Digital proficiency is no longer just "nice to have" for banks; it is a requirement for successful customer engagement and long-term growth. In 2010, the company adopted an agile approach to software development and delivery - launching products in rapid iterations and adjusting them based on customer feedback. The shift to agile helped the bank clarify its development strategy and its customer value proposition. It also prompted ING to redefine its employee value proposition by shining a bright spotlight on the high-quality engineering talent required to lead digital innovation.

We've digitized our processes to make transactions clear and easy for our customers. We've invested heavily in channels and touchpoints with our customers, introducing mobile and other technologies so that we can offer our services 24/7, anytime, anywhere. We've invested in analytics and in getting a 360-degree view of customers to better empower them to make important decisions about their financial assets. And we've introduced agile ways of working - in particular, a DevOps model.

If you are interested in learning more about our transformation and vision behind it, this session is for you.

The main vision of project “ Thaalavattam” (A percussion based project) is to create music using innovative instruments made from waste plastic and metal (reduce. reuse and recycle). Thaalavattam aims to clean up the plastic waste that is plaguing India, through music. At the moment in India, Thaalavattam also conducts rhythm rush ( A drum circle event) through which we try to encourage people to recycle and re-use waste materials.

This is a percussion-based project by Montry Manuel, which uses instruments created from waste plastic and metal with the aim to inspire people to think creatively about waste. His instruments are mainly created from reused paint cans, soda cans, PVC pipes etc. mimicking the street drummers. The basic ideology is that everyone can be a part of the circle.

We work in teams. Teams that have goals, that work together to solve problems, that sometimes squabble and make up. How people in the group behave depends on the styles of leadership, management and followership adopted in the group, and on each of our individual behaviours.

Do we have a mentoring, coaching, managing or leadership role towards others? Are we following or learning from others? Do we influence our colleagues and organisations in public or behind the scenes? Are these interactions built into a formal hierarchy in our group? Have we informally adopted an interaction role? Or have we even been forced into a particular interaction role?

In order that we work together as efficiently and effectively as possible, we need to understand the range of approaches or styles for leadership and management, what styles we feel most comfortable with, and how we react to both being leaders and being led.

It’s not just humans who work in groups. Other animals can tell us about how we interact with individuals, teams, and groups both as leaders and followers. Isabel discusses animal behaviour, predators, animal groups, parasites and epiphytes, and the richness of symbiotic partnership.

Regardless of the project model/software life cycle model you use, you’ll need to understand these interactions, and when to adopt a leadership, mentoring, coaching, following or learning attitude in order to help your group thrive.

Modern human history is a story of humans inventing new tools to do more with less. "Doing more" has allowed most of us to no longer worry about producing our own food, collecting water, planning long journeys, etc. Instead, we’re able to specialize, buy what we need for less, and to some extent explore ourselves a lot more.

We're far from done, and of course humanity is far from perfect. In this talk, I’ll show the role that automations and computers play in building a brighter future.

While competing with some of top product engineering companies in the world, if you had to build a consumer product, which was used by 100+ million users, how would you ensure you were investing in the right features, that will be cherished by your users?

Like every other startup, we had limited time & resources, and survival was at stake with every product decision. In such a high-pressure environment how do you:

• Structure your organisation for rapid user value generation?
• Create a data-driven, experimentation culture?
• Get user feedback in a constructive, sustainable manner?
• Drive Engineering Excellence?
• Bring predictable innovation?
• And build a great user experience?

If these challenges ring a bell, then this keynote is for you. Come experience the story of a young start-up's transformation.

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, OOP... are like good hygiene in the kitchen, it results in meals with consistent quality and predictable prep and service times. It doesn't result in great meals nor substantially impact the ROI! Lean Thinking clearly shows that the only way to make a significant impact is to improve the value chain by improving flow. If everyone is following best practices no one has competitive advantage. Major improvements in the value chain depend on continued disruptive innovations. Innovations leverage people and their ideas. We use case studies to illustrate the different business and technical innovations and their impact. We conclude with a discussion of how to build and leverage an innovation culture versus a sprint death march when dealing with high value time to market projects.

Since the Continuous Delivery book came out in 2010, it's gone from being a controversial idea to a commonplace... until you consider that many people who say they are doing it aren't really, and there are still plenty of places that consider it crazy talk. In this session Jez will present some of the highlights and lowlights of the past six years listening to people explain why continuous delivery won't work, and what he learned in the process.

Now that we talk to our computers, what new possibilities and tradeoffs (and business models) will emerge? Today's "digital assistants" are relatively weak, but hint at an evolution in our way of living and working and transacting. In this session, we'll explore the current state of conversational interfaces, speculate about the future of the intelligent assistant, and point to how humans will play a role that new world.

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.

Organizations struggle to adopt Agile practices because their cultures do not encourage or support Agile ways of working. Examining the beliefs of leaders and professionals in organizations can reveal insights about the organization's readiness for change. The five beliefs discussed in this presentation help organizations to have an honest, and often revealing, conversation about why they want to become Agile, and how far they are willing to go to adopt Agile principles, practices, and mindsets. By helping organizations understand what they really value, discussions about beliefs can reveal potential barriers to adopting Agile practices and mindsets. Understanding these barriers is essential to overcoming them and achieving the benefits of Agility.

Refer links ..

Minimum Viable Technology  (MVT) : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/minimum-viable-technology-mvt-move-fast-keepshipping-ajay-shrivastava?trk=pulse_spock-articles

Solver Teams : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/solver-teams-oyo-hyper-agile-well-oiled-execution-ajay?trk=pulse_spock-articles

Many companies working hard to be more agile have a strong focus on process but failing to focus on product. This session's focus is on product over process or project. Differing from sessions about scaling process, we will talk transitioning to product learning by building product teams and product communities. As a vehicle, we will discuss scaling product agility in context of three models: one team, one product, many teams and one product, and many teams and a large system (where product varies based on configuration.) For each model, we will talk about embracing uncertainty, focusing on measurable impact and accelerating product learning with agile practices and DevOps techniques. The session is for people looking to transition to a product focus and will be helpful individuals, team leads, product managers and anyone looking to evolve from more process to more product and eventually to more impact and more product learning possibly without adding process and by possibly building less of the wrong thing.

You have a great idea and you want to build the product and launch it in market as soon as possible. Before anyone else can launch it. Great! But building the product takes time, money and opportunity cost. While building and launching a successful product, several things can go wrong:

• Have you really understood the core problem from the user's point of view?
• Will your users like the user experience?
• Have you validated your core-loop which makes your product very engaging?
• Is your business model flushed out and validated?
• And so on...

So how do you minimise these risks? 

In this 90 mins workshop, you will run some real tests with real users to de-risk yourself and gain validated learning.

It was 2011 and I was invited to participate in an extremely exciting gig. Help out the Strategic Innovation team at a large Telco with both technical expertise and Agile/Lean Startup coaching. Working with some of the best designers in the business we created an amazing product that would still be ahead of its time 5 years later.
Unbeknownst to us however it had been doomed from the start with no chance of succeeding.
Join me in a reflection on how we build an amazing product, but how we ultimately were not able to get it in the hands of customers.

With newer trends in the mobile world, there are plethora of apps that every user downloads on their mobile phone. However not every app is an ‘Instagram’  or ‘Snapchat’. The science behind what appeals to a user vs what doesn’t, has been an emerging field of research. There are multiple aspects when it comes to the question ‘What makes your app successful?’. From the core loop of the product to user experience, there are many parameters that decide the fate of an app.

In this workshop, I would focus on the usability and user experience testing, which helps in product discovery/development. We would discuss briefly about the structure and stages of usability tests. Later we will focus particularly on conducting user tests through hands-on exercises. The session will give you a dip-stick experience into running usability or user tests.

This is a workshop where we will seek to respond to challenges of attendees with respect to Scaling Agile development.  We begin with a quick discussion of transitioning to Lean and Agile in the Large to provide a common context. We then open the discussion for participants to bring forward their challenges. We vote on the challenges and then discuss them starting with the ones with the highest votes.  We time box the discussion of each challenge so we can deal with as many as possible.  Examples which may be discussed.

Transition Planning; Agile Maturity; Agile in a Legacy; Agile with Enterprise Vendors; Estimation in the Larger; Envisioning; Architecture and Design; Testing; Nonfunctional Requirements; Feature Teams versus Component Teams; Agile Database/BI; Portfolio Planning; Management and Technical Ladders; Metrics; Automation of Testing and Deployment....

Bring your challenges.

Much has changed since the publishing of the Agile Manifesto in 2001.

Pioneers and practitioners of lean and agile methods have examined weaknesses and friction points, experimented with simpler approaches, and produced agile processes that are safer, simpler and far more capital efficient. The result is modern agile. It’s values-driven, non-prescriptive and an easier starting point than antiquated agile processes. Modern agile amplifies the values and practices of organizations that have discovered better ways to get awesome results. Are you still cramming low-quality work in the end of each sprint, struggling with growing technical debt, arguing about “definition of done” or frustrated that “management/product never gives us time to do it right?”

In this 1-day workshop, you will learn to deliver awesome results by

• experiencing how the four principles of modern agile guide decisions,
• increasing safety in your culture, code and products,
• identifying friction points and simplify your process,
• engage the entire team to continually uncover better ways of working.

In today's business environment, the user experience and the commercial imperatives have become overwhelmingly important. As testers, it is vital that we understand quality in use and the user experience, in order that we focus our tests correctly.

"Quality in Use" measures human, business, and societal impacts of products (usability, accessibility, flexibility, commercial, safety). This builds to a User Experience (UX) and are underpinned by technical and engineering qualities. For the people selling, supporting, or using the products, this is the beating heart of the customer experience. Without these "big picture" attributes, delivered software will not be acceptable, may result in reduced profits, and may not be legal. In the tutorial, Isabel will use examples from real projects to discuss how to design tests derived from the user personas, contexts of use, and acceptance criteria.

Code that is difficult to understand, hard to modify and challenging to extend is hazardous to developers, users and organizations. Refactoring, or improving the design of existing code, is one of our greatest defenses against such code. Yet many programmers lack formal training in refactoring. Furthermore, management tends to lack knowledge about the value of refactoring. This one-day workshop is designed to address these needs. You’ll learn the art of refactoring safely, when, why and how to refactor hazardous code, strategies and tactics for refactoring, as well as refactoring to patterns. You’ll also learn how refactoring impacts business concerns and vice-versa. Come to this class prepared to code with a pair and a mob as we refactor example code and help you learn the art of refactoring.