My journey started long time back on 2003 time frame when my teams started adopting extreme programming values and experimenting with various techniques outlined in the XP rules. The increased collaboration and high quality delivery with delighted users, led me down this path of learning and unlearning and I have never looked back.

The community has created narrow specializations and is leading to silo'd ways/standards, which is limiting our basic ethos of delivering 'working software' irrespective of the 'how' it is built and 'by whom'. We need to go back to the 'title-less' community so we don't get drown in our new 'job titles' and forget the customer pains and how we help them.

It is exciting to see the convergence of various platforms, which are all maturing together at the same time like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and VR/AR. We have all read the article 'Software is eating the world' but now the accelerating pace at which every industry is being disrupted is what we are seeing playing out in front of our eyes and it is amazing to be part of this journey.

The relationship between Business and IT has always been a tough one, with IT playing second fiddle, but with using OKRs, now we have an opportunity for IT to speak and understand the business language and build features, which impact the business outcomes. But OKRs are easy to understand but difficult to implement and our experiences have given us insights, which we wanted to share and learn from the community.

I am looking forward to various interesting topics like Continuous Configuration, Innovation accounting, agile coaching ethics (very close to my heart, as I am also an ICC ACC  certified coach with strong ethics), and definitely the session on the Building for a Billion : India Stack story.

We have matured as a community but I think we still need to imbibe true  'professional'-ism to make agile a true "profession" and "discipline" similar to other existing disciplines.