ENGAGEMENTS

Conferences

• IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference RE ’21, Zürich: Rainer Grau: IEEE-RE21-BaReInALargeAgileOrganization 22. Sept. 2021
• IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference RE ’20, Zürich: Andrea Gees (La Mobiliére), Rainer Grau: An aligned agile approach for strategy and portfolio management 01. Sept. 2020
• PoReDay Zürich, Maximilian Brandt (Leiter Strategie & Planung CSS Versicherung) & Rainer Grau: Das Portfolio-Management der CSS nach dem Denkplan Ansatz, 24. Juni 2020,
• International Advertisment Association, Young Professionals, Zurich 29 MAy 2018: Agility: A Buzzword made tangible  20180529-IAALunchTreffen-V1.3.pdf (1010 downloads )
• SAP Project Management Network, Projekte führen in der digitalen Transformation (901 downloads ) , Impulsreferat, 21.11.2017, SAP (Schweiz)
• Organisator of the Agile Unconference, Zentrum Karl der Grosse, 03. Nov 2017
• Organisator of the RE-Forum 2017, Swiss Convention Center Zürich, 01. Nov 2017
• Talk “A scenario based Scaling Approach” at the Agile Leadership Day 27. Sept 2017
• Talk “I do not fail – I experiment end learn” at the UpfrontThinking Conference 21. June 2017
• Talk “Agilität als Grundwert; engagiert und sinnstiftend arbeiten” at the “1. Zentralschweizer Pflegesymposium Management & Advanced Nursing Practice (ANP)“, KKL Luzern, 30. May 2017
• Organisator of the Agile Unconference, Swiss Convention Center Zürich, 03. Nov 2016 with special guest Niels Pläging
• Organisator and Talk “Agile Requirements Engineering”, RE-Forum 2016, Swiss Convention Center Zürich, 02. Nov 2016,  20161102-RE-Forum-V1.5.pdf (1434 downloads )
• Talk “Lean & Agile Portfolio Mgmt @ Digitec Galaxus”, Scaled Agile Framework Meetup, Vienna, 03. Oct 2016
• Talk “Transparency, measurements and benchmarks used as lean leadership instruments”, Agile Leadership Day 2016,  20160914-RainerGrau-ALD-v3.0.pdf (879 downloads )
• Talk “Living Agile Requirements Engineering @ Digitec Galaxus AG”, Upfront Thinking 2016 conference,  RE@DigitecGalaxus-UTConf2016-slides.pdf (1459 downloads )
• Talk “Implementing a Lean Portfolio Management at Digitec Galaxus” Agile Leadership Day 2015, download pdf:  ALD 2015 - Lean PPM at Digitec Galaxus AG (986 downloads )
• Talk “Scale Agility: Agile Projekte auf Unternehmensebene” at ZfU International Business School Zürich; 20. November 2014; download  ZfU Seminar Flyer (956 downloads )
• Talk “Scale Agility: Transparenz – offen angestrebt und heimlich gefürchtet” at ZfU International Business School Zürich; 10. Projektmanagement Summit; 12. November 2014; Seedamm Plaza Hotel in Pfäffikon (Switzerland); download  ZfU Seminar Flyer (934 downloads )
• Talk “A game of Thrones” at Bosnia Agile Day ; 27 October 2014; Sarajevo (Bosnia);
• Talk “Geht Morgen wirklich die Sonne auf?” at spm / BWI Frühjahrstagung; 21. Mai 2014; Technopark Zurich; download  slides of SPM Frühjahrstagung (1053 downloads )
• Talk at 2014 Test Management Summit , 29-30 March 2014, London; download slides about  talk about flow development (1886 downloads )
• Talk “Scaling Problem #1: Die vielfältigen Rollen des {Product ¦ Program ¦ Project}{Owner ¦ Manager ¦ Steward}” at REConf 2014 , 10 March to 13 March 2014, Munich; download  conference slides (995 downloads )
• Talk at Agile Leadership Day 2013, Zürich “Das Team ohne Team: Das agile Anti-Pattern des PO-Heldentums abstract
• Talk at Hungarian Software Testing Conference HUSTEF 2013 about Effective Requirements Engineering, download  conference presentation (pdf) (1537 downloads ) , (see video on YouTube…)
• Talk at specief.org: Société pour la Promotion Et la Certification de l’Ingénierie des Exigences en langue Française, Sorbonne Paris 2013 The International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB): Goals, organization, certification, download  conference presentation (pdf) (915 downloads )
• Tutorial at the Product Management Festival 2013 Tutorial about Lean Product Management
• Talk: SwissICT, Evening Event of the Limited WIP Society, 29 May 2013: Grossprojekte und Agilität, download  conference presentation (pdf) (1888 downloads )
• Seminar: Requirements Analyse, Gesprächsführung und Dokumentation ausgerichtet am Konzept des IREB e.V. an der REConf 2013 , 11. März – 14. März 2013, München, Dornach Messe- und Kongresshotel
• Keynote: Agility meets Product Management 2012 at the Manage Agile 2012 Conference in Berlin, Germany, 16 – 18 October 2012, download  conference presentation (pdf) (1906 downloads )
• Full day tutorial: Get involved, get prepared: Tutorial for requirements analysis, conversation and documentation aligned to the IREB e.V. body of knowledge
  at the IEEE Conference for Requirements Engineering RE12in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 25 September 2012
• Talk: Lean, Agile, Produkte, Projekte, Knowledge Management und Pragmatismus: Lieber das Eisen schmieden als den Stab über dem Knie brechen
  at the ASQT Conference 2012 in Klagenfurt, Austria, 6 / 7 September 2012
• Keynote: “Requirements Engineering in the agile Context” for the Industry Track of the 18th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering REFSQ 2012 at the University of Duisburg-Essen
• Talk: Internationale Verkaufsorganisationen: Von organisationalen und menschlichen Befindlichkeiten at the Summit Product Development 2012 in Zürich
• Industry Session 4 and Panel: “Our profession” at the 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
• Talk: Zwei unmögliche Dinge: Fliegende Fische und Agiles RE am SOPHIST Days 15 + 16 September 2011
• Keynote an der OOP 2011 in München Talk: Was Sie schon immer über Change wissen wollten, aber nie zu fragen wagten, download  conference presentation (pdf) (1532 downloads )
• Workshop Agile Development an der SOFTEC 2010 in Kuala Lumpur
• Moderation of Jazoon Konferenz 2010 in Zürich
• Talk “Why Requirements Engineering Trainings Fail” an der REFSQ 2010 in Essen
• Talk: Vorstellung des Zertifizierungsmodells zum
  Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering an der Conquest Konferenz 2010 in Dresden
• Talk Moving to ab agile culture 2009 an der Universität Augsburg Universität Augsburg, download  conference presentation (pdf) (890 downloads )
• Talk and Podcast beim IBM Plattform Event 16. September 2009 Einführung des Rational Unified Prozess bei der Credit Suisse.
• Late Afternoon Talk “Shaked Agile” 17. + 18. Juni 2009 mit Jutta Eckstein und Philippe Kruchten, Vortrag “XP on the beach oder doch lieber reiner Wein?”, download  conference presentation (pdf) (878 downloads )
• Talk: Requirements Engineering im Portfolio Management at OOP 2009
• Talk: Vom definiertem zum agilen Prozess, Zug um Zug Veranstaltung der SAQ (2009)
• Talk: Das IREB Zertifizierungsmodell, RE-Days Konferenz 2008 Nürnberg

Education, Communities and Organizations

• Thought leader and founding member of the Denkplan method – an lightweight and collaborative approach to close the gap between strategy and implementation based on up-to-date methods and good practices.
• Reviewer of the Agile Requirements Engineering Advanced Level Syllabus of the International Requirements Engineering Boards (IREB) 2017
• Reviewer of the RE@Agile Primer Syllabus of the International Requirements Engineering Boards (IREB) 2017
• Member of the advidory board of Pedco AG, Managed Process Services, 2015 – today
• First Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Requirements Engineering Boards (IREB) (2007 – 2016), see as well profile and registry on IREB
• Session Member of the Industry Committee of the 20th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Founding Member of the Swiss Agile Leaders Circle
• Founding Member of the International Software Product Association
• Session Member of the Industry Committee of the 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference in Trento
• Member of the Program Committee of the Requirements Engineering Forum Switzerland in Zürich (2008 – today).
• Head Session Chair Excellence in Software Engineering Conference (ESE 2011 – 2012)
• Head Session Chair Software Engineering Conference 2008 – 2010
• Head Steering Committee of Section Informatics at Swiss Association for Quality (SAQ) (2009 – 2015)
• IEEE member