Agile Scotland is a Scottish Agile community meetup and special interest group connecting software development practitioners across Scotland. Ching served as chairperson and ran the meetup for many years, making it a significant institutional context for his development as a practitioner and his positioning within the Scottish software development community.
Ching's role
Ching's chairmanship of Agile Scotland placed him at the center of the Scottish Agile scene during the writing-and-consulting-period. Running a regular meetup is substantive organizational work — finding speakers, building community, maintaining momentum — and it gave Ching ongoing access to practitioners testing ideas and facing real delivery problems. This grounding in the practitioner community distinguishes his work from more academic TOC writing.
The role also connected Ching to the broader Scottish technology ecosystem. Scotland has a meaningful software development community, particularly in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Agile Scotland was a venue where ideas from the global Agile movement reached Scottish practitioners. Ching's simultaneous role as meetup organizer and TOC-informed practitioner positioned him as a bridge between global TOC concepts and local software realities.
Relationship to Lean Agile Scotland
Agile Scotland and lean-agile-scotland represent different scales of the same community: Agile Scotland as an ongoing local meetup, Lean Agile Scotland as a periodic conference drawing speakers from across the UK and beyond. Ching's activity in both reflects consistent engagement with the Scottish software community as the primary audience for his work during his Scotland years.