24 November 2009 at 09:11.36 marion

Introducing SCRUM on a Very Large Scale

In this talk Markus will roughly describe how SCRUM (and with it a Lean Methodology) has been introduced at SAP Netweaver over the last 12 months. This will cover diverse topics like full-day "Lean Awareness Workshops" for all affected employees or setting up a consistent process framework that accounts for the complexity of a large organization (~2000 people) that is split up into functional units. Finally, there will be a word about how SCRUM served well to execute the change management effort itself.

The talk will concentrate on "how change can be achieved" rather than delve into the details of how SCRUM has been tweaked to fit into the organization.

Background: Markus was part of the "Lean Core Team" that drove the change effort. This Team itself worked in SCRUM mode, carved out the details of the target process (how is scrum on a large scale done) and gave full-day awareness workshops for the entire workforce.

27 November 2009 at 11:11.36 regis_desgroppes

Thank you very much for welcoming me to the Scrumtisch. Nice word by the way.

On the way back home, I realized we didn't make a small retrospective following Markus talk. I think it would be a simple way to help presenters get feedback and improve the way they share their experience. There could be 4 questions: 1. What I liked? 2. What I didn't like? (suggestions) 3. I still have questions on... 4. What I learned.

Otherwise, may I suggest to create a Meetup group (or similar)? A few ones around Berlin: http://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=berlin&submitButton=Search&country=de&zip=meetup1&op=search Such a tool is helpful for planning, (un)subscribing, notifying, canceling, etc.

See you soon, Régis.