Christian Nobs
Director, Agile COE
Biography.
Christian has a solid background in Engineering and IT, with hands on experience in various agile roles. He is passionate about agility, business transformation, automation, and organizational development topics. Christian enjoys empowering teams to adopt an agile mindset and DevOps methods, maximizing client value and team growth. He is currently part of the Agile Transformation Team at Julius Bär, working with Value Streams driving agile ways of working aiming at creating value beyond wealth.
Previously, Christian held leadership positions at Credit Suisse in Zurich, Qualys Inc in Redwood City CA and BearingPoint in San Francisco CA spanning roles from Agile Transformation Coach, Release Train Engineer, Solution Architect, Software Engineering Manager, Product Owner and Consultant. He graduated with a Master of Business Administration from the University of San Francisco and a Bachelor Electrical Engineering from Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Science.
Talk.
Culture Club in Action – They Said, We Did
Continuous improvement is the life blood of agility BUT it gets deprioritized when in competition with business features. In this talk, we will share what challenges we encountered in a client facing value stream which was struggling in processes, practices and tooling. With data in hand, the community-based Culture Club initiative picked the impediments, proposed solutions and put them into action providing the space and time needed from the value stream leadership. We will share some of the improvement journeys and how they have had a material impact in terms of: reduced toil, improved risk discipline, aligned delivery with strategy, harmonized working model and improved employee Net Promoter Score (NPS).