Gabrielle Benefield, Director of Agile Development, Yahoo!

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.

Since 1993 Scrum has been implemented with great success in several thousands of projects all over the world. Companies like Microsoft, HP, IBM, Yahoo, Xerox, Primavera, CapitalOne, Federal Reserve Bank and BBC have already adopted Scrum as one of the primary tools for efficiency improvements. Today, there are more than 3000 certified ScrumMasters in the US, Europe and in India.

The agile methodology Scrum supports the philosophy behind Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. A very important dimension in Scrum is to secure a great level of motivation and commitment between the involved employees and to focus on the management aspects in project organisations.

Scrum - like Lean - has originated from the Toyota factories' processes of efficiency improvements in the production environment. The godfathers of Scrum are Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka.

Attending this tutorial you'll be a certified ScrumMaster.

• you should have read one of the Scrum books
• basic understanding of project management
• formerly involvement in projects that develops or prepares services or products
• the desire to learn more about scrum; how you use it and how it's implemented in an organisation
• for all people with the above mentioned experiences - not only for experts

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