Fall 2007 Day Two Keynote
Day Two Keynotes
Thursday, 15 November, brought two keynotes, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, plus a bonus "Scrum Update" presentation from Ken Schwaber. The first keynote address was "Deploying Scrum Company-wide: The Journey of F-Secure's Agile Transformation" and was given by Pirkka Palomäki. The second was "Scrum at British Telecom" given by a select panel from BT.
Deploying Scrum Company-wide: The Journey of F-Secure's Agile Transformation
About Pirkka Palomäki
Pirkka Palomäki is Executive Vice President, Research & Development, for F-Secure Corporation headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.
He joined F-Secure in 1997 and has previously held positions in Product Management and Marketing. Prior to joining F-Secure, Mr. Palomäki has worked at Telecom Finland (currently TeliaSonera) in the field of marketing, business development and development management for data communication services. He holds a Master of Science degree in International Marketing and Business Strategy from the Helsinki University of Technology.
About F-Secure
F-Secure is the global market leader in mobile phone protection provided through mobile operators, such as T-Mobile and Swisscom and mobile handset manufacturers such as Nokia. Founded in 1988, F-Secure has been listed on the Helsinki Exchanges since 1999, and has been consistently growing faster than all its publicly-listed competitors. F-Secure headquarters are in Helsinki, Finland, with regional offices around the world. F-Secure protection is also available as a service through major ISPs, such as France Telecom, TeliaSonera, PCCW and Charter Communications.
Securing computers, networks and mobiles against the increasing complexity of viruses, worms, hackers and other threats calls for commitment, vigilance and intelligence. And above all, uncompromising reliability. At F-Secure we are driven by a single aim: to enable corporations and individuals alike to enjoy the highest levels of permanent IT security.
Scrum at British Telecom
Adopting an agile approach to a project is challenging, scaling that is daunting. All Scrum projects will help identify some of the dysfunctionalities affecting your organisation's ability to perform and the more pervasive that Scrum becomes in your organisation, the better chance you have of becoming a lean organisation. However, the more widespread your adoption of Scrum, the harder it is to support and the harder it is to build and maintain momentum.
Agile adoptions nowadays are rarely small and the larger the adoption, the harder things get. People learn from other people, teams learn from other teams and companies learn from other companies.
In an agile environment all information should be treated as good information and, given the size and scale of British Telecom (100,000 employees) the amount of information BT can share is immense. Geoff Watts, Paul Goddard, Nigel Baker and Roger Leaton will share their experiences of agile adoption at British Telecom and discuss future plans.
This is not a blueprint for how to adopt agile at an organisational level - BT is still undergoing its transformation - but rather an incremental sharing of information for those who may be facing similar challenges or maybe to prepare those who are about to face them.
About the Panelists
Geoff Watts, CST, Inspect & Adapt, Paul Goddard, CST, Nigel Baker, CST, & Roger Leaton, CSM, British Telecom, United Kingdom
About British Telecom
BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions serving customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific, and operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband products and services. In the UK, BT serves over 18 million business and residential customers with more than 28 million exchange lines, as well as providing network services (such as broadband, WLR and LLU) to other licensed operators.
Scrum Update from Ken Schwaber
Ken Schwaber conducted a three-hour evening session offering tips for CSMs on how to keep Scrum Scrum, and prevent the iterative, incremental death march from happening to you and your organization.
Gathering attendees attended this bonus session held Thursday evening from 19.00-22.00 at the Dexter House.
