Dean MacNeil - Scaling Agile with Jira Align

A practical guide to strategically scaling agile across teams, programs, and portfolios in enterprises

Dean MacNeil

Aslam Cader

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

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Dean MacNeil has been passionate about agile practices and tools since before they were called "agile," having pioneered a form of iterative and incremental product delivery at the world's leading music company in the mid-1990s. As an Atlassian Certified Consultant and Enterprise Agile Coach, MacNeil has helped companies of diverse sizes and verticals, including some of the world's largest and fastest-growing companies, to improve business agility and outcomes. MacNeil also writes about music and is a lifelong musician. He lives in Los Angeles, where he enjoys hiking, biking, and sailing with his son.

Aslam Cader is a software professional with over 10 years of experience working with teams at all levels to solve complex business problems while improving business productivity and agility. As an Atlassian Certified Consultant, Cader has helped companies standardize business processes around lean, agile, ALM, ITSM, DevOps, and digital transformation programs. He is particularly passionate about scaling agile, governance, and best practices to support the scaled use of Atlassian stack, cloud, and ecosystem solutions. He lives in London and enjoys traveling and time with his family.

We'd like to thank the Atlassian Jira Align Community and Enterprise Solution Architects for their knowledge and wisdom, Jira Align Support for their responsiveness, and especially Valiantys, an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner, for leading the way and continuously raising the bar in helping enterprises find success with Jira Align.

Afsana Atar is an author, speaker, and accomplished test engineer with 12 years of extensive experience in software testing. She extends her thought leadership to teams in a variety of domains, from digital advertising, education, and healthcare to the financial sector. She has worked for various organizations, including Google, IBM, Principal Financial Group, and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Currently, she works for Susquehanna International Group, a financial trading firm. She is a Certified Scrum Professional Scrum Master (CSP-SM), Product Owner (CSPO), an agile scrum practitioner, and part of the Scrum Alliance community. She believes in sharing her experience with the testing community to help foster greater learning and innovation.

Gregory Kneller began as a developer in early 199x, developed desktop and web applications in various languages, worked as a support engineer, solution architect, and product designer. Since 2010 he has focused solely on Atlassian products and covers all topics of configuration, customization, and implementation. His customers are UNFCCC, eBay, Alstom, Tipico, Agilent, Allianz, and others. He is an Atlassian Certified Professional since 2016.

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