The Scrum Alliance Scrum Gathering conference is in Seattle this year, May 16-18, 2011. I’ll be giving the morning keynote on the second day. I’m excited to be able to share some of the details of Construx’s experiences helping organizations move to organization-wide Scrum. Here are the details about my talk:

KEYNOTE: THE JOURNEY TO ORGANIZATION-WIDE SCRUM

Scrum practitioners know what a successful Scrum project looks like. After a few successful pilot projects, many organizations struggle when they try to roll out Scrum more broadly. What does it take to roll out Scrum organization-wide? How much does by-the-book Scrum change, and what stays the same? Where do you draw the line between ScrumBut vs. necessary adaptation? What are the common stumbling blocks, and how do you overcome them? Who has to be involved?

In this presentation, award-winning author Steve McConnell shares a typical organization’s gap analysis between small-pilot-project- success and consistent-large-project-success. He describes the work needed from technical contributors, technical leaders, executive managers, and other business partners to implement Scrum. And he describes the path that has allowed Construx’s clients to realize the benefits of Scrum in larger teams, geographically distributed teams, and more complex organizations.

Here’s the info on the conference.