Peter Kukura
Head of Group PMO, CETIN
CETIN, member of PPF Group
Peter has spent his entire career in change management. He has experience in banking (Komerční Banka, Airbank), consumer finance (Home Credit India and China) and telecommunications (CETIN). Whether it is a project, corporate transformation, product set-up or process improvement, he espouses the theory that every problem can be broken down into a set of sub-tasks that can be understood by all, thus avoiding the stress that change usually brings.
Among other things, in his current role he focuses on developing young talents, particularly through partnerships with selected universities, offering various forms of collaboration at CETIN to students and graduates at the start of their careers.
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Waterfall or Agile? Why do we see nails everywhere when we have a hammer in our hand?
Agility is everything I like. Beware of catchphrases like “Project is rigid evil” or “Agile is Scrum, SAFe or Spotify”. I also prefer to take the train, but that doesn’t mean that sometimes it’s not better and more efficient to use the bus. Unfortunately people have always tended to see the world in black and white, you’re either for it or against it! That’s why we’ve been watching the Agile vs Waterfall battle for over 2 decades now. In doing so, we are pitting against each other approaches that are not absolutely mutually exclusive, on the contrary, they complement each other. There are two extremes in the market today – first: agile vs waterfall and second: we don’t differentiate them. But neither is a good approach. We need to be able to combine both approaches in one system. Just as you can build a joint station for trains and buses, work with the fact that each fits a little differently and training for bus drivers needs to look different from training for train drivers.
In the presentation, senior consultant Petr Lev from Symphera will explain where to use projects, why agility is most suitable for Product Development, how to make investment decisions at the top management level. Co-speaker Peter Kukura will share how he approaches the situation when a company decides to transform in practice and how to work with the topics described above. He will support his ideas with his extensive experience, not only from his role as Group Head of Transformation at CETIN. Together with Petr and the conference participants, he will then discuss questions such as: Can you make good scrum masters out of Project Managers? Is big bang the best way to achieve agility? What do companies expect from people vs. what expectations do employees have?
