Petra Skapa

As a Certified Scrum Trainer, Petra has taught thousands of students through in person and virtual classes in North America and Europe. As Gap Inc’s Chief Agilist, and as a Scrum Master, Iteration Manager, Agile Project Manager, and Senior Consultant for a variety of global organizations, Petra brings an invaluable breadth of real-world experience to her work. She learned Scrum from Scrum co-founder Ken Schwaber in 2002.

Petra understands that all change—especially at the organizational level—comes directly from individuals; people’s choices are directly influenced by their motivations, be they external or internal. Petra build trust with teams by seeking to understand each individual’s perspective and leading them in a direction where they see value for themselves, their product and their organization. Petra’s values are integrity and respect for people.

Resilience with Agility

To make your organization more resilient, meaning, be able to quickly sense and respond to unpredictable changes, we need agility.

As Agile and Scrum have gone beyond innovative ideas, and are often considered mainstream now, there have been whispers of “Agile is dead”. Is there still a need for agility and using Scrum? Has something better come along? Or do we need to consider the innate value of the Agile principles and how they help us, our teams and organizations become resilient in an ever more unpredictably and fast changing world. Let’s explore what makes us resilient, why that’s important and how Agile values and principles and Scrum practices help us be resilient.

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