ALD2015 - Scaling Scrum

On 30th September I attended the Agile Leadership Day 20151 conference, held at GDI in Rüschlikon2. During the day there were a number of half hour sessions happening in one of four tracks3 and visitors to the conference were able to choose which of the sessions they wanted to attend. The second session I attended was hosted by Paul Boekhout4 of Trapeze GmbH5, and described in the abstract as: Paul Boekhout is Head of Control Centre Development at Trapeze GmbH in Neuhausen am Rheinfall and leading the transition to Agile Development. Drawing on his experience in change and transition management in an agile context, he introduced Agile Scrum in the Technical Development department. This transformation is an ongoing journey with various obstacles along the way. Scaling Scrum to 20 teams while developing new products brings new challenges for the organization - the (line)management, teams and customers. ...

6 October 2015 · 2 min · Ian Vellosa

ALD2015 - The BLT

On 30th September I attended the Agile Leadership Day 20151 conference, held at GDI in Rüschlikon2. During the day there were a number of half hour sessions happening in one of four tracks3 and visitors to the conference were able to choose which of the sessions they wanted to attend. This first session I attended was hosted by Melissa Lang4 of Xing Barcelona, whose abstract for the talk read: The Xing Barcelona office is currently home to 3 development teams comprised of people from all over the world. We are predominantly developers, and also have test engineers, agile project managers, user experience and visual design specialists. In the past two years the number of employees at Xing’s Barcelona office has nearly doubled in size. ...

5 October 2015 · 2 min · Ian Vellosa