GOTO Night: Scrum and Team Culture at Zurich Insurance


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Talk: “Helping Zurich’s Scrum teams reach for the Stars! “
A great team culture. What is it and how can you achieve it? Han van Loon will discuss how he launched 22 Scrum project teams in the past two years at Zurich Insurance. Zurich Insurance’s Zurich Project Management Framework for IT projects previously favored incremental and waterfall project execution. Learn how to help individuals change mindset, deliver value and foster culture change.
Short Bio: Han van Loon
Han van Loon is a thought leader, book author, inventor, mountaineer, skier, graphic designer, photographer, international project manager, quality and knowledge management expert, Swiss representative to several international standards setting bodies, ISO standards author, a conference keynote speaker, ex IEEE Switzerland section chair, STARS methodology creator, and visiting professor at two universities. And not forgetting .. he has worked in agile projects for over 18 years.
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Jeff Sutherland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sutherland): Why you should use Scrum – Q&A
Dr. Jeff Sutherland is the co-creator of Scrum, and was a signer of the Agile Manifesto, which marked the start of the Agile movement. Jeff has served as VP of Engineering or CTO at eleven software companies, managing the last seven entirely using Scrum, and achieved industry-leading, hyper-productive results. Jeff is the Chairman of the scruminc, and Senior Advisor to OpenView Venture Partners where he is Agile coach for portfolio companies.
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Details
Date Monday, April 14, 2014
Time 18:00 / 6pm
Venue/Host Holiday Inn Oerlikon
Address Wallisellenstrasse 48, 8050 Zürich
Cost Free of charge – snacks & refreshments included
Speakers Han van Loon, Zurich Insurance
Max seats: 60 (first come – first served)
Registration: Register now! (http://www.eventbrite.com/e/goto-night-helping-zurichs-scrum-teams-reach-for-the-stars-tickets-11150472363)
For questions or in case of cancellation, please send an e-mail to Bianca Legorreta (bil@trifork.com).
No-shows will have to pay a fee of 50 CHF if they do not inform us before hand.
Agenda
- Introduction by Trifork (5 min. Host of Scrum Certifications)
- Presentation by Han van Loon, Zurich Insurance (45 min.)
- Break with Snacks and Drinks (30 min.)
- Q&A with Jeff and Speaker facilitated by Trifork (30 min)
- Networking (Open End)

GOTO Night: Scrum and Team Culture at Zurich Insurance