CHOOSE Forum 2009
Peter Stevens - Making change happen: How to introduce ideas into your company
Time: 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
About Peter Stevens
Peter Stevens, Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner (Practitioner), started his career in 1982 as a Software Engineer at Microsoft. He first got interested in Scrum in 2005 while working for MySQL. Since 2006 he has been using Scrum both throughout Switzerland and abroad, to rescue and guide various projects large and small to a successful conclusion. Today he is an independent Scrum Trainer and Coach and memeber of DasScrumTeam, a group of leading Scrum Trainers in Central Europe. He writes the Scrum Breakfast blog and is one of the cofounders of the Lean-Agile-Scrum specialist group of the SwissICT.
Talk abstract
As a developer, tester, project manager or manager, you are intrigued by Scrum. But you are having difficulties gaining support for your ideas. You would like to convince your management and colleagues, that you company or department should use Scrum, or at least should give it a try. How can you motivate or even mobilize your colleagues, so that the support your ideas?
Based on experiences in my own projects, we will discuss a number of possible approaches, which are helpful in bringing about change. An Introduction in Change-Processes and how to guide them effectively.