ScrumCenter: 2020, a year in review
Scrum@Scale – The Business Agility Operating System
I was honoured to be one of the keynote speakers at TAL Consulting’s Virtual Agile Community of Practice this year. In this talk, I show how Scrum@Scale enables you to: Assess the current state of your organisation using Scrum@Scale’s built-in assessment framework Incrementally craft an organization to better meet your business objectives Answer the question…
Perspectives on Agile vs Waterfall
Having been a trained and qualified project manager for several years before joining ScrumCenter, the world of Agile and Scrum was entirely new to me. I can’t believe this whole movement had entirely slipped by my radar. In November last year, I began a marketing role for ScrumCenter, an agile methods consultancy company based in…
Product Ownership: It’s a Business Thing!
Is your Product Owner just a development manager with a new title? Are the real decisions about the product made by marketing, or product management as part of marketing so that the product owner is purely tactical? Splitting responsibilities can lead to conflicts of interest, e.g. product success (product management) vs on-time, in-budget delivery (project…
Scrum@Scale Case Study
Product Ownership at Scale with Scrum@Scale
In this webinar, Certified Scrum@Scale Trainer and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) Simon Roberts discusses Product Ownership and its importance at scale. Simon begins with a brief overview of the responsibilities of a Product Owner, and move on to a deep dive into how levels of planning and visioning in a scaled context are critical to…
Panel Discussion with Certified Trainers Dave Witkin, JJ Sutherland, Simon Roberts, Daniel Mezick, Lizzy Morris, and Riina Hellstrom
This panel discussion reviews real-world stories through the lens of different Scrum@Scale topic areas like the scaled daily scrum, the Executive Action Team (EAT), and setting up a dual operating model. Download slides
Achieving Organizational Agility with Scrum@Scale: Implementing Scrum@Scale
Learn from Scrum@Scale expert Simon Roberts as he discusses his experiences implementing Scrum@Scale in a variety of industries. Simon covers some of the biggest challenges organizations face when trying to become more agile, including how to coordinate teams and address corporate culture. Download slides
Optional Conference 2015 – Designing High-Performance into our Organisations
Here is a video of Simon Roberts’ talk “Designing High-Performance into our Organisations: What can ScrumMasters, managers and other leaders do to help every team to excel?” from Optional Conference 2015, Budapest, Hungary.
Webinar on Implementing Radical Management
On 15 April 2015, Peter Stevens and Simon Roberts were honoured to take part in a webinar on Radical Management as part of Scrum Alliance’s program of webinars supporting the Learning Consortium. The webinar covered: Radical Management and its five main shifts Transforming organization strategy from shareholder value to something more sustainable (including customer delight) Experiences…