Scott M. Graffius Delivered 40 Talks and Workshops Across 17 Countries in 2021



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In 2021, Scott M. Graffius delivered 40 dynamic and engaging talks and workshops across 17 countries. His sessions spanned leadership, technical project management (inclusive of agile, waterfall, and hybrid approaches to project, program, portfolio, and PMO management), and strategic and business management. He incorporated everyday language and vibrant custom visuals to make complex topics clear and understandable, and he provided audiences with practical information they can use. His engagements were highly rated by attendees and event organizers alike.

Here's an abridged list his 40 sessions in 2021 (most recent shown first):

  1. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Private event
  2. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Private event
  3. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | DevOps Experience 2021 Conference
  4. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฒ | Frug'Agile Conference Armenia 2021
  5. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Private event
  6. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | IEEE Day 2021
  7. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท | Private event
  8. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง | BSides Newcastle England 2021 InfoSec Conference
  9. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Private event
  10. ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท | Agile Trends Gov Conference 2021
  11. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Private event
  12. ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ | Private event
  13. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Florida Suncoast Chapter of the Project Management Institute
  14. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Private event
  15. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Central Virginia Chapter of the Project Management Institute
  16. ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช | Private event
  17. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น | DevOps Pro Europe 2021 Conference
  18. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Southwest Virginia Chapter of the Project Management Institute
  19. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง | Private event
  20. ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ | Luxembourg Chapter of the Project Management Institute
  21. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง | Private event
  22. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Monterey Bay Chapter of the Project Management Institute
  23. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ | Private event
  24. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ | New Zealand Chapter of the Project Management Institute
  25. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช | Private event
  26. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Southern Nevada Chapter of the Project Management Institute
  27. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | California Institute of Advanced Management
  28. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ | Private event
  29. ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง | Scottish Summit 2021
  30. ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ | Finland Chapter of the Project Management Institute
  31. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ | ConFoo Developer Conference 2021
  32. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Private event
  33. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ | DevConf.CZ 2021 Conference
  34. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Private event
  35. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | California Inland Empire Chapter of Project Management Institute
  36. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Private event
  37. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช | Private event
  38. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | Alaska Chapter of the Project Management Institute
  39. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ | North Alabama Chapter of Project Management Institute
  40. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ | Netherlands Chapter of the Project Management Institute

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About Scott M. Graffius

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Scott M. Graffius, PMP, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, CSM, CSPO, SFE, ITIL, LSSGB is an agile project management practitioner, consultant, multi award-winning author, and international speaker. He has generated over 1.75 billion dollars of business value in aggregate for the organizations he has served. His expertise spans project, program, portfolio, and PMO leadership inclusive of agile, traditional, and hybrid approaches. Content from Graffius's books, workshops, speaking engagements, and more have been featured and used by businesses, professional associations, governments, and universities including Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Gartner, Deloitte, Project Management Institute, IEEE, SANS Institute, Ford, Qantas, Atlassian, Wrike, Bayer, National Academy of Sciences, United States Department of Energy, United States Army, New Zealand Ministry of Education, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Tufts University, Texas A&M University, Virginia Tech, Penn State, Warsaw University of Technology, University of Waterloo, National University of Ireland Galway, Loughborough University London, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, and others. Thinkers360 named Graffius a global top thought leader and influencer in four domains: Agile, Change Management, Digital Transformation, and GovTech.

Graffius is the founder, CEO, and principal consultant at
Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions™ and subsidiary Exceptional Agility™, based in Los Angeles, California. The professional services firm provides client organizations with advisory, training, speaking, embedded talent, and facilitative consulting services to help them advance their agile project, program, portfolio, and PMO management capabilities to best realize their strategic objectives and business initiatives, making them more competitive and valuable. The company confidently backs its services with a Delighted Client Guarantee™.

A fantastic agile transformation experience and result with a client organization in the entertainment industry was the inspiration for Graffius’s first book,
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions (ISBN-13: 9781533370242). It helps technical and non-technical teams develop and deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement—which supports innovation and drives competitive advantage. The book garnered 17 first place awards from national and international competitions. His second title, Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change (ISBN-13: 9781072447962), was named one of the best Scrum books of all time by BookAuthority. Graffius and his works have been featured by media outlets and publications including Yahoo Finance, Computer Weekly, MobileAppDaily, Innovation Management, the PM World Journal, NASSCOM, Software Quality Management, Nimble Ways, Business Application Monitoring, Learning Solutions, Innovation Ecosystem Metrics, DZone, Innovation Project Management (by Dr. Harold Kerzner), TopDevs, NHD Podcast, and others.

Graffius is a former vice president of project management with a publicly traded provider of diverse consumer products and services over the Internet. Before that, he ran and supervised the delivery of projects and programs in public and private organizations with businesses ranging from e-commerce to advanced technology products and services, retail, manufacturing, entertainment, and more. He has experience with consumer, business, reseller, government, and international markets, as well as experience spanning 20 countries.

Graffius has a bachelor's degree in Psychology with a focus in Human Factors. He holds eight professional certifications: Certified Scrum Professional - ScrumMaster (CSP-SM), Certified Scrum Professional - Product Owner (CSP-PO), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Foundations Educator (SFE), Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB), and IT Service Management Foundation (ITIL). He is a member of the Scrum Alliance, the Project Management Institute (PMI), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

He has been
actively involved with the Project Management Institute (PMI) in the development of professional standards. He was a member of the team which produced the Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures—Second Edition. Graffius was a contributor and reviewer of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge—Sixth Edition, The Standard for Program Management—Fourth Edition, and The Practice Standard for Project Estimating—Second Edition. He was also a subject matter expert reviewer of content for the PMI EMEA Congress 2019, and he served as a member of the review team for the Scrum Alliance’s Global Scrum Gathering—New York City 2020.

Graffius delivers dynamic and engaging talks and workshops at public and private/corporate events. His engagements include 59 in-person and online conferences and other events around the world, including Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States. Graffius delights audiences with sessions on technology leadership and project, program, portfolio, and PMO management inclusive of agile, waterfall, and hybrid approaches. He uses everyday language and vibrant custom visuals to make complex topics clear, and he provides audiences with practical information they can use. For details, visit the public speaker section of his website
here.

He resides in Los Angeles, California.

His full bio is available here.

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About Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions

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Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive.

There are a variety of frameworks supporting the development of products and services, and most approaches fall into one of two broad categories: traditional or agile. Traditional practices such as waterfall engage sequential development, while agile involves iterative and incremental deliverables. Organizations are increasingly embracing agile to manage projects, and best meet their business needs of rapid response to change, fast delivery speed, and more.

With clear and easy to follow step-by-step instructions,
Scott M. Graffius's award-winning Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions helps the reader:

  • Implement and use the most popular agile frameworkโ€•Scrum;
  • Deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement; and
  • Support innovation and drive competitive advantage.

Hailed by Literary Titan as “the book highlights the versatility of Scrum beautifully.”

Winner of 17 first place awards.

Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions is available in paperback and ebook/Kindle in the United States and around the world. Some links by country follow.



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About
Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change

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Thriving in today's marketplace frequently depends on making a transformation to become more agile. Those successful in the transition enjoy faster delivery speed and ROI, higher satisfaction, continuous improvement, and additional benefits.

Based on actual events,
Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change provides a quick (60-90 minute) read about a successful agile transformation at a multinational entertainment and media company, told from the author's perspective as an agile coach.

The award-winning book by
Scott M. Graffius is available in paperback and ebook/Kindle in the United States and around the world. Some links by country follow.



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Agile Project Management: Insights from Scott M. Graffius in ‘Managing Information Technology’ Book

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Insights from Scott M. Graffius in New Book on Technology Management

Scott M. Graffius' award-winning
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions book is featured on AgileScrumGuide.com, which also provides news, tips, and resources on Agile and Scrum.

The Agile Project Management chapter in the new book,
Managing Information Technology (Second Edition), draws on Scott M. Graffius’ insights published on AgileScrumGuide.com regarding the potentially shippable product increment (PSPI) and the minimum viable product (MVP) approach.

As shown, Graffius is listed in the references section of
Managing Information Technology (Second Edition).

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About Managing Information Technology (Second Edition)

The following is a synopsis of the 2024 book based on information on Amazon.

Taking the fundamental principles of IT service management and best practices in project management (including agile),
Managing Information Technology (Second Edition) offers a single, seamless reference for IT managers and others involved or interested in the profession. Authors Francisco Castillo and Korina Monoso leveraged their considerable industry experience in informing readers how to apply the information conveyed in the book into the workplace.

The book is available in
digital and print formats.

Visit the
publisher’s website to learn more.

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Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions book, and content on AgileScrumGuide.com, are copyright © Scott M. Graffius. Managing Information Technology (Second Edition) cover image and content are the property of Springer, the editors, or the authors.

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About Scott M. Graffius


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Scott M. Graffius, PMP, SA, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, CSM, CSPO, ITIL, LSSGB is an Agile project management expert practitioner, consultant, creator, multi-award-winning author, and international public speaker.

He's generated over $1.9 billion of business value in aggregate for Global Fortune 500 businesses and other organizations he's served. Businesses and industries range from consumer products to advanced technology (including AI and R&D), e-commerce, music, streaming/OTT video, television, film, video games, financial services, government, and more.

Graffius and content from his books (
Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions and Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change), talks, workshops, and more have been featured and used by businesses, professional associations, governments, and universities around the world. Examples include Adobe, American Management Association, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Bayer, Boston University, Broadcom, Cisco, Deimos Aerospace, DevOps Institute, EU's European Commission, Ford Motor Company, Hasso Plattner Institute Germany, IEEE, Johns Hopkins University, London South Bank University, Microsoft, National Academy of Sciences, New Zealand Government, Oracle, Project Management Institute, Torrens University Australia, UC San Diego, TBS Switzerland, UK Sports Institute, University of Galway Ireland, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Tennis Association, Virginia Tech, Warsaw University of Technology, Yale University, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, and many others.

He delights audiences around the world with dynamic and engaging talks and workshops. He's presented sessions at 91 conferences and other events across 25 countries. Visit
here to learn more and here to ask Scott to speak at your event.

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About Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions

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Shifting customer needs are common in today's marketplace. Businesses must be adaptive and responsive to change while delivering an exceptional customer experience to be competitive.

There are a variety of frameworks supporting the development of products and services, and most approaches fall into one of two broad categories: traditional or agile. Traditional practices such as waterfall engage sequential development, while agile involves iterative and incremental deliverables. Organizations are increasingly embracing agile to manage projects, and best meet their business needs of rapid response to change, fast delivery speed, and more.

With clear and easy to follow step-by-step instructions,
Scott M. Graffius's award-winning Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions helps the reader:

  • Implement and use the most popular agile frameworkโ€•Scrum;
  • Deliver products in short cycles with rapid adaptation to change, fast time-to-market, and continuous improvement; and
  • Support innovation and drive competitive advantage.

Hailed by Literary Titan as “the book highlights the versatility of Scrum beautifully.”

Winner of 17 first place awards.

Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions is available in paperback and ebook/Kindle in the United States and around the world. Some links by country follow.



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About
Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change

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Thriving in today's marketplace frequently depends on making a transformation to become more agile. Those successful in the transition enjoy faster delivery speed and ROI, higher satisfaction, continuous improvement, and additional benefits.

Based on actual events,
Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change provides a quick (60-90 minute) read about a successful agile transformation at a multinational entertainment and media company, told from the author's perspective as an agile coach.

The award-winning book by
Scott M. Graffius is available in paperback and ebook/Kindle in the United States and around the world. Some links by country follow.



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Graffius, Scott M. (2024, September 2). Agile Project Management: Insights from Scott M. Graffius in ‘Managing Information Technology’ Book. Available at:
https://scottgraffius.com/blog/files/mit2.html.
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