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PM World Journal Global Scrum Gathering® Prague 2015

Vol. IV, Issue XII – December 2015 By Theofanis Giotis www.pmworldjournal.net Report

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Global SCRUM GATHERING® Prague 2015 Hilton Prague, 16th to 18th of Nov. 2015

https://www.scrumalliance.org/courses-events/events/global-gatherings/2015/prague-2015

Reporting from Prague: Theofanis Giotis, MSc, Ph.D. C., PMP, CSM/CSP, PMI-ACP, CTT+, PRINCE2 Trainer

Global Correspondent at http://pmworldjournal.net/ and CEO at 12PM Consulting

I traveled from Athens to Madrid for PMI’s EMEA Region 8 Leadership meeting, then to Berlin and then to Prague. Hilton Prague was the hosting hotel for Global SCRUM GATHERING® Prague 2015 event that took place between 16th and 18th of Nov. 2015. More than 600+ participants gathered at the 5 star hotel from all over the world.

The event was organized by ScrumAlliance and the theme of the Gathering was The Avant Garde Culture of Prague. City of a Hundred Spires, Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic, filled with beautiful bridges, marvelous cathedrals, and well-worn cobbled lanes. The magical city is full of energy, music, art, and fine dining. Prague promotes thinking beyond what you can see, fully exploring your imagination. With all five senses enraptured in historical traditions, combined with its modern ways, Prague encapsulates “Disruptive Thinking.” The Gathering featured 3 tracks, highlighting different senses of Scrum: Touch, Visual, Auditory.

Beginner sessions were for attendees with 0 - 2 years of solid Scrum implementation experience.

Advanced sessions are for attendees with over 2 years of solid Scrum implementation experience.

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More than 250 papers were submitted from experts for this Global SCRUM GATHERING event at Prague 2015 and 50 of them were selected to be presented on the event in the following 3 tracks. Track 1 - Touch: The Architecture of Scrum

Beginner: Scrum Basics o For people new to Scrum to understand the Scrum mindset o For first time gathering attendees to strengthen their understanding of Scrum principles o For organizations who are looking for change, to get ideas of where to start and why

Advanced: Reaching for the Sky - Higher Level Scrum o For ScrumMasters to deep dive into individual practices o For Agile coaches to get new ideas o For Scrum organizations to get frameworks for improvement

Track 2 - Visual: Seeing is Believing

Beginner: Information Radiators o For organizations to understand how metrics and visibility demonstrate progress o For organizations to get new suggestions about tools

Advanced: Scrum Outside of Software o For those who are operating in a specific field to see different Scrum adaptations (Startup,

Business Intelligence, Healthcare, Physical Construction, etc…) o For people to understand Scrum as a goal attainment model, not just a software development

model Track 3 - Auditory: Harmonious Communication

Beginner: Communication, Collaboration, Colocation o For managers in Agile organizations to skyrocket organizational performance o For change agents to be able to sell Scrum within the organization o For Team members to be more efficient and have more fun

Advanced: Coaching/Facilitation o For ScrumMastersto be more efficient in building Scrum teams o For Agile coaches to be more efficient in helping Scrum at an enterprise level o For managers in Agile organizations to understand their role in a Scrum environment

Also there were a dozen of PechaKucha sessions - short presentations with total duration 6 minutes and 40 seconds (20 slides with 20 seconds per slide). Participants at this Global SCRUM GATHERINGS® event earned Category A SEUs towards CSP certification.







Prague Co-Chairs The co-chairs for the Global SCRUM GATHERING® at Prague 2015 were:

Zuzi Sochova, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)

Mark C. Layton, Founder of Platinum Edge and Certified Scrum Trainer (CST)

Scrum Gathering Opening The event started on Monday morning, 16th of Nov. 2015 with welcome remarks from Manny Gonzalez, Scrum Alliance CEO, Stephen Denning, ScrumAlliance BoD member and two co-chairs.







Monday’s opening Keynote was delivered by Niels Pflaeging and was titled “ORGANIZE FOR COMPLEXITY”

Presentation outline: How our organizations will become agile, radically decentralized, and networked? Sooner than we think. Business, markets and societies have changed, but the principles, methods and concepts of organizational leadership and haven’t, by and large. Rigid and erratic performance management processes like planning, budgeting, project management, fixed-target setting, individual employee appraisal, and so-called “pay for performance”-pay, combined with autocratic decision-making, org charts and micro-management from the top – these techniques from the industrial age are still widely established standards. But are they still adequate? And if not, how can we adapt our organizational models to the ever-changing environments of the information age and do things better? Niels presented how any organization, by moving beyond command and control, and by abolishing the entire mindset of management, of functional organization, planning and bureaucratic hierarchy, can become sustainably more successful and profitable. Niels showed how the transformation towards an organization model for the complexity of the knowledge economy really works and how people, teams and organizations can be unleashed from the burdens of bureaucracy - freed from management by command and control.







Biography: Niels Pflaeging is a passionate advocate for a “new breed“ of leadership and profound change in organizations. He is founder and associate of the BetaCodex Network, and president of his own consulting firm based in Barcelona/Spain and Wiesbaden/Germany. Prior to the BetaCodex Network, Niels was for five years a director with the prestigious Beyond Budgeting Round Table. Niels´ second book, Leading with flexible Targets. Beyond Budgeting in Practice was awarded the Financial Times Germany Best Business Book award, in 2006. Both this book and his latest one, entitled Organize for Complexity: How to Get Life Back Into Work to Build the High-Performance Organization were lauded by critics and readers and became bestsellers. Since 2006, Niels has been strongly involved in transformational change projects for firms both in Europe and the Americas. Niels has more than 10 years of consulting experience with companies large and small, and frequently teaches at several academic institutions in Europe.

»When Pflaeging shakes the dogmas of management, they crumble in his hands.« Financial Times Germany

Read Niels´ hit white paper “Organize for Complexity” here!

Niels´ many white papers can be accessed here: betacodex.org/papers.

His videos: youtube.com/user/NielsPflaegingTV

Twitter: twitter.com/NielsPflaeging

Niels Pflaeging and Theofanis Giotis at Global SCRUM GATHERING® Prague 2015




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Tuesday’s keynote was delivered by Andrea Provaglio and was titled “VALUE”

Presentation outline: In Agile we like to deliver valuable software to our customers on a regular basis. However, while it’s pretty clear what “software” means, we cannot really say the same about “valuable”. The definition of Value in a project (with an uppercase “V”) is frequently fuzzy and confused. Even within the same project, asking different stakeholders what Value means to them produces different answers; and the same stakeholder will likely provide different definitions of Value, depending on their perception and role in the project. Most stakeholders will naturally associate Value to money, sometimes through surprisingly creative correlations; but there are other dimensions, equally valid, such as strategic positioning, company image, innovation and learning, and so forth. Understanding the multidimensional nature of Value becomes therefore critical to drive the project to success. In this talk we’ll address what Value means in Agile for different stakeholders; how to map and categorize the stakeholders; how to describe Value on different dimension and how to track it. We’ll also see what happens when we don’t do that. Also, assuming different stakeholders on the same project have different and multifaceted perceptions of Value, how can we coordinate the production effort in a balanced way? Which kind of corporate culture and corporate values (plural) support that?







Biography: Andrea Provaglio is an independent consultant. Andrea helps knowledge-based organizations to implement better ways of doing business; and he coaches teams and individuals who want to improve technically, relationally and culturally. His main contribution is in assisting executives, leaders and managers who appreciate the business advantage of effective knowledge work, helping them evolve their companies into healthier organizational and cultural models (which includes, but it's not limited to, adopting Agile and Lean). In over two decades of professional experience, Andrea had clients in three different continents and worked with a wide range of companies and organizations, both in the private and in the public sector, ranging from the United Nations’ FAO and large multinational corporations, to small and dynamic IT companies. As part of his activities, Andrea enjoys sharing what he knows at major European and international conferences, where he’s a regular speaker. Currently Andrea works in Europe. He also worked in the USA as an independent contractor for four years, on a O-1 visa for "extraordinary abilities in Sciences".

Web site: http://andreaprovaglio.com

LinkedIn profile: http://linkedin.com/in/provaglio

Twitter account: @andreaprovaglio

Theofanis Giotis and Andrea Provaglio at Global SCRUM GATHERING® Prague 2015




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Theofanis Giotis presentation was delivered on Tuesday and was titled “Being Scrum at Heart to Adopt Lean”

The presentation was a case study about “Using Scrum as the Pumping Heart to Bring Down the Wall with Management and Effectively Adopt Lean in an Auditing Firm”. The following topics were covered:

Understand why upper management made the wrong decisions on changing the company culture

Know better why Lean was selected as and antidote to financial crisis and why Lean failed

Understand why partial adoption of principles leads to disasters

Get inside info of how external coaches helped implementing Scrum

Learn how to avoid similar failures







Closing keynote was delivered by Brian Robertson and was titled “Holacracy: A radical New Approach to Management”

Presentation outline: Holacracy: A radical New Approach to Management Organizations are the most powerful force on the planet, and the management hierarchy has been the dominant mode of organizing them for the past century. But this "social technology" wasn't designed for the fast-paced, interconnected world we live in today, and when would-be leaders are stifled by an obsolete bureaucracy, everyone suffers. Holacracy is an alternative - a complete, scalable system for structuring a company without a traditional management hierarchy, yet with more clarity, accountability, & agility. Holacracy's governance process allows a company to continually evolve its structure and rules, in response to an ever-changing world and the wisdom of its workforce. And Holacracy's distributed structure empowers everyone to be a leader of some part of the company, with clear autonomy yet clear responsibilities. Hundreds of companies around the world have now adopted Holacracy; come learn why and experience a radical new way to structure an agile, purpose-driven company.

Biography: Brian Robertson is a seasoned entrepreneur and organization builder, and a recovering CEO -- a job he now helps free others from with Holacracy. Generally regarded as the primary developer of the system, Brian's work allows leaders to release the reins of personal power and persuasion into a trustworthy and explicit governance process. Brian also serves as the drafter and steward of the Holacracy Constitution, which captures the system's unique "rules of the game" in concrete form. Beyond joyfully crafting legal documents, Brian's creative expression takes many forms - he co-founded HolacracyOne to support Holacracy's growth, and he fills and loves a broad variety of the company's roles. He's particularly grateful to hold no fancy titles and wield no special powers, so he can show up as just another partner doing his part to support something he cares about.







Various photos

Bas Vodde presenting “More with LeSS: Introduction to Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)

Olaf Lewitz presenting “Change Starts with Me”







GENERAL PHOTOS







Stephen Denning with Theofanis Giotis and Bas Vodde

Manny Gonzalez, CEO of ScrumAlliance and Theofanis Giotis, CEO for 12PM Consulting.







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Selfie with the only two participants from Greece at Global SCRUM GATHERING® Prague 2015:

Theofanis Giotis, CEO of 12PM Consulting and Christos Rados, CEO of Race Consulting







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About the Author

THEOFANIS GIOTIS

Athens, Greece

Mr. Theofanis Giotis (BA, MSc, Ph.D. C., PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PRINCE2 Trainer, CTT+, CSM) is CEO of ITEC CONSULTING (12PM CONSULTING) (1988-now), Co-Founder and first President of PMI-GREECE Chapter (2005-2014) and Deputy BoD member of PMI-GREECE Chapter (2014-2016).

Theofanis has 27 years of professional experience in Project, Program and Portfolio Management, Economics and Management. As an entrepreneur, consultant, international speaker and trainer, Theofanis has worked in different cultural environments in EMEA region. Since 1992, he was heavily involved in Project Management as part of a team to setup the first PMO in Greece for managing a €200 million programme with 16 projects. Since 1987 he has managed hundreds of projects in the EMEA region using plan driven (waterfall) and change driven (agile) approaches. He has envisioned, planned, designed, developed & implemented hundreds of projects with 22.000+ consulting and training hours. He has given 150+ presentations worldwide in ICT & Project Management and has passed more than 80 professional certifications. Since Sept. 2005, he has published more than 150 articles for Project Management. Theofanis holds a BA in Economics from University of Athens, Greece, a MSc in Management (O.R.) from Lancaster University, UK and he is a Ph.D. candidate in Project Management at University of Piraeus. Also he holds a Computer Programming/Systems Analysis degree from ACE College, Greece. He was certified as a PMP in 2004 and graduated from PMI Leadership Institute Masters Class (LIMC) in 2007. Theofanis serves as the International correspondent of PM World Journal and PM Ambassadors in Greece. Also he is a member of PMI, IEEE, ISACA & AMACON. Since 2001, he has taught 200+ Project Management courses (PMP, Agile, Scrum) with 2000+ attendees. As of July 2010, he has trained over 35% of all Greek PMPs.

He is an adjunct professor at four Greek Universities teaching Project, Program and Portfolio Management at MBA level. Also he represents Greek Standardization Organization (ELOT) at ISO TC 258 for Project, Program and Portfolio Management Standard. Theofanis can be contacted at [email protected]




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