1. business and industrial
2. business operations
3. management
4. project management

TABLE OF CONTENTS
" Every year, we learn and strive to make the conference better. Based on last
year's feedback, this year we've focused a lot on getting real practitioners to
share their practical, first-hand experience. We've balanced this with the
insights of real Gurus to present the broader picture.
Our goal is to organize a conference that we, ourselves would enjoy attending.
I hope you walk away with fresh ideas that refine existing ones. "
Naresh Jain, Conference Chair, Agile India 2015
SCHEDULE .....................................................................................................4
WORKSHOPS. ...............................................................................................17
KEYNOTES.....................................................................................................29
SESSIONS .....................................................................................................33
SPEAKERS ....................................................................................................72
SCALING AGILE ADOPTION
DAY 1 - Wednesday, March 25
SCHEDULE
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 10:00
Dancing Along the Agile Fluency™ Path
Keynote
Diana Larsen, FutureWorks Consulting LLC
Grand Ball Room
10:00 – 10:15
Opening Talk
Grand Ball Room
10:15 – 10:30
Coffee/Tea Break
Grand Ballroom 1
Grand Ballroom 2
Esquire
10:30 – 11:15
10:30 – 11:15
10:30 – 12:00
Gamifying Agile Adoption - An Experiment
6 Fixes to UnSAFe Starts
Intermediate Case Study
Intermediate Talk
Ashish Parkhi, IDeaS a SAS Company
Naresh Jain, Agile FAQs | Agile India
Francis Kelly, Scaled Agile, Inc.
11:30 – 12:30
11:30 – 12:30
Building a Self-Sustaining Agile Organization: An
Exercise in Leadership
Good and bad ways to kickstart agile the Kanban way
Intermediate Talk
Beginner Talk
Yuval Yeret,AgileSparks
Sean Dunn, IHS Inc.
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
Training and retaining the basics of Scaling Scrum
through the power of play
Beginner Workshop
Debbie Wren, JP Morgan
SCALING AGILE ADOPTION
SCHEDULE
DAY 1 - Wednesday, March 25
Grand Ballroom 1
Grand Ballroom 2
Esquire
13:30 – 14:15
13:30 – 14:15
13:30 – 14:15
From Waterfall to Weekly Releases: A Case Study in
using Evo and Kanban
Agile Transformation:Practical Insights into Behavioral
Adjustments and Cultural Changes
Exploit Core Agile Practices at the Program Level
Intermediate Experience Report
Intermediate Talk
Tathagat Varma, Thought Leadership
Seshadri Veeraraghavan, IHS
Intermediate Workshop
Jeff Lopez-Stuit, SolutionsIQ
14:15 – 14:30
Coffee/Tea Break
14:30 – 14:50
14:30 – 14:50
14:30 – 15:15
To Pair, or Not to Pair
Leadership in Agile Transformation
Edward De Bono's Creative Thinking meets with Agile
Beginner Experience Report
Intermediate Experience Report
Advanced Workshop
Karthik Kamal Balasubramaniam, AgileFAQs
Dhananjay Pershad, Independent
Rathina, Intuit Product Development
15:00 – 15:20
15:00 – 15:20
First Amongst Equals - Can UX be there?
Strategies and Tactics for Productive Distributed and
Asynchronous, Agile Teams
Intermediate Case Study
KK Sure, ThoughtWorks
Sheril Jebasingh, ThoughtWorks
Beginner Experience Report
Zee, Zinc Made
15:30 – 16:15
15:30 – 16:15
Big Agile
Experience Report: Agile Transformation &
Implementation at Cisco Video Business
Advanced Talk
Sriram Narayan, ThoughtWorks
Intermediate Experience Report
Venkateswaran NS, CISCO Systems
Rashma S
15:30 – 17:00
The Tao of Transformation
16:30 – 17:15
16:30 – 16:50
Stand Back and Deliver - A Leader's Guide to
Accelerating Agility
Lessons Learned in Applying Agile Maturity Model for
Scaling Agile
Intermediate Talk
Intermediate Experience Report
Todd Little, IHS Global
Praful, Walmart Global Technology Services
Beginner Workshop
Dhaval Dalal, AgileFAQs Tech Pvt Ltd
SCALING AGILE ADOPTION
Grand Ballroom 1
SCHEDULE
DAY 1 - Wednesday, March 25
Grand Ballroom 2
Esquire
17:00 – 17:20
17:00 – 17:20
6 X 2 Planning Errors in Scaled Agile Delivery Model
The Snowball Effect - From Team Kanban to Enterprise
Kanban
Beginner Experience Report
Krishnamurty VG Pammi, IVY Comptech
Intermediate Experience Report
Vinaya Muralidharan, Amdocs
Sutap, Amdocs
17:30 – 18:30
IAmA (I Am A ... Ask Me Anything)
Jeff Patton, Diana Larsen, Todd Little, Fred George, Tathagat Varma, Sean Dunn
18:30 – 19:30
Agile Job Fair Kickoff
19:30 – 21:30
Agile Job Fair + Dinner
SCALING AGILE ADOPTION
DAY 2 -Thursday, March 26
SCHEDULE
09:00 – 10:00
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Keynote
Jeff Patton, Jeff Patton and Associates
10:00 – 10:15
Opening Talk
10:15 – 10:30
Coffee/Tea Break
Grand Ballroom 1
Grand Ballroom 2
Esquire
10:30 – 11:30
10:30 – 11:30
10:30 – 11:30
Death of Inspection: Reincarnation of the Testing
Community
Selling Agile across the Enterprise
Is your organization ready for Scaling Agile?
Intermediate Talk
Intermediate Workshop
Evan Leybourn, Directing the Agile Organisation
Kamlesh, Agile For Growth LLC
11:45 – 12:30
11:45 – 12:30
11:45 – 12:30
The Secret History of Kanban
The Double Helix Model for Lean Agile
Value Teams: The Next Evolution of Product Owners
Intermediate Case Study
Intermediate Case Study
Intermediate Workshop
Darren Davis, Providence Health and Services
Avinash Rao, Cognizant
Ahmed Sidky, International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile)
Intermediate Case Study
Sachin Natu, IDeaS a SAS Company
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 14:15
13:30 – 14:15
13:30 – 15:00
Implementing Agile Engineering Practices in Legacy
Codebases
Happy Teams are key to successful agile
transformation– Teams’ self-design
Kanban Simulation with LEGO
Intermediate Case Study
Advanced Experience Report
Prasad Kunte, IDeaS - A sas Company
Nanda Lankalapalli, Independent
14:25 – 14:45
14:25 – 14:45
Hawkeye technique for building right product:
Specification-By-Example
Scaling Agile in a Mainframe Product Development
Organization
Intermediate Experience Report
Intermediate Experience Report
Ankur Sambhar,J P Morgan
Pooja Uppalapati,CA Technologies
Ravindra Chebiyam, CA Technologies
Beginner Workshop
Anton Zotin, HERE, a Nokia company
SCALING AGILE ADOPTION
DAY 2 -Thursday, March 26
SCHEDULE
Grand Ballroom 1
Grand Ballroom 2
15:00 – 15:45
15:00 – 15:45
Growing up the Product Management Tree House
Enterprise Agile Adoption: An Organizational Change
Management Journey.
15:05 – 15:25
Advanced Experience Report
Speed 2 Value.. helping large Enterprise IT to be in the
game..
Beginner Case Study
Debbie Wren, JP Morgan
Asheesh Mehdiratta, J P Morgan
Zaheerabbas Contractor, Wipro Technologies
Rituparna Ghosh, Wipro Technologies
Esquire
Advanced Experience Report
Prasad, Infosys
16:00 – 16:45
16:00 – 16:45
15:30 – 17:00
Hacking the Sales Process with Kanban/Agile
Detect and Eliminate Bureaucracy in Geographically
Distributed Large Agile Teams!
Growing trust workshop: “In Team We Trust”
Intermediate Case Study
Kavita Kapoor, Fifty
Intermediate Talk
Raja Bavani, Cognizant Technology Solutions
17:00 – 18:00
The Secret, yet Obvious, Ingredient to Achieving Sustainable Organizational Agility
Ikeynote
Ahmed Sidky, International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile)
18:15 – 19:00
Panel Discussion : Agile Adoption Trends in the near
future
19:00 – 21:00
ICAgile Sponsored Reception Dinner + Agile Job Fair
Intermediate Workshop
Alexey Pikulev, Unusual Concepts
Agile Lifecycle
SCHEDULE
DAY 3 - Friday, March 27
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 10:00
Embrace Complexity, Scale Agility
Keynote
Dave Snowden, Cognitive Edge
10:00 – 10:15
Opening Talk
10:15 – 10:30
Coffee/Tea Break
Grand Ballroom 1
Grand Ballroom 2
Esquire
10:30 – 11:30
10:30 – 11:30
10:30 – 11:30
Sell Before you Build (MVP Hacks)
Enabling Continuous Delivery (CD) in Enterprises with
Testing
Intermediate Workshop
Intermediate Case Study
Naresh Jain, Agile FAQs | Agile India
Intermediate Case Study
Lean Machine
Sneha Kadam, ThoughtWorks
Anand Bagmar, ThoughtWorks
11:45 – 12:30
11:45 – 12:30
11:45 – 12:05
Lean Startup in Practice - Lessons Learnt from an MVP
Games Agile Teams Play
Advanced Case Study
Intermediate Demonstration
Assembly Like SDLC Based on Agile Practices - with
Experience Report
Arvi Krishnaswamy Levitum
Tathagat Varma, Thought Leadership
Intermediate Experience Report
Biplab Roy, Altimetrik
12:10 – 12:30
Agilists - Detect, Protect and Celebrate IP Created
During Sprints
Intermediate Experience Report
DEBASHIS BANERJEE
SAP (Ariba)
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
Agile Lifecycle
SCHEDULE
DAY 3 - Friday, March 27
Grand Ballroom 1
Grand Ballroom 2
Esquire
13:30 – 15:00
13:30 – 15:00
13:30 – 15:00
Techniques for Effectively Slicing User Stories
Starting with Kanban: A practical workshop on Value
Stream Mapping and WIP
Discover the Power of Pair Testing!
Intermediate Tutorial
Naresh Jain, Agile FAQs | Agile India
Beginner Workshop
Intermediate Workshop
Pradeepa NarayanaswamySabre
Evan Leybourn, Directing the Agile Organisation
15:00 – 15:15
Coffee/Tea Break
15:15 – 16:00
15:15 – 16:00
15:15 – 16:45
Mythbusting Software Estimation
Kanban - A Way Towards DevOps in the Legacy
Enterprise
Improving and Extending Agile Retrospective Outcomes
Beginner Talk
Todd Little, IHS Global
Beginner Talk
Beginner Workshop
Diana Larsen, FutureWorks Consulting
Yuval Yeret, AgileSparks
16:15 – 17:00
16:15 – 17:00
16:50 – 17:10
Agile Coach - Tool Kit
Agile Architecture: A Contradiction in Terms? Our
Journey in Discovering the Role
Mobile to Mainframe: Application Development and
DevOps in the Application Economy
Intermediate Case Study
Intermediate Demonstration
Sean Dunn, IHS Inc.
Ravindra Chebiyam, CA Technologies
Serajul Arfeen, CA Technologies
17:15 – 18:00
17:15 – 18:00
17:15 – 18:15
Unleashing the Full Potential of your Agile Teams
10 times better quality with agile transformation. How
we did it!!!
Deep dive into RETROSPECTIVES!
Advanced Experience Report
Ravi Kumar, AgileFAQs Tech Pvt Ltd
Intermediate Talk
Dipesh Pala, IBM
Beginner Experience Report
Mikael Lundquist, ITS, Umeå University
Fredrik Hedlund, ITS, Umeå University
18:15 – 19:15
How BDD can save agile
Keynote
Aslak Hellesøy, Cucumber Limited
19:30 – 21:30
Agile Job Fair + Reception Dinner
Intermediate Workshop
Madhavi Ledalla, SolutionsIQ
Jerry Rajamoney, EMC Corporation
Agile Lifecycle
SCHEDULE
DAY 4 - Saturday, March 28
09:00 – 10:00
Enabling Emergent Technologies
Keynote
Fred George, Fred George Consulting
10:00 – 10:15
Opening Talk
10:15 – 10:30
Coffee/Tea Break
Grand Ballroom 1
Grand Ballroom 2
Esquire
10:30 – 11:15
10:30 – 11:15
10:30 – 11:15
How much will this cost?
Integrating UX into the Agile Development Cycle - A case
study over 3 projects
Rolling Your Own Platform as a Service (PaaS) with
Docker
Beginner Case Study
Intermediate Talk
Sophie Freiermuth, Baguette UX
Zee, Zinc Made
11:30 – 12:30
11:30 – 12:30
11:30 – 12:30
No estimates: how you can predict the release date of
your project without estimating
Distributed Agile Patterns
Test Driven Development of Infrastructure Code in Chef
Intermediate Talk
Advanced Demonstration
ShriKant Vashishtha, Globallogic
Sreedevi Vedula, ThoughtWorks
Beginner Talk
Evan Leybourn, Directing the Agile Organisation
Intermediate Talk
Vasco Duarte, Oikosofy
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 14:15
13:30 – 14:15
13:30 – 14:30
Techniques to Speed Up your Build Pipeline for Faster
Feedback.
Using Fiction to Motivate Change
Congratulations! You are our startup's first Scrum
Master! What's next?
Intermediate Experience Report
Ashish Parkhi, IDeaS a SAS Company
Intermediate Talk
Lance Kind, A-Noir Consulting
Intermediate Tutorial
Vivek Ganesan, Gainsight
Agile Lifecycle
DAY 4 - Saturday, March 28
Grand Ballroom 1
Grand Ballroom 2
14:30 – 14:50
14:30 – 14:50
Tales of (not so) successful Dev-Ops
Mr.Agile Leader - “ Develop People or Solutions”
Advanced Experience Report
Intermediate Experience Report
Asheesh Mehdiratta, J P Morgan
Debbie Wren, JP Morgan
Niranjan N V, Exelplus Services
SCHEDULE
Esquire
14:35 – 14:55
The Exorcist Was a Lean Planning Master
Beginner Pecha Kucha
Jeff Lopez-Stuit, SolutionsIQ
15:00 – 15:20
15:00 – 15:20
Don't test your code!
Scrum Master Experience Report
Beginner Experience Report
Intermediate Experience Report
Gautam Rege, Josh Software Pvt. Ltd.
Vijay Bandaru, IVY Comptech
15:00 – 15:45
Promiscuous Pairing - More the merrier !!!
Intermediate Case Study
Ankur Sambhar, J P Morgan
15:30 – 15:50
15:30 – 16:15
15:45 – 17:15
Build it like sports teams
It's not an Agile story
The Value Simulation Game
Intermediate Talk
Beginner Experience Report
Beginner Workshop
Vinod Kumaar R, ThoughtWorks
Karthik Kamal Balasubramaniam, AgileFAQs
Todd Little, IHS Global
15:55 – 17:15
1000 Words - Illustrating Project Challenges with Visuals
Intermediate Workshop
Chirag Doshi, ThoughtWorks
16:30 – 17:15
Process Agility - the nemesis of business agility?
Advanced Talk
Krishnan Nair, GeekTrust.in
KK Sure, ThoughtWorks
17:30 – 18:30
Fishbowl - All Speakers & Participants
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Mar 23, 10:00 AM – Mar 23, 6:00 PM (One Day)
Diana Larsen
Coaching for "Best Fit" Agile: Applying the Agile Fluency Model
Agile has a problem. When we started out with Agile, people used it because it made their lives and products better. Now people complain that Agile is
about meetings, top-down mandates, and wasting time. We can do better. It’s time for a change.
In response, Diana Larsen and James Shore developed The Agile Fluency™ Model and Martin Fowler published it, “Your Path Through Agile Fluency”
(http://agilefluency.com). The model describes how teams grow in their understanding of Agile over time. It's a descriptive model, because it reflects what
happens in the real world, and in it's an aspirational model, because you can use it to understand how to invest in improving your teams.
We've found the model very useful for helping teams, managers, and executives understand what they can get from Agile and what they need to invest in
order to get those results. The model's emphasis on concrete outcomes means executives are open—even eager—to devote the effort needed. Leaders
appreciate being able to see the tradeoffs and make a strategic decision, and teams thrive when given meaningful goals and the time and resources needed
to achieve them.
In this workshop, led by Diana Larsen, together we’ll dig deeper into the model, including:
Agile Fluency Model Overview
Bringing Agile Fluency into your organization
Examples of Agile Fluency in real-world teams
Examples of organizational investments
Supplemental materials for metrics and assessments
Agile principles and practices in the model
New directions and support for the Agile Fluency Model
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Speaker
Deeply in tune with how work teams adapt, develop, and contribute, Diana Larsen works with organizations around the world to design high performance
work systems, improve project team effectiveness, and support leaders and enterprises in their transitions to Agile methods. Diana co-founded
http://FutureWorksConsulting.com and is considered an authority in the areas of Agile software development, team leadership, and Agile adoption. Diana is
co-author of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (recommended reading for the PMI-ACP); Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams and Projects;
Quickstart Guide to Five Rules for Accelerated Learning; and co-originator of the breakthrough “Path through Agile Fluency” model at
http://agilefluency.com. A respected contributor to her professional community, she served for eight years as a director and chair of the Agile Alliance
board, and currently serves as a board member of Organization Design Forum, Agile Open Northwest, and Language Hunters, as well as a certified Associate
of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute.
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Mar 24, 10:00 AM - Mar 24, 6:00 PM (One Day)
Fred George
MicroServices: Let's Build Some!
It is one thing to talk about MicroServices. It is another altogether to have to build them.
After a brief introduction of MicroService principles, we will watch an animation of a MicroService environment. We will start with a pre-built skeleton
microservice environment (message bus plus a couple of RESTful services running against it). We will then design and implement additional services to
broaden the overall functionality. These additional services can be written in any language that will run on the participants laptop. While pairing is strongly
encouraged, it is not required.
In the final stage, different pairs will implement different services, yet they will all run together implementing the animation.
We wrap up with the participants making observations on what they learned (and how it may be different from MicroServices they are currently
implementing, if any).
The focus of the workshop will be on:
Understanding how to design asynchronous service architectures,
Creating small, yet functional, services rather than larger services,
Reducing coupling to the bare minimum (JSON packets with extra fields ignored), and
Debugging asynchronous systems.
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Prerequisites
Participants should come with a development-capable laptop with development tools for their favorite language already installed. Preferred environments
are Ruby and Java, but C#, Python, and Node.js are also feasible (with less support from the instructor).
Speaker
Fred George is a developer and co-founder at Outpace Systems, and has been writing code for over 45 years in (by his count) over 70 languages. He has
delivered projects and products across his career, and in the last decade alone, has worked in the US, India, China, and the UK. He started ThoughtWorks
University in Bangalore, India, based on a commercial programming training program he developed in the 90's. An early adopter of OO and Agile, Fred
continues to impact the industry with his leading-edge ideas, most recently advocating Micro-Service.
Architectures and flat team structures (under the moniker of Programmer Anarchy). Oh, and he still writes code!
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Mar 24, 10:00 AM - Mar 24, 6:00 PM (One Day)
Yuval Yeret
Understanding and Implementing DevOps Flow
SDevOps seeks to extend the agile benefits of Flow, Collaboration, Inspect and Adapt thinking all the way to Production. While DevOps and Continuous
Delivery were born in the world of web operations in companies like Etsy, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Flickr (also called Unicorns in the DevOps
community) it is now clear that Enterprise IT/Product Development companies (also known as Horses) can also benefit immensely from the ideas and
practices and achieve similar results if they manage the change/journey towards DevOps in a way that makes sense in their context. In this workshop we will
introduce the concepts of DevOps and Continuous Delivery and help attendees figure out how DevOps can fit into their world as well as how a “DevOps
Implementation” might look like.
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Speaker
Yuval Yeret is a senior enterprise agility coach at AgileSparks, an international lean agile consulting company based out of Israel with presence in India (see
AgileSparks.in) He led several strategic long-term lean/agile initiatives in large enterprises and is one of the leading Kanban Practitioners and Trainers
focused on the enterprise product development world. Yuval is a big believer in pragmatic, best-of-breed solution design, taking the best from each
approach, avoiding Dogma, therefore it is not a surprise to find him among the leadership of the pragmatic and evolutionary Kanban movement. He recently
received the Brickell Key Award for Lean Kanban community excellence, driving Kanban adoption in Israel. He published “Holy Land Kanban” based on his
thinking and writing at yuvalyeret.com.
POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Mar 25, 10:00 AM – Mar 26, 6:00 PM (Two Days)
Dave Snowden
Cynefin and Sense-making
Make better decisions - Learn to engage with the unanticipated for strategic advantage. For leaders, consultants and project managers.
How to manage uncertainty in increasingly complex environments?
The ability to manage and navigate complexity is a key strategic advantage. However, many organizations are trapped in past practices and structures.
Breaking through such inertia requires praxis - theory informed practice.
The Cynefin framework, and its application in managing complexity is at the heart of this training program.
The Academy of Management awarded the Harvard Business Review article, Cynefin & Leadership, the "Best Practitioner Paper". Their citation reads:
"This paper introduces an important new perspective that has enormous future value, and does so in a clear way that shows it can be used. The article
makes several significant contributions. First, and most importantly, it introduces complexity science to guide managers’ thoughts and actions. Second, it
applies this perspective to advance a typology of contexts to help leaders to sort out the wide variety of situations in which they must lead decisions. Third,
it advises leaders concerning what actions they should take in response"
Cognitive Edge has developed a modular training program that allows participants to understand the theory of complexity and how to put it to practice.
Benefits to participants are:
1. Understanding Complexity - how to make sense of and take action in complex and highly uncertain environments.
2. The Cynefin Framework – learn to distinguish between obvious, complicated, complex, and chaotic challenges and how to lead appropriate situational
transitions.
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Speaker
Dave Snowden, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Cognitive Edge. Dave is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on complexity, knowledge
management, and decision-support, and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style. He is an international authority on the application
of complexity theory to organisations, strategy, and decision support and has written articles and scholarly works on leadership, knowledge management,
strategic thinking, strategic planning, conflict resolution, weak signal detection and organisational development.
Dave is the originator of the Cynefin framework, and continues to apply and evolve its use as a practical application of complexity theory to management
science. He holds an MBA from Middlesex University, and a BA in Philosophy from Lancaster University.
POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Mar 27, 10:00 AM – Mar 28, 6:00 PM (Two Days)
Ahmed Sidky
ICP ATF Certification
When you dissect most Agile practices (e.g. Iteration Planning, Retrospectives, Group Estimation Sessions, Backlog grooming sessions, etc.) you will notice
that they are basically collaborative meetings/work sessions where a group of people need to creatively produce an outcome that they agree upon and can
all commit to. One of the main duties of ScrumMasters and Team Facilitators is to design these agile practices and run them. Professional Facilitation tools
are extremely valuable tools to help ScrumMasters, Product Owners, and Team Facilitators engage all the participants in the meeting, probe into their
creativity and help bring them to consensus. Unfortunately many ScrumMasters, Product Owners and Team Facilitators are not aware yet of some of these
facilitation tools and skills they need to design Agile practices to truly serve their teams. In this 2 day highly interactive workshop Ahmed will briefly
introduce some of the basics of facilitation and some key facilitation tools and techniques such as Home and Away, Brain-writing, Nominal Group Technique,
etc. During the workshop Ahmed will engage the audience in the "art" of facilitation and designing new innovative agile practices that can serve the team in
the most effective way possible. All the tools introduced in this session will be applied to real agile practices and examples from real-life sessions will be
incorporated to show the audience the practicality of the tools and that it is not just theoretical. For example he will show the participants how to use small
groups and large groups facilitation tools to engage 50 people in a group estimation session for 300 stories where everyone participated and we finished in
90 mins.
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Speaker
Ahmed Sidky, Ph.D. known as Doctor Agile, is a well-known thought-leader in the Agile community. He is currently the Director of Development
Management for Riot Games and before that he was a transformation consultant for Fortune 100 companies. He is the co-author of “Becoming Agile in an
Imperfect World,” and the President and co-founder of the International Consortium for Agile. Ahmed was selected to be the program chair for the Agile
2009 conference and he has been an invited speaker at numerous Agile Conferences around the world speaking on topics like, the agile mindset, how to
create lean high performing habits within teams, and how to transform organization in a manner that achieves sustainable organizational agility.
POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Mar 29, 10:00 AM - Mar 29, 6:00 PM (One Day)
Aslak HellesØy
Succeeding with BDD
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is a set of practices and tools that enables business analysts, developers and testers to collaborate on a single source of
truth: Executable Specifications.
Executable Specifications are living documents that serve several purposes.
For business analysts they are a concise way to express how they want the software to behave
For developers they are unambiguous requirements that guide and validate the implementation
For testers they are automated regression tests
Executable Specifications are easy to read by both humans and computers. They are great for building a shared understanding across different roles on a
software project. This shifts the focus from finding bugs to preventing them.
Product owners and business analysts are encouraged to join this session even though the second half will involve a little coding. Non-technical attendees will
be paired up with technical attendees to create executable specifications together.
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Speaker
Aslak HellesØy, is the creator of Cucumber, the popular Open-Source acceptance testing tool.
He's the author of The Cucumber Book, and in 2013 he cofounded Cucumber Limited with Matt Wynne and Julien Biezemans. Their company supports the opensource platform by offering training, consulting, coaching around BDD, lean and agile software development.
POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Mar 29, 10:00 AM - Mar 29, 6:00 PM (One Day)
Aslak HellesØy
Succeeding with BDD
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is a set of practices and tools that enables business analysts, developers and testers to collaborate on a single source of
truth: Executable Specifications.
Executable Specifications are living documents that serve several purposes.
For business analysts they are a concise way to express how they want the software to behave
For developers they are unambiguous requirements that guide and validate the implementation
For testers they are automated regression tests
Executable Specifications are easy to read by both humans and computers. They are great for building a shared understanding across different roles on a
software project. This shifts the focus from finding bugs to preventing them.
Product owners and business analysts are encouraged to join this session even though the second half will involve a little coding. Non-technical attendees will
be paired up with technical attendees to create executable specifications together.
Click for more details about the workshop...
Speaker
Aslak HellesØy, is the creator of Cucumber, the popular Open-Source acceptance testing tool.
He's the author of The Cucumber Book, and in 2013 he cofounded Cucumber Limited with Matt Wynne and Julien Biezemans. Their company supports the opensource platform by offering training, consulting, coaching around BDD, lean and agile software development.
POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Mar 29, 10:00 AM – Mar 30, 6:00 PM (Two Days)
Jeff Patton
Passionate ProductOwner (CSPO)
Using agile thinking and the Scrum Process framework to build products to be proud of.
Passionate Product Ownership combines the best of Scrum and agile iterative and incremental thinking with solid product management, and pragmatic user
experience design practice.
The result goes beyond the standard 2-day process course to an experience that will expose you to new ways of thinking and working. You will leave with
tools that will help you make better choices about what software to build, and ways to plan and execute software delivery that speeds learning and time to
market.
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Speaker
Jeff Patton makes use of over 20 years experience with a wide variety of products from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records to help
organizations improve the way they work. Where many development processes focus on delivery speed and efficiency, Jeff balances those concerns with the
need for building products that deliver exceptional value and marketplace success.
Jeff is the author of the book titled User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product. He's an agile process coach, product design coach,
and instructor. Current articles, essays, and presentations can be found at www.AgileProductDesign.com His writing appears in StickyMinds.com, Better
Software Magazine, IEEE Software, Alistair Cockburn's Book Crystal Clear, and his forthcoming book User Story Mapping from O'Reilly press. Jeff's a Certified
Scrum Trainer, and winner of the Agile Alliance's 2007 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to Agile Development.
POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Mar 29, 10:00 AM - Mar 29, 5:00 PM (One Day)
Zee Spencer
Agile Infrastructure
You're convinced you need to run your own platform as a service (PaaS) . You’ve told your company that in order to save cash and comply with regulations
for your sector (HIPAA etc), deploying a virtual, private platform on infrastructure you control is the way to go.
This workshop prepares us to build our own PaaS from scratch and deploy loosely-coupled applications with Docker. We will learn how to:
Assemble a PaaS from the ground up
Create golden images for running Docker containers.
Package up a complex application(s) into a Docker image
Release the Docker image
Deploy Docker containers to multiple hosts with Ansible
Run and monitor Docker containers with Systemd
Use Consul for service discovery, configuration and health monitoring
Click for more details about the workshop...
Speaker
Zee Spencer is the founder and principled consultant for Zinc Made, a consultancy focused on streamlining business practices with custom hardware and
software. Zee has spent the last decade leading teams, designing and building mission-critical software (from the infrastructure to the user interface and
everywhere in between!), and growing businesses.
An avid reader and doer, Zee reads several books a month, ensuring he's always on the top of his game as new practices and principles are introduced in
the fast-paced technology industry.
POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Mar 30, 10:00 AM - Mar 30, 6:00 PM (One Day)
Vasco Duarte
#NoEstimates - How to improve software development predictability and profitability by focusing on what matters
#NoEstimates is an approach to software development that arose from the observation that large amounts of time were spent over the years in estimating
and improving those estimates, but we see no value from that investment. Indeed, according to scholars Conte, Dunmore and Shens [1] a good estimate is
one that is within 25% of the actual cost, 75% of the time.
This is the same as saying: give us your money, we promise not lose more than 25% of it (with a 25% probability that we will lose a lot more). We don’t find
that acceptable or productive for our industry. There must be better ways to manage software and product development.
In this workshop we will review and analyze why we do estimates and how we can improve software and product development while reducing the time and
money invested in estimating.
Click for more details about the workshop...
Speaker
Product Manager, Scrum Master, Project Manager, Director, Agile Coach are only some of the roles that I've taken in software development organizations.
Having worked in the software industry since 1997, and Agile practitioner since 2004. I've worked in small, medium and large software organizations as an
Agile Coach or leader in agile adoption at those organizations.
I was one of the leaders and catalysts of Agile methods and Agile culture adoption at Avira, Nokia and F-Secure.
You can read more from me at my blog: http://SoftwareDevelopmentToday.com
SPECIAL EVENTS
Mar 25-27th, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Three Evenings)
Agile Job Fair
Come, join our Second Annual Agile Job Fair!
A platform dedicated for the Agile practitioners to meet their potential Agile employers.
Agile India Job Fair is being organised by Agile Software Community of India, a registered non-profit society. We have been running conference and other
events in India since 2004. This job fair is from 7-9 PM, March 25-27th 2015, along with Agile India 2015, our annual international conference, which
attracts over 1000 international participants.
Why a job fair?
Agile methods have become mainstream and they are here to stay. In India, many companies are having a hard time finding needles in the haystack .i.e.
finding really good Agile practitioners from a whole lot of posers.
The few, really good practitioners out there, have a similar problem. Every company wants to hire Agile people, but are they ready? Do they really believe
in Agile culture and even have an agile mindset?
Many practitioners want to talk to real people from the company to really understand the culture of the organisation and the nature of the work.
Browsing the classifieds or surfing the Internet or talking to headhunters (recruiting companies) can only get you so far.
To solve this problem, we are creating a first-of-its-kind, unique opportunity where job-seekers can meet several top Agile employers face-to-face under
one roof, clarify their doubts, interview with potential companies and also socialise with other candidates.
Walk-In to explore a gamut of Agile career opportunities with the best Agile employers in India.
What is the cost to participate?
This is a non-profit event. There are 2 major costs, the hall rental and the cost of food. Our estimate is 15,000 INR per company per night. And we are
planning to keep it free for all the conference attendees (potential job seekers) to attend.
KEYNOTES
Mar 25 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM (60 mins)
Dancing Along the Agile Fluency™ Path
Diana Larsen, FutureWorks Consulting LLC
Dance with Diana Larsen along the path to Agile Fluency for your
team. In 2012, Diana Larsen and James Shore refined the Agile
Fluency Modeland Martin Fowler published it, "Your Path Through
Agile Fluency." (http://agilefluency.com) The model describes how
teams grow in their understanding and skillful ease with Agile over
time. The model reflects what Diana and Jim, and many others,
have seen in real teams in the real world, and it inspires
organizations to learn how to invest in teams. In this keynote, Diana
will share stories of real teams as they dance along the path and
energize you to find your teams' best dance.
Mar 25 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM (60 mins)
IAmA (I Am A ... Ask Me Anything)
Naresh Jain, Agile India
On Reddit, IAmA stands for "I am a" and AMA stands for "ask me
anything". In an IAmA post, a person will post what they are, and
other people will ask the original poster some questions to gain
insights about the experience the person has had.
* I'm Jeff Patton, creator of Story Mapping, Ask Me Anything...
* I'm Diana Larsen, co-creator of the Fluency Model and co-author of
Agile Retrospectives, Ask Me Anything...
* I'm Todd Little, Author of Standback & Deliver, Ask Me Anything...
* I'm Fred George, I'm an Anarchist, Ask Me Anything...
* I'm Tathagat Varma, chair for Scaling Agile Adoption stage, Ask Me
Anything...
* I'm Sean Dunn, I served in the Canadian Army for 13 years, Ask Me
Anything...
Mar 26 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM (60 mins)
Won’t Get Fooled Again
Jeff Patton, Jeff Patton and Associates
How organizations are learning to value learning and not just
velocity!
We all hate wasting time and money. In the pursuit of cutting out
waste, we've learned to systemically fool ourselves – to convince
ourselves with very little evidence that the activities we're engaged
in add value. And, further, activities that don't result in a product
we can deliver are waste. But, the biggest leap of faith I continue
to see most companies make is in believing that people want their
new product, feature, or idea. They likely don't.
This talk is about the rise of learning as a valuable activity. I'll give
examples of organizations that invest in experiments that take the
cooperation of developers, testers, product mangers, infrastructure,
sales, and marketing. At the end of these experiments
organizations are left with no deliverable product and only the
knowledge that the product they're thinking of should or shouldn't
be built at all.
KEYNOTES
Mar 26 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM (60 mins)
The Secret, yet Obvious, Ingredient to Achieving Sustainable Organizational Agility
Ahmed Sidky,International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile)
Education is a critical component in a sustainable agile transformation. Sustainable agile is realized when people have truly change the way
they think – that needs education. If we truly understand that we need to change the mindset of everyone in the organization, including its
leaders, then we need a combination of education, coaching and mentoring to successfully equip people with the knowledge and skills they need
to develop and execute agile habits. If we think of agile as a process, not a mindset, then we default to training instead of education.
Training is about the mechanics of how practices are done, such as a template for writing a user story, education will focus on changing the
thought process to focus on value and enable the educated to think and decide what works for them and for their team in a given context. That
is true agility.
While we acknowledge our bias towards the learning roadmap published by the International Consortium of Agile (ICAgile.com), we truly believe
that it is the most comprehensive roadmap in the agile community that focuses on a common education roadmap for agile and agility and not
training on a particular agile methodology. ICAgile has gathered experts from around the world and they have collaborated to define an
education roadmap for every discipline needed to change how the organization as a whole works, and provides education as a foundation for
sustainable organizational agility. (Focus on people not process, education not training)
Certifications are a way to give people confidence in the learning and competency of others. Agile certifications should be no different. ICAgile
has developed a set of competency based certifications to ensure we keep the focus on Education.
Mar 26 06:15 PM - 07:00 PM (45 mins)
Panel Discussion : Agile Adoption Trends in the near future
Panel discussion with all our Speakers
KEYNOTES
Mar 27 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM (60 mins)
Mar 27 06:15 PM - 07:15 PM (60 mins)
Embrace Complexity, Scale Agility
How BDD can save agile
Dave Snowden, Cognitive Edge
Aslak Hellesøy, Cucumber Limited
In order to successful scale any method or practice, it has to have
some basis in theory. This presentation will use insights from
complex adaptive systems theory and the cognitive sciences to lay a
foundation for that theory. Seeing software development as a
problem of knowledge management, the theory will elaborate a
understanding of applications as the emergent property of a coevolutionary interactions between technology capability and
unarticulated user requirements.
As lead developer of Cucumber and author of The Cucumber Book,
Aslak gets asked to consult with organisations who want to
introduce Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD). Time after time, he
meets teams who are trapped doing half-arsed agile. They do the
easy, obvious, visible agile practices, and none of the powerful,
hard-to-master, hard-to-see ones.
Having established a basic theory a range of methods and tools will
be elaborated. These include:
- Narrative based approaches to requirements capture (not to be
confused with Story telling or story boarding) which gather
thousands of fragmented self-signified anecdotes relating to real
and imagined needs within a user community and allow
interpretation and integration into project planning.
- Approaches to project planning and implementation that focus on
the creation of self-organising teams of specialists and users to
create novel approaches, supported by evidence to previously
intractable problems. This is particularly relevant to the 5-10% of
any major project which creates 95-90% of the grief.
- The integration of tools such as blogs, wiki's etc into the
development environment. Too often corporate environments overconstrain those tools into over rigid structures which destroy their
utility.
When these teams ask for help learning BDD, we get a chance to
remind them how important conversations and collaboration are in
software development. We teach them to write tests before they
write code, as a way to explore and discover the hidden details of a
requirement just before they dive in and start building it. This talk
will make you wince with recognition, laugh with despair, and
finally inspire you with stories of teams that have finally, after
years of flaccid scrumming, discovered the true collaborative heart
of agile software development. You’ll see patterns you recognise
from your own teams, and gain insights about how to fix them.
KEYNOTES
Mar 28 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM (60 mins)
Enabling Emergent Technologies
Fred George, Fred George Consulting
The latest new, cool tool comes along. Will you be allowed to use it? Probably not! So how can you change that?
This presentation looks at the introduction of new technologies at three companies, The Forward Internet Group in London (a startup
originally, now grown to 400+); MailOnline, the online version of the Daily Mail newspaper from London (a very old organization with an existing
IT shop); and Outpace, a Silicon Valley startup.
In both cases, Programmer Anarchy was introduced. This managerless process (not unlike GitHub in its value propositions) empowered the
programmers to make technology choices and to freely experiment with new technology. In the case of Forward, massive growth and profits
ensued. In the case of MailOnline, redevelopment of core systems into new technology has been launched, and expectations significantly
exceeded.
This presentation will touch on the various aspects of implementing Programmer Anarchy at MailOnline:
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Team building through programmer training
Pilot project without managers, BA’s or dedicated testers
Reinforce the model with new HR structure emphasizing skills over titles
Create self-organizing teams of 5-8 developers (multiple such teams)
Charter teams with a specific project, and let them deliver
Avoid artificial schedule pressure
The intent is to provide a possible roadmap to get your latest technical toys moved into production systems.
Day 1 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Case Study
Case Study
Mar 25 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM (20 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 25 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
First Amongst Equals - Can UX be there?
Gamifying Agile Adoption - An Experiment
Intermediate level
KK Sure, ThoughtWorks
Sheril Jebasingh, ThoughtWorks
Traditionally, in software development, user experience (UX) wasn't
valued as much as developing of the software itself. But this has
changed rather radically. However, creating an enriching user
experience in an agile fashion is still challenging. Most of the agile
engineering practices in use are around building software but
seldom address UX. When building a product in an agile fashion, UX
in an incremental fashion becomes important.
In this talk, we will present our experience of creating UX in an
incremental fashion for a virtual wallet. We will also talk about the
different challenges we faced such as, educating various
stakeholders on the value of incremental UX, building collaboration
between developers and experience designers and abstracting
design components, along with the solutions we devised to tackle
these challenges.
Intermediate level
Ashish Parkhi, IDeaS a SAS Company
Naresh Jain, Agile FAQs | Agile India
While having a chat with Naresh Jain, he suggested me to go
through the Ted Talk – “Gaming can make a better world” by Jane
McGonigal. I found the title very weird and was wondering how is
that possible? After going through the talk though, I was amazed. I
started wondering if I can use the gamification technique in Agile
Adoption, in our Products, in Performance Management Systems, in
Employee Engagement Programs?
Dhaval Dalal introduced me to Prof. Kevin Werbach’s definition of
Gamification – “The use of game elements and game design
techniques in non-game contexts.”
For our 4th ShipIt Day, organized on 25th/26th Sept 2014 at IDeaS, I
decided to explore the idea of using game elements and game
design techniques in the context of Agile Adoption. The idea was to
create a gaming system which will automatically collect data, i.e.
without explicit user intervention, from multiple sources like
Jenkins, Rally and manually from individuals and offer Star’s for
positive behavior and deduct Star’s otherwise.
The aim was to help the team get continuous visual feedback on
how they are doing, adopt agile practices, visualize sense of
accountability, visualize sense of achievement, drive positive
behavior, create healthy competition, create a culture of
appreciation, help performance tracking and create transparency.
Day 1 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Experience Report
Experience Report
Mar 25 05:00 PM - 05:20 PM (20 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 25 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
6 X 2 Planning Errors in Scaled Agile Delivery Model
Experience Report: Agile Transformation &
Implementation at Cisco Video Business
Beginner level
Krishnamurty VG Pammi, IVY Comptech
2 major errors across 6 agile planning events give us 12. Learning
“what not to do”, can sometimes help us identify risks early in the
cycle so that, as a team, we can effectively respond to these risks.
Agile planning happens at multiple levels. In scaled agile delivery
model, effective outcome of one planning event can influence the
other significantly either positively or negatively.
Come and learn top 12 experiential insights. These will help you
alert your teams on “what not to do” during Scaled Agile Planning
events. I tried capturing top 12 errors across 6 planning events
namely Strategy Planning, Portfolio Planning, Product Planning,
Release Planning, Iteration Planning and Daily Planning.
Intermediate level
Venkateswaran NS, CISCO Systems
Rashma S,
The objective of sharing this experience report is to showcase how
disruptive changes in the market place have driven the execution
strategy for transforming a traditional waterfall organization to
Agile.
It also contains a narration of our transformation journey so far and
challenges we faced to understand the Key word "Value" across the
business value chain.
However for embedded systems & solutions many believe that Agile
is not going to work, "our product is so complicated and distributed"
(Is this supposed to be a quote?), their nature of business is so
unique etc.. and if you ask about scaling then "Forget it".
Hence my session is going to share the practical challenges we
encounter and interesting stories of the transformation journey.
Day 1 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Experience Report
Experience Report
Mar 25 04:30 PM - 04:50 PM (20 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 25 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM (20 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Lessons Learned in Applying Agile Maturity Model for
Scaling Agile
Leadership in Agile Transformation
Every organization has it's own set of issues in scaling agile and
there is no one size fits all models/framework. By far there are lot
of framework like SAFe and supporting tools available to help scale
agile. This presentation is more of an experience report on my
journey with Agile and Scrum adoption program with an Internet
company in consumer space and the kind of challenges around it
and the ways those were dealt. I would be focusing more on the
AMM (Agile Matruity Model) that I worked upon internally and the
various stages/phases with in them which helped the Agile/Scrum
teams to understand how well the progress is with them in agile
adoption across the organization and what value in each phase it
brings into the team and back to organization. I would describe the
need for a model to be developed and what it is all about during the
presentation.
In my previous role as the leader of the a products group, leading
one-of-its kind agile transformation initiative, we tried to
fundamentally change how value is delivered to customers in legacy
technologies. In this experience report, I would like to share my
insights about the agile transformation journey by unraveling the
challenges and the remediation steps that has helped us in keeping
this journey alive. To complicate things further, implementing agile
in a mainframe technology stack is extremely challenging because
people working with legacy technology/code-base, have a mindset
that it is not possible to introduce modern tools/technologies or a
different way of developing software in this environment.
Specifically I would like to touch upon the following areas to drive
agility across the organization:
Intermediate level
Prafuli, Walmart Global Technology Services
What to look or would be unique (I guess) in this talk would be the
simplicity of the model and solving a complex problem. Simplicity in
a way is to believe this model would be generic and most of the
organizations would be able to relate to the real more...
Intermediate level
Dhananjay Pershad, Independent
The need for Agile transformation initiative
Time to market - Long release cycles; Impact on release
feature relevance; - Need for reducing release cycle as well as the
need to build what is relevant
Rapid changes in Data Center requirements as well change in
direction for technology stack – Heterogeneous platforms, On
Premise to Cloud, Web and Mobility driving different usage patterns
– driving the need for more and faster innovation
Lack of customer involvement in more...
Day 1 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Experience Report
Experience Report
Mar 25 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM (20 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 25 05:00 PM - 05:20 PM (20 mins), Esquire
Strategies and Tactics for Productive Distributed and
Asynchronous, Agile Teams
The Snowball Effect - From Team Kanban to Enterprise
Kanban
Beginner level
Zee, Zinc Made
Intermediate level
Vinaya muralidharan, Amdocs
Sutap, Amdocs
As agile practitioners, we’ve learned to love highly cohesive, crossfunctional on-site teams. These teams, much like monolithic
applications; succeed due to the proximity of useful knowledge.
Distributed, asynchronous teams must rely on different strategies
and tactics in order to be effective while still adhering to the
principles laid out in the Agile manifesto.
About two years ago, we embarked on our journey towards Agility
and Kanban was our vehicle.
This talk is an experience report from working for the past two
years on a variety of distributed, synchronous and asynchronous
agile software delivery teams.
How can we not have detailed plans?! How can we limit WIP when
we have so many things to work on?! We have due dates to meet!
And so on.
But Kanban had people worried.
We would like to share one of the approaches that we adopted to
help move the change along.In addition to focusing on the Kanban
implementation at the project levels, we adopted another route – to
work through the individuals and the teams – a grounds up
approach. We encouraged people and teams to use Kanban boards
to manage their daily tasks.
You have difficulty in managing personal stuff? We’ll help you
manage better!
You have issues in managing team level priority? Look what we did
within our team- we have a Team Kanban and we are now much
better organized!
One by one we saw people getting interested. The movement
gathered steam - we worked directly with a handful of people and
they in turn got their peers onboard. And we saw various flavors like
Personal Kanban, Team Kanban cropping up all over more...
Day 1 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Talk
Experience Report
Mar 25 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM (20 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 25 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
To Pair, or Not to Pair
6 Fixes to UnSAFe Starts
Beginner level
Karthik Kamal Balasubramaniam, AgileFAQs
Most Agile teams learn the ceremonies and other Agile jargons
sooner than we could imagine.They add few meetings to their
project execution and talk in a fancy language that would make us
believe in Agile utopia. Everything seems fine and happy, until one
day their happy bubble bursts and they realize that they are just
'doing' Agile and not 'being' Agile. One primary culprit here is that
the teams often neglect their core technical practices and don't
challenge their status quo. Which means they don't change anything
about the way they design, code or test but just modify their
management processes and await a miracle. There are three
primary reason why we observe this Agile smell in most teams. It is
believed that there are no immediate results in modifying these
practices, its is hard to change the existing practice because of
umpteen man-made reasons and finally no one knows where to
begin their journey.
Here in this talk I would like to address the third challenge and
explain how a (non-technical) coach could pair with the team
members on their day-to-day activities and help them initiate this
journey. The focus of this presentation is on the do's and don'ts
while pairing with the team members. It will also explain the
benefits and results of pairing with a case study.
Intermediate level
Francis Kelly, Scaled Agile, Inc.
Scaling Agile is now proven in a multitude of Fortune 500
companies. From the case studies and presentations, it could look
easy -- just follow what everyone else is doing, right?
But just as the anti-patterns of Scrum can maim the team, false
starts at scale can paralyze the enterprise. Which six appear most
often? In this session, Francis discusses how to be proactive in these
unSAFe situations:
Managers not thinking Lean and teams believing in chickens and
pigs
Alignment as lip service
Prioritization as a game
Building a portfolio practice without strong program execution
Using Agile to build bad code faster
Never looking back
We know that bullets may not be silver and fixes may not be
quick... but knowledge is key to enterprise safety!
Day 1 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Talk
Talk
Mar 25 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 25 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Agile Transformation:Practical Insights into Behavioral
Adjustments and Cultural Changes
Big Agile
Intermediate level
Seshadri Veeraraghavna, IHS
An all-encompassing effort such as a full-scale agile transformation
goes to the very roots of an organization and tends to shake things
up quite dramatically. Indeed, it’s very much like undergoing heart
surgery AND brain surgery – simultaneously.
Imagine the damage caused from a failed organization-wide change:
Loss of credibility
Loss of trust
Loss of face and reputation
Strong demotivation and loss of commitment and faith on the
part of employees
Clinging even tighter to the old (safe!) ways of doing things
Diminished success of future attempts by leaving behind a wary
and highly skeptical audience
After the storm passes, where things have settled often determines
how and where the organization goes from that point onwards.
Ensure your transformation plan succeeds and the pieces fall into
place according to the set goals and plans -- and not according to
someone’s whims and fancies; politics; cultural and attitude issues;
or naysayers.
Advanced level
Sriram Narayan, ThoughtWorks
Good engineering practices and fail-fast, iterative, low-ceremony
processes help achieve team level agility. They are necessary but
not sufficient to scale agility across the IT organization. In this talk,
I'll address what else is needed and why. In particular, I'll address:
Why plan-driven IT projects are a bad idea why we need valuedriven projects instead
Why a matrix org is a bad idea for IT and why we need crossfunctional teams instead
Why IT budgeting needs to change from being project-based to
being team-capacity based
Day 1 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Talk
Experience Report
Mar 25 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 25 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (60 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
From Waterfall to Weekly Releases: A Case Study in
using Evo and Kanban
Building a Self-Sustaining Agile Organization: An
Exercise in Leadership
Intermediate level
Tathagat Varma,Thought Leadership
Intermediatelevel
Sean Dunn, IHS Inc.
In 2003, we had a major problem to solve - our products had far too
many open field defects, and the bug arrival rate was moe than the
closure rate. We tried to fix using our process which involved
shipping quarterly service packs, but that was not only elongating
the lead time, it was also not very amenable to changes. The
process for customer specials (specific features, etc.) was not any
better, and invariably it led to exec-level escalations just to get
some deal-blocking customer escalations into the service packs midway in the quarter.
A successful agile transformation is a challenge - so how to ensure
that these gains will be resilient and sustain over time? How can one
be sure that the agile values and principles will be passed on to
future generations? What charactaristics differentiate the agile
organization that is successful today and the one that will continue
to be successful well into the future?
In 2004-05, we experimented with a pull system that limited the
work in progress and created a more smoother flow of value. The
result of this system was that we were able to significantly reduce
the defect backlog, and were able to bring down cadence of
features and bugs to a weekly cadence. The experiment was so
successful that in about 6 quarters, we had fixed most of the field
defects (brought down individual product's defect backlog to single
digit) and we had to disband the team as there was no work left for
them!
We were inspired by Tom Gilb's "Evo" method and experimented
with more...
This lecture leverages Sean's 13 years of military experience to
explore how leaders deliberately build great self-sustaining
organizations. Leaning on first-hand case studies from coaching
dozens of agile teams, learn about the leadership behaviours that
build self-sustaining cultures, and those which fail to see beyond
just the methologies.
Day 1 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Talk
Talk
Mar 25 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (60 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 25 04:30 PM - 05:15 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Good and bad ways to kickstart agile the Kanban way
Stand Back and Deliver - A Leader's Guide to
Accelerating Agility
Beginner level
Yuval Yeret, AgileSparks
In fall 2014 there is no question that business agility is required. You
will also be hard pressed to find anyone arguing against the core
principles of lean/agility or against most of the practices. But most
enterprise organizations have not yet reached the levels of agility
you read about in books or hear about at conferences. Lean/Agile is
now trying to cross the chasm into the mainstream enterprises
where effective change management for today’s context is the
name of the game. Through stories from the trenches of enterprise
change management we will discuss different approaches to change
and when each is appropriate. We will see how a combination of the
Kanban evolutionary approach to change combined with "free
market / pull based change management" helps accelerate the
journey towards agility without risking its stickiness, and share some
hard-learned lessons that resulted in patterns like “Manager’s first”,
“Document/Methodology later”, “Market & wait for Pull”, “Case
Study”, “Opt-in vs Mandate”, “Guidebooks OVER guided tours”.
Intermediate level
Todd Little, IHS Global
Leadership is a dance of stepping up to provide guidance and then
stepping back to let the team deliver. This is easier said than done.
As one of the co-authors of the book “Stand Back and Deliver,”
Todd will demonstrate some of the tools that he has used to help
with this leadership dance. These tools include:
Purpose Alignment Model
Context Leadership Model
Business Value Model
Trust Ownership Model
Day 1 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Workshop
Workshop
Mar 25 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM (45 mins), Esquire
Mar 25 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM (45 mins), Esquire
Edward De Bono's Creative Thinking meets with Agile
Exploit Core Agile Practices at the Program Level
Advanced level
Rathina,Intuit Product Development
Building 'happy' teams is one of the cherished goals for Agile
Coaches and Scrum Masters. In my coaching experience, all the
high-performance agile teams have joy and happiness as the core to
their performance.
I have taken Edward De Bono as my support and his work on creative
thinking as my guide for this purpose. Edward De Bono's crative
thinking patterns include several aspects like curiosity, provocation,
synergy, fun, hypotheis etc. Edward De Bono's work can be applied
in every field where we look for creative outcomes.
These creative thinking patterns can be adopted by agile
coaches/scrum masters to improve their effectiveness in building
high-performance teams.
This session has exercises that are derived from Edward De Bono's
work on creative thinking patterns. These exercises can be used by
agile coaches/scrum masters with appropriate modifications in their
real world contexts.
Join me in building "happy" teams with the help of Edward De Bono.
Intermediate level
Jeff Lopez-Stuit,SolutionsIQ
Core Agile practices establish visibility, remove impediments, and
promote collaboration at the team level. Standup meetings,
physical task boards, and focus on clearing impediments are well
known practices to keep a team focused on the work, and establish
a sense of flow towards frequent, tangible, and sustainable results.
What about an entire program, when a large number of teams are
involved? How can a large organization exploit the same core
practices when there is highly interdependent work, and when there
may be hundreds of people involved? How can Scrum be used to
improve delivery times, increase quality, and promote sustainable
development at a program level? How the can practices provide
executive leadership the visibility they need into program progress?
This workshop will introduce valuable, proven Scrum practices for
large programs. Among the topics that will be discussed are:
What program management challenges are ripe for improvement
through Agile practices?
The Program Impediment Board: Visible impediments,
dependencies and milestones at a program level
The Program Stand-up: Lightweight activities to promote
visibility, clear impediments and collaboration across the program
What does it look like when it’s working?: Improve delivery time,
increase quality, and establish collaboration more...
Day 1 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Workshop
Workshop
Mar 25 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (90 mins), Esquire
Mar 25 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (90 mins), Esquire
The Tao of Transformation
Training and retaining the basics of Scaling Scrum
through the power of play
Beginner level
Dhaval Dalal, AgileFAQs Tech Pvt Ltd
"To know, is good. To live, is better. To be, that is perfect." - The
Mother
During the Agile adoption, its a common complain that many team
in many organizations get caught up in the ceremonies or mechanics
of Agile and fail to understand/appreciate the true value and spirit
of Agile. And because of this, the original intent of the Agile
movement itself is lost. This is a serious issue!
This workshop will highlight, a well-proven approach to
transformation (not adoption) and show the distinct steps in this
journey that an individual or a collective goes through when
learning anything new. Activities, serving as examples, in the
workshop, will focus to show the journey - that is, how to begin
with rituals, then gradually move to practices, arriving at principles
and eventually internalizing the values. Witnessing this gradual
process of transformation will help participants discover for
themselves their current progression. We hope this will serve as a
guiding light during their Agile journey.
Finally, we will leave the participants to ponder upon and discover
for themselves their ideals in life and work as this is not only
applicable to software development, but also to any discipline
where humans are involved, including life itself.
Beginner level
Debbie Wren,J P Morgan
How do we provide Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Team Members
and others who are applying agile practices with a safe environment
in which they can experience and “have a go” with Scrum?
Scrum simulation with Lego’s is a tried and tested technique that
has been successfully applied to help teams build up their
understanding of the ceremonies and rigors of Scrum.
In this highly interactive workshop session we will take participants
through how they can customize, build and facilitate an agile lego
simulation that addresses their particular learning points. We will
also show you how you can use this approach to help distributed
Feature teams who share a common backlog understand how they
work as one to deliver their Product. Participants in this workshop
will leave with the confidence to apply the power of play.
Day 2 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Case Study
Case Study
Mar 26 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (60 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 26 03:00 PM - 03:45 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Death of Inspection: Reincarnation of the Testing
Community
Growing up the Product Management Tree House
Intermediate level
Sachin Natu,IDeaS a SAS Company
Adopting agile development practices and continuous delivery is
becoming a norm in the software industry. Time to market and
frequent releases have drastically reduced time available for
regression testing. Inspection is considered wasteful. Faster
feedback cycles during development is crucial. These have created
lot of challenges for testing community, which traditionally relies on
manual testing assisted by UI based test automation.
This is an experience report of transforming testing practices across
organization, which decided to embrace Agile. Today our testers are
not trying to find defects, instead they collaborate with product
management and developers to prevent them in the first place. In
fact, during the appraisal process, the defects found by them is
ignored, instead we focus on how much time they are able to
dedicate to collaboration and exploratory testing. The boundaries
between developers and testers have faded away and today quality
is whole team's responsibility.
We started with less than 20% of our testers with automation skills
(mostly UI automation) and rest of them relying on manual testing.
However, today, all our testers practice BDD. They have picked up
Java & Groovy programming skills. They are able to contribute
Workflow tests, Integration tests and Business Logic Acceptance
Tests. Early collaboration and pairing is the norm. By the time
developers are done with their tasks, all checks are already
automated and hence we are able to deploy software every
fortnight to production.
Beginner level
Debbie Wren, JP Morgan
Asheesh Mehdiratta , J P Morgan
Product Management for agile projects is still in the 1970’s era or is
it really?
Organizations today face tough challenges in overall agile delivery,
with the product management teams still catching up and coming to
terms with the new agile beast, which churns out functionality
every 2 weeks. The product managers do not have a clue as to what
exactly they need to do next with these 2 week deliverables! OK at
least some do have an idea, but most product management teams
struggle to keep pace both with their internal product owner needs
on one end and the external customer /market facing demands on
the other.
This talk focuses on our experiences of building product
management capabilities at large scale, to overcome these
challenges, and provide some insight with practical tips
implemented. Join this session to learn from our experience and
grow your own product management tree house.
Day 2 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Case Study
Case Study
Mar 26 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 26 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Hacking the Sales Process with Kanban/Agile
Implementing Agile Engineering Practices in Legacy
Codebases
Intermediate level
kavita kapoor, Fifty
The sales process is hard. As a business owner, you spend your
entire time doing it. Often wishing you were back, cutting code. If
you are successful you might have a raft of sales people closing
deals under their own process while your product people deliver
under Agile. Your worlds are split and often, it breaks.
Change that. Apply Agile and Kanban to supercharge your sales
team. Get your developers and scrum master in on the action. Unify
your company.
Kavita has spent the last two years changing the global process of a
leading Ad Agency while based in Delhi. Now at Fifty based in
London and Barcelona she has created a unified Product and Sales
team from scratch. Turning her work over the last 6 months into a
case study, get a fresh of the presss step by step break down of
hacking the sales process from both the CEO, developer and copy
writer perspective. Kavita will be transparent about mistakes and
the open about the recipe for success.
Intermediate level
Prasad Kunte, IDeaS - A sas Company
Afraid of legacy code? Don't be!!!
Most successful product companies are confronted with the problem
of legacy code.
What is a legacy code?
A code which is in production for several years.
A super-complex, hard to understand code base, written by
different set of developers.
Outdated Technology stack.
But the most hurting reality is:
Lack of confidence in the code due to zero or poor test coverage.
Due to this reality, developers are often scared to touch it. They
have very little confidence that "their code change wouldn't break
the existing application in production."
Recently at IDeaS, we came across such situation, where we needed
to enhance one of our products containing legacy code. We started
looking into the code and soon figured out that it was developed in
2007, hardly ever touched (& still working in production :)). The
original team, which has worked on this product, could not be
traced anymore. more...
Day 2 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Experience Report
Case Study
Mar 26 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 26 03:00 PM - 03:45 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
The Double Helix Model for Lean Agile
Enterprise Agile Adoption: An Organizational Change
Management Journey.
Intermediate level
Avinash Rao, Cognizant
We are living through a winter of discontent in the Enterprise IT
space serviced by IT services organizations.
Agile is no longer new; Agile projects which are running effectively
are being asked to be efficient; at the same time, cost efficient
projects are being asked to be more Agile (with Agile meaning
different things to different stakeholders). In the minds of clients,
the words Agile and Lean have become synonymous with effective
and efficient IT services delivery. Long seen as two parallel ways of
work, we are now being asked to do both. Does ‘Lean Agile’ – which
is becoming fashionable with some clients - exist, and what does it
look like?
The authors of this session come at the problem from opposite
directions. Avinash’s starting point is a tightly managed traditional
project burned by a (past) failed Agile implementation, that
nonetheless needs to deliver the value Business is demanding; Jay
runs a large successful Agile program that the customer is now
demanding efficiencies from. We came together to create the
Double Helix, a model to implement Lean Agile.
Before the implementation of Double Helix, our structures existed
in traditional forms - a Hierarchy in case of projects that thought
more...
Advanced level
Zaheerabbas Contractor,Wipro Technologies
Rituparna Ghosh, Wipro Technologies
We represent the Agile Center of Excellence at our Organization and
are chartered to drive the change management initiative to imbibe
Agile adoption across the enterprise.
We plan to share our experience on the Organization Change
Management initiative that we took up to drive Agility across the
organization. Our journey towards the derived vision and strategy
to increase Agility in the system to thereby achieve:
Nimble simplified processes.
Ability to respond faster to change.
And most critical: delivering increased customer value.
This is a continuous improvement journey and we initiated: more..
Day 2 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Experience Report
Experience Report
Mar 26 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 26 02:25 PM - 02:45 PM (20 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Happy Teams are key to successful agile transformation–
Teams’ self-design
Hawkeye technique for building right product:
Specification-By-Example
Advanced level
Nanda Lankalapalli, Independent
Intermediate level
Ankur Sambhar,J P Morgan
Agile Teams' self-design is very important (though not very common)
exercise in a large-scale agile transformation. In teams’ self design,
team members choose their own teams in a collaborative way. This
concept here is that the teams will gel quickly and excel when they
are self-designed.
We all know the importance of validating a feature before
committing to getting it built. Validating assumptions help in
avoiding the most frustrating and common problem – building
something that nobody wants. However, validation is easier said
than done. Building the right feature before we think of building the
feature right is the key.
In this session I am going to present my experience with such
exercise. I facilitated at least 4 such sessions to help an
organization as part of a large-scale transformation. The session is
going to explain
Benefits of Feature teams over Component teams
Self-design of feature teams
Pilot exercise of self-design of 2 feature teams.
Large scale self-design of 4 product groups with 30 to 50
members per group.
Being Agile, we always try to leverage the quick feedback loop and
adapt based on the end-user feedback. That’s good but it should not
be used to validate the assumptions and that too after
implementing a feature based on that assumption. It’s very
expensive smile
A more powerful and productive technique is to leverage
Specification-by-example in defining and discovering requirements
collaboratively with end-user, even before start working on the
feature.
This talk will focus on highlighting key aspects of effectively
adopting SBE technique based on my own experience leveraging it
successfully over and over again. It not only helps in grooming the
feature requirement to tell a clear , simple and compelling story but
it also helps in removing what is not needed.
Day 2 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Experience Report
Experience Report
Mar 26 02:25 PM - 02:45 PM (20 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 26 03:05 PM - 03:25 PM (20 mins), Esquire
Scaling Agile in a Mainframe Product Development
Organization
Speed 2 Value.. helping large Enterprise IT to be in the
game..
Intermediate level
Pooja Uppalapatii, CA Technologies
Ravindra Chebiyam , CA Technologies
Agile transformation in any organization will go through myriad of
challenges that involves people, existing organization culture,
technology/domain etc. Instead of seeing these challenges as
obstacles, if you view them as opportunities to grow and improve,
transformation will be more impactful and long-lasting. If
neglected, the very same obstacles would severely damage the
motivation and trust of employees.
In this experience report we would like to walk you through the
agile transformation journey in a Mainframe product development
enterprise by unraveling the challenges and the remediation steps
that has helped us in keeping this journey alive. Specifically we
would like to touch upon
Self-organizing teams
Resistance to change
Culture shift
HR
Lack of role clarity and
Effective R&R in agile space
Agile Engineering Practices adopted in Mainframe product
development
Unit test automation
Continuous Integration
Along the presentation we’ll highlight few anti-patterns and the
effects of ignoring them.
Advanced level
Prasad, Infosys
Technology has blurred the lines between the digital and traditional
methods of dealing with a consumer of any Global Enterprises. The
Business Process and IT is no more separate, in most of the industry
verticals the Business is driven by IT. Constant Innovation around
IT has become the new normal to the Enterprises to meet rapidly
changing consumer expectations and behavior dynamics.
More connected consumers, automated processes, and sophisticated
analytics place unprecedented demands on IT functions. Many
Enterprises are struggling to cope, and they seek to deliver on new
demands by adding piecemeal elements to their existing operations.
This is easier said than done. Reinventing the IT function at Global
Enterprise requires far-reaching changes, from talent to
infrastructure, tools, delivery models, partnership model.
This experience report brings strategy of 2 speed IT, through which
Infosys helped its Global top 10 clients to 'renew' its IT related to
Digital & Mobility space using Agile as a key lever.
This session gives you experiences, practical on the ground
challenges, stakeholder and vendor complexity and approach and
journey towards Speed 2 value. Also I am pairing with Alok Uniyal
who is senior leader at Infosys and a CIO coach who helped 50 plus
clients to transform their IT more...
Day 2 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Workshop
Talk
Mar 26 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (60 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 26 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (60 mins), Esquire
Selling Agile across the Enterprise
Is your organization ready for Scaling Agile?
Intermediate level
Evan Leybourn, Directing the Agile Organisation
Intermediate level
Kamlesh, Agile For Growth LLC
You’ve started on Agile project. You've probably got IT management
on board. You've read the manifesto. You've got a wall covered in
post-its. You’re probably not using pair programming but you’re
following most other Scrum and XP practices. But now you have a
problem. Operations, HR and finance can’t keep up. Ops is having
problems (or just refusing to) deploy each iteration. HR won’t let
you form self-organising teams and don't know how to write KPI’s to
support collaborative work practices. And finance wants a 3 year
budget with fully costed initiatives.
Organizations invest energy, effort and real dollars to stay in trend.
Here's one of the trend: Agile is no longer a buzz word, Scaling Agile
is. Terms like Enterprise Agile, Scaled Agile, SAFe, LESS, DAD,
Agility Path are conveniently thrown around in meetings and
speeches as organizations line up to get on the bandwagon of
'Scaling Agile'. Scaling Agile - from the team and product level to
the organizational level has it's own benefits and challenges. Is
scaling Agile right for you? Are you ready for it? If you've been
thinking of scaling, you might be in luck. In this session, we will
discuss grounds up approach of how to analyze and evaluate if an
organization (or a business unit) is ready for scaling Agile. You'll
create your own set of evaluation criteria specific to your
organization's situation and learn steps your organization can take
to be more prepared for scaling Agile and reap organization-wide
benefits. The focus will remain on your context and not on
promoting any particular scaling framework.
Like many cultural problems, change comes from understanding.
This presentation will explain how non-IT business functions operate
and why they have legitimate problems with Agile delivery.
We won’t stop there however.
By understanding your business, this presentation will provide you
with the tools you need to align your corporate business functions to
your agile development approach. From improved communication
integrated sales, rolling budgets, agile KPI’s and aligning to revenue
drivers. You will learn how to build a truly agile organization.
"Scaling. Its about the context not the process." - Jeff Sutherland
PS: This will be a no slides, hands-on workshop. Be prepared to
actively participate throughout the session.
Day 2 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Workshop
Workshop
Mar 26 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM (90 mins), Esquire
Mar 26 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM (45 mins), Esquire
Kanban Simulation with LEGO
Value Teams: The Next Evolution of Product Owners
Beginner level
Anton Zotin, HERE, a Nokia company
Intermediate level
Ahmed Sidky, International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile)
This workshop will help participants to understand how the Kanban
method really works.
When people learn about agile they usually learn about Scrum (since
it is the most popular flavor of agile). While Scrum is beneficial, it
does not have answers to all the challenges of software
development. One of the common challenges teams face is that of
having an effective Product Owner. From experience, it is not about
who is fulfilling the role of the Product owner in your organization
but about the definition of the role itself. We have played with
many different variations of the PO role, till we ended up with the
concept and structure of the Value Team. To keep it simple, the
Value Team is responsible for making sure the product is (1)
Feasible, (2) Valuable, (3) Useable. After using Value Teams in
many corporations (the session will have many real-life examples of
this) they seems to be a practical solution to many problems about
how agile can work in complex environments where there is no ONE
product owner, but rather multiple organizations and people that
have a say in what needs to get build and how. This session will
present the idea of Value teams and answer questions on how to
create them, how they operate, who is in charge, and why they are
so critical to the success of the agile delivery team.
We will learn how to use the Kanban method to visualize your
current process ("start where you are"). Will figure out how to limit
work in progress (WiP); define and make process policies explicit;
measure and manage flow.
Also we will figure out what does it mean to search for opportunities
for continuous improvement. We will learn how to increase your
team speed and at the same time decrease pressure at work.
All of these we will touch through extremely hands-on step-by-step
simulation using LEGO bricks.
Day 2 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Case Study
Workshop
Mar 26 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 26 03:30 PM – 05:00 PM (90 mins), Esquire
The Secret History of Kanban
Growing trust workshop: “In Team We Trust”
Intermediate level
Darren Davis, Providence Health and Services
Intermediate level
Alexey Pikulev, Unusual Concepts
Kanban is one of the fastest-growing development methodologies
today.
Teams increasingly turn to Kanban to simplify and
streamline their agile development, but few people know the inside
story of how and why Kanban was created. The Secret History of
Kanban pulls back the curtain and gives you a first-hand account of
how Kanban went from being a colossal failure to a startling
success, presented by one of the original team leaders. Learn how
a team turned theory into practice, what it means for the future of
Agile, and how you can apply those lessons in your own
organization.
This one-day workshop will help your team in improving their trust
relationships and gaining a deep understanding of trustworthiness.
Learn to use the Team Trust Canvas methodology to strengthen your
team performance. During the workshop, participants will learn
which factors are essential for trust and how to use this new
capacity to create an environment that brings the best of people.
The content is very practical. Most time of the day participants will
do hands-on step-by-step exercises with the differents tools and
games. You’ll be able to use those right away when you go back to
work.
Day 2 – Scaling Agile Adoption
SESSIONS
Talk
Mar 26 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Detect and Eliminate Bureaucracy in Geographically
Distributed Large Agile Teams!
Intermediate level
Raja Bavani, Cognizant Technology Solutions
One of the many great things about working in Agile teams is the
lack of bureaucracy. Agility and bureaucracy do not and cannot
coexist. In general, bureaucracy is a system of government in which
most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather
than by elected representatives.
Management guru Gary Hamel says,
“Strategy gets set at the top. Power trickles down. Big leaders
appoint little leaders. Individuals compete for promotion.
Compensation correlates with rank. Tasks are assigned. Managers
assess performance. Rules tightly circumscribe discretion. This is
the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military
command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the
operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the
planet. It is the unchallenged tenets of bureaucracy that disable our
organizations—that make them inertial, incremental and
uninspiring.”
In our context, bureaucracy is with reference to geographically
distributed teams working together to run Agile projects. When
there is bureaucracy in geographically distributed teams, you will
find powerful forces setting the rules, defining practices and
mandating criteria. And there will be several followers who are
ready succumb to the pressure. When this happens one may witness
specialized definitions, measurement criteria, and rituals that
define the software more...
Day 3 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Case Study
Case Study
Mar 27 04:15 PM – 05:00 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 27 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (60 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Agile Architecture: A Contradiction in Terms? Our
Journey in Discovering the Role
Enabling Continuous Delivery (CD) in Enterprises with
Testing
Intermediate level
Sean Dunn, IHS Inc.
Intermediate level
Anand Bagmar, ThoughtWorks
The role of "Architect" is sometimes frowned upon in the Agile
community as a central command-and-control authority who
bottlenecks decisions and limits team empowerment. Or at least,
that is what we thought. Follow the real-life journey of our teams
as we discovered how the role of an architect is compatible with
Agile principles. We will explore our failures, and eventual discovery
on how the role brings can bring an immense amount of value to the
organization and the teams, especially on large, multi-team
projects.
The key objectives of Organizations is to provide / derive value
from the products / services they offer. To achieve this, they need
to be able to deliver their offerings in the quickest time possible,
and of good quality!
In such a fast moving environment, CI (Continuous Integration) and
CD (Continuous Delivery) are now a necessity and not a luxury!
There are various practices that Organizations and Enterprises need
to implement to enable CD. Testing (automation) is one of the
important practices that needs to be setup correctly for CD to be
successful.
Testing in Organizations on the CD journey is tricky and requires a
lot of discipline, rigor and hard work. In Enterprises, the Testing
complexity and challenges increase exponentially.
In this session, I am sharing my vision of the Test Strategy required
to make successful the journey of an Enterprise on the path of
implementing CD.
Day 3 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Case Study
Case Study
Mar 27 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 27 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM (60 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Lean Startup in Practice - Lessons Learnt from an MVP
Sell Before you Build (MVP Hacks)
Advanced level
Arvi Krishnaswamy, Levitum
Intermediate level
Naresh Jain, Agile FAQs | Agile India
Rovio tried 51 games before hitting upon Angry Birds. We tend to
hear a lot more about the chart busting numbers of Angry Birds than
the struggles of the previous 51 games. In my opinion, their success
was the journey of the 52 experiments, and not just the final one.
Before you write any code, make sure you have a failing test." This
was a revolutionary idea, when it was first pitched in the late 90’s.
Many successful entrepreneurs have been practicing a similar
approach - "Before you build a product/service, make sure you have
paying customers." In this talk, Naresh Jain shares his approach of
finding effective MVPs to validate his Educational Product and why
Agile Methods simply fail to do so. If you are interested in finding
out how to maximise your validated learning for minimum
investment, then this session is for you. Recently Naresh's article on
this topic was published by InfoQ.
We at Levitum recently had learnings from an MVP that we put out,
and experiments that we ran. In the spirit of openly sharing how
I’ve tried to apply Lean Startup principles to a new venture, I’m
going to outline how we went about things, and what I’ve learnt.
More details on the experiments are available in my blog post
http://arg0s.in/what-we-learnt-from-a-failed-mvp.html. My blog
post made page one of HackerNews, has had over 20,000 visitors,
and has been cited by various practitioners as an example of how to
apply lean startup in practice.
Day 3 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Experience Report
Demonstration
Mar 27 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 27 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Games Agile Teams Play
10 times better quality with agile transformation. How
we did it!!!
Intermediate level
Tathagat Varma, Thought Leadership
In agile teams, three critical aspects of how individuals and
interactions shape up are:
1. Individual role / title
2. Group / peer pressure
3. Self Organization
In this session, we shall simply play games to highlight the
dysfunctions caused by traditional team structures, and facilitate
the attendees into 'discovering' how agile practices help mitigate
them
Beginner level
Mikael Lundquist, ITS, Umeå University
Fredrik Hedlund, ITS, Umeå University
In 2011 the Ladok section at ITS had serious quality issues, resulting
in dissatisfied customers. At the beginning of 2012 the section
started an agile transformation, in steps, throughout the whole
section. One year later the whole section had transformed and
currently the section now eats, sleeps and breathes Agile. The
quality has improved remarkably and our customers are
understandably much more satisfied. Besides satisfied customers,
our employees are happier.The ideas to try agile came from the
people working in the project and we think that was an important
factor for the success.
We are going to talk about our experiences of this transformation
and how the transformation contributed to the remarkable increase
of the quality. The talk will cover the background, our roadmap, the
result of the transformation and the factors of success.
We have identified two key factors of our success that we will
promote a little extra during our talk.
Presentation technique
We are going to perform this presentation in an agile way, in the
way we interpret scrum. The point is to not just talk of how we did,
but also show it on stage.
This means that we are going to interact with the audience and we
expect them to influence our presentation.
Day 3 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Experience Report
Experience Report
Mar 27 04:15 PM – 05:00 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 27 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM (20 mins), Esquire
Agile Coach - Tool Kit
Agilists - Detect, Protect and Celebrate IP Created
During Sprints
Advanced level
Ravi Kumar, AgileFAQs Tech Pvt Ltd
What is coaching?
“It is helping to identify the skills and capabilities that are within
the person, and enabling them to use them to the best of their
ability” — wikipedia
Improving the performance of the teams requires willing to listen,
observe and support the ability, knowledge and resourcefulness of
the individuals on the team. A coach responsible for building high
performing teams will need right set of powerful tools and
techniques to leverage while working with teams . This talk will
draw from experience few such powerful tools mentioned below and
details out the steps that enable aspiring coaches with the set of
tools that can be used immediately.
Deliberate Practice
Driving Empowerment & Self Organisation: Working Agreements
Scaling Agile Transformation: Creating a Learning Org
Driving Commitment: Key Measures Highlighting Self Organisation
This is not a beginner level talk and assumes participants having
experience in leading agile teams and transformation initiatives in
your respective organisations.
Intermediate level
Debashis Banerjee, SAP (Ariba)
In the context of continuous and periodic delivery of same day,
monthly and agile incremental delivery in both established and
startup contexts there is a possibility of teams missing key elements
of protecting their IP. Some simple elements such as making your
work public prior to protecting it can cause loss of business.
Additionally in short sprints filing IP may not be the most important
focus within teams (especially in startups or smaller companies
where budgets might also be a constraint). In this session it will
demonstrate (a) Some key elements of how to keep IP in mind in
Agile sprints (b) Some general best practices of how IP can be used
as a bond/glue for teaming (c) Some process changes possible to
ensure IP becomes a key element of agile delivery. These is based
on experience of over 6 years submitting IP self and also having 6
people having approved IP, 20+ people encouraged to submit and
75+ submissions. (d) As a influencer will provide some best practices
to Leaders and Product owners to encourage IP. (e) Additionally IP
can be a great occasion for team building and bonding and a
retention tool. Note: The session will be generic and will not cover
any specific IP process of any company but a general set of practices
via experiences
Day 3 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Talk
Experience Report
Mar 27 11:45 AM – 12:05 PM (20 mins), Esquire
Mar 27 03:15 PM - 04:00 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Assembly Like SDLC Based on Agile Practices - with
Experience Report
Kanban - A Way Towards DevOps in the Legacy
Enterprise
Intermediate level
Biplab Roy, Altimetrik
Beginner level
Yuval Yeret, AgileSparks
Considering today’s dynamic business environment, where solutions
are expected as quickly as possible, adopting only few Agile
practices may not help the business in a significant way. This
situation becomes further complicated where user experience
matters most. From software service Organization perspective, it is
further complicated where one has to consider few more
parameters like Customer Collaboration (& time), Contracting
approach, Domain level standards, Development maturity
Standards, etc. Also as usual, productivity loss in transitioning work
product from one resource to another.
DevOps is a higher form of agility. It is a blueprint for a great
culture and and process between the different groups involved in
the delivery pipeline. The big question is how to achieve it. If you
are founding a startup today, it can be quite easy to take that
blueprint and use it to create your process, hire the right versatile
flexible people, and start delivering without any
technical/automation debt or friction. But most of us are not
founding new startups. Most of us already have a running operation
with people, culture, process that matured over the years and
despite its flaws is currently the way we do things. Changing that is
non-trivial. For things to change people need to understand WHY
change, what we are changing, and we need an effective process
for managing the change itself (HOW to change). So what ARE we
changing to? DevOps is highly focused on looking at the whole value
stream from idea to value and ensuring effective flow through this
pipeline. Kanban is ONE way of HOW to change. It starts by
visualizing all the work flowing in the pipeline, then managing the
flow focusing on finishing things end to end rather than starting in
order to stay busy. It continues to what we call the “Work in process
Diet” – Straining the flow more and more in order to identify
obstacles to tighter and tighter DevOps culture/operation and faster
feedback cycles. You can expect to come out of this session with
ideas how to take your current operation and DevOpsify it in a safe
evolutionary way using the Kanban method.
A small step in resolving these pain areas and strike a balance
between various needs & constraints, at Altimetrik, we have devised
a SDLC framework – based on the concept Unified Resource and
various best practices from Agile, Waterfall, Prototype driven
development, Assembly approach etc.
We have been using this approach for our various customer projects
and have seen significant benefits.
In this experience report, we will discuss about the various pain
areas of existing development models and how they are overcomed
through this customised SDLC framework for some of our clients.
Day 3 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Talk
Talk
Mar 27 03:15 PM – 04:00 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 27 05:15 PM - 06:00 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mythbusting Software Estimation
Unleashing the Full Potential of your Agile Teams
Beginner level
Todd Little, IHS Global
Intermediate level
Dipesh Pala, IBM
Estimating software projects has proven to be particularly
challenging. Over-running schedules happens frequently in our
industry. As a result software estimation is often viewed as a black
art. In this session Todd will look into some of the reasons for these
challenges by exploring a number of myths of software estimation
and then setting out to validate or bust these myths.
What could be more important for leaders than increasing their
teams’ productivity? Conventional thinking would rank “increased
motivation” as one of the most important tools for increasing
productivity of teams.
Some of the myths that will be explored include:
This interactive session will disrupt and challenge the above notion,
and will provide an alternative view:
Historical Estimation Accuracy
Relative Estimation
The Cone of Uncertainty
Velocity
Scope Creep
Estimation Tools
Wisdom of Crowds
Motivation --> increases Progress --> increases Productivity
Progress --> increases Motivation --> increases Productivity
Dipesh will be drawing upon more than a decade of research
including 26 project teams, 7 companies and a deep analysis of
nearly 12,000 daily diaries kept by team members, and use real case
studies and examples to illustrate the following key elements:
Catalysts – events and actions that help a team move forward
Inhibitors – events and actions that can induce setbacks
Nourishers – interpersonal interactions that lift team’s spirits
Toxins – interpersonal interactions that undermine team’s spirits
more...
Day 3 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Workshop
Talk
Mar 27 01:30 PM – 03:00 PM (90 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 27 05:15 PM - 06:15 PM (60 mins), Esquire
Techniques for Effectively Slicing User Stories
Deep dive into RETROSPECTIVES- how do we break the
usual norms so that these reflections could be made
thought-provoking ones!
Intermediate level
Naresh Jain, Agile FAQs | Agile India
In order to achieve my goals, as a buyer of your product, I want
awesome feature.
AT: make sure your users stories don't get in the way.
Users Stories, the tool teams use to break big ideas into small
demonstrable deliverable, are easy to describe and challenging to
write effectively. In this hands-on workshop you'll learn how to
write great user stories that adhere to the INVEST principle. We'll
learn various techniques to slice your stories using the verticalslicing approach. We will discuss what elements should be included
in the stories, what criteria you should keep in mind while slicing
stories; why the size of your user story is important and how to
make them smaller and efficient.
Intermediate level
Madhavi Ledalla, SolutionsIQ
Jerry Rajamoney, EMC Corporation
Retrospectives are the primary learning, reflection and
readjustment techniques on agile projects. A good Agile team is
always striving to become better than before. And an effective
retrospective enables the team to sieze its opportunity to improve!
Retrospectives enable whole-team learning, act as catalysts for
change, and generate action.
R-> Realize where you are and where you want to be
E-> Engage the teams in fruitful discussions
T-> Team work to build “We over I” attitude
R-> Relish the power of Inspect and Adapt cycles
O->Openness and Transparency to make retrospectives efficient and
effective
more...
Day 3 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Workshop
Workshop
Mar 27 01:30 PM – 03:00 PM (90 mins), Esquire
Mar 27 03:15 PM - 04:45 PM (90 mins), Esquire
Discover the Power of Pair Testing!
Improving and Extending Agile Retrospective Outcomes
Intermediate level
Pradeepa Narayanaswam, Sabre
Beginner level
Diana Larsen, FutureWorks Consulting LLC
In agile teams, it’s inevitable that team members are expected to
be more cross-functional and produce high quality products for their
customers. How can agile team members become more crossfunctional and take ownership of quality? Often times there seems
to be a scarcity of testing talents in agile teams. How can agile
teams create high quality products when working with very few or
no testing talents?
Over the past ten years, software development teams using Agile
approaches to work have adopted retrospective meetings as a
critical practice for learning and continuous improvement. To the
extent that practitioners say, “If you’re not holding iteration
retrospectives, you’re not doing Agile.”
For agile team members to take ownership of quality, Pradeepa
Narayanaswamy exposes the power of “Pair Testing”, a technique
that promotes rapid feedback to produce high quality products. For
the scarce testing talents, an effective way to become more crossfunctional, one approach is for team members to pair up on various
(unit, integration, exploratory and several others) testing efforts
that emphasize the shared eye on quality and learning. Pradeepa
talks about several options for pairing opportunities between
various specialties on an agile team. She also talks about some new
opportunities to pair with DevOps, Operations, Sales, Marketing and
Support members to name a few.
As a new or an experienced agile team member, learn how to
spearhead this technique in your team at various levels to generate
buzz on other teams. As a tester, learn how to get the more...
Agile retrospectives at the end of each iteration or work increment
set aside time for the team to examine feedback from current
conditions and develop targeted tactics to keep the project on
track. Many practitioners experience retrospectives as great means
for detecting good, poor, and missing practices; as a handle to make
tacit knowledge about effective practices explicit; and to define
improvement actions in order to deal with ineffective or inefficient
technical, process, and teamwork practices.
However, too many teams and practitioners don’t reap the benefits
that effective retrospective meetings can provide. Too many
retrospective meetings receive cursory or inadequate facilitation.
Too many retrospective meetings are held to “check the box” on
the project management template, rather than to focus on real
improvements. For too many teams, the action plans coming out of
retrospectives are never implemented or revisited. Too many teams
seek to shift blame and responsibility for action through the
retrospective.
In too many organizations, retrospective more...
Day 3 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Workshop
Workshop
Mar 27 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM (60 mins), Esquire
Mar 27 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM (90 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Lean Machine
Starting with Kanban: A practical workshop on Value
Stream Mapping and WIP
Intermediate level
Sneha Kadam, ThoughtWorks
After revolutionizing the automobile industry, Lean principles have
been successfully applied to different knowledge areas including
software development. This workshop is intended to master Lean
concepts like Waste, Push&Pull systems, systems thinking, Kaizen
etc. & practicing cross-functional collaboration, self-organisation
and safe-fail experimentation! In this interactive game, the
participants will work in a small production lines, experiencing
problems and applying Lean practices to overcome them.
Beginner level
Evan Leybourn, Directing the Agile Organisation
So you’ve heard about this Kanban thing and want to know where to
start, or maybe you’ve been using it for a while and you want to
know where to go. In this hands-on workshop, we'll start at the very
beginning and teach you how to build a Value Stream Map and use
that to define your inital Kanban and WIP limits.
If these terms don’t make sense to you, then you need to come
along for a fun interactive workshop.
Day 3 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Demonstration
Mar 27 04:50 PM – 05:10 PM (20 mins), Esquire
Mobile to Mainframe: Application Development and
DevOps in the Application Economy
Intermediate level
Ravindra Chebiyam, CA Technologies
Serajul Arfeen, CA Technologies
Agile delivery at the speed of business requires a seamless
integration of Application Development, Delivery, and Operations.
We would like to present a fresh perspective of DevOps initiative
and how it integrates with agile based development of mobile and
web based applications.
In today's world of Application Economy, enterprises are rapidly
developing mobile and web applications to stay competitive.
In this process, they are required to interact with the backend
"system of record".
Large enterprises utilize mainframe at the heart of the dynamic
data center as backend system of record.
This integration of agile-based mobile app development dependent
on mission-critical mainframe-based operations is driving the
importance of DevOps initiatives within the application
development organizations.
Day 4 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Talk
Talk
Mar 28 03:30 PM - 03:50 PM (20 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 28 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Build it like sports teams
Using Fiction to Motivate Change
Intermediate level
Vinod Kumaar R, ThoughtWorks
Intermediate level
Lance Kind, A-Noir Consulting
Is it easy to get a crash course in football by Pele or Maradona for a
week and produce a world cup winning football team?
Since the late nineties, the Agile books in the non-fiction aisle have
steadily increased in number. It's common to see a book or three
about Agile on a colleague's desk. It's also common to see such a
book look practically new, the book spin showing no sign of having
been opened. Non-fiction books are great at providing bullet points
of things to do and reasons why. But non-fiction books are poor at:
Answer is NO. Then why do lots of people in the corporate world
think of hiring scrum trainers & expert developers to train their
team for a week and then expect their team to undergo a
transformation at a magical scale?
German football team made it a point to transform their team and
it took them a lots of years before they were able to reach the
pinnacle. A quick side by side comparison of what is causing agile
transformation to fail.
Vision
Football: Someone was there owning this entire transformation, the
German football association spent a lot of time identifying talent in
their teens and groomed them.
Office: In the corporate world switching jobs every few years have
become common, but there is no passing on of the context,
resulting in the new person taking charge, starting from all over
again, as well as frustrating existing good performers who have to
rebuild the perception.
more...
inspiring,
creating emotional attachement (so the reader finishes the book),
creating a full sensory environment for the reader,
describing a holostic environment, or
'intriguing' a reader who is un-interested in the topic.
(This bullet list above is a good example of how non-fiction can
excite thoughts who already know the story behind the bullets, but
doesn't inspire much if the reader hasn't any context or
background.)
Fiction is well positioned to do the above because its number one
job is to give pleasure and entertainment. It can't be successful if it
can't do this. The oral tradition of fiction has been part of human
culture for millions of years, since a Cro-Magnon passed on a story
to another, and upon re-telling some details were forgotten more...
Day 4 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Case Study
Case Study
Mar 28 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 28 03:00 PM - 03:45 PM (45 mins), Esquire
Integrating UX into the Agile Development Cycle - A
case study over 3 projects
Promiscuous Pairing - More the merrier !!!
Beginner level
Sophie Freiermuth, Baguette UX
User Experience design is a product design discipline which sits
throughout a product's lifecycle, from inception to development to
maintenance and all the way to retirement. Waterfall enabled the
discipline to have ample time and produce extensive design, in a
"big design upfront" approach which rarely involved technical
capabilities, and resulted in difficulties in build. The adoption of
agile by product development team has offered UX a unique
opportunity to work in a much more joined-up manner, and expend
the design into the development, enabling the entire team to react
to change.
As a UX designer, I have over the last 7 years developped a solid
appreciation of working embedded in an agile development team,
and would like to share my experiences through 3 specific projects,
sharing my learnings to help development team on-board the UX
practitioner, their tools, practices and skills.
This session will be a case study over 3 projects, highlighting the
learnings and steps of the integration of UX into the development
cycle. I'm taking Alistair Cockburn's sequence of SHU-HA-RI to detail
the progress of my practice and will pay great attention to sharing
sufficient context that my experiences and outcomes can be
translated to your own projects and team setups.
Intermediate level
Ankur Sambhar, J P Morgan
Being Agile developer, have tried & tested various flavors of pair
programming over the years while working in highly motivated selfmanaged team. Some experiments worked while some worked
better :)
This talk is about sharing the personal experience of practicing
promiscuous pairing which allowed the team to be always in the
beginner's mind state and being able to push the boundaries
consistently.
This experience sharing talk is based on our successful adoption of
the promiscuous pairing technique based on very famous research
paper by Arlo Belshee "Promiscuous Pairing and Beginner’s Mind:
Embrace Inexperience".
Day 4 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Experience Report
Demonstration
Mar 28 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (60 mins), Esquire
Mar 28 03:00 PM - 03:20 PM (20 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Test Driven Development of Infrastructure Code in Chef
Don't test your code!
Advancedr level
Sreedevi Vedula, ThoughtWorks
Beginner level
Gautam Rege, Josh Software Pvt. Ltd.
Chef is a popular Infrastructure Automation framework based in
Ruby. It comes with a host of testing tools bundled with it like
ChefSpec for unit testing, ServerSpec for system testing and
TestKitchen for integration testing. This session is a demo of how to
use these frameworks to test drive cookbook development.
Testing is overated. Let's correct that statement - "Manual Testing is
overrated". In this this talk, I plan to take you on whirlwind tour of
why an Agile outfit does not need manual testing at all and how to
get fantastic Quality Assurance without manual testing.
In this talk - I outline a agile process with a difference - everyone is
a developer and a tester. However, there is no dedicated QA
people. In fact, this process does not require anyone other than the
developers and one process/product owner.
Development using a central repository like Github that is
integrated with a Continuous Integration service (like Travis,
CircleCI or Semaphore) and further integrated with a Code Quality
checker like Code Climate or Pull Review is part of the automation
trick. Then comes the development processes like pull request
between branches (enabling peer code review) and Automated
Deployment to a staging server.
Finally, the pixel perfection or meeting product specificaiton via
Project Management tools (which are integrated with the Code
repository) gives the product owner (or the client) complete
confidence in not just the functionality but also the quality of the
code.
This approach can be applied to evolving products too and I discuss
how to work in short sprints that always keep changing and
guarantee that "The product owner gets the money's worth and the
development team gets their works worth!".
Day 4 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Experience Report
Experience Report
Mar 28 03:30 PM – 04:15 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 28 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM (20 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
It's not an Agile story
Mr.Agile Leader - “ Develop People or Solutions”
Beginner level
Karthik Kamal Balasubramaniam, AgileFAQs
Intermediate level
Niranjan N V, Exelplus Services
Having worked with multiple Agile teams, I realize that most
problems the teams have to deal with are often related to issues
that are beyond the scope of any Agile framework. These issues are
often related to people and the surrounding eco-system. The
success of any Agile implementation is largely dependent on this
H(uman)-factor which is intrinsic to any team/organization. This Hfactor has always been a pandora's box, that we would like to avoid
owing to the amount of complexity and the uncertainty involved.
Based on my experience of coaching/ training agile teams for 5
years, one of the important reasons for agile teams are impacted, is
the personal leadership style of Agile Leaders(Scrum Master, Senior
Managers etc) . I have summarized following, factors or
impediments for creating effective agile teams
Here is my humble effort to try and identify few common traits that
I have observed with people across Agile teams and organizations.
The idea here is not to stereotype people, but to present an
approach/strategy to accommodate different kinds of people in an
Agile eco-system.
In this talk, I would like to present 5 characters in a fictional story
and the various strategies I have adopted to coach them.
After all one size doesn't fit all!
The agile teams effectiveness depends on personal leadership
style of agile leaders(Scrum Masters, Senior Management etc)
Often Agile leaders focus more on “delivering solutions” than
“developing people”.
Agile leader need not specify work requirements, all that team
needs is - empowerment, autonomy to work.
The agile team needs more support through mentoring, coaching
from agile leaders to exhibit the culture “Being Agile” than “Doing
Agile”.
Agile leaders need not be an Expert to coach agile teams.
Agile teams needs to be taught on Identifying Problem, Problem
solving skills and corrective actions and demonstrate steady, small
and continuous improvement.
My inspiration to write here, is derived from the book “ Managing
Excellence” by David Bradford and Allan Cohen, and reading blogs,
articles along with my own experience. more...
Day 4 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Experience Report
Experience Report
Mar 28 03:00 PM – 03:20 PM (20 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 28 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM (20 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Scrum Master Experience Report
Tales of (not so) successful Dev-Ops
Intermediate level
Vijay Bandaru, IVY Comptech
This presentation brings a different perspective for the Scrum
Masters and helps them to become more powerful Scrum Masters
through their enhanced soft skills. I am going to cover how the
teams evaolve, how the change is resisted, how the teams behave,
how Scrum Master can handle all these effective to make the teams
deliver working software every sprint continuously.
The information explained below is from my experience as Scrum
Master and Coach. Below are the points that will be covered in the
presentation:
Primarily I am planning to cover the anti patterns that will push the
teams back and where the Scrum Master can support the teams with
his knowledge, experience and interpersonal skills. For example
please find below some scenarios:
1. In effective sprint planning: Team might miss some of the tasks
while doing the sprint planning part 2 so they will anyway identify
them during the development of the stories so these tasks take
additional time which is not budgeted. So they will have to miss
some stories which will impact the sprint goal. So I encourage the
scrum masters to collect all such unidentified tasks on a separate
colr sticky notes and during retrospective discuss with the more...
Advanced level
Asheesh Mehdiratta, J P Morgan
Debbie Wren, J P Morgan
Welcome to the crazy world of Dev-Ops, where the tales span the
spectrum from gruesome, grizzly to the heavenly and flowery bliss!
The silo’d structures, the agonizing buy v/s build debates, the
departmental handoffs, tooling and of course the cultural barriers,
which all add fuel to the story unfolding in our brave new dev-ops
world. But sometimes there are silver linings and the heavens part
way for the shining stars to reveal their true glory.
Join our session to listen to the tales of our (not so) successful devops, and learn the lessons from our experiences.
Day 4 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Pecha Kucha
Experience Report
Mar 28 01:30 PM – 02:15 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 28 02:35 PM – 02:55 PM (20 mins), Esquire
Techniques to Speed Up your Build Pipeline for Faster
Feedback.
The Exorcist Was a Lean Planning Master
Intermediate level
Ashish Parkhi, IDeaS a SAS Company
I would like to share my experience and journey on how we brought
down our Jenkins build pipeline time down from over 90 minutes to
under 12 minutes. In the process, I would share specific techniques
which helped and also some, which logically made sense, but
actually did not help. If your team is trying to optimize their build
times, then this session might give you some ideas on how to
approach the problem.
Development Impact - For one of our build job, below graph shows
how the number of builds in a day have increased over a period of
time as the build time has reduced. Frequency of code check-in has
increased; Wait time has reduced; failed test case faster to isolate
and fix. more..
Beginner level
Jeff Lopez-Stuit, SolutionsIQ
How can teams that have to deal with large, complex legacy
systems get through planning and get to work? The title character of
the classic American horror film, "The Exorcist" was a master at
this..
Pecha Kucha Talk Summary:
Introduction: Creating understanding through conversation can be
very difficult for teams dealing with complex, legacy systems.
Introducing Regan McNeil: Poor Regan McNeil was starting go
insane, but a team of doctors and specialists in close, face-to-face
collaboration, couldn't solve her problem.
The Exorcist: The Exorcist knew how to have just enough
conversation to get to work, so his team could deliver the value
everyone had been working and praying for.
Summary: "In life, understanding is the booby prize". Sometimes
the quest for understanding can be an impediment to delivering
value. Having faith in self-organization, sometimes its best just to
get to work.
Day 4 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Talk
Talk
Mar 28 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (60 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 28 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Distributed Agile Patterns
How much will this cost?
Intermediate level
ShriKant Vashishthai, Globallogic
Beginner level
Evan Leybourn, Directing the Agile Organisation
Way back in 2008, when I started working in Agile, there was
enough material available on Scrum and. However when it came to
distributed aspect of it, people were still struggling with it. Based
on working for years in this fashion, I realised that communication,
trust, transparency and innovation are the core fundamental values
towards successful distributed Agile implementation.
"How much will this cost?"
"How long will it take?"
"What am I going to get?"
In other words, as most of the problems were caused by softer
aspects of skills (misunderstanding, miscommunication, nonavailability of people, mistrust etc), humanizing the distributed
team experience looked like the key for successful distributed Agile
implementation. more...
These are the questions that every Agile project gets asked at some
point. And while "as much as your willing to spend", "as long as
necessary" and "whatever you ask for" are perfectly acceptable,
many customers are uncomfortable with these answers. This may
reflect more on the customer then the team, but can lead to the
misconception that the development team is writing themselves a
blank cheque. How then does an Agile team define and scope a
project where the customer requires fixed time, cost or scope?
This presentation will provide guidance and direction on how to
quote for and budget Agile projects, as well as how to change the
questions in the first place.
Day 4 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Tutorial
Talk
Mar 28 04:30 PM – 05:15 PM (45 mins), Grand Ballroom 2
Mar 28 01:30 PM – 02:30 AM (60 mins), Esquire
Process Agility - the nemesis of business agility?
Congratulations! You are our startup's first Scrum
Master! What's next?
Advanced level
Krishnan Nair, GeekTrust.in
KK Sure, ThoughtWorks
We've come far in our journey of Agile as a software development
methodology. From stand-ups to showcases to sprint planning
meetings to burn-ups (or downs), we've got it down pat when it
comes to processes to follow to be considered Agile. However this
heads-down, process defined agile, often hinders real agility
required to meet business needs. Is doing a three hour sprint
planning meeting every week the most important thing to do when
you have to get a minimal-viable-product out in the market? How
much of automated functional testing should you do when you know
that your product's beta version is only going to validate
assumptions of your business idea? Should you write tests at all?
There is no formulaic answer.
In this talk, KK and Krishnan will talk about their experience of how
much Agile is too much Agile. We look at how to find the right
balance between following agile practices and being responsive to
your business. How much agile is too much and how less is too less?
We will do this by looking at:
A couple of successful agile adoption stories
Look at why agile was successful in the contexts more...
Intermediate level
Vivek Ganesan, Gainsight
Do you fancy playing the first Scrum Master of a startup?
Do you want to live the challenges faced by the first Scrum Master
of a startup? Do you feel that your organization is dramatically
different from the 'ideal' organizations, which the Agile workshops
project as a basic requirement for doing Agile development? Do you
wish to deliver predictable results while your management is onthe-way to make your organization 'Agile-ready'? This tutorial is just
what you want.
In this tutorial, you will experience the life of a first Scrum Master
of a twenty member startup, which has expansion plans. Each of
the audience will put themselves in the Scrum Master's shoes and try
to solve the challenges posed by the ever-changing environment,
while the company's management is putting its best efforts to make
the organization 'Agile-ready'. In this interactive tutorial, a gripping
story-line will drag you into the world of uncertainties where you
would be challenged to take life-changing decisions regarding your
product team's daily work.
Even if you are not in a startup, this tutorial would benefit you
because everyone still comes across ad-hoc situations which go
against the ideal expectations of Agile world.
Day 4 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Workshop
Workshop
Mar 28 03:55 PM – 05:15 PM (80 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 28 03:45 PM – 05:15 PM (90 mins), Esquire
1000 Words - Illustrating Project Challenges with Visuals
The Value Simulation Game
Intermediate level
Tarang Baxi, ThoughtWorks
Chirag Doshi, ThoughtWorks
A project can face varied challenges through its life, foreseen and
otherwise - runaway scope, high defect volumes, depressed
velocity, and many more. Addressing many of these first requires
recognition of the problem and then action from one or more sets of
project stakeholders. Telling the story with simple visuals can be a
very powerful way to articulate a challenge (the what), the
potential root causes (the why) and the options available to fix it
(the now-what). Teams typically already track a lot of data related
to throughput, quality, scope and cost. Creative use of this data
combined with simple, hand-crafted visuals can be much more
effective than hundreds of bullet points. In this hands-on workshop,
you get to exercise your visual thinking and visual communication
skills. We introduce some simple visual thinking techniques like
Look-See-Imagine-Show, and then let you apply them in a project
simulation, so that you can practice hand-rolling simple visuals that
speak volumes (no fancy tools needed!).
Beginner level
Todd Little, IHS Global
In this highly engaging workshop attendees will experience
estimating, planning and delivering a new product and product
features.
The uncertainty in value and costs will be resolved
through rolling dice based on the stories that the team selects and
prioritizes. The teams will run through 3 iterations of story cost,
value estimation, and product feature delivery. Points will be
scored for delivering product features and meeting release and
iteration commitments.
Dealing with uncertainty is one of the largest challenges that teams
face. The simulation aims to have levels of uncertainty in value and
delivery that are commensurate with those found in software
development. Some of the key tools for dealing with uncertainty
are integrated into the simulation. In particular, the simulation
covers these 4 areas:
Value of Information
Value of Flexibility
Cost of Delay
Value of Uncertainty
Attendees will come away with a better understanding of the
challenges of working with uncertainty in software projects, and
will learn some of the tools that are at their disposal for managing
this uncertainty.
Day 4 – Agile Lifecycle
SESSIONS
Talk
Talk
Mar 28 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (60 mins), Grand Ballroom 1
Mar 28 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM (45 mins), Esquire
No estimates: how you can predict the release date of
your project without estimating
Rolling Your Own Platform as a Service (PaaS) with
Docker
Intermediate level
Vasco Duarte, Oikosofy
Intermediate level
Zee, Zinc Made
Often we hear that estimating a project is a must. "We can't make
decisions without them" we hear often. In this session I'll present
examples of how we can predict a release date of a project without
any estimates, only relying on easily available data.
I'll show how we can follow progress on a project at all times
without having to rely on guesswork, and we will review how large,
very large and small projects have already benefited from this in
the past. At the end of the session you will be ready to start your
own #NoEstimates journey.
We’ve all been there. We’ve had this lovely, monolithic application
purring happily away on some platform-as-a-service. However, the
application and team are growing and we need to separate out
functionality into independent services to keep moving forward
without stepping on one anothers’ toes.
This talk deconstructs the “perceived simplicity” of platform-as-aservices and answers some critical questions:
What are the essential components of a Platform as a Service?
When is building our own PaaS worthwhile?
How and where should we leverage docker in the
provision/build/release/deploy/un-provision application life-cycle?
This talk stems from a 6 month engagement building a platform as a
service for a micro-service based architecture.
SPEAKERS
Ahmed Sidky
Ahmed Sidky, Ph.D. known as Doctor Agile, is a well-known thought-leader in
the Agile community. He is currently the Director of Development
Management for Riot Games and before that he was a transformation
consultant for Fortune 100 companies. He is the co-author of “Becoming Agile
in an Imperfect World,” and the President and co-founder of the International
Consortium for Agile. Ahmed was selected to be the program chair for the
Agile 2009 conference and he has been an invited speaker at numerous Agile
Conferences around the world speaking on topics like, the agile mindset, how
to create lean high performing habits within teams, and how to transform
organization in a manner that achieves sustainable organizational agility.
Anand Bagmar
I am a hands-on and result-oriented Tester with 17+ years in the IT field of
which 13+ years in the software test field.
I am passionate about shipping a quality product, building automated testing
tools, test automation, infrastructure and frameworks. I have also built opensource tools related to testing - WAAT, TTA and TaaS.
My specialties include: Automated testing, building test automation
frameworks, Agile, Coaching, Consulting . I have spoken in over 10 conferences
across the world. The most recent being Agile 2013 in Nashville, TN in USA.
Alexey Pikulev
A licensed Management 3.0 trainer and Agile coach with many years of
experience of working with a variety of organizations from start-ups to
international enterprise corporations. The main focus of my training is Agile
Leadership practices and its applications in the organization culture. As a
Coach, I am not going to tell your organization what to do but will help you to
find the right solution on your own. My current passion is building an engaging
creative-work culture in the team, company and community levels by using a
variety of creative concepts from coaching to business games . My motto is
"Delivering Value".
Specialties:
• agile coaching and training; project management; leadership; agile product
management.
Anton Zotin
Throughout my career I've been in different roles, projects, companies. I
remember how a project, customer or even a whole company looks like from
ordinary team member’s, linear manager’s or senior manager’s points of
view. I know what does it mean small or big, outsourcing or product
company and how this context can affect the production process. I've seen
long never ending maintenance projects, real products or even startups. I
understand pros and cons of traditional and agile methodologies because I've
worked using both. Now I'm concentrating on Agile. I've been using it since
2004 so I have a deep understanding of core principles and know not only the
book theory. I really enjoy helping teams become not only effective but
efficient; bring transparency between development teams and customers;
explain how to become hyper-productive and self-improvement.
SPEAKERS
Aslak Hellesøy
Aslak is the creator of Cucumber, the popular Open-Source acceptance testing
tool.
He's the author of The Cucumber Book, and in 2013 he cofounded Cucumber
Limited with Matt Wynne and Julien Biezemans. Their company supports the
open-source platform by offering training, consulting, coaching around BDD,
lean and agile software development.`
Arvi Krishnaswamy
Entrepreneur | Tech Executive | Hands-on Leader. #products #leanstartup
#mobile #strategy #growth #engineering #blogger #socialmedia
Vinaya Muralidharan
Vinaya Muralidharan has nearly 12 years of experience in the IT industry
primarily in the Telecom Billing domain and in Change Management for
introducing new Software Development practices and methods.
Current role is that of an Agile / Lean / Kanban coach. Vinaya enjoys being a
coach as well as a student.
Vinaya is an active presenter in Agile conferences as well as active an
participant in Limited WIP Society and Lean Coffee forums in Pune.
Asheesh Mehdiratta
Asheesh Mehdiratta loves to challenge minds, and aims to inspire atleast
some! He is an enterprise agile evangelist and lean transformation agent,
focused on delivering business value. Asheesh loves to work with cross
functional teams and consulting senior leadership on enterprise wide
transitions to agile, while managing large scale organizational change. He
has specialized in new product development and legacy modernization.
In his day job, Asheesh is an agile coach - training, coaching and mentoring
individuals, teams and building organizational warriors, fighting the battles;
winning some battles and losing some. He has varied experience on financial
services, communications management and utility spaces, having grown
from working in startups to Fortune 100 organizations, wearing multiple hats
of a developer, tester, engineering manager, product owner, and scrum
master.
You can find Asheesh frequently ranting at his blog http://agilejourneys.blogspot.in/ and sharing his 140 chars tidbits at @amehdiratta
Avinash Rao
Certified SAFe SPC, working as part of Cognizant's Advanced Solutions Group
(ASG) with enterprise clients to scale and deliver large programs successfully
using Agile and LEAN techniques.
Program and Platform leadership, structuring and delivering large programs in
multi-region, multi vendor situations. Thought leader in Scaling Agile, and in
the definition of Program Management and PMO offerings.
SPEAKERS
Biplab Roy
Biplab Roy is a passionate Agile & Lean professional with over 15 of
experience in Organizational transformation, Management Consulting,
Strategic Initiatives, Program & Portfolio management, Process
management, Gamification, Software Product and Service Development. He
has worked for and advised many Global Software Product and Service
Companies in Telecom, BFSI, Healthcare, Life sciences and Technology
industries.
Chirag Doshi
Chirag has over 10 years of experience in software development in various
roles developer, analyst, architect and agile coach. In the last 8 years of his
work with ThoughtWorks he has been part of agile teams of different sizes
ranging from 2 to almost 200.
Debashis Banerjee
Ashish Parkhi
I started my IT career with IDeaS a SAS Company in August, 2001 and currently
working there as a Sr. Manager – Software Development. After a short stint at
different departments like Technical Product Support, Quality Assurance I
joined the Software Development department in 2003 and have been working
on Java technology stack since then. Currently I play multiple roles and wear
different hats at IDeaS; As a Leader, Manager, Product Owner, Solution
Architect, Developer and a Mentor. I am very passionate about solving business
problems and making a difference with my work. Of late I have been following
Agile Methodology.
Debashis is a Director of Engineering at SAP(Ariba). He has over 16+ years of
industry expertise leading and building global teams.
As a Speaker he has spoken at 19 conferences including Agile India, Cloud
Connect, Agile Goa, UNICOM, ISACA, TuV SuD, Scrum Alliance, UNICOM on
topics
such as Agile, Cloud Computing, Security, Management.
Aside from this Debashis is a inventor with 10 IP (2 Patents Granted, 1
Patent Pending and 7 Defensive IP) and has 7 print media publications.
He has expertise on Cloud, Web, Mobile Android, APIs, Security and
Telecom.
SPEAKERS
Darren Davis
Based in Seattle, Washington, Darren K. Davis is currently the Director of
Software Engineering in the Strategy and Innovation group of Providence
Health and Services, the third-largest not-for-profit health care company in
the U.S. Prior to that, he led the web and mobile engineering teams for
Starbucks, overseeing a variety of product releases, including the first rollout
of their ground-breaking mobile payment app. Before joining Starbucks,
Darren worked for Corbis, and was instrumental in the creation of the Kanban
development methodology. Before starting his career in software engineering
18 years ago, he was a professional actor, and holds a Master of Fine Arts in
Acting.
Debbie Wren
Debbie is a highly experienced Lean & Agile Coach with JP Morgan Chase where
she is involved in helping to drive the agile transformation efforts within the
Corporate & Investment Bank. Debbie has over 25 years of software
development experience spanning UK, EMEA, APAC and North America in a
range of verticals. During this time she has lead a number of high profile
enterprise wide agile transformation engagements and has guided and
facilitated customers through complex sizeable projects involving the adoption
of Agile development practices.
Dhananjay Pershad
27+ years of rich cross-discipline experience across Product Engineering, IT
services delivery, Product development, Pre-Sales, and large account
management. In my last role, led global engineering team for mainframe
Database management product line and have handled various leadership roles
in CA Technologies, Sierra Atlantic (now part of Hitachi Consulting) and SQL
Star. These include leading large cross-geography engineering and services
delivery teams and leading several organization change management
initiatives including forming large engineering and services groups. Strong
customer and outcome focus while being a good team player. Dhananjay
believes in leading from the front and mentoring teams to strive for customer
delight while enjoying the work on hand
Dhaval Dalal
Application Developer and Software Artisan - worked on variety of Real-Time
and Non-Real-Time Web based and Client-Server applications on JVM and
.NET platforms. Primary interests lie in architecting applications/products,
learning programming paradigms and languages, establishing environments,
transitioning and orienting teams to Agile way of working.
I like to learn/explore new languages and programming paradigms, apply on
projects (not to decorate resumes) to observe their pros and cons to
determine which can make good choices to solve the problem at hand.
SPEAKERS
Diana Larsen
Deeply in tune with how work teams adapt, develop, and contribute, Diana
Larsen works with organizations around the world to design high performance
work systems, improve project team effectiveness, and support leaders and
enterprises in their transitions to Agile methods. Diana co-founded
http://FutureWorksConsulting.com and is considered an authority in the areas
of Agile software development, team leadership, and Agile adoption. Diana is
co-author of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great (recommended
reading for the PMI-ACP); Liftoff: Launching Agile Teams and Projects;
Quickstart Guide to Five Rules for Accelerated Learning; and co-originator of
the breakthrough “Path through Agile Fluency” model at
http://agilefluency.com . A respected contributor to her professional
community, she served for eight years as a director and chair of the Agile
Alliance board, and currently serves as a board member of Organization
Design Forum, Agile Open Northwest, and Language Hunters, as well as a
certified Associate of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute.
Dipesh Pala
Dipesh Pala is the Agile Capability Lead for IBM Australia and New Zealand. In
addition to uplifting Agile Competencies within IBM, Dipesh pursues his
passion for enabling organisations of all sizes to optimise solution delivery
through the pragmatic use of Agile, Lean and traditional methods. His diverse
background includes delivery roles in Software Engineering, Project and
Portfolio Management, and Agile Consulting across a variety of industries.
Over the last decade, Dipesh has helped organisations and project teams
across many countries to continuously improve and find better ways of
working. As an on-the-ground Agile Consultant, he has been instrumental in
rolling out Agile methods in many organisations, and is currently coaching
and mentoring aspiring Iteration Managers, Agile Project Managers and Team
Leaders to become the Agile practitioners their teams need.
Evan Leybourn
Evan pioneered the field of Agile Business Management; applying the successful
concepts and practices from the Lean and Agile movements to corporate
management. He keeps busy as a senior IT executive, business management
consultant, non-executive director, conference speaker, internationally
published author and father.
Evan is known for getting things done by bringing enthusiasm, energy and
humour to motivate people and drive his clients corporate objectives. He has a
passion for building effective and productive organisations, filled with actively
engaged and committed staff while ensuring high-levels of customer
satisfaction. Evan's experiences when holding executive and board positions in
both private industry and government has driven his passion for lean business
management and he regularly speaks on these topics at local and international
industry conferences.
Zee
Zee is the founder and principled consultant for Zinc Made, a consultancy
focused on streamlining business practices with custom hardware and software.
Zee has spent the last decade leading teams, designing and building missioncritical software (from the infrastructure to the user interface and everywhere
in between!), and growing businesses.
An avid reader and doer, Zee reads several books a month, ensuring he's always
on the top of his game as new practices and principles are introduced in the
fast-paced technology industry.
SPEAKERS
Fred George
Fred George is a developer and co-founder at Outpace Systems, and has been
writing code for over 45 years in (by his count) over 70 languages. He has
delivered projects and products across his career, and in the last decade
alone, has worked in the US, India, China, and the UK. He started
ThoughtWorks University in Bangalore, India, based on a commercial
programming training program he developed in the 90's. An early adopter of
OO and Agile, Fred continues to impact the industry with his leading-edge
ideas, most recently advocating Micro-Service.
Fredrik Hedlund
Fredrik has worked as a consultant in the IT-sector in Sweden and Canada since
1995. During his years in the sector he has experienced many roles such as
developer, tester, scrum master and project leader. His interest for agile
development started around 2009 when he ran his first scrum project.
Architectures and flat team structures (under the moniker of Programmer
Anarchy). Oh, and he still writes code!
Gautam Rege
Jeff Lopez-Stuit
Jeff Lopez-Stuit is a Senior Agile Consultant for SolutionsIQ of Redmond,
Washington, USA. He has spent most of the last year training and coaching
teams in Agile India, as well as doing work for clients in the United States.
As an Agile Coach Jeff is committed helps people and organizations improve
their ability to improve. When you’re working with him, you’re working to
enable your enterprise to blow away the inadequate structures of the past and
establish practices to constantly build an amazing future that delivers
astonishing results and changes the nature of what's possible for your
customers, enterprise, and yourself.
Driven by his passion for programming, Gautam co-founded Josh Software
with Sethupathi Asokan in 2007. Gautam who still codes religiously leads
the India-based Josh Software brand across the world apart from being
involved in delivering web solutions for the client partners of the
organization. With more than 13 years of experience in the industry, he has
handled a wide array of profiles that have helped him sustainable & highstandard web solutions.
He is an ardent promoter of Ruby on Rails and leads many of the brand’s
initiatives to promote this framework in India. He helps organize the
annual RubyConf India, talks at Ruby Conferences across the world and
manages local Ruby meetups.
When not discussing Ruby, he loves talking about entrepreneurship and the
importance of starting up young! Apart from being an active voice through
his popular blog, Gautam has authored a couple of book on Ruby and Mongo
DB.
SPEAKERS
Jeff Patton
Jerry Rajamoney
Jeff makes use of over 20 years experience with a wide variety of products
from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records to help
organizations improve the way they work. Where many development
processes focus on delivery speed and efficiency, Jeff balances those
concerns with the need for building products that deliver exceptional value
and marketplace success.
Industry seasoned Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified
Scrum Professional (CSP) having 14+ Years of experience in the industry with
good experience in all the areas.
Jeff is the author of the book titled User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole
Story, Build the Right Product. He's an agile process coach, product design
coach, and instructor. Current articles, essays, and presentations can be
found at www.AgileProductDesign.com His writing appears in
StickyMinds.com, Better Software Magazine, IEEE Software, Alistair
Cockburn's Book Crystal Clear, and his forthcoming book User Story Mapping
from O'Reilly press. Jeff's a Certified Scrum Trainer, and winner of the Agile
Alliance's 2007 Gordon Pask Award for contributions to Agile Development.
Good experience in the new areas like theory of constraints, Pomodoro
technique, Systematic Problem Solving Technique and Value Stream Mapping
Experienced in managing and handling projects in various
development/Project Management life cycles like Water fall, Iterative,
Kanban and Agile methodologies (Scrum).
KK Sure
Kamlesh
Kamlesh Ravlani is an Agile Coach, practitioner and a trainer. Kamlesh has
extensive hands-on experience helping organizations global, large and small
with their Agile and Lean transformations. Kamlesh provides Agile-Lean
coaching and training. Kamlesh is passionate about improving the way
organizations function and deliver value to their customers. He collaborates
with Agile coaches and trainers worldwide to evangelize Agile mindset and
practices. Kamlesh belives in building collaborative communities. He gives back
to the community via organizing and faciliating Scrum and Agile events,
mentoring, speaking at user groups and conferences.
Stumbled into the IT industry, I discovered my passion for building and
delivering quality software for my clients. I am a great collaborator and love
working in teams. Thats what makes me good consultant and mentor. I have
been working in agile teams for the last 8+ years.
I have 10+ years of experience working as a QA. I have developed UI and
backend services test automation frameworks in Java, Ruby, Python and
Groovy. I have worked on various tools including Selenium RC, SeleniumWebdriver, Watir, Cucumber, RSpec, SpecFlow.
For the last 3 years I've been working as a project manager. I've experience
working in domains like Email, Retail, Banking, Cloud Engineering and
Travel.
SPEAKERS
Karthik Kamal Balasubramaniam
Quite a greedy soul, when it comes to life and dreams. Loves to read, sing and
do salsa. An explorerer by heart and have got my hands dirty with plethora of
things. I work as an Agile coach. Approach to agile via people and practices
makes sense to me. Knowledge in coding and psychology make this journey
more interesting. Agile is a way of life to me and it applies to what I do in life
professionally/personally. That way I don't work, but just follow my passion!
Krishnamurty VG Pammi
Krishnamurty Pammi CSP, CSM, ITIL, PMP is an Agile Coach at IVY Comptech.
At IVY, he is contributing to organizational wide Agile Transformation as an
Agile coach. With over 17 years of experience, he gained program delivery
insights through partnering with Fortune 500 entrepreneurs. He associated
with program delivery transformations leveraging Lean, Scrum, XP and Kanban
methodologies where teams could able to achieve minimum 10% year-on-year
savings with highest quality and customer delight. His expertise stems from
his hands on experience in Institutionalizing end to end Program Governance
with clear focus on Program Management Office, Product Life Cycle
Management, Portfolio strategy building, and business transformation and
employee satisfaction. Training and Coaching has been his passion and he
pursues his passion through training and coaching the community in the areas
of his expertise.
Krishnan Nair
I'm founder and CEO of GeekTrust.in - a platform for great developers to
meet great opportunities. Before GeekTrust, I was with i2 technologies (now
JDA), MBT (now TechMahindra) and ThoughtWorks (for 9 years). I've been in
the software industry for more than a decade, and have worked on agile
projects in India, US, Australia and the UK. I've been a developer, quality
analyst, iteration manager, agile coach & trainer, project manager, and
delivery manager.
I am fascinated by the social angle of software development. And believe
that technology has only touched the surface of how it can bring people
closer. Team dynamics and how relationships influence deliverables from
software teams is also something that intrigues me. A team that knows and
is inspired by what needs to be done has a much much larger chance of
being successful than a team of super-stars. My job has always been to build
strong teams, inspire and motivate individuals & teams, while delivering
high value for my customers
Lance Kind
Lance Kind lives in China, and the USA, and places in between. After four
years of Waterfall he and his team were introduced to eXtreme Programming
by Kent Beck and achieved the ability to make a “ship or no-ship” decision
with full test suite passes within four hours. Four years of TDD, Pair
Programming, and System Testing later, he worked at SolutionsIQ delivering
projects with Scrum + XP. In 2006 he began Agile coaching and training
technical practices. For the last five years he has worked as an independent
consultant delivereimg consulting services in China, India, as well as the
USA.He is a publishing author of science fiction and a project management
comic series called SCRUM NOIR which made the Amazon best seller list for a
week. Search for “Lancer Kind” on Amazon.in to see his publications.
SPEAKERS
Madhavi Ledalla
Result-oriented IT professional with expertise in both Waterfall and Agile
methodologies, around 13 years of IT experience, started career as a Software
Engineer, and then took up roles of Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead,
Project Manager, Scrum Master and Agile Coach
Francis kelly
Mark Lines
Mark Lines is Managing Partner at Scott Ambler + Associates. He is an Agile
Coach and co-creator of the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework. Mark is coauthor with Scott Ambler of Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide
to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise. Mark is a "disciplined" agile
coach, helping organizations all over the world transform from traditional to
agile methods. He writes for many publications including the Cutter
Consortium and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Mark blogs
about DAD at DisciplinedAgileDelivery.com. Mark is also a Founding Member of
the Disciplined Agile Consortium (DAC), the certification body for disciplined
agile. He can be reached at mark [at] scottambler.com.
Francis came to Scaled Agile in 2013 with a wealth of experience managing and
leading successful sales teams. He spent over 12 years with Exelis Visual
Information Solutions (formally ITT Visual Information Solutions) where he was
instrumental in developing both the channel and direct sales organizations.
Nanda Lankalapalli
Kavita Kapoor
Most recently Kavita was Regional Digital Director for Asia based in Delhi. Her
Agile teams were based in Dubai, Delhi, Singapore and Austrailla.
Kavita is now Global Product Director at Fifty.
In 2010 Kavita was given the incredible opportunity to join The London
Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games delivering a
range of award winning products in campaigns as diverse as Travel,
Volunteering and Mascots. Kavita holds a Bsc(hons) Business Information
Technology and MSc in Internet Technology by Research.
Nanda Lankalapalli has been involved in software development since 1992.
He is a Software Developer, Architect, Certified Scrum Master (CSM),
Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) and an Agile Coach. Nanda has been
practicing Scrum since 2002 and benefited on several projects he managed.
Nanda worked directly with some of the agile visionaries like Mike Cohn
(Mountain Goat Software) and Lisa Crispin. Nanda reported to Mike and
learned Scrum first hand from the Scrum Guru. Lisa is on the team Nanda
managed.Nanda is proficient in Agile Software Development that is not just
limited to Scrum implementation and practice but also integrating with
Engineering Practices (from XP) and Lean Software development practices.
He is successful in aligning the business goals with the engineering goals and
maximizing the value delivered timely.
Nanda is the founder of ‘Agile Hyderabad’ group and is an active contributor
to the agile community. Nanda spoke in several conferences and knowledge
sharing sessions organized by ‘Agile Hyderabad’, HYDSPIN, Agile Tour,
Solutions IQ.
SPEAKERS
Naresh Jain
Naresh Jain is an internationally recognized Technology & Product
Development Expert. Over the last decade, he has helped streamline the
product development practices at many Fortune 500 companies like
Google, Amazon, HP, Siemens Medical, GE Energy, Schlumberger, EMC, CA
Technologies, to name a few clients. These days, he is more focused on
engineering excellence and product innovation. In a nutshell, hire him as a
consultant/mentor, if your entire organization wants to move beyond the
Agile and Lean mindset. Learn more about our expert services.
Naresh Jain's Startup Icons
Naresh is leading two tech-startups, which build tablet-based adaptive
educational apps for kids, conference management software, social-media
search tool and a content curation and voting platform. His startups are
trying to figure out the secret sauce for blending gamification and social
learning using the latest gadgets.
As an independent consultant, Naresh worked with many fortune 500
software organizations and startups to deliver mission critical enterprise
applications. Having played various roles of Founder, Agile Coach, Quality
Evangelist, Technical Lead, Product Owner, Iteration Manager, Scrum
Master, Developer, QA, Recruiter, Build Master, Mentor & Trainer, he is
well equipped to help your entire organization to rapidly adapt Agile and
Lean methods.
Agile Software Community of India
Naresh founded the Agile Software community of India, a registered nonprofit society to evangelize Agile, Lean and other Light-weight Software
Development methods in India. Naresh is responsible for conceptualizing,
creating and organizing 50+ Software conferences worldwide.
Mikael Lundquist
Mikael has been working at ITS since 2001. He has experienced many different
roles at ITS, such as systems developer, change manager, project manager,
team leader, scrummaster, product manager. He now mainly works as a
scrummaster and product manager for 3 products. His best strength is to
create creative climate in groups and make people produce.
Niranjan N V
Niranjan N V, has around 17 years of professional experience and 4 years as a
Consultant, Coach and Training in Agile-Scrum, Lean- Agile, XP,Kanban,
Software Estimation, Project Management . He has extensive implementation
experience in Agile –Scrum, FP Based Productivity Designing and deployments,
CMMI and SQA Processes etc.
Pooja Uppalapati
Pooja Uppalapati is a Software Engineer at CA Technologies. She holds a
Master of Computer Science degree from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.
She started her career at Thomson Reuters, Brookfield as an intern in 2009.
After graduation, she had a brief stint at Thomson Reuters, Bangalore as a
Software Engineer in the Wealth Management Division. She then joined the
Mainframe Business Unit at CA Technologies in 2011 and has been working on
modernizing Mainframe Database Administration Tools. Pooja’ s hobbies
include photography and photo editing. She loves travelling, trying different
cuisines and playing with her Nephew.
SPEAKERS
Pradeepa Narayanaswamy
As a Principal Agile Coach with specialization in Agile Testing, Pradeepa
Narayanaswamy is a self-proclaimed “Agile Passionista” who strongly believes
in the Agile Principles used in transforming organizations to build superior
quality products. Pradeepa has held many roles including developer, business
analyst, test specialist, and quality assurance and testing lead. She has worked
with and led many teams of various sizes and recognizes the benefits of agile
testing to help teams effectively perform testing in parallel to development. In
her current role as Principal Agile Coach with Sabre, Pradeepa works as a
trainer, coach and mentor to teams and help them with their Agile
Transformation journey.
Prasad
I like to explain, describe, host, speak in public, and to write - This is my
communication theme at work.
“Stretch the circle wider” - This is the philosophy around which I orient my
life. I want to include people and make them feel part of the group &
success.
Expertise
Thought leader in Agile,
Passionate about people & relationship
Enabling to win large deals
Communities of Passion
Praful
Praful is an experienced agile practitioner and agile evangelist. He has a passion
for helping people improve and realize their full potential through agile. He has a
thirst for knowledge, which he seeks to appease through reading every book,
blog, and article he can find on organizational design, business, psychology,
organizational change management, teaching and learning, and anything else
that catches his eye.
Prasad Kunte
I am proud to be part of IDeaS passionate development team who strives for
agility, software engineering practices & innovation.
Raja Bavani
Raja Bavani plays the role of Agile Delivery Director at Cognizant Technology
Solutions. He is responsible for delivering products and services to global
customers through large agile programs with geographically distributed
teams. With 20+ years of experience in the IT industry, he has published
papers at international conferences on topics related to code quality,
distributed agile, etc.
His blog posts, white papers, list of speaking sessions and articles are
available at http://se-thoughtograph.blogspot.in.
Raja is a member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society
SPEAKERS
Rathina
Rathinakumar is one of the thought leaders in Agile space in India. His 18 years
of experience in IT, has seen him donning roles from a developer to project
manger to enterprise transformation leader.
He has managed product development releases, introduced agile to several
organizations, driven agile adoption at enterprise level. Over the last 6 years
he has been an agile champion connecting the wonderful world of agile to
project teams. As an agile expert, he has helped several organizations build
agile practices and embrace agile methods and deliver customer delight. He
has coached scores of agile teams to become high-performance teams. He has
been mentoring agile coaches.
Ravi Kumar
Hands-on agile practitioner with application development and delivery
experience helping customers and organizations implement agile/lean
processes and practices for achieving delivery excellence.
Agile to me is a philosophy more than a software methodology or framework.
I am a Sr. Coach/Consultant at AgileFAQs and I help teams in implementing
and maturing agile/lean practices for large engagements/projects. I come
from the application development and delivery background primarily in the
Financial Services space with 5+ years of engineering and development work
experience at Deutsche Bank, USA in Mortgage and Investment Banking
group. I have played various roles as a Coach, Consultant, Trainer, Scrum
Master, Manager, Architect and Developer with expertise to help
organizations and teams transform to implement agile/lean methods. My IT
industry experience spans over 16 years with the last 6 plus years in leading
and growing agile and lean practices.
Zaheerabbas Contractor
Agile Transformation Lead & Coach, spearheading the Agile Centre of
Excellence charter by driving a team of Agile Coaches, Tools Consultants and
Practitioners catering to Agile transformation in the Organization.
Over 15 years of experience in IT industry with proven skills involving senior
stakeholder management, managing cross-functional projects,
estimation/budgeting, forecasting, people management and consulting.Has
been an Agile practitioner for over 8 years now, started with implementing
Agile at a team level, successfully executing Agile across distributed teams in
large programs and driving large Agile transformations at the Organization
level. Proven skills in managing Agile programs in Distributed Agile
methodology and specifically adopting Agile in the Service Industry.
Ravindra Chebiyam
Seasoned professional with over 23 years of experience and managing all
aspects and phases of Software Development Lifecycle.
Leveraging knowledge of working on both aspects of software development
like Waterfall and Agile and addressing any developmental, maintenance,
operational issues.
Strong exposure to working with business heads on product strategy and
customer engagement. Worked in product startup mode, mature
development and consulting teams.Having cross functional exposure of
working with remote, cross-geographic and local teams and experienced in
building & motivating engineering and product management teams.
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Sachin Natu
Metallurgy Engineer who was caught in Software field. Worked on various testing
projects.
Still learning new things and feel amazed about changes happening around.
Sheril Jebasingh
Sheril has about 8 years of professional experience in IT industry with
specialization on UI Design & Development. At the age of 17, he started
designing websites and hence worked on various freelance projects. As a
freelancer, he had worked for 27 clients and delivered 40 projects involving IA,
Design, Web Application Development, and Content Management System
implementation.
Seshadri Veeraraghavan
Seshadri Veeraraghavan is a seasoned software professional with a strong
background in software engineering, design/architecture, project
management, and agile transformation.
With over 15 years of experience under his belt in areas ranging from
networking to security (all in the realm of enterprise software) to being a
ScrumMaster and now a principal project manager currently heavily
contributing to an in-progress agile transformation at a large global
corporation, Seshadri has consistently demonstrated that success is earned
only by the relentless application of solid ideas with strong and concrete
governing principles. He's passionate about agile; Communities of Practice;
purposeful and meaningful collaboration; and drilling down from the big
picture to the nitty-gritty details.
Sean Dunn
ShriKant Vashishtha
ShriKant Vashishtha is an enterprise Agile Coach, trainer, IT strategist and
hands-on geek. He writes blogs at www.agilebuddha.com and has been
frequent speakers to various Agile conferences over the years. He is passionate
towards Lean Startup, enterprise Agile transformation, quality aspect of
software development including ATDD, TDD, refactoring, Continuous Delivery,
DevOps and Test Automation.
Sean Dunn is a software engineering coach and trainer for IHS Inc, the global
leader for information, insight and analytics. At IHS, he works with dozens of
teams across the world to develop software engineering skills, including
agile principles, TDD, design and leadership. With over 13 years in the
Canadian Army, his is very interested in the relationship between leadership
and agile.
Sean presented at the 2014 Scrum Global Gathering in New Orleans, where is
talk on Misison Command and Product Management received a 100% net
promoter score on official Sean is the recipient of the IEEE Canada National
Innovation Award, TECEdmonton VenturePrize Award of Merit and US Army
Achievement Medal. Sean is a Professional Engineer, Certified Scrum
Professional and PMI Agile Certified Practitioner.
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Sneha Kadam
Sneha Kadam is an Agile & Lean consultant at ThoughtWorks. She has played a
diverse set of roles ranging from leading business analysis, to ensuring quality
while enabling best practices of Continuous Delivery & has recently managed a
project team applying lean principles for a local startup business. This
experience has led her to explore innovative ways to ensure successful delivery
by enabling collaboration & continuous improvement of practices within the
team.
Sreedevi Vedula
I am a passionate tester with over 10 years of experience in test automation in
UI and API test frameworks developed in Java, Python, Ruby and JavaScript.
Had a chance of working on many testing tools and frameworks like Cucumber,
RSpec, Selenium and WebDriver, Python's behave, TestNG, Python's behave,
JSUnit, JMeter. Have been working on DevOps projects recently and exploring
testing in Infrastructure Code.
I have presented earlier at Selenium Conference 2014 and Next Generation
Testing Conference 2014 in Hyderabad.
Sophie Freiermuth
Sophie is a london-based French UX designer and business coach who, after
several years in award winning agencies (AKQA, POSSIBLE) on projects of all
sizes, has learned so much about working together that she she now doubles
up as a coach, applying her extensive knowledge of Agile and Lean practices
to the task.
Through her consultancy Baguette UX, she devolves her attention to helping
teams work better when integrating design and user insights, and ensuring
work is always done to solve user problems and keep the business in business.
She has worked with and for Pearson, Nike, Nokia, Xbox, American Express,
Glaxo Smith Kline, Pearson, Ferrari, Fiat, Volkswagen, Seat, Orange, TMobile, and many more, with co-located teams across the world (UK/US/BR,
UK/US/CN, UK/PL, UK/FR, …).
In her spare time, she teaches User Experience every month at General
Assembly, mentors wonderful people and speaks very regularly at
conferences worldwide (including SxSW, Agile France, UXCE Berlin, UX
Cambridge, WebExpo Prague, Agile Tour Tunisia) to share her insights and
experience, and ignite excitment..
Sriram Narayan
Sriram works with clients who recognize that organizational agility is the
foundation for engineering and process agility. He helps them attain
business agility through better organization design. This includes reviewing
team structures and mechanisms for collaboration and accountability. He
also addresses IT finance, metrics culture and organizational norms. He is
currently writing a book on this topic. It is called Agile IT organization
design - why digital transformation and continuous delivery efforts need it.
It is currently under pre-production processing and is due to be published by
Addison-Wesley by Q2 of 2015.
Sriram has also served as a leadership coach and an innovation facilitator.
He was a founding member of the ThoughtWorks technology advisory board
- the group that publishes the tech radar. He also worked in the products
division of ThoughtWorks where he helped with product innovation and
advocacy on Go – a tool that helps with continuous delivery. Earlier in his
career that began in 1998, he has been a manager, IT architect, tester,
developer, trainer, mentor and Agile coach. He is an occasional blogger and
speaker at conferences.
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Sutap
I have over 16 years of experience in various industries including manufacturing,
construction, IT and Change Management consulting. Current role is that of an
Agile Coach in Amdocs, a telecom IT company. I'm an active participant and
presenter in Agile conferences. Also one of the organizers of Limited WIP Society
Pune Chapter and Lean Coffee Pune.
Vasco Duarte
Product Manager, Scrum Master, Project Manager, Director, Agile Coach are
only some of the roles that I've taken in software development organizations.
Having worked in the software industry since 1997, and Agile practitioner since
2004. I've worked in small, medium and large software organizations as an
Agile Coach or leader in agile adoption at those organizations.
I was one of the leaders and catalysts of Agile methods and Agile culture
adoption at Avira, Nokia and F-Secure.
Tathagat Varma
freethinker...`
Venkateswaran NS
My name is Venkateswaran NS; People do refer me as “Venkat”.
Todd Little
Todd Little is Vice President of Product Development for IHS, a leading global
provider of information, analytics, and expertise. He has been involved in
most aspects of software development with a focus on commercial software
applications for oil and gas exploration and production.
He is a co-author of the Declaration of Interdependence for Agile Leadership
and a founding member and past President of the Agile Leadership Network.
He has served on the Board of Directors of both the Agile Alliance and the
Agile Leadership Network.
Todd is a co-author of the book “Stand Back and Deliver: Accelerating
Business Agility,” Addison Wesley. Todd has written several articles for IEEE
Software and posts all his publications and presentations on his website
www.toddlittleweb.com.
I am a versatile, multi-talented, caring, fun & nature loving individual, who
has solid global experience (both Agile & Waterfall) in defining and rolling
out/delivering complex software projects/products, in the Digital
Television - STB, Telecom - Mobile Multimedia & consumer electronics
domains in the IT Industry.
In addition to managing the projects, delivering them on time,
mentoring/coaching, please note that I have done post-graduation in
management from Bharathidasan University, INDIA; graduation in Electrical
Engineering from University of Madras, INDIA
An avid believer of agile, I trust agility is part of nature and thats why i am
very much excited to practice agile and i believe that the agile attitude
can change the world (to start with I, your team, workplace, organization,
families, communities, the WORLD ....)
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Vijay Bandaru
Have successfully delivered projects and programs at various roles such as
project manager, senior project manager and Delivery Manager in both
services and product companies. Currently working as a full time enterprise
Agile coach in a Product Company and part of the Agile transformation core
team. I am into Agile and Lean training and coaching (Scrum, XP and Kanban).
Having experience of over 16 years with both services and product based with
a strong global distributed delivery model.
Certified in: PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM,CSP, ITIL
Also have project management training experience and conducted several
corporate and public workshops. Have trained more than 800 for PMP and
clost to 600 for Agile.Also published 5 articles in Scrum Alliance related to
Agile and Lean.
Vinod Kumaar R
I am Vinod working currently at ThoughtWorks in Bangalore. My interests are
centered around improving efficiency and increasing effectiveness in every task
I do. I was fortunate enough to spend good amounts of time as a Business
Analyst, Quality Analyst, CMS administrator and a Developer in a span of eight
years. This has provided me good insights into each of the roles and has
enabled me to understand and help improve the process in each discipline.
Right now I am a full time agile coach helping companies run their change
programs.
Vivek Ganesan
Vivek Ganesan is a data science enthusiast, working as a Lead Software
Engineer at Gainsight,Hyderabad. His day-in, day-out job is to be a servant
leader aka Scrum Master for an awesome product team. He also writes code
that can help Gainsight's Salesforce1 application to process and analyze data
of huge volumes. He has more than four years of experience in the software
industry. He was a featured speaker in JavaOne India, 2013. He was an
invited speaker at Dreamforce 2014, a conference conducted by Salesforce.
Vivek Ganesan is also a Certified ScrumMaster, who acts as a ScrumMaster for
a team at Gainsight Inc and enjoys being a "servant leader".
Yuval Yeret
Yuval is a senior enterprise agility coach at AgileSparks, an international lean
agile consulting company based out of Israel with presence in India (see
AgileSparks.in) He led several strategic long-term lean/agile initiatives in
large enterprises and is one of the leading Kanban Practitioners and Trainers
focused on the enterprise product development world. Yuval is a big believer
in pragmatic, best-of-breed solution design, taking the best from each
approach, avoiding Dogma, therefore it is not a surprise to find him among
the leadership of the pragmatic and evolutionary Kanban movement. He
recently received the Brickell Key Award for Lean Kanban community
excellence, driving Kanban adoption in Israel. He published “Holy Land
Kanban” based on his thinking and writing at yuvalyeret.com.