Session Title

A Move towards Value Driven Strategy - How to Best Benefit from Scrum

Abstract

This talk is based on Evelyn’s experience from coaching organizations large and small, and mentoring agile practitioners globally from over 70 countries.

Globally, many work with Scrum, for years and for decades. Yet, there are so many opportunities for improvements.

She will discuss and share the importance and practices of looking beyond the terminologies, and how we can move towards a value-driven strategy to advance our ways of working, enhance products, and stimulate innovations.

Bio

Evelyn Tian is a coach, trainer and keynote speaker of international conferences.

She has close to 30 years of product development experience in telecom products, automotive industry, financial sectors and e-commerce products, with vast experience from product management, project management, system architect, software development, system integration and installation, and customer support. She can easily move between high-level strategic management discussions and detailed discussions on software craftsmanship.

Evelyn's focus is on organization transformational strategy, continuous improvement and enhancing the art and science of crafting products and service delivery. Evelyn has built a lengthy track record and gathered deep insights in coaching organization transformation, agile leadership, product excellence and teams to unleash their potential. She was previously the head of Ericsson Global Transformation Support Center, and supported the telecom giant's transformation initiatives.

She specializes in growing agile coaching capabilities, and has helped passionate agile practitioners from over 70 different countries. She offers free monthly coaching circle activities to give back to communities.

With backgrounds in both E.E. and C.S., she has furthered her education in EMBA, psychology, and professional coaching as well.