November Scrum Breakfast: SwissICT and the Journey to Agile

The SwissICT, largest IT and Communications association in Switzerland, has agreed to support an initiative from Ueli Kleeb, Reto Maduz (to name just of few the the interested people at Zühlke) and myself to form Specialist Group (“Fachgruppe”) Lean-Agile-Scrum.

The November Scrum Breakfast will serve double duty as the founding meeting for the Lean-Agile-Scrum Group. All people interesting in promoting and developing Agile and related practices are invited to join us.

For a special event, a special keynote: Manfred Reindl, Vice President Engineering for Borland’s Lifecycle Quality Management division in Linz will discuss with us:

The Journey Towards Agile

While agile practices are starting to make their way into large enterprises, in most instances this has been a “bottom up” movement driven through grassroots efforts. But, as success stories draw attention to the benefits of agile practices, an increasing number of executives are considering making a company-wide agile transition of the R&D organization.

What does an agile transition look like when it comes as a mandate from the top? How do you scale agile principles from a single team to an enterprise with multiple teams working on multiple projects? How can the use of development tools help to implement Agile in an organization? How to track the progress on agile maturity?

Manfred Reindl shares practical answers to these questions, addressing issues such as the role of management in creating an agile culture, establishing new roles such as Scrum Masters and Product Owners and how to introduce Agile in geographical distributed organizations. Manfred provides insight that can help you translate agile principles from theory into practice for your enterprise.


Bio – Manfred Reindl

Manfred Reindl is Vice President Engineering for Borland’s Lifecycle Quality Management division, driving the development of tools and solutions for Test Management, Functional Testing and Load Testing. He is a key contributor for the transition of Borland’s Engineering to Agile development.

Prior to Borland, Mr Reindl ran at Segue Software an Engineering lab for the development of software testing tools, and as the SVP Engineering he was a key participant in the development of Segue’s corporate strategy. Mr. Reindl brings over 25 years experience in the software development industry. In 1992, he co-founded ARC – developing and marketing SQLBench, one of the first load testing products for client/server applications. Prior to forming ARC, he was Assistant Professor in the database group at the Institute of Economic Informatics at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. Mr. Reindl holds an MS in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Business Informatics.

Location:

Date: November 5, 2008
Doors open: 8.00
Presentation: 8.35 to 9.20, followed by discussion until 10.00
SwissICT Lean-Agile-Scrum group founders meeting, 10.00 to 12.00.
Location namics ag, konradstrasse 12/14, 8005 Zurich (ZH, Switzerland) 
Language: English or German

Registration: 

Please register via xing.

If you cannot attend in person, this talk will be broadcast live as a webinar

Please register separately for the SwissICT Lean Agile Scrum Founder’s Meeting.