Collaborating with Thousands to Millions of Stakeholders to Prioritize City Budgets and Grow Communities

by Luke Hohmann

Through the last several months, the Collaboration at Scale webinar series has been exploring how you can augment core Scrum practices with frameworks that enable large, typically distributed teams to tackle a wide variety of problems.

In this special session of the Collaboration at Scale webinar series, we explored how these frameworks — when guided by the values of both the Agile Manifesto and Scrum — gave us the ability to tackle problems at societal scale. We explored Participatory Budgeting, a process created in Latin America in which ordinary citizens directly control portions of the city budget.

We also explored how cities such as San José, CA are adapting frameworks like Prune the Product Tree to solicit feedback from the residents on how all members and stakeholders within the community — residents, companies and others — can help their community, district and city grow.

Gain a fresh perspective on how you can use your skills to improve your practice of Scrum and help tackle complex societal problems.

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Presenter(s)

Luke Hohmann

Luke Hohmann is the founder and CEO of Conteneo Inc. (formerly the Innovation Games® Company). Conteneo’s enterprise software platforms and professional services merge collaboration frameworks, data analytics, and domain expertise to help organizations optimize decision making in the areas of strategy, innovation, sales, product development, and market research. Luke is also cofounder of Every Voice Engaged Foundation (EVEF), a 501(c)3 nonprofit that that helps citizens, governments, and other nonprofit organizations collaborate at scale to solve technical and wicked problems. EVEF has been a leader in the Participatory Budgeting movement, helping citizens prioritize hundreds of millions of dollars through budget games. EVEF has also partnered with the Kettering Foundation to create Common Ground for Action, the first platform for scalable deliberative decision making. Supported by both Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance, Luke is thankful for the thousands of colleagues from the Agile community who have donated their time to EVEF.