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Topic:  Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises

PDU Categories/Hours: 

• Strategic and Business Management: 1.0 Hours
• Technical: 0.5 Hours

Synopsis of Presentation.  Gary Rupp will share how PMs can establish business agility in your organization by applying industry-proven scaling strategies from popular Scrum frameworks such as Scrum of Scrums (SoS), Scrum@Scale, Nexus, Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), Disciplined Agile, and SAFe.  Attendees will:

• Learn how to be Agile at scale by implementing best practices
• Understand how Lean-Agile practices are incorporated in Disciplined Agile and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Learn how to Customize Scrum and Lean-Agile practices to support portfolio and large product development needs

Speaker:  Cecil ‘Gary’ Rupp, BS/MBA; CSM/CSPO/LESS/PMP/SPC; Principal Owner Command Results

About the Speaker. Cecil “Gary” Rupp brings more than thirty years of practitioner and executive-level experience in applying the methods and tools of information technology (IT) for software development. His roles span independent consultant, professional services, product management, sales, and marketing. Mr. Rupp has also led more than thirty enterprise-class IT programs and projects, primarily supporting large Federal and Commercial Health IT contracts. 

His professional experience includes promoting and delivering IT solutions leveraging commercially available computer-aided systems engineering (CASE), middleware, portal, and software development tools. And, he is the author of the Building our Digital World (BODW) series of books on software and systems development practices.  Gary’s Building our Digital World Series Books include:

• SDLC Foundations - An introductory and historical guide to software and systems development (Published June 2020)
• Tools and Templates - Improving quality and consistency of outcomes in software development and agile processes (Published June 2020)
• Frameworks for Agility - A practical guide to achieving IT process maturity and agility in a continually evolving industry
• DevOps - Communicating, collaborating, leaning, integrating, and automating across SDLC processes