In speaking about better ways of thinking and problem-solving, Linda has introduced Jonathan Haidt's model for the brain. He proposes that the rational, conscious mind is like the rider of an elephant (the emotional, unconscious mind) who directs the animal to follow a path. In Fearless Change, the pattern Easier Path recommends making life easier to encourage reluctant individuals to adopt a new idea. Linda suggests that in conversations with others who see the world differently, we "talk to the elephant" instead of the "rider." That is, don't use logic or facts, but appeal to the emotional brain of the listener as well as making the path more attractive. There is always the question: What's the best way to talk to the elephant? This presentation will provide some answers. Linda will present the best elephant-speak and outline suggestions for providing an Easier Path.

Organisms small and large learn by building a model of the world around them then testing that model against what they see and adjusting accordingly. We'll call this a learning loop. We identify three era in computing based on the nature of this loop and the kind of feedback learning that they support.

Aadhaar is the world’s largest biometric identity programme covering about 16 percent of the world’s population. It also holds immense potential in improving public service deliveries and fostering digital and financial inclusion.

As India's digital identity program,aadhaar has successfully covered more than 1.25 billion people. It is also one of India’s best case studies of scale. In addition to core digital identity systems, India's open digital infrastructure, collectively known as India Stack, also includes electronic payment, digital signature, digital locker, and data empowerment as its core layers.

Pramod Varma, who is the Chief Architect of Aadhaar and India Stack layers will be sharing his experience of building these country scale systems.

In the last five years, Jio has become the top player in a bunch of verticals from telecom to eCommerce. Many people wonder how Jio could strategise and execute so quickly? If you are wondering the same, come to this fireside chat with Anish and Kiran, to take a deeper look at Jio's culture, leadership style, how Jio operates at such massive scale.

As software teams start to grow, some common struggles appear:

• Team members feel like projects go on and on, with no end in sight.
• Product managers can’t find time to think strategically about the product.
• Founders ask themselves: “Why can’t we get features out the door like we used to in the early days?”

We saw these challenges first-hand at Basecamp as we grew from four people to over fifty.

In this talk, Ryan will share how the Basecamp team operates and talk about his new book that will help us Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters.

Welcome Address and Agile India Conf Overview. Here you will get al the important details you need about the conference. So don't miss it.

Embibe is geared towards offering personalized improvement to every student in India through tailor made journeys powered by millions of variables and content elements encompassing 345 exams and 60,000 odd concepts. 1.5 million questions from 1500 books, 49,000 3D models and thousands of videos make this personalization possible. ~200 million hours of time spent and 2 billion questions attempted power the personalization algorithms with 100% observability implemented for every user interaction. 

At the heart of this lie 20 Octopi - each with 9 brains and 3 hearts - a core team driving execution - frugally at impossible speeds. This is our story.

Closing talk and thank you note!

COVID-19 has accelerated the digital transformation of research and health sciences. The use of genomic information in particular has triggered some of this change, as the unprecedented data volumes requires Big Data and Cloud computing technology. This talk outlines CSIRO developed software solutions, which use the latest in cloud architecture, machine learning and distribution channels to support a wide range of digital health applications; from disease gene detection, to personalized gene therapy, and from pathogen diagnostics to biosecurity applications. Specifically, we developed novel bioinformatics approaches to track viral evolution that has led to the first study on vaccine efficacy for the different COVID-19 virus strains. We also developed a novel machine learning framework capable of processing trillion of genomic datapoints to detect disease genes. The talk concludes by looking into the future of how clinical ontologies (FHIR) in combination with health-specific cloud deployment mechanisms disrupt health care as we know it.

In the wake of the pandemic and the challenges we have seen around us, organisations have realised how inequities can trickle down to many aspects within the sphere on workplaces, teams and practices we follow. It’s time to revisit old practices in more ways than one. 

Aspects like lack of work-life balance, mental well being, asynchronous communication, extended virtual meetings, prolonged virtual pairing etc. impact us all. 

To address this ThoughtWorks introduced the 'Inclusive Teams - Social Contract' an exercise for teams to re-look at their old ways, to arrive at an aspirational set of behaviours and social norms for inclusive ways of working at both the team and individual level. 

It focuses on 4 key aspects -

1. Building a culture of trust and inclusion - Supporting each other, feedback, empathy and cultivation.
2. Schedules and Meetings - Best practices, setting personal boundaries and context.
3. Communication practices - Tools, patterns and inclusive practices.
4. Norms of engagement - Connecting as team, fun that is inclusive, welcoming & respectful.

The inclusive team social contract helps teams understand and empathise with each other, acknowledge differences and personal context thus increasing team connect, productivity and shared accountability. It’s recommended that teams run this irrespective of whether they are working virtual/F2F/distributed/remote etc. 

This paper shares our experience to build DevOps and engineering practices at large scale as part of digital transformation looking for improve our flow efficiency, lead time and products quality and how we made designing and implemeting gamification shifts left through. This papers shares you the framework ( step by step) that we did to make game drive development and engage developers to adopt DevOps and technical agility practices

Leading-edge applications are dynamic and adaptive in capabilities that require people to use increasingly dexterous tools and supporting infrastructure, including microservices.

Microservices break traditionally structured applications into manageable pieces that can be developed and maintained independently. Microservices are often decoupled, allowing for updates with little to no downtime, as the other components can continue running. Container orchestration, Securing service-to-service communication, and decoupling authentication and authorization from microservices emerge as a new trend and also a challenge for many. 

Kubernetes being a container orchestrator of choice and Service Mesh comes in handy for secure service-to-service communication, service discovery, resilient service building, canary deployments, etc. It’s required to validate the manifests of k8s and configurations of service mesh much earlier in the development life cycle to provide faster feedback.

During the current lockdown, I happened to watch the 2019 movie "The Lion King" . This movie was an eye opener to me and what I learnt in those 120 minutes truly amazed me. The movie has all the learnings & Trappings of What  Servant Leadership is all about.

In the proposed talk, I try to bring this learning to all of you. This talk delves into the reason why Servant Leadership is the need of the hour in this crisis time. I draw inferences & inspiration from the movie "The Lion King" to drive home the relevance of Servant Leadership in our work life.

Fancy playing the CTO of a product startup? Join us in this role-play-based workshop where you can learn how you can lead your product team towards excellence by focusing on what you measure.

What can you expect to experience in this workshop?

• An executive report presented by the team, which touches all areas of product development including engineering, quality, etc.
• Group activity to critique the report
• Presentation of 'good' alternative reports by facilitator based on their experience
• Design of the new metrics strategy for the startup

If this interests you, join this workshop and walk away with actionable knowledge about metrics for product teams.

Although Remote work (or) Telecommuting (as coined by Jack Nilles, the Father of Remote work) has been in existence as early as 1970s, the emergence of revolutionary changes ranging from wi-fi in early 90s to the proliferation of state-of-the-art mobile devices and ultra-fast internet connections (Remember Moore’s Law?), ubiquity of cloud-based storage, SaaS solutions and drastically optimized costs in the last decade have expanded the landscape of work much beyond the confines of office spaces, creeping into our drawing rooms. Of course, Covid pandemic has certainly created an unprecedented surge in the long-term remote work with millions of people experiencing the flavors of it. 

Numerous Research studies across the globe carried out by McKinsey, Gartner, Buffer etc., in the last few years throw some interesting insights on the increasing footprint of remote working, the challenges that it triggers, and the implications thereof, especially in the wake of the current pandemic. These studies reveal some of the emerging trends in organizations across the globe, such as reduction in stigma towards remote working, inclination towards 100% remote working, setting up remote-friendly policies, stepping up remote security, altering work cultures and practices, promoting coworking spaces, synchronizing communication and collaboration, and finding new ways to boost productivity by adopting digitization and automation technologies, AI etc., to name a few. 

In this session, , let’s explore a few thoughts on how our remote working environments can be swiftly transformed into a more collaborative and productive workspaces, especially in these pandemic times by striving towards optimizing and streamlining the collaboration and communication channels, synergizing best practices, coaching and empowering the teams to solve the problems on their own, and make them self-organized, which is critical in maximizing the productivity of the teams.

Regardless of the type of business, it is essential to understand the current economy. We began shifting from a traditional manufacturing economy to a digital economy in 2015, although many organizations do not know what this means to the basics of business operations. In this presentation, people will understand the step-by-step approach to not only survive but thrive in the Industry 4.0 digital jungle.

The main areas covered are:

1. Strategic Positioning and Digital Workflow - many organizations, including start-ups, use a manufacturing mindset in developing strategic activities. The strategic activities needed to position companies in a digital era are very different from previous eras. Once a fit strategic set of activities are identified, organizations need to determine how to create a value flow of products and services to customers. The workflow involves creating an internal environment of safety and morale that provides motivation and innovation to deliver quality products to customers using the most efficient workflow.
2. The Key Six Industry 4.0 Disciplines: We will discuss the disciplines necessary to support the digital operations workflow, why they are essential, and how to build these skills.
3. The importance and ability to create a diverse, inclusive working environment that leverages employees' skills and represents the customer base. Thirty percent of the organization should represent the customer base to build effective connections and relationships. We will discuss how to create an inclusive operating model to be competitive.

Every successful User Experience and Visual Designer evolves their style over time. This evolution happens based on changing points-of-view, understanding of human behavior, communication efficacy, and skillset, among other factors. Whether it be a design style, a communication style, giving and receiving constructive feedback,  what works for one person may not necessarily work for another and often it takes years to develop the right style for you. In this session, we'll explore how several successful UX Designers found (or struggled to find) their voices that lead to their ability to succeed in the industry as well as the challenges that new designers face as they being their career journey.

Defects tell you the story of what needs to improve and how to execute them. LTI’s Manojeet Chatterjee explains how early visibility of defects empowers you to take corrective measures that enable superior product quality.

We will focus on the potential role of blockchain as the backbone of vehicle data monetization. Experts believe that blockchain will play a vital role in expediting the realization of use cases. 

Does your team have to deal with performance issues very late in their development cycle? Does this lead to a lot of unplanned work in your sprints? What if I told you, that your team can validate various performance-related hypotheses right within your sprints? Yes, this is what we have been practising on various teams. Participate in this workshop where I will share our experience and to learn the techniques involved through hands-on exercises.

Problem Statement: Performance Testing has traditionally been an activity that is done in a staging or prod environment (for the brave) by a team of expert performance testers. In my experience, this approach has several issues.

• Typically high cycle time (time taken between code changes and these changes being deployed and tested in Perf Test Env) between test runs. This means Developers cannot experiment quickly.
• The test design may be disconnected from the system design because the people who test it may not have a deep understanding of the application architecture.
• Performance benchmarking and tuning becomes an afterthought, instead of being baked into our design and constantly validated during the development process

Solution: Apply "Shift left" to your Performance Testing

• Enable Developers to run Performance Tests on their machines so that they can get immediate feedback as they make code changes.
• Identify issues early and iterate over solutions quickly.
• Only defer a small subset of special scenarios to the expert team or higher environments.

Talk is cheap, show me code
I will be sharing the learnings that I gained in the process of applying Shift Left principle to "API Performance Testing" and how we codified the approach into a re-usable open-source framework called Perfiz so any team can take advantage of it.

Topics that will be covered

• Challenges running performance tests early in the development cycle
• Few examples to see Shift Left in action
  • Hypothesis Invalidation Strategy. A scientific approach to reducing dependence on higher environments
  • Avoiding premature performance optimisations and moving to data driven architecture decisions with rapid local performance testing
• What makes a good API Performance Testing framework? - In the context of Shift Left
  • It is containerised, runs well on local laptop and in higher environments or in hybrid mode
  • Leverages existing API test instead of duplicate load test scripts
  • Helps Developer express load as a configuration DSL without having to learn yet another tool
  • Not just a load generator, it collects data, has pre-set dashboards with basic metrics
  • It is code and not documentation
• What makes a good performance test report? - In the context of Shift Left
  • To begin with it should be a live monitoring dashboard and not an after the fact report
  • It is visual (graphs and plots) rather than tabulation
  • Merges Load Data and Application performance metrics in a single visual representation over a shared time series based x-axis so that the correlation is clear
• Perfiz Demo - An open source tool that embodies the above thought process
  • API test to Perfomance Test Suite in less than a minute with just YAML Config
  • Pre-built Grafana Dashboards to get you started
  • Containerised setup to get you going without any local setup with Docker
  • Prometheus and other monitoring tool hooks to monitor app performance
  • Perfiz in Higher Environments
  • Perfiz Architecture Overview and how you can extend, adapt and contribute back to the community
• "Shift Left" limitations - Repeatability, My machine vs your machine, etc.