“By adopting an agile mindset and providing improved engagement, collaboration, transparency, and adaptability via Scrum’s values, roles, events, and artifacts, the results were excellent.”
 Scott M. Graffius, 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

From the Back Cover

Agile Transformation provides a revealing behind-the-scenes account of a successful agile implementation at a global entertainment company. It’s based on actual events and the story is told from the author’s perspective as an agile coach. The transformation dramatically improved the waythe organization works and delivers business value. 

About the Author

Scott M. Graffius is a technology leader, project management expert, consultant, international speaker, and award-winning author. 
 
Scott is a Principal Consultant and the CEO of Exceptional PPM and PMO Solutions™, a professional services firm, where he helps clients strengthen their project management capabilities and realize their strategic objectives and business initiatives. The firm 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 Scott’s first book, Agile Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions (ISBN-13: 9781533370242). The book garnered 17 first place awards. Scott and Agile Scrum have been featured in Yahoo Finance, Computer Weekly, Innovation Management, and additional media publications. 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 (ASIN: B07R9LJLPJ), was published in April 2019.
 
Scott 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 organizations with businesses ranging from e-commerce to advanced technology products and services, retail, manufacturing, entertainment, and more. 
 
Scott holds several professional certifications: Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB), and more.

Scott regularly speaks at conferences and other events around the globe where he delights audiences with presentations on agile, traditional, and hybrid project, program, portfolio, and PMO management. 
 
Scott resides in Los Angeles, California.