Evan Campbell, Rally Software Development

Evan Campbell has more than 15 years experience in software engineering, product development, technology leadership and consulting. Areas of expertise include Agile and Scrum transformations from the team level to the boardroom level, large scale enterprise systems planning and architecture, mobile computing systems, program and portfolio management and IT Governance. Evan currently leads the Professional Services function at Agile Lifecycle Management company Rally Software Development www.rallydev.com and was the CTO and VP of Professional Services at SolutionsIQ (a 450 person software development services and Agile consulting organization).

Prior to SolutionsIQ, Evan was the CTO of Versatile Mobile Systems (VMS), a publicly traded software company with internationally distributed software development teams. There he was responsible for all product development and professional services and was a key contributor in strategic planning and corporate leadership, and key to arranging several mergers and acquisitions. He came to VMS via its acquisition of Mobiquity, an e-commerce startup where he was a co-founder and CTO.

Evan is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), earned an MBA from Rollins College and an MA in International Affairs, Economics and Finance from George Washington University. Prior to his career in technology he served in the U.S. Army as an Airborne Ranger and Green Beret.

Presentation: "Implementing Type C Scrum in different corporate models"

Track: Scrum At JAOO2007

Time: Tuesday 13:00 - 14:00

Location: Conference Hall 2

Abstract:

Scrum and Agile provide tremendous benefits when deployed at the team and IT or Product Development organization levels. Once successfully deployed at that level, it quickly becomes apparent that the potential benefits to the company of Scrum and Agile could be far greater if deployed beyond those organizational bounds into the lines of business and general management. Conveniently (or inconveniently, depending on your perspective) the transparency of impediments brought by Scrum and Agile will point out obstacles to higher productivity and organizational performance in a way that will make it hard to avoid addressing the rest of the organization.

Evan Campbell, VP of Services at Rally Software Development (an Agile Project Management and Development Lifecycle tools vendor), and former CTO and VP of Professional Services at SolutionsIQ (a 450 person software development services and Agile consulting organization) will compare and contrast the Type C Scrum models in use for managing higher corporate functions in both business models (software products and IT services companies).

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