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Event Title: Enterprise Level Scrum at Scale|1.5 PDU

Overview:

The hot topic in Agile product development now is scaling. How do we make the whole organization Agile? How do we accelerate business agility? Scrum at Scale framework within which networks of Scrum teams operating consistently with the Scrum Guide can address complex problems, while creatively delivering products of the highest possible value. These “products” may be hardware, software, complex integrated systems, processes, services, etc., depending upon the domain of the Scrum teams.

Key Learnings from the Sessions:
1. When to Scale?
2. What makes agile at scale difficult?
3. Learn top 10 scaling patterns
4. What’s an agile mindset?
5. What are agile success factors?
6. Leadership role in scaling
7. Meaning Metrics that matter in Agile

Speaker: Kiran Thakkar

Speaker's Title: Founder, DailyAgile

Speaker's Biography:

Kiran Thakkar, an IT professional with 26+ years of experience in global application development and leadership, is a Project Management Professional (certified by the PMI) and a Certified Scrum Trainer (certified by the Scrum Alliance), Certified Scrum@Scale trainer, and a Certified Large-Scale Scrum Practitioner (certified by The Less Company); Kiran also holds an MBA and an MS in Computer Science. Kiran worked at Siemens Medical Solutions and played an instrumental role in one of the largest agile/scrum implementations in the world. Kiran was an overall program release manager at Siemens for a very large-scale, globally distributed, and FDA compliant agile initiative (40+ teams, over 500 members, part of overall 120+ teams). Kiran laid the groundwork for agile practices still in use and highly effective in Siemens today. Kiran brings real-life scrum implementation experience to his class.

He also pioneered the implementation of the agile practices and mentored scrum masters globally. He was one of the early adopters of enterprise level large-scale agile/scrum. He was also an adjunct faculty at Penn State Great Valley, DeVry/Keller University, and the University of Phoenix teaching in online and traditional 'on-ground' environment.

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