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One of the most widely used Scrum anti-patterns is the infamous Sprint Zero. This iteration is used by many teams across the globe as a period for homework activities before kicking off a project. Activities may typically include backlog refinement with the product owner, setting up development environments, reading deployment pipelines, applying logging frameworks, etc.

It has been mentioned multiple times by the innovators of the Scrum Guide that it shouldn't take more than a day to begin a project, alas as the Scrum Guide mentions, Scrum is simple to understand, difficult to master; and the difficulty increases exponentially as we scale. So here's a workshop to master a one-day project kick-off using an extension of the white elephant exercise which I like to call - the Grand White Elephant for scaled teams.

This talk will be a sort of my research work and based upon my observations and is exploratory in nature. Based upon the facts and evidences taken from various dimensions of life, This talk tries connecting dots from different walks of life and provide an overview of the big agile picture and determine its relevancy into one’s day to day personal and professional activities. First, this Talk strive to understand how human race have been able to scramble our ways to the present age holding the torch of Agile. In this journey this Talk provide glimpses and insights from Vedas, other ancient and modern texts, Various Martial Arts forms, various world happenings and try to visualize Agile Ecosystem as big picture moving in its entirety.

Then This talk facilitates to thrive one’s awareness into Agile landscape and through mutual observation and conscience helps fathom the essence of agile Ecosystem and correlate agile Usage and Agile values and principles with various discoveries , inventions and happenings around the world in the wider spectrum of this vast existence. After providing a wider outlook, This Talk accentuates to make sense out of various buzz words like block chain, bitcoins, AI, augmented reality, Kaizen, Lean etc. and their potential and roles in Agile Ecosystem and improvise one’s understanding upon present ways of living and working and future possibilities with Agile in IT and beyond.

This talk will help understand the essence of Agile, its texture, chemical composition and structure of the very ground upon which present days business model and industries are built and operating as functional quotient and how Human’s Agile based genetic intelligence finding its manifestations into One’s mindscape, and subsequently in our behavior and actions, culture and Societies and in almost all dimensions of One’s life and thus plays role in shaping this world.