When we moved to a dual-track delivery approach for our Bank of New Zealand Digital product teams, it felt more like Dueling tracks. People knew why we were doing it but were confused about how to link discovery and delivery. Who should do what, when and how? It became a clash of collective egos, stepping on each other’s areas of expertise. This is about how we brought clarity, alignment and direction to those teams by creating a Product Management playbook and how it had a profound effect on how we work and communicate with one other.

Many companies in today's VUCA world are planning to bring enterprise agility. While many frameworks are available in market, what is missing is the mindset, culture and organizational design that is needed to bring enterprise agility. It also demands coordination across entire value chain and various business process that are part of, or impact the software development life cycle. This session will focus on larger context of enterprise agility and what is needed to bring life to agile enterprises.

Automotive industry is in the cusp of it's biggest transformation, Digital transformation in this industry is twice the speed of average adoption rates across technology areas. As the cars of future would be tagged as Autonomous, Connected, Shared and Electric, the change in parts of the car (BoMs), ecosystem(Charging , shared data, safety) software engineering platforms (Car Operating System), external connectivity(5G) and Sytem on Chip needs will bring the digital the key pillar . This would be the epitome of Agility at the center and will establish new standards for a personalized, digital driven connected world under a reliable and secure delivery platform for automotive. The outset of the session is sharing ways to bring the external disruptive collaboration perspective within the organization walls.This session is about sharing my experience of my journey of re-positioning IT for Digital and disruptive automotive industry, re-structuring the organization keeping agility in mind, successful implementation reference like cloud transformation for engineering, nurturing teams to embrace the change.

******** I submitted this proposal under the Agile Mindset track and after review Tathagat opined that this could be more relevant under the DevOps track advised me to submit this under DevOps track *******

Enterprise Agility is about collaboration and willingness to embrace risk, learn, improve and move forward. Transformation to Agility requires multi-dimensional changes and these changes are driven by people with the right mind set across the organization.

Typically in the early stages of a transformation people tend to be skeptical and demonstrate the 'cannot' syndrome - this cannot happen, we cannot do this and this is not the right way and so on. However leaders with positive approach and the right balance of aggression and patience can take along the onlookers and the skeptics and successfully transform towards enterprise wide Agile practices - not only in IT but also in the Business and Support functions.

My presentation identifies the 'Cannot' syndrome towards Agile and DevOps related transformation at the hierarchical layers of an organization and explores the 'Art of the Possible' to transition people to a 'We can and will do it' journey.