August 11 2009
RADTAC to Present with Nokia at Scrum Gathering
RADTAC and Nokia are to do a joint presentation at the Scrum Gathering in Munich, Germany on 19 October
Nokia Symbian Systems Software is the largest software house in the UK, and the Symbian Operating System is one of the most widely used pieces of software on the planet. In the last 10 years it has been shipped on more than 250 million mobile phones by 14 different manufacturers.
In 2008 Symbian decided to adopt Scrum across its entire software development group, and selected RADTAC as its Agile consulting, coaching and training supplier. With over 1,000 technical staff in 100 teams across three continents this is probably the biggest implementation of agile ever attempted on a single product.
Early in 2009 Symbian was acquired by Nokia. This introduced inevitable changes to the programme as it worked to align and integrate the Symbian and Nokia agile models against a background of organisational restructuring.
This presentation will describe the enterprise agile approach created and employed by Nokia and tell the story of the Nokia agile programme to date. At this presentation delegates will learn:
- how the work of over 100 scrum teams can be co-ordinated through agile release management and product management; the impact of enterprise agile on Managers, Architects and other stakeholders outside the agile teams, and the key roles that they play in enterprise agile;
- how Scrum and XP-based technical practices can be used for development of a very large and highly complex low-level software product (in this case a mobile operating system) and its associated developer tools and documentation;
- how the Product Owner and other product management roles can operate successfully when there are many stakeholders to deal with and access to actual users and customers is very difficult;
- how to successfully design, implement and operate a multi-level agile training and coaching programme which meets the needs of all impacted stakeholders across different roles, organisations, geographies and cultures in order to create a lasting internal agile community and capability;
- how an agile organisational transformation approach can be employed to create large-scale, sustainable change to the structures, processes, behaviours and culture of an organisation in order to achieve greater agility.
Download presentation pdf (1.4MB) here
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