Presentation: "Scrum@British Telecom"

Time: Tuesday 15:40 - 16:40

Location: Conference Hall 2

Abstract:

Adopting an agile approach to a project is challenging, scaling that is daunting. All Scrum projects will help identify some of the dysfunctionalities affecting your organisation's ability to perform and the more pervasive that Scrum becomes in your organisation, the better chance you have of becoming a lean organisation.

However, the more widespread your adoption of Scrum, the harder it is to support and the harder it is to build and maintain momentum. Geoff Watts will share some of his experiences of agile adoption at British Telecom.

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Geoff Watts, British Telecom

Geoff Watts Geoff is a Certified Scrum Trainer and agile coach with a proven track record of helping individuals, teams and organisations in their adoption of agile, and Scrum in particular. He has experience of helping lead one of the largest agile transformations in the world - at British Telecom - and therefore has experience of all the traditional challenges that you can face when adopting agile.

Paul Goddard, Inspect & Adapt Ltd

No picture of Paul Goddard Paul Goddard is an agile coach currently working within BT, an organisation which is undergoing one of the largest agile transformations to date. Starting a one of the first practicing ScrumMasters within BT, he now acts as coach for teams new to Scrum and agile techniques. His coaching skills have been used on large scale agile transformation projects, including geographically dispersed teams using an offshore model. He is currently involved with both teaching and coaching Scrum within BT