Our Journey to 100% Agile and a BizDevOps Product Portfolio - Dr. Frank Ramsak and Ralf Waltram

Our Journey to 100% Agile and a BizDevOps Product Portfolio - BMW - DOES19 Las Vegas — This talk will describe the "why" and the "way" to 100% Agile @ BMW Group IT - a holistic approach with 4 focus areas: Process, Structure, Technology and People&Culture. Ralf will give a deep dive into the transformation from "Projects" to "Products" defined last year. Our Journey to 100% Agile and a BizDevOps Product Portfolio - Dr. Frank Ramsak and Ralf Waltram Dr. Frank Ramsak, IT Governance, BMW Group Ralf Waltram, Head of IT Systems Research & Development, BMW Group Frank Ramsak started his career within the BMW Group in 2003 and is presently responsible for Architecture, Innovation and Technology in the BMW Group IT Governance. With his team and the community of architects, he defines and drives the innovative, competitive IT solution space for the feature teams. Before his time in the IT-Governance, he managed international IT projects and was responsible for enterprise architecture management for the R&D, quality and production areas. Frank st udied computer science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his PhD from TUM for his work on multi-dimensional indexing in database systems. Ralf Waltram has been with the BMW Group since 1996 and is responsible for IT systems in vehicle development since 2015. He and his team focus on the possibilities of digitalization in the R&D process, with an agile collaboration model and a focus on a BizDevOps structure. Prior to this, he managed international IT projects, e.g. in China, in the area of R&D, sales and marketing and was responsible in different line functions. Ralf Waltram studied computer science at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, specializing in computer vision and neural networks.