Agility starts with Mind. It’s about open, curious, energetic mind constantly looking for doing better things and in better ways. Such Agile Minds manifest in proactively sensing market/customer opportunities/needs early, quickly adopting to changes  to create new value in the changing contexts, continuously learning, exploring & experimenting new things. It requires courage, self-drive and taking people along. If we notice, all these characteristics are distilled in Agile Values & Principles.

But how to develop Agile Minds? Typically our education system and corporate trainings  are predominantly IQ oriented; whereas Agile Mind is about Emotional Intelligence (EQ) – self awareness, self regulation, self motivation and empathy. EQ is an essential ingredient for a culture of self-organizing, collaboration and servant leadership – which are the tenets of good Agile culture. Mindfulness is a practical & effective toolset to cultivate EQ and create Agile Minds. 

Being a Mindfulness practitioner, this talk will cover my experiences of consulting & coaching on Mindfulness in organizations driving Enterprise Agility.

Genuine agility is enormously effective in helping us achieve our dreams. The trouble is, Agile has grown into a complex tangle of roles and rituals, frameworks and tools, processes and certifications. We need a return to simplicity. Modern Agile is here to help.

Designed for people in many domains (not just IT), Modern Agile is defined by four guiding principles:

• Make People Awesome,
• Make Safety a Prerequisite,
• Experiment & Learn Rapidly and
• Deliver Value Continuously.

Understanding and deeply practicing these four principles will help you get better results faster.

In this talk I’ll share how these four principles power world-famous companies and how they can help you work with greater speed, simplicity, safety and success.

Agile coaching is a booming industry -- but what do companies hope to get out of coaching, and what tangible impact does coaching actually have on a team? What happens when you take an agile coach and force them to "eat their own dog food"? This is what happened to me. Join me in my personal journey of transitioning from an enterprise agile coach to a programmer on a team, and what I learned about agile, coaching, and myself in the process. 

Crack your head open and release a surge of creative ideas with engaging activities that promote clarity, inspiration, and buzz within your organization. We’ll cover methods and facilitation tools to ensure you run fruitful brainstorming sessions, leading your team to more and better ideas. You’ll learn to frame the problem you’re solving, come up with an exploration strategy, and facilitate the session, giving you and your team new ways to get inspired and energized when looking for solutions.

Once upon a time, we had ‘Discovery’, ‘Define’, and ‘Design’. These phases let us explore the problem and the audience, while conceiving a holistic solution. Now we have sprints, complete with a backlog that seems like it appears overnight and a development team that is going to build with or without design to guide it. How do we continue to create great products?

Introducing the Fast Foundation Workshop. This 1-day workshop enables you to engage your clients and stakeholders to quickly define the key elements of your product or project, aligns the team, and identifies critical risks. When it is complete, everyone has a good idea of what is going to be built as well as what it will take to get there. It has been tested with companies of all sizes, from founders looking to conceptualize their first product, to large companies redesigning existing products, as well as across verticals. Its general enough to be used in a wide variety of circumstances while specific enough to ensure that you get specific, usable results.

The Fast Foundation Workshop consists of 4 exercises, each one designed to pivot the team’s perspective on the product, while drilling down to greater levels of detail. Each stage of the Fast Foundation Workshop balances democratic content generation with collaborative consensus. You may be familiar with some of the individual exercises, but the magic is in how each is conducted and in how they fit together. The workshop starts with establishing clear goals & priorities, then moves to defining possible users of the product. Next, we shift to a task perspective, mapping the activities those user will need to accomplish to meet the goals, before visualizing key areas of the solution. When these four areas are clear, everyone involved will have a shared understanding of the vision as well as have a clear way to identify risks and mitigate them.

This workshop will introduce leaders of any kind, from product owners and scrum masters, to UX and development leads, to each of the exercises, show how they fit together, give you some tips on how to facilitate them with your team, and enable you to experience the whole process via a demo project. With this experience, you will be prepared to run a Fast Foundation workshop with your own team.

Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration. This is probably the most used word you'll hear from agilists. It sits right at the core of agile principles. How do we reconcile this with the fact that 30% of the population is introverted?

There has been extensive research around introversion that can help us understand this apparent contradiction better. This talk will explore the complexities of introversion, from the distinction between shyness and introversion to the complexities of pseudo-extroverts and "high active" babies. 

Finally, what can we learn from companies like Menlo Innovations and Hunter Industries, where they have high collaborative environments with introverts that say they would not work any other way.

There is growing interest in learning more about Agile HR and its impact on individuals, teams and organizations.

It is important to separate fact from fiction: What are the real threats and opportunities of bringing Lean | Agile values, principles, and practices to HR? What can we expect in the future? Through anecdotal evidence and case studies, the session will explore the potential of Agile HR as well as provide guidance on how to approach the transformation.

 Issues covered in the presentation include: information on how to embrace the new talent contract, create inspiring, engaging, and fun places of work, shift to an iterative performance flow, take the issue of money off the table, support growth within an Agile enterprise.

This talk will present you with the real time challenges and ideas to deal with them in a healthy way with SAFe framework.

• Challenges the organization needs to deal when they deal with Enterprise transformation.
• How Leaders and Agile Coaches play an influencing and critical role in enabling the organization in scaling agile practices
• How the leadership teams can make or break the deal
• How the 5 critical challenges are addressed with Lean practices embedded in the SAFe framework.
• Some tips to make it happen.

We accept that Agile is a mindset, but majority is not sure about how to influence individuals and teams to build that mindset. 

This workshop is more about understanding different practical techniques to influence and accelerate mindset changes. The techniques discussed are through a Social Psychology and game theory perspective. How do we understand the subtle clues individual or team gives and how do we respond to that. 

The awareness about some of the social psychology learnings and human biases can help leaders and teams to make a change inside-out.

As a enterprise coach we all need to go beyond team coaching to enterprise transformation process to bring end to end agility into the organization.Coaches are connected with various business lines while coaching.They can visualize and help organization to break the organizational silos.

To be effective, the action taken must alter the interrelationship of the parts or silos. Unless one alters the relationship between or among the parts, there is little hope for effective change.

Using the principles of systems thinking offer coaches to new ways of seeing and of interpreting what we see.

As an enterprise agile coach how we can apply systems thinking at our work context a journey with me.

Sharing my learning and observations with deploying systems thinking for scaling agility into the organization.

In the current work environment agility is one of the most important and critical leadership skills. Leaders need to be agile in order to have the ability to anticipate change and take action amid rapidly shifting conditions.

 Involvement of Leadership in Agility is Key.This session is for leaders, aspiring leaders, Scrum Masters and any agile team members who want to coach leaders. In this talk I'll be sharing my experience relating to how I started working with leaders to garner their support to transform their teams towards being agile teams. It is about how I coached those leaders, the challenges I faced, and the successful outcomes that were achieved in this interesting journey.

Many people struggle to discover the "Minimum Viable Product" and thus miss the chance to get to the market earlier and faster than the competition. Hindered by internal biases, misconceptions and false expectations products are built that contain many superfluous or secondary features instead of delivering the core value first.

In this workshop we will uncover the barriers that prevent finding and building a "Minimum Viable Product" as well as get a feeling for what is "good enough".
And we'll do this not by looking at slides or discussing - we'll go hands-on with LEGO!

Expect to be challenged, expect to be surprised, expect to be amazed. Expect to have a lot of fun! :)