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.

In this one-day Workshop, Dave Snowden, the creator of the Cynefin framework and famous in the agile community as an inspiring and sometimes controversial speaker, will address agility from the point of view of complexity. Participants will be exposed to a realistic approach that puts context before dogma and shows a future for Agile that goes beyond fighting over methods and towards a sophisticated application of agility in organizations.

This class will offer an introduction to the Cynefin framework by its creator: the Cynefin framework is a transformational idea that uses a situation-specific approach to making sense of the world in order to act in it, and ensures effective work, decision making, and management even in complex and uncertain environments. For Agile practitioners, this framework supports effectively tailoring methods and practices to different situations. Cynefin-informed methods and practices help Agile organizations harness change and turn complex situations into a competitive advantage for customers and the business.

DateTime: This workshop is scheduled on Oct 12th and 13th from 2 PM to 6 PM IST (4 hours each day)

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.

Agile Leadership has its unique flavour of natural leadership, when power is not given with a title but taken by a person based on his/her inner abilities. We use Servant Leadership or Powerless Leader to emphasise this difference. If we look deeper into the biology and neuroscience of leadership we might find really unexpected things – that Agile leaders are the ones that are recognised by nature and we unconsciously can select these people from the crowd. How to become this type of person?

To be an effective Agile leader we need to understand:

• What makes a leader: Leader-Leader Agile Model

• The difference between a leader and dominant behaviour, why leaders look younger and more active (on hormonal level)

• Hormones and neuroscience of a natural leader (with some cases and practice)

• Leadership differences and similarities of Scrum Master and Product Owner

• Simple (4 words) yet powerful mindset change to become a natural leader that people will follow