2026-06-19 –, E105 (capacity 70)
Nine months ago, the Community Linux Engineering (CLE) team answered a call to action. The mission? To hire an "extraordinarily weird" Scrum Master and partner them with a Product Owner to do the impossible: bring cyclic planning and formal Scrum to a global, volunteer-heavy ecosystem without killing the community spirit.
Rodney Callwood is a Scrum Master at Red Hat for the Community Linux Engineering (CLE) team. He specializes in adapting Agile frameworks for distributed, volunteer-heavy ecosystems like Fedora, EPEL, and CentOS. In the last 2 months, Rodney implemented a custom cyclic planning framework to increase visibility and predictability. He champions "Agile in the Open," coaching teams to use Scrum as an empowerment tool that balances enterprise goals with open-source values.