- Get best practices for agile program setup, goals and investment
- Learn more about agile organizational team structures and work breakdown
- Gain insight into agile program coordination, tracking, dependencies, risk and release predictability
Pete Behrens is an Agile Leadership Coach and the President of Trail Ridge Consulting, an agile organization & leadership consulting firm specializing in large-scale agile assessment, adoption and implementation in highly interdependent and distributed organizations. Their clients include many Fortune 500 companies such as Salesforce.com, McKesson, Nokia, Earthlink, JDA Software, Corporate Express, Los Angeles Times, Media News Group and others. Pete is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) and Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) for the Scrum Alliance with over 18 years experience in developing software solutions and 7 years guiding organizational-wide Scrum transformations. Pete is also an active leader in the Agile Alliance, Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and Scrum Alliance where he guided the establishment of the Certified Scrum Coaching (CSC) Program through his extensive work as an agile leadership coach.
Agile project management has driven successful results throughout thousands of projects across the globe through various frameworks like Scrum, Extreme Programming and others. Agile development, quality and project-level practices are allowing teams to react more quickly to changing market and business conditions, meeting customer needs more directly, and driving profits or cost savings sooner. Most organizations are experimenting with agile approaches on one or more projects within their portfolio.
The challenge, however, remains in the coordination across larger organizations aligning many projects, products and teams to deliver complex interdependent programs successfully. This presentation shares agile program management best practices to guide project and program managers in larger organizations working across these boundaries to deliver complex programs. These best practices have been leveraged by programs with over 30 teams with hundreds of people.
