About Rowan Bunning
Rowan Bunning is a globally recognised educator and consultant in Agile product development. He has been managing principal of Scrum WithStyle for over 15 years.
His Agile journey began in 2001 as a software developer adopting eXtreme Programming (XP) before becoming Australia’s first Scrum Master in 2003 and first Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) in 2006. He also played the Product Owner role as Product Manager at a tech. start-up. He was hired as an Agile Coach by the U.K.’s most prominent Agile consultancy in 2007 and became a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®) in early 2008. He has delivered well over 500 high impact training courses with certification from Scrum Alliance.
Rowan has spoken at over 20 conferences including 12 in Europe, the USA and NZ. To give back to the Agile community, Rowan has been lead organiser of the Sydney Scrum User Group for most of its 16 year history.
As a scaled Agile consultant, Rowan has guided multi-team Agile adoptions at organisations including the RBA, Westpac, Findex, Bupa, Wargaming, nib, Indue, Transport for NSW, Siemens and Symantec using Scrum, BDD, Kanban, LeSS and more. Most recently Rowan has been Delivery Manager introducing Agile change to the critical systems that settle approximately $220 billion of Australia’s financial transactions each business day.
Rowan is passionate about developing leaders who are skilled at the organisational design choices and leadership behaviours required to simplify their organisation to compete at scale on the basis of agility, innovation and highest customer value.
Play & Do Session How to establish capability goals that shape your Agile change
Agile is not the goal. We’ve heard that many times, yet how effective are we at establishing what the real change goals are? Getting to alignment on these goals may just be the most important decision in your Agile transformation as it shapes every other change decision.
A skilful way to align on organisational change aspirations is to use a matchmaking approach based on the business strategy and leveraging systems thinking. In this workshop, we use role play to take you through the process of using optimising goals with leaders. Having done this many groups of leaders we share tips on explaining the concepts, facilitating workshops and exploring the implications of various goal choices.
As a change agent, optimising goals are incredibly valuable. They enable you to call out what is currently out of alignment with the agreed goals. The word “better” then has a shared meaning.
For example: should we optimise for efficient use of resources or effectiveness? For faster flow or highest known customer value? Depending on the answers, the appropriate methods and management systems could vary from waterfall to Kanban, LeSS or Lean Startup.
You will leave with access to a set of cards that you can use in your own workshops.