While it is true to say that people’s attitudes and beliefs are key to implementing an agile project, or Agile in itself, much of the use of the term ‘mindset’ implies a mental model that can be defined and engineered. In this presentation, we will look at how we can measure attitudes within an organization and use multiple small actions to trigger the rapid evolution of organizational culture, so that it can sustain agile developments. Mindset and the alignment-based ideas of some on the Agile movement too often imply creating homogeneous beliefs and values that will lead to full alignment. In practice, this damages resilience and can be dangerous. This presentation will introduce the idea of coherence instead of alignment - the celebration of cognitive and behavioral differences that can align if needed to support the delivery of sustainable solutions.

When the concept of a Scrum master was introduced to the world, it was way too far to digest. Having a coach to a team was a new time that hardly anyone could understand how to implement in a technical world. Even going back one step for being a trainer who train the team was a mission that not all the companies and the team could understand its benefits, so another one step backward was needed to be done to a facilitator. Along the time , more and more teams became more Agile mature hence the role of a Scrum master could have been gained into the right direction to again become the coach of the team.

If you are frustrated as a Scrum master how to motivate your team, have rare idea how to motivate your team , have no idea what are motivational buttons or are not fabulist with the term intrinsic motivation, the Scrum meetings are considered to be a big waste and you have no clue how to reach the vision (doing nothing while the team is fully self managed), this session was created for you.

The Test Automation Pyramid is not a new concept.

The top of the pyramid is our UI / end-2-end functional tests - which simulate end-user behavior and interactions with the product-under test.

While Automation helps validate functionality of your product, aspects of UX validations can only be seen and captured by the human eye and is hence mostly a manual activity. This is an area where AI & ML can truly help.

With everyone wanting to be Agile, make quick releases, the look & feel / UX validation, which is a slow, and error-prone activity, quickly becomes a huge bottleneck. In addition, with any UX related issues propping up cause huge brand-value and revenue loss, may lead to social-trolling and worse - dilute your user-base.

In this session, using numerous examples, we will explore:

• Why Automated Visual Validation is essential to be part of your Test Strategy
• Potential solutions / options for Automated Visual Testing, with pros & cons of each
• How an AI-powered tool, Applitools Eyes, can solve this problem.

Unique opportunity to get trained by the author of one of the most effective DevOps Culture simulation, prepare for DevOps Culture Certified Trainer exam (DCCT) from CertiProf© and gain competitive advantage in DevOps training marketplace.

First time in India! The latest 2020 version of this popular simulation (ran at 45 conferences in 15 countries).

This train-the-trainer workshop will prepare you for many successful facilitations of DevOps Culture simulation and give you access to the licensed training material (PowerPoint slides, handouts, flipcharts design etc). You will learn to run effective debriefing with your groups and help them connect learning from the simulation with solutions to the real-life challenges in their organization.

The simulation is designed for a broad audience, enabling participants to gain the insights into the “Why” and the “What” of the DevOps before jumping into the “How”. Through this powerful role-based simulation, participants experience the benefits of cross-training, learn to eliminate silos, "shift left" on security, adopt systems thinking and practice optimizing the flow of value from business to development and to IT operations.

Become one of the DCCT holders - DevOps change agents who are able to create the DevOps Culture simulation experience, providing participants with additional insights into taking the next steps to embracing DevOps mindset and leading organizational change. Guide your workshop participants through the experiential discovery of the following practices: optimizing flow, amplifying feedback loop and growing safety culture. Deliver real-life examples from medium to large size organizations, latest findings from the State of DevOps report and key ideas from “The Phoenix Project” by Gene Kim.

This unique simulation uses cognitive neuroscience principles, game design theory and elements of “Training from the Back of the Room” framework.

Learn from the game creator, prepare for DCCT exam from CertiProf© (included in your registration) and help make DevOps culture experience accessible to all – business stakeholders, C-level executives, IT management, techies and non-techies alike.

We usually underestimate how difficult the Product Manager or Product Owner role is. If we think about how much energy and how much brain they need to be able to generate creative ideas, be full of insights and handle market feedback – this is definitely the hardest role ever. Hopefully we have research in neuroscience that helps to understand how insights happen, how to improve decision making and how not to fall into confirmation bias (and some other biases that spoil how clear we see the situation). This talk will share ideas and tools that will help Product Managers to create even better products and keep brain fresh and creative.

The Agile Manifesto establishes a set of four values that are people-centered and results driven. As we all know, while there is value in the items to the right, we value the items on the left more. In my workshop, I will focus how the agile value "individuals and interactions over processes and tools" is leveraged during the design thinking using neuro-linguistic programming techniques.

When we are in the journey of transformation, we want to be an agile organization. To be an agile organization, while we focus on value delivery, the need to empathize with our internal and external customers is important, so that we understand their requirement and bring in value to them. This can be done by the way we interact with empathy while we work on the user requirement and designing their journey. So let us explore how to "Artfully Empathize"

How do we understand what our customers/stakeholders need from us?

One of the most important customer-centric approach is to understand their need by asking the right questions, listening and empathizing.

How do we develop the art of asking the right questions with empathy?

HCD - The best way to innovate for someone is to understand them. By understanding a person’s thoughts, motivations, emotions, barriers, etc., you can identify their needs, and design to meet those needs. Human Centered Design is a known framework that provides solutions to problems involving a human perspective. Now the uniqueness of the workshop will include NLP techniques that will help empathize effectively.

NLP – Using NLP, we will learn about our modalities and meta-models, which is a language pattern that encourages the listener to move to higher levels of thinking and help them explore the unknowns. It will empower us to explore our potential to ask the right questions. We will leverage this technique in our workshop to focus on the Empathy and Design phase of the HCD.

Welcome to the exploration journey of being artfully empathetic!

You would like to be a good scrum master and wondering how you can do that.

In this session, we will cover the knowledge repository and approaches beyond the framework. Topics including
- What are High Performance Teams?
- How do you assess your current team?
- What are the good facilitating approaches?
- How do you coach a team or 1-to-1?
- How do you coach executives and senior management?