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Askhat Urazbaev

Askhat Urazbaev made a typical career from junior developer to project manager in a small software company.

Later on, in Luxoft, Askhat as a process architect was engaged in adopting “heavyweight” methodologies in different departments of the company. Happily, thanks to one of the customers, Askhat get some knowledge of Agile. The new way of development looked very effective. Askhat has participated in several Agile project.

In 2006 Askhat started to help teams and department to adopt Agile methodologies in Luxoft. In March he has started Russian Agile Community (AgileRussia.ru).

In 2008 Askhat along with his partner Nikita Filippov founded company ScrumTrek which consults, trains and helps companies in their transition to Agile. Among the customers of ScrumTrek such companies as Afisha, HeadHunter, Ascon, Luxoft, Infopulse and many others.

Askhat was invited to the CEE-SECR 2012 as an absolute champion of the last year conference, where he delivered his presentation “How to save cats: zero iteration in Agile” was voted as the best by the participants.

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Nikita Filippov

Nikita Filippov

Managing Partner, ScrumTrek. Agile trainer and consultant

Nikita Filippov started his career as a developer, and now is the product manager in a major Russian web company. The last 5 years he is implementing Lean and Agile approaches and principles of product management at various levels in various companies – from start-ups to large corporations, with number of people in IT block 300 and more.

Nikita worked and successfully completed the process transformation projects for companies such as Kaspersky Lab, Joint Company Rambler-Afisha, Yandex, Crystal Services (http://www.crystals.ru), Alternative Platform (TankiOnline.com), Rostelecom, Sberbank, Auto.ru etc.

The favorite topics are: product management, business analysis, requirements gathering, Lean-Startup, software development process.

Dmitry Lobasev

Dmitry Lobasev

Agile trainer and consultant, ScrumTrek

Dmitry Lobasev is the expert in identifying and correcting production process problems in companies associated with software development.

Dmitry successfully implemented and developed Agile and Lean practices on all levels in large companies such as Yota, CFT (Center of Financial Technologies), Sberbank, Renaissance Insurance, ER-Telecom, etc.

The total number of Russian companies in which Dmitry been implementing the changes in the processes is over 20. He also delivered dozens of open training sessions on agile development, speaks at the industry conferences regularly and has twelve years of experience as a developer and project manager.

Presentation: Agile-transformation strategy for large organizations

Is it enough to implement Agile-practices at the Scrum/XP level or do we need more to succeed in our work?

The experience shows that if Agile exists in a company only as methodology for teams, it leads to weak and often short-term effect of increasing productivity. Occasionally it unbalances company and finally brings to results even worse, than it was before Agile implementation.

For best results, the changes in organizational culture should take place on all levels.

What does it mean on practice, and how it can be achieved?

In this talk we will discuss approaches of Agile-transformation for large organizations. We will see which practices work best in Russian corporations, and also the typical traps, in which you can fall, when starting the changes.