From: Edwin Dando <edwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AUG] FW: APN Event 5 - Scaling Agile: Rolling out Scrum to the Yahoo!Enterprise
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Sent: Sunday, 3 August 2008 10:36 p.m.
To: Edwin Dando
Subject: APN Event 5 - Scaling Agile: Rolling out Scrum to the Yahoo!Enterprise
Scaling Agile: Rolling out Scrum to the Yahoo! Enterprise – Gabrielle Benefield
Date: Mon 18th August 5.00 to 7.30 pm; (speaker start at 5.30 pm sharp)
Place: Air New Zealand, Fanshawe Street, Auckland.
Auditorium, Ground Floor. Access via the main entrance
Who: All welcome.
The invitation may be sent on; however, to avoid disappointment, please register with rsvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by Wed 13th August
The APN Working Party is delighted to announce that Gabrielle Benefield, an internationally recognised Agile trainer, Agile coach and Agile thought leader, will speak at the next APN event.
Gabrielle Benefield
Scaling Agile – Rolling out Scrum to the Yahoo! Enterprise
Gabrielle Benefield as Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo helped migrate nearly 200 teams to Scrum over 30 months, totaling over 1500 people. The projects ranged from consumer-facing, design-heavy websites like Yahoo! Photos, to the mission-critical back-end infrastructure of services like Yahoo! Mail, which serves hundreds of millions of customers; they range from entirely new products like Yahoo! Podcasts, which used Scrum from concept through launch (and won a Webby Award for best product in its category that year), to more incremental projects, which included work on new features as well as bug fixes and other maintenance; and Yahoo! Scrum for distributed projects, where the teams were on separate continents.
Gabrielle will talk about how the Scrum rollout at Yahoo! went and also talk about:
Ø How Scrum was perceived by the Yahoo! community (Scrum teams, users, managers, etc)
Ø What pitfalls to avoid
Ø Some war stories – why Scrum isn't a silver bullet
Ø When and when you should consider using Scrum?
At the end of her talk Gabrielle will be open to Q & A from the audience.
Map – Air New Zealand
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=air+new+zealand,+fanshawe+st,+auckland&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=101.068245,98.261719&ie=UTF8&ll=-36.846041,174.755702&spn=0.013514,0.011995&z=16
About the Speaker
Gabrielle Benefield
Gabrielle was Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo! leading Yahoo!’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which now encompasses more than 200 teams projects and over 1500 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Asia. She is co-author of The Scrum Primer (www.scrumprimer.com).
Gabrielle holds a Masters of Digital Design from the University of Western Sydney, Australia and has over 16 years building enterprise software and web products at global companies. Gabrielle is a regular conference speaker presenting
papers and talks on Enterprise Agile and Agile User Experience and Design.
Gabrielle provides training to a number of companies around the world and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area but will soon be moving to sunny London.
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