Tristan Boutros Scrum Alliance CEO Rating

Scrum Alliance CEO Tristan Boutros Bio

Tristan Boutros is a champion of innovation and a passionate change agent with expertise in leading digital transformation, impacting cultures positively, and revolutionizing customer experiences. Prior to his role as CEO at Scrum Alliance, Tristan overhauled and migrated decades-old infrastructure to a multi-cloud footprint and helped bring agile at scale to the membership organization, ASCAP, driving better collaboration and increased revenue. At the New York Times, Tristan helped to accelerate delivery and increase subscription growth by directing their scaled agile transformation across Digital. These experiences and others make up the decades of experience Tristan has in building stronger organizations.

Boutros has long been an advocate for organizational transformation and connected with the mission of Scrum Alliance many years ago. He holds multiple Scrum Alliance certifications, including Certified Agile Leadership and Certified Scrum Professional. He credits the Scrum Alliance community and certification process with equipping him with the tools to catalyze change early in his career.

“Scrum Alliance is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world of work by equipping and inspiring the changemaker in everyone, and I couldn’t be more honored to have been chosen to lead the organization,” Boutros said. “I’m excited to partner with our coaches and trainers across the globe as well as the broader Scrum Alliance community as we empower people everywhere to drive transformative change in their organizations.”

Boutros was also a part of the leadership team that developed and implemented a new diversity and inclusion program at the New York Times, which received the Anita Borg Award for the program’s success in increasing gender diversity. He is also the award-winning author of two books, including “The Process Improvement Handbook: A Blueprint for Managing Change and Increasing Organizational Performance.” He received a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors Business Administration) from the University of Windsor and served as an adjunct professor of Computer Science at Columbia University in New York City.

A distinguished author, speaker, and organizational innovator, Tristan authored the Process Improvement Handbook: A Blueprint for Managing Change & Increasing Organizational Performance by McGraw-Hill Professional and have been written about in several case studies with various companies including iGrafx, Atlassian, and Epson.

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Specialties: Program & Project Management, Operations Management, Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Enterprise Architecture, Governance Management, Coaching & Mentoring, Business Transformation, Portfolio Management, Organizational Effectiveness, Relationship Management, Performance Management, Training & Development, Lean & Agile Methods (Scrum, Six Sigma, XP), Governance Management, Continuous Improvement, ISO, CMMI, Rummler-Brache, TOGAF, Customer Experience

Scrum Alliance CEO Tristan Boutros At a Glance

The CEO score provides an understanding of how employees feel about the CEO’s leadership style and effectiveness at Scrum Alliance.

Scrum Alliance's CEO is highly regarded by African American/Black employees, employees with Over 10 Years experience, and Female employees. However, Caucasian employees have a less favorable view of the CEO and believe there is room for improvement. Overall, the CEO score has remained stable over the last 90 days.