Mr. Dave West of Scrum.org

Between 70 and 80% of Agile teams use Scrum. Scrum has become the de-facto standard for Agile team delivery. And with the success of Scrum organizations are now looking to employ Agile at Scale. Scaling means different things to different people, but broadly can be described as either growing the number of people delivering software in an agile way (agile product delivery) or growing the use of agile in ancillary parts of software delivery supply chain. In this talk we focus on how Nexus, an exoskeleton for Scrum can help scale your Agile product delivery. We describe the challenges in scaling Scrum and how Nexus extends Scrum to allow for multiple teams to work together in an effective and agile way. This supports teams in an incremental approach to scaling Scrum by building on the success of team level Scrum adoption.

In this talk we:

• What does scaling mean ?


• The challenges of scaling Scrum


• introducing Nexus


• Nexus in practice


• Connecting Nexuses – Nexus+


• Applying Nexus in your organization

Biography:

DAVE WEST, CEO and Product Owner Scrum.org

‘ To help people deliver software just a little bit better’

BIO

Dave West mission is to help people deliver software just a little bit better. Working with Ken Schwaber and the team at Scrum.org he defines the strategy and manages its execution in pursuit of scrum.org’s mission of ‘improving the profession of software development’. Prior to joining scrum,org he was the Chief Product officer at Tasktop. In that capacity he worked with customers and partners to drive Tasktop’s roadmap and market positioning leading engineering, product management and architecture. As a member of the company’s executive management team he was also instrumental in growing Tasktop from a services business into a VC backed Product Company with a team of almost 100. As one of the foremost industry experts on software development and deployment, West has helped advance many modern software development processes, including the Unified Process and Agile methods. He is a frequent keynote at major industry conferences and is a widely published author of articles and research reports, along with his acclaimed book: Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, that helped define new software modeling and application development processes. West’s experience includes traditional and object-oriented development for enterprise applications and executive consulting, where he implemented new development processes and tools for IT organizations in Europe and North America. He led the development of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) for IBM/Rational, later adding componentization, SPEMM and support for Agile development. He also managed the development of IBM solutions to support efficiencies in the financial services, product development and government industry sectors. After IBM/Rational, West returned to consulting and managed Ivar Jacobson Consulting for North America. After IJI he served as Vice President, Research Director at Forrester Research, where he worked with leading IT organizations and solutions providers to define, drive and advance Agile-based methodology and tool breakthroughs in the enterprise. West holds a B.A. in computing and business from Huddersfield University in the UK and a M.Sc. in computer science from Southbank University (UK).

Mr. Dave West of Scrum.org

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