Ian Spence

Scagilize Network Partner (Trainer & Consultant), Advisor & SAFe Fellow

Ian is an independent thinker, author and agile coach, and an advisor and partner to Scagilize on all things scaled and agile. He spends most of his time coaching the teams working on some of the world’s largest and most technically challenging endeavours – such as the Square Kilometre Array Organization (SKAO), building the world's largest radio telescope to explore the Universe – and works with industry thought leaders such as Dean Leffingwell, Dr Jeff Sutherland and Dr Ivar Jacobson to improve the art of software development. He has co-authored a number of popular books and led the creation of the OMG’s Essence Kernel and many of the most popular Essence Practices. He has many certifications, the best of which is probably SAFe Fellow.

Erfahrungen

  • Agile coach (with more than 25 years experience) comfortable at all levels in an organization, with experience coaching everyone from CXOs to developers and testers in agile principles, values, and practices
  • Specialist in large-scale agile adoptions and practice-based organizational change. I have worked with hundreds of projects to introduce iterative and agile practices, working with development teams ranging from 5-1,500 people and organizations of 5-50,000 people.
  • Leader of numerous successful, large-scale transformation projects in fields as diverse as government, telecommunications, finance, and internet start-ups
  • Experienced in using Agile for non-software endeavours including the successful adoption of Scrum @ Scale for financial regulation at the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission
  • Co-author of three influential software development books: "Use Case Modeling", "Managing Iterative Software Development Projects” and “The Essence of Software Engineering”
  • SAFe Contributor: Co-author, with Dean Leffingwell, of the SAFe advanced topic article “Balancing the Dual Operating System"
  • Team lead for the development of the SEMAT kernel and the Essence Scrum and Kanban practices
  • Regular conference speaker and webinar presenter

Ausbildung & Zertifikate

  • SAFe Fellow – the first in Europe
  • SAFe Program Consultant Trainer, SPC, RTE
  • One of the first certified SPCTs in Europe, helped to certify over 300 SPCs
  • Scrum@Scale Trainer / Scrum Trainer (lapsed)

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