-free space.

• We work out loud
  This isn’t a show-and-tell or a showcase. It’s an honest, respectful environment where we make sense of Agile in complex, human-centred systems.

What Happens Each Month?

Each monthly online session (1 hour) could include:

• A networking element

• An agile chat topic, which could be “retrospectives with volunteers,” “Scrum when your funders are waterfall,” “Scrum with limited teams”, "pitching agile to your organisation", "Scrum with a board of three", "best agile tools for small orgs", "where to gain certification in Scrum or Agile", etc.

• Community Scrum Club members can vote on topics to discuss ahead of sessions

You don’t need to present, prep, pitch, or pay to join. You just need to show up and be part of the team.

Who’s it for?

Community Scrum Club is for anyone working in:

• Charities (of any size or structure)

• Public sector delivery teams

• Community-led or grassroots initiatives

• Faith-based orgs

• Social purpose startups or CICs

• Co-ops and mutual aid networks

• Or anyone trying to make Scrum work in mission-led spaces

You might be a Scrum Master, service designer, funding officer, digital lead, team manager — or someone who just cares about making things work better for people.

Who runs it?

Community Scrum Club is moderated by Scrum Master David Wallace-Hare (PSM I) of Placebased Agile.

How to join

• We meet monthly online (60 minutes).

• Sign up below to receive dates, themes, and access links.

Welcome to the Community Scrum Club

NOTE: The Community Scrum Club is independently organised and not affiliated with or endorsed by Scrum.org or Scrum Alliance.