Presentation: "Scrum@Yahoo"

Time: Wednesday 13:00 - 14:00

Location: Conference Hall 2

Abstract:

Yahoo! is a $50BN company that has one of the largest Agile implementations in the world. The adoption of Scrum and Agile practices has been steadily growing over the past two years, and now encompasses more than 100 Yahoo! teams and more than 1200 people in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

The projects range from new product development such as Yahoo! Podcasts, which was built by a distributed team split between the U.S. and India and won a Webby Award, to heavy-duty infrastructure work on Yahoo! Mail which, serves 250 million users each month around the globe.

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Gabrielle Benefield, Director of Agile Development, Yahoo!

 Gabrielle  Benefield

Gabrielle Benefield is an Agile trainer, coach and digital media technologist. With close to two decades of IT sector experience, working for organizations such as Yahoo!, IBM, CollabNet and PlanetOut.

Gabrielle has been very successful at organizational change, specializing in enterprise level transformation. She currently leads the Agile rollout at Yahoo! inc with over fifty teams using Agile methods worldwide. She is a certified Scrum Trainer, Scrum Master and Practitioner, and holds an MA in Digital Media.