#017 In episode 17 of the Silicon Alley Podcast – It’s Poker, Not Chess: The Art of Scrum, we hear from Fabian Schwartz. Fabian a project management veteran who built a business teaching the Scrum framework to companies outside of technology. Scrum Colombia is the only Scrum trainer in the country and has delivered incredible client results. To help spread proper Scrum, Fabian has written a book Your Scrum Playbook: It’s Poker, Not Chess.
About Fabian
For more than 20 years, Fabian Schwartz worked in the tech industry as a program manager, developer, tester, project manager, and trainer. He has also taught IT and project management at South American and European universities for the past 15 years. Over the past decade, he has translated his love of training and efficiency into a thought leadership and public speaking role and has taught Scrum to more than 30,000 people. After becoming an early advocate of agile, he became an expert in all facets of Scrum, having pioneered Scrum outside of software. Fabian is the co-creator of the Scrum in Hardware guide and has worked directly with Dr. Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum. Fabian has an MBA from Macquarie University in Australia as well as degrees from Germany and the UK. He has pursued continuing education from Stanford University & Harvard Business School. Fabian has helped many businesses from small start-ups to Fortune 100 companies leverage agile and achieve goals more effectively throughout Europe, Australia, the Americas. He is the only Scrum trainer in Colombia.
About the Book – It’s Poker, Not Chess
Have you ever heard business being compared to a game of chess? If you’re a leader in any sector, you know business today feels more like a chaotic game of poker–one where you can’t see all the cards and you’re sure some opponents have an ace up their sleeve.
This book shows you how to use Scrum to create a winning hand from the cards you’ve been dealt. From a Scrum strategist and educator with years of experience across a variety of sectors, you’ll learn how to complete more work in less time while delivering better value to clients. By assembling the right team, creating the right ecosystem, learning to avoid the clutches of Frankenscrum, working with a Backlog and Sprints, and by using the rest of the Scrum Framework, you may just find yourself playing a whole new game at your business–one that helps you respond to a quickly changing business landscape and poises you to win.
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