Scaling Scrum Across the Enterprise: What’s the Secret?

Broadcast Date: Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Sinan Si Alhir,
Colin Doyle, Senior Product Manager, MKS
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Agile Journal

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Agility is a value system that emphasizes people, results, collaboration, and responsiveness. Scrum is a framework for Agile development.

Scaling Scrum throughout an enterprise depends on “requirements” and “work” efficiently flowing throughout the “veins” of the organization to deliver effective value.  At the micro level, the focus of Scrum is on management and teams as well as business and technology. At the macro level, focus needs to be on scalability and sustainability -- that is -- Transformation. A robust and unified application lifecycle management (ALM) solution --- providing a foundation for requirements, configuration, test, release, and portfolio management --- fosters collaboration, adoption and success.

In this Webinar, Si Alhir and Colin Doyle of MKS, will demystify the notion of the Agile Enterprise, dispelling common myths around enterprise aspects such as organizing and coordinating large distributed efforts, blending less-Agile and more-Agile approaches, delivering complex solutions with product lines and component reuse, and meeting compliance and oversight objectives with more persistent assets.

About the Presenters:

Sinan Si Alhir

Si Alhir is a Practitioner. He has over two decades of experience in all aspects of technology product/services management (planning and marketing) and engineering (development), including business development, client management, and consulting services around technology products. With a proven performance record in aligning Business and Technology using industry-recognized and organization-tailored Lean, Agile, and other Best Practices, he focuses on transforming organizations/enterprises by cultivating effective Communities of Practices (CoPs). He is commonly categorized as an “Essentialist” and “Resultant” who is measured by “Stickiness”: As a Consultant, he focuses on doing what is Essential for achieving Results where he is measured by the sustainability of his influence. He is “Pragmatic not Dogmatic” and combines an “Appreciative Inquiry” with “Servant Leadership” approach to be an “Appreciative Servant” and “Inquisitive Leader”. He is deeply committed to working with individuals, teams, and organizations/enterprises to actualize their potential and achieve an enduring competitive advantage. His clients have ranged from start-ups to the Fortune 500. He is also a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt (MBB), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), IT Project Management Certified Professional (IT Project+), and e-Business Certified Professional (e-Biz+). He is the author of three books and two articles in the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering among other publications. And he commonly speaks at professional events.

Colin Doyle,
Senior Product Manager,
MKS

Colin Doyle is a senior product manager at MKS, where he focuses on the discipline of software change and configuration management as well as application lifecycle management support for Agile development (MKS Integrity for Agile). He has over 25 years experience in systems engineering and software development, in fields as diverse as avionics systems, satellite communications, medical devices, precision laser systems and enterprise content management.  Mr. Doyle has a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Toronto and a Master of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.

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MKS, the global application lifecycle management (ALM) technology leader, enables software engineering and IT organizations to seamlessly manage their worldwide software development activities. With its flagship product, MKS Integrity, MKS offers support for all software development activities through a single enterprise application, resulting in better global collaboration and higher productivity. MKS supports customers worldwide with offices across North America, Europe and Asia.