PM in Practice Speakers
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Gabrielle Benefield, Yahoo!, USA
Gabrielle is a certified Scrum Trainer with over 17 years experience building enterprise software at global companies. She specializes in organisational change and enterprise level transformation. Gabrielle led the large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum and Agile at Yahoo!, which now encompasses more than 200 teams projects and over 1500 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Latin America and is a regular conference speaker presenting papers and talks on Enterprise Agile, Agile Product Management and Agile User Experience and Design. She is a co-founder of the Scrum Training institute providing training and coaching in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australasia.
Scrum @ Yahoo!
Yahoo! is a large enterprise with a $32 billion market cap and has one of the largest Agile implementations in the world. The adoption of Scrum and Agile practices has been steadily growing over the past two years, and now encompasses more than 150 Yahoo! teams in the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The projects range from new product development for properties such as Yahoo! Autos to heavy-duty infrastructure work on Yahoo! Mail, which serves 250 million users each month around the globe. |