Risk management – cornerstone of Agile Delivery

Knowing Agile from its very begining in the 80’s Dan will share draw parallels between Risk Management and Agile project delivery. Describing the evolution of Agile and how it morphed into the Agile Product Development that is widely used today. And then there is Lean Six Sigma – what role does Six Sigma play in Agile project delivery. Which is complementing which? Dan will share his experience in evolution of project roles: Project Manager, Manager, Coach, Scrum Master and how to utilise the roles and people skills with minimum disruption.

Speaker: Dan Roman 

Dan is an experienced Project Manager with over 35 years of commercial experience in a broad range of business areas, organizational structures, and cultural environments. Dan started his career as a specialist in Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) following his involvement in research during university studies. During a successful career in research, he developed process improvement strategies, Finite Analysis Method software, forms recognition algorithms for robots, and software for computer-assisted design used by manufacturing enterprises. In the 1990s Dan published articles and books on various topics such as process improvement CAD/CAM manufacturing processes computer simulation, c/c++. Later he moved to software consulting, delivering projects in Romania, Bahrain, France, Australia, and other countries. After managing large development teams Dan moved to Project Management and is now specialized in Business Transformations Projects. Dan has extensive hands-on experience with formal Project Methodologies (PMBOK, PRINCE2) and Agile frameworks like Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), SAFe, and Disciplined Agile and he is also a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He studied Risk Management at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. Dan is an active volunteer for the Project Management Institute (PMI®) as a Subject Matter Expert in Agile, Traditional and Hybrid project delivery and Risk Management. He was awarded the 2021 volunteer of the year for his contribution to the development of PMP, ACP, DASSM certifications, and Hybrid and Risk Management micro-credentials. He is the author of “The Agile Enterprise” series of webinars on www.projectmanagemen.com, the knowledge sharing website of the Project Management Institute, a series of over 50 webinars watched by more than 500,000 people.