Jeffery Campbell - Agile - A different way of working / Project Management
Jeff is an Agile Coaching living in Gothenburg Sweden, but is born and raised on Cape Breton Island. He considers the discovery of Agile and Lean to be one of the most defining moments of his life, and consider helping others to improve their working life not to simply be a job, but a social responsibility. As an Agile Coach he has worked with driving Agile transformations in organisations both small and large.
During his time as a coach in one of the world’s largest telecoms, Ercisson AB, one business unit was able to reduce their global lead time by 30% and there defects in production by 95%.
More locally he has provided remote coaching to a team at Dalhousie University which became the first administrative unit at the university to use an agile approach to projects.
He is fresh off a two your assignment with the Swedish government and their Department of Motor Vehicles on systems that are used by the entire country of Sweden, and have a daily turnover of almost 1 million dollars. During his time with "trafikverket" quality, delivery speed, employee and customer satisfaction all increased substantially.
He has moved on to the next challenge, a company of over 400 people who create optimisation software for the aviation industry.
Jeff is also involved in the Agile community outside of the work place being one of the founding members of Gothenburg Sweden’s largest agile community at 300+ members www.scrumbeers.com, a community run agile discussion group. And also organises the yearly conference www.brewingagile.org.
Jeff is an Agile Coaching living in Gothenburg Sweden, but is born and raised on Cape Breton Island. He considers the discovery of Agile and Lean to be one of the most defining moments of his life, and consider helping others to improve their working life not to simply be a job, but a social responsibility. As an Agile Coach he has worked with driving Agile transformations in organisations both small and large.
During his time as a coach in one of the world’s largest telecoms, Ercisson AB, one business unit was able to reduce their global lead time by 30% and there defects in production by 95%.
More locally he has provided remote coaching to a team at Dalhousie University which became the first administrative unit at the university to use an agile approach to projects.
He is fresh off a two your assignment with the Swedish government and their Department of Motor Vehicles on systems that are used by the entire country of Sweden, and have a daily turnover of almost 1 million dollars. During his time with "trafikverket" quality, delivery speed, employee and customer satisfaction all increased substantially.
He has moved on to the next challenge, a company of over 400 people who create optimisation software for the aviation industry.
Jeff is also involved in the Agile community outside of the work place being one of the founding members of Gothenburg Sweden’s largest agile community at 300+ members www.scrumbeers.com, a community run agile discussion group. And also organises the yearly conference www.brewingagile.org.
Agile ways of working are taking the world by storm. "Methodologies" like Scrum, Kanban, The Lean Startup, and eXtreem Programming are being used with great success in IT companies of all sizes. These companies are reporting faster times to market, more flexibility, higher quality, and most importantly more satisfied customers and employees.
Scrum, Kanban, Management 3.0, Lean, what do all these buzzwords mean?
Will it be of any use in your organisation?
If yours is like most IT organisations, you are suffering from very common issues:
- Constantly over budget
- Always late on the deliveries
- Low quality
- Long working hours
- Overworked staff
- Departments that don't work together
- Deliveries that don't satisfy your customers
This talk will give you a brief overview and introduction to Agile concepts and how they will help your organisation. It won't remedy any of these things for you overnight, but, it might start you down a path to doing so.
This session is equally useful for anyone looking to improve their organisation, whether they be highly technical, or completely non-technical.
Scrum, Kanban, Management 3.0, Lean, what do all these buzzwords mean?
Will it be of any use in your organisation?
If yours is like most IT organisations, you are suffering from very common issues:
- Constantly over budget
- Always late on the deliveries
- Low quality
- Long working hours
- Overworked staff
- Departments that don't work together
- Deliveries that don't satisfy your customers
This talk will give you a brief overview and introduction to Agile concepts and how they will help your organisation. It won't remedy any of these things for you overnight, but, it might start you down a path to doing so.
This session is equally useful for anyone looking to improve their organisation, whether they be highly technical, or completely non-technical.
