Win Free Tickets To Shanghai, China Scrum Alliance 2015!

Win Free Tickets – My friend and Advisor Steve Forte is coming to Shanghai Sept to be a Keynote Speaker at the Scrum Alliance Gathering. Really wish I could attend myself but I’ll be traveling in USA.

So, How to win? Read on, my friend!

Event details can be found here

Official Event Website is globalscrumgathering .hk (not online anymore)

What Is The Scrum Alliance?

Scrum Alliance® is a membership organization that encourages and supports the widespread adoption and effective practice of Scrum. We are an organization of more than 400,000 members around the world, and more people joining every day, you always have peers ready to connect and collaborate. Become part of something bigger than you alone. Scrum Alliance® brings you together with like-minded people who are passionate about Scrum.

How To Win Free Tickets?

They gave me 2 free tickets to give away online, if you send me an email at site @ michaelmichelini.com with how you are using Scrum for your tech product or startup, Steve and I will review them and select the top 2 from this blog. (we also have one going on in Wechat too). This is for the event only, you are responsible for travel and accommodation.

Need to receive the emails no later than Monday Aug 17 midnight Hong Kong time.

When & Where Is This Shanghai Event?

An action packed 2 day event in mid September. It is Monday September 14, 2015 through Tuesday September 15, 2015.

It will be at the www.shangri-la .com/shanghai/pudongshangrila/reservations Pudong Shangri-La

Can book tickets online or call the hotel directly at (86-21) 6882-8888 and mention the group code ELA110915 to secure a guestroom at the negotiated rate of RMB 1,250 Single/ RMB 1,450 Double per night + service charge/taxes.

Scrum Alliance Day 1: Monday Sept. 14 Sessions

09:00 AM – 10:30 AM: WELCOME & OPENING KEYNOTE

Welcome Remarks
Vernon Stinebaker & Philip Wang
Opening Keynote
Scrum for Full-Scale Manufacturing
Joe Justice

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: MORNING BREAK

11:00 – 12:00 PM: 60 MINUTE SESSIONS

Session & Speaker

Track

Room

Smart Devices Fast Iteration

Small

Beijing

Terri Tao

Scrum as a pedagogical tool in vocational education in Finland

Large

Changchun

Otto Burman

Scrum Team CRM: Aviation Crew Resource Management Techniques for Scrum Teams

Medium

Dalian

Thomas Friend

Cracking Enterprise Buy-In: Boundaries, Footholds, and Critical Mass

X-Large

Nanjing

Anthony Montgomery, Jodi Makela

Lessons Learned from Scrum Adoption in Saudi Arabia

Medium

Qingdao

Mohammad Nafees Butt

Agile as a Mindset**

Small

Shanghai

Wei Wang

Large Complex Systems Delivery With Release Train Model and Program Kanban

Large

Shenyang

Minglan Wang

Rise and Downfall of a Large Scale Scrum Implementation

X-Large

Suzhou/Wuxi

Michael Chik

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM: LUNCH

Monday: Sept. 14 Afternoon Sessions

01:30 PM – 3:00 PM: 90 MINUTE SESSIONS

Session & Speaker

Track

Room

Project Nightingale: How An End-To-End Mobile Health Solution Went from Paper to Tablet in 11 weeks

Medium

Beijing

Ashutosh Chatterji

Villager Mafia’   – An Activity to Promote ‘Transparency’

Large

Changchun

Gaurav Rastogi

Practical Reporting Metrics for Agile Projects

Medium

Dalian

James Chong

How to “Scale” Scrum without “Scaling”

X-Large

Nanjing

Jimi Fosdick

Star Wars, Scum and Story Mapping

Medium

Qingdao

Matthew Hodgson, Mia Horrigan

The Five Dysfunctions of an Improvised Comedy Troupe

Small

Shanghai

Daniel Attfield, Paul Hammond

Experience the Power of Coaching in an Agile Context

Large

Shenyang

Evelyn Tian

Developing Internal Agile Coaches**

X-Large

Suzhou/Wuxi

Yi Xu

03:00 PM – 3:30 PM: AFTERNOON BREAK

03:30 PM – 5:00 PM: 90 MINUTE SESSIONS

Session & Speaker

Track

Room

Self Organizing teams – Myth or a powerful tool?

Small

Beijing

Narasimha Reddy Bommaka

Exploit Core Scrum Practices at the Program Level

Large

Changchun

Jeff Lopez-Stuit

Learning 3.0 – Relearning to Learn

Medium

Dalian

Anderson Hummel, Manoel Pimentel

When Your Agile Transformation Team *Is* The Primary Barrier To Your Agile Transformation

X-Large

Nanjing

Daniel Gullo

How serious play leads to breakthrough innovation

Medium

Qingdao

Cedric Mainguy, Sylvain Mahe

Escape top emotional intelligence traps and hack team culture

Small

Shanghai

David Papini

LeSS is natural**

Large

Shenyang

Yi Lv

High-Energy Agile Transformation using Open Space Technology

X-Large

Suzhou/Wuxi

Stuart Turner

Day 2: Tues Sept 15

09:00 AM – 10:00 AM: 60 MINUTE SESSIONS

Session & Speaker

Track

Room

Scrum Values Playbook – where synergy begins.

Small

Beijing

Stephanie Bysouth

Agile from the other end of the phone line: Successful Agile in distributed team

Large

Changchun

Jacob Creech

Travelling light – The pros and perils of lean documentation

Medium

Dalian

Angie Doyle

Scrum-ish: Agile for the Whole Organization

X-Large

Nanjing

Keith Nottonson

Sun Tzu and the Art of War: Applied and Scalable Simplicity for Medium Sized SCRUM

Medium

Qingdao

Daniel Doiron

Zeros to Heroes: A Three-Month Experiment in Success

Small

Shanghai

Jodi Makela, Anthony Montgomery

My Scaled Agile Journey: LeSS**

Large

Shenyang

Qingyu Li

Scaling Agility Explored

X-Large

Suzhou/Wuxi

Ran Nyman, Ari Tikka

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: FLASH TALKS

Session & Speaker

Track

Room

Scrum in a Chicago High School Biology Class

Small

TBC

Ebony Nicole Brown

Lean Startup for Agile Product Managemen

Medium

TBC

Manik Choudhary

Tricks on distributed scrum team

Large

TBC

Zhe Huang

The Exorcist Was a Sprint Planning Master

Medium

TBC

Jeff Lopez-Stuit

How do self-organization live up to and not live up to agile transformation?

Small

TBC

Bin Qiao

‘Why’ Is Important than ‘How’

Large

TBC

Gaurav Rastogi

Gamification: Do we need Team or Individual?

Large

TBC

Arijit Sarbagna

My journey to become a CST

Small

TBC

Jim Wang

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: 60 MINUTE SESSIONS

Session & Speaker

Track

Room

From Scrum But to Scrum Plus

Small

Beijing

Gilbert Villanueva

Concrete Experimentation in Scrum

Large

Changchun

Bernd Schiffer

Toolbox for Agile coaches: when working with your people

Medium

Dalian

Ethan Huang

Scrum Economics: Contracts, Budgets, Capitalization

X-Large

Nanjing

Pavel Dabrytski

If your User Story Came Alive !!!

Medium

Qingdao

Kalpesh Shah

Empowering Teams for the Best Architectures, Requirements, and Designs

Small

Shanghai

Emre Pekkaya

The Customer CAN always be right –

Large

Shenyang

Maria Matarelli

Let the right one in – Recruiting for Scrum

X-Large

Suzhou/Wuxi

Lenka Bednarikova

Tuesday: Sept. 15 PM Sessions

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM: LUNCH

01:30 PM – 3:00 PM: 90 MINUTE SESSIONS

Session & Speaker

Track

Room

Kaizen in Scrum Workshop

Medium

Beijing

Kiro Harada, Miho Nagese

Coaching Anti-Patterns and common smells

Large

Changchun

Sekhar Burra

back to the basic — “how do both process improvement and quality assurance work in Scrum framework?”

Medium

Dalian

Jim Wang

Agile yes, but why?

X-Large

Nanjing

Philipp Engstler

Agile UX is Good, But Can Be Better

Medium

Qingdao

Zhenyu Liao

Exploring Approaches and Challenges in Enterprise Agile Scaling

X-Large

Shanghai

John Okoro

The Facilitator’s Toolkit: 12 tools to get results and build a team!

Large

Shenyang

Sylvain Mahe, Cedric Mainguy

Helping Agile Transformations with ADKAR

X-Large

Suzhou/Wuxi

Ebony Nicole Brown

Interested in The Scrum Alliance Event & Want To Learn More?

Event details can be found here:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/scrum-alliance-global-scrum-gathering-2015-registration-17937962930

Official Event Website is http://globalscrumgathering.hk