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The Secret to Coordinating Multi-Team Agile Programs
 
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eBay Senior Product Development Manager Sri Gopalakrishnan shares his experience on how he motivated his Agile teams while coordinating their work with the existing, traditional organizational culture. Then Rally Agile Coach Ronica Roth shares pragmatic tips and takeaways on the skills needed to coordinate cross-functional teams, ensuring strong cross-team communication and working together for phenomenal results.

Intended Audience: Do you coordinate Agile across multiple teams? If you're a Development Project Manager, Project Manager, IS or IT Manager, Manager of Application Development, or IT Director, then this event is for you!

Gear up for success as you scale Agile from collaborating in a cross-functional team to coordinating global, multi-team programs! In this Web seminar, eBay and Rally arm you with proven tactics and a clear roadmap for motivating your teams and implementing Agile at the program level. You'll discover how multiple teams work together on one set of deliverables, innovating faster and with greater impact than individual Agile teams working on a small scale.

You'll learn tactics for:
  • Organizing into cross-functional Scrum teams
  • Motivating Agile teams while coordinating with existing, traditional organization structures
  • Choosing single versus multiple product backlogs
  • Creating and implementing effective working agreements, organizational structures and skills to coordinate multiple teams
  • How to track and perform roll-up reporting on these initiatives
Take this opportunity to learn how to implement Agile at the program level and to score takeaways from eBay's experience transitioning to multi-team agility.
 
Presenters

Sri Gopalakrishnan, Sr. Manager in Product Development, eBay
Sri has been with eBay for more than five years. He is currently responsible for running the application engineering teams in the areas of trust and safety. His responsibilities include seller performance, feedback, and seller fairness. In the past Sri has also managed teams within application security, including user registration and verification.

Ronica Roth, Agile Coach, Rally Software
Ronica Roth is an Agile coach and consultant with Rally Software. Her 10-year software career is rooted in facilitating clear communication and close collaboration across disciplines, resulting in software that more often met customer needs. She has extensive experience discovering, evolving, and managing software requirements, which provides product owner expertise and a deep understanding of the customer side of Agile software development.

Her passion for helping people work together creatively and efficiently led her to embrace Agile practices. She has guided many organizations—from small, private firms to large government agencies, from technology companies to internal software development groups—through successful adoption of Agile principles and best practices. Ronica is a certified ScrumMaster Trainer and certified JAD Facilitator. She also holds a Master of Science in Journalism (MSJ) from Northwestern University.


 
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This presentation aired Sept. 21, 2010.

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