Gunther Verheyen
Gunther Verheyen calls himself an independent Scrum Caretaker on a journey of humanizing the workplace with Scrum. He is a long-time Scrum practitioner who started applying Scrum in 2003. His Agile adventures started with eXtreme Programming wrapped in Scrum in 2003. Until 2010 he gained experience with Scrum with various teams in various organizations and diverse domains. He then became the inspiring force behind some large-scale enterprise transformations. In 2011 he acquired his license as a Professional Scrum Trainer for Scrum.org.
Since 2016 Gunther is continuing his journey to humanize the workplace with Scrum as an independent Scrum Caretaker; a connector, teacher, writer, speaker. He helps organizations re-imagine their Scrum and re-emerge the organization around it while creating a more humane and therefore more productive workplace.
Gunther created his acclaimed book Scrum – A Pocket Guide in 2013, with a 2nd edition published in 2019, a 3rd edition in 2021 and a 4th edition envisioned for 2024. In 2020 he published the book 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know; a collection of essays from field experts across the world. Several translations of his work are available.
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Speaking session on MAIN stage
Topic: Scrum Downfield – The Future State of Scrum
Description: Gunther Verheyen, independent Scrum Caretaker, joins the Regional Scrum Gathering Belgrade 2024 to share his view on the future state of Scrum.
Gunther believes that we have far from reached the full potential of Scrum. Rather than producing yet another derivative of Scrum or inventing some 2.0 or 3.0 version (with an associated training and certification scheme), Gunther focuses on how Scrum (1.n) looks like downfield. Scrum being globally adopted at scales never seen before and therefore increasingly being treated as a commodity is leading us into a counter-productive status-quo. Gunther challenges us how to challenge that status-quo in 3 concurrent ways and increase the effective use of Scrum. Gunther believes that practitioners around the globe should move their Scrum downfield and thus collectively, bottom-up, move the global movement of Scrum downfield.
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Workshop on ORANGE stage
Topic: Scrum in the Large
Description: Gunther Verheyen, independent Scrum Caretaker, has initiated and is evolving a series of half-day workshops called Scrum Pocket Classes (“SPC”). Each SPC has a strong focus on a specific topic. The series is based on and named after his book “Scrum – A Pocket Guide”. At the Regional Scrum Gathering Belgrade, Gunther will facilitate a workshop about “Scrum in the Large”. It will build on and include the essence of his Scrum Pocket Class with that name: “Multi-team Scrum”, ie. how can multiple teams working on the same product organize their Scrum.
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