Irony With Fake LeSS (is_Scrum) Adoption, with Dr. Wolfgang Richter, CLT

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SYNOPSIS:

This is going to be a fun story. Lots of IRONY.

When an organization hits Large-Scale Scrum, it is most likely to begin with a fake adoption. Scaling per sé is not easy. And it is not recommended. However, large enterprises rarely have a choice. So what can be done to handle the burden of scaling? Which pitfalls can be observed regularly? What is against all odds likely to succeed?

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BIO:
Dr. Wolfgang Richter is the founder and CEO of JIPP.IT GmbH (http://www.jipp.it/), an Agile Change Agency. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified LeSS Trainer (CLT) and Coach and works with Scrum and Agile Methods since 1998. He and his team specializes in improving processes and structures by using agile methods and principles. Agile Transformations is one of the main activities. Scrum and LeSS are his preferred approaches for internal and customer driven projects.

Dr. Richter studied Telecommunications and Informatics at the Technical University Graz where he gained his MSc. He gained his PhD with honours from the University Klagenfurt, where he focused on the Relation between Project Management, Organizational Structures, and Agile Software Development Methods. In his earlier studies he focused on Project Management, Customer Relationship Management, and Virtual Communities. Additionally he conducted studies in Software Development and Economics, and Psychology.

His philosophy is that a combination of theoretical background and practical experience is mandatory for leaders, coaches, and trainers to provide quality. He participated in over 100 projects and programs in Europe, Australia, USA, and worked with outsourced teams in China and India. He is studying and applying agile principles since 1998, and especially Scrum since 1999. Since 2002 he helped many teams and companies to transition from traditional approaches towards agility, especially Scrum.

For his doctoral thesis he conducted a meta-study about the efficiency of methods and combinations of project management standards and software development methods in projects. In this study the results of 50.000 projects were analysed.

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