This exercise demonstrates how to gain maximum values from an User story using INVEST principle.

About 15 years after the advent of “agile” as an industry we are largely unable to obtain better results. In this talk we look at trends in the industry regarding both projects and processes. The speaker also separates the wheat from the chaff, to arrive at the choices companies/projects can make.

Doing Agile well as a team is hard – scaling Agile for large organizations is dramatically harder! We’ll discuss some of the common Scaling frameworks and share a simple spreadsheet that helps you consider the pros and cons of different approaches

Continuous Delivery of MicroServices in a Cloud Platform

StartUps thrives on Innovation. They can compete with mid/large organizations only if they remain innovative. Agile in general helps StartUps to innovate but it very much lies the way Agile is interpreted and implemented. Practitioners at times go overboard with practices of one of the methodology (say, Scrum, XP, Lean, Kanban etc) and loose the touch with agile values, context and reality. StartUps are always on resource-crunch, be it human power, systems, cash-in-hand etc and its not easy to keep best of processes with such constraints. Author has 3 startups of his own and have coached many startups/small companies in past and he would share his experiences/experiments with Agile keeping Innovation as the number one goal.

Scrum's underlying philosophy is similar to the idea of "aggregation of small gains" over a reasonable period of time eventually leading to breakthrough results. In this talk, we will review examples from diverse fields such as military and sports and then discuss how these ideas help improve the efficacy of Scrum implementations to accelerate innovation.

Enough articles and literature is now available on challenges faced by organization and people during Agile Transformation. One of the biggest challenge is peoples mindset. People do all work, agile transformation will demand org change from top to bottom. However, the question is does everyone is well equipped to handle this change. Emotional Intelligence one of the most important but highly ignored element in IT or software industry and so forth during such huge transformation.

 Having better understanding of Emotional Intelligence will help everyone in organization to tackle Agile transformation far better way than one doesn’t have knowledge and skills of Emotional Intelligence.

These are components of Emotional Intelligence, Self-Awareness, Self-Regulations, Motivation, Empathy and Social Skills. Research shows that one can work on improving emotional intelligence. This talk will provide guidance how to use Emotional Intelligence at work especially mapped in context of Agile Transformation.  

Irrespective of which version of SAFe or agile methodology an organization chose to implement, identifying value stream is still an essential element for any agile adoption journey. 

This session will help participant understand what is value stream, what benefits its brings to organization, various methods to identify value streams and provide real time examples and case studies..

In Distributed Agile many times, people don't trust members on other shore. My topic will cover few of the aspects which has helped our teams to gain that trust of customer and give co-located results.

In Session I will speak about case study covering below points which helped our customer who is a “first time offshore” to “Trust the Stranger”!

1) Building the Trust

2) Creating Continuous Visibility

3)Rotation of resources between shores

4)XP practices

1)Code Ownership

2)Use of technology to share code/ builds

5) CI CD – tools enhance visibility

6) Test Automation to look at Tested Running Features

7) Speak about my code! - Technical presentations within teams

8) Explore Business Flows!- Business Understanding among Business Owners, Product Owners, Proxy PO, team.

9) Innovations in business areas

10) Distributed Agile – tools techniques

11) Measuring the business Value (using custom Framework)

12) Saying No!

13) Re-Enforcing agile Practices!

Role of managers in agile has been discussed a lot. But role of managers in scaling agile implementations in large programs is still a challange for many organizations. This talk focuses on how managers can add value in scaling agile implementation and take up a lean agile leadership role. My talk will cover some guidelines from various scaling frameworks and some real world scenarios based on lean thinking.

Its easier to discuss challenges to get the ideas from concept to cash. But there finer human behavioral

elements when we talk about innovation and this session tries to address fundamentals of how innovations starts.

This session is mainly about the myth that "Innovation starts with an idea"

In the world of Software Development, the recent focus is more on "Deliveries" using said timeline, said cost and said resources and we have just ignored the parallel part of True Software Development i.e. RIGHT PRODUCT DISCOVERY.

Have you thought of below, before developing any product ? 

• Why are we building software ?
• Who will use my application / software  ?
• How should the users behavior change ? 
• What can we do, as an organization or team, to support the required impacts ?

Join me for the Product Discovery Workshop for 45 min Deep dive session to experience the Real time use of IMPACT MAPPING Techniques for RIGHT product Discovery.  

What makes some teams capable of generating and sustaining high-velocity, unparalleled, relentless improvement and innovation?

We will talk about fundamental principles by which such acceleration occurs, give examples of those principles in practice, and give participants an opportunity to test how those principles can be applied and translated to their own work.

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.

I have all my linked in post related to this theme.

Let us imbibe from the expedition after expedition that set forth to scale the mightiest of the Himalayan peaks, for scaling Mount Agile in the organization scenarios.... 

Explaining about 'What and Why TDD ?'

How to do TDD?

Also TDD best practices and benefits.

Demonstration (Hands-on: For java people having laptops and other required tools)

In a jungle of digital world, there’s an unprecedented demand for companies to innovate, iterate, and get products into consumers’ hands faster. Doing FTTM(Faster Time To Market) isn’t just an aspiration—it’s a necessity for survival.

Software used to be built in an assembly line: developers wrote the code, and then tossed it over the wall to operations engineers to be built and deployed. In this model, development is clearly delineated from operations, each department functioning independently with its own discrete roles, tools, and processes. Software release could take days or weeks, and acquiring additional infrastructure could take weeks or months.

Various cloud service providers, make it easy to get servers with the click of a button, and configuration management tools reduce the time and complexity of configuring and managing software.

But customers’ demand for the next digital thing is truly driving the need for faster software delivery.

To break the mold, companies need to find a more creative, collaborative, and efficient approach to software delivery—one that removes the barriers and embraces the dependencies between development and operations to release great software.

Agile Coaching concept is relatively new to us, but coaching has been a part of our culture since 2000 years. This session is a attempt to open those hidden treasures and enhance our true coaching culture. This is an attempt to see and learn from those stories told to us by our parents, grandparents to help us understand Agile coaching and create a great future to self.

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.

Every product development essentially starts with requirements collection of what product should do and what user wants. However this becomes the most difficult part to focus on what and where to start the development from. For years, the product development requirements have become inundated with requirements templates and word documents. The traditional 100-500 page requirements document that was widely practiced a few years ago was having its own limitations.  The teams particularly started feeling difficult to consume and manage these large documents and deliver value incrementally.

With more and more organizations moving to agile, the product development teams started going for leaner structures that represent crisply what customer / user wants from the product.

The teams are have done away with multi-page requirements documents and have adopted backlog as a source of managing requirements. The backlogs also started helping teams to break the large product expectations into multiple layers of epics, features/enablers and user stories. 

But, at times, during this breakdown, there are chances of losing the big picture and prioritization and hence impacts the value delivered to customer as early as possible. Story mapping techniques, created by Jeff Patton is one of the most popular way to help carve out the MVP from the big picture that helps the organization to realize value at the earliest.