Discussion: Agile from the management position (75 min.)

Agile Room
Fri 24th Sep 17:45
cs

Most of the agile talks are focused inside to the teams, describing how to start agile, be more efficient or trying to find out how to sell the agile approach to the customer.

However we found interesting to set up panel discussion of experienced managers and have an opportunity to discuss with the audience the alignment of agile methods with the corporate structures and company culture as this is the third obstacle you may find starting agile.

At the end of the the discussion we are pleased to announce the winner of the competition supported by ScrumDesk. We are playing for 10 free licenses of ScrumDesk and Playing Poker Cards.

Video for this talk is only available for conference guests.

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Audience (75)
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Zuzana Sochova (CZ)

Managing Director at Agilni Asociace

Zuzana Šochová started with agile and Scrum back in 2005, where she was involved in implementing the agile methods at large US company operating in the medical area.

From that time, she was responsible for implementation of agile and Scrum to teams in the Czech Republic operating in different areas of IT industry (i.e. air traffic control management systems, extensive healthcare applications, public safety systems and small and extremely fast internet projects).

Currently she works as a consultant and coach for software organizations. She is regular speaker at agile international conferences and she is leading Czech agile community AgilniKonsorcium.cz. She is Managing Director of Lotofidea.

http://vyvojari.seznam.cz

Vlastimil Pečínka (CZ)

R&D director at Seznam.cz

Vlastimil Pečínka began career as a developer and administrator during his study at Masaryk university in Brno. He developed the Czech free-mail service Email.cz in that time.

After eight years he joined Seznam.cz as a member of the team developing new Czech fulltext search engine. A year after he became a team leader of the email developers.

In 2006 Vlastimil won a selection procedure and became CTO, since spring 2009 is responsible for whole product development in the R&D. In 2009 he also implemented SCRUM within Seznam.cz.

Jan Bezdíček (CZ)

Director at Rockwell Automation

As a Director of Rockwell Automation R&D Center Prague, Jan Bezdicek is responsible for all the research and development projects done by Prague R&D center in the area of industry automation and factory information software technologies and software solutions. Many projects are managed by SCRUM methodology and most of the projects are done in tight cooperation with other company’s R&D centers.

Jan Bezdicek spent his entire professional career in Rockwell Automation on different positions including one year assignment in the U.S. on “Manager, Software Engineering” position.

http://www.kerio.com

Pavel Šuk (CZ)

Vice President for Engineering at Kerio Technologies

As vice president of Engineering of Kerio Technologies, Inc., Pavel Suk is responsible for driving the product strategy and leading the engineering efforts of Kerio Control and Kerio Connect.

In this role, he manages a fast-growing team of more than 70 engineers based in the company’s Pilsen office in the Czech Republic.

Prior to joining Kerio, Pavel Suk spent the last nine years at Sun Microsystems helping design and develop NetBeans and Forte Tools solutions.

Since 2005, he was the director of the Prague Engineering Center at Sun Microsystems Czech Republic, where he managed the growth of the team from 150 to 300 engineers.