“It is neither the strongest of species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones that are most responsive to change - Charles Darwin”. Agility is not solely about how fast one can move. On the contrary, it is how adaptive and responsive one is to a change with minimal adverse effect. To survive in its ecosystem, an organization much like a living mammal, must grow in size as well as evolve to adapt and protect itself from predators.

In today's complex world of business and technology, Performance and scalability are key optimization opportunities for any organization. Also, a relentless focus on innovation, human capital and global expansion is pivotal for these opportunities to materialize. The ability to evolve in these areas can create competitive advantage for an organization in its habitat. To address these initiatives and ensure its success, companies need to empower their human capital with the right tools and resources to execute their strategy consistently and reliably in the midst of continuous change.

Attend this session to explore ways to realize these opportunities into tangible outcomes, thereby enabling an organization to evolve, stay competitive, think, lead and execute; driving increased revenues, profitability and market shares as the end result. We will introduce a framework that spans 6 key areas; Ideation, Nature, Vision, Engagement, Synthesis and Transition. The session will also demonstrate techniques to enhance business agility using an agility model and the dinosaur analogy.

"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." – Sam Walton.

Empiricism is the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. The modern era of technology innovations have consciously embraced empirical approaches to model cutting edge products for customers across the globe. An organization’s ability to balance focus between ‘Building the product right’ and ‘Building the right product’ is often the difference between its creativity and failure.

Behold the ‘Zorro Circles’ of Product Prototyping as a comprehensive framework to blueprint a plan that affords you an opportunity to choose from a gamut of techniques with origins from Lean Startup and Rapid Prototyping. This approach shall showcase a holistic path to model complex products by unraveling the multi-layered circles of customer identification. Attend this session to discover several strategies and tactics to identify your customers, empathize with their pain and bridge their perception with your reality in order to create products that market themselves.

"In times of battle I have found that plans are useless but planning is everything" - Dwight Eisenhower

The pursuit of agility often rests at the center of a finely balanced scale of predictability and adaptability. While one may compete with the other in the latter, together they may foster flexibility at its highest aspiration. Teams regularly leverage Release planning as a preliminary meet up in an attempt to achieve such a capability. However, most fail to comprehend that the true value of this activity is not as much in strategy as it is in tactics. Release planning is not a one-time meeting but a recurring activity for empirically pursuing certainty in an uncertain locale. Attend this session to gain a new perspective on the tactics of Release Planning along with a few best practices gathered from years of working in a variety of agile/agile like environments.

 This talk will demonstrate a few real world instances as evidence to showcase why Release planning should be treated as an ongoing activity and what can happen when it is ignored. The core of this presentation will be a walkthrough of three tried and tested Release Planning techniques that will empower the audience to broaden their approach to Release Planning. The session will conclude with specific guidance to the attendees on steps to apply these techniques in the work environment.

Have you ever wondered how to progressively harness focus on your goals and influence your outcomes?

Woody Zuill once famously quoted “If you could adopt only one agile practice, then let it be retrospectives. Everything else will follow”. The constantly evolving world of business in modern times demands frequent inspection and adaptation of methods and strategies in order for the latter to stay relevant. The empirical nature of agile features such assessments that can help individuals and teams adjust to constant change and establish a sustainable pace to deliver complex products.

Behold the ‘Zorro Circles’ of retrospectives to create an excellence in execution in behaviors and tactics. Discover the essentials of designing retrospectives by understanding the multi-layered circles of projects' and peoples' characteristics. Experience the applicability of the ‘Zorro Circles’ in a variety of locales through real world instances and walk away with a handful of effective techniques to design moments of inspection and adaptation in your organization’s ecosystem.

"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." – Sam Walton.

Empiricism is the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. The modern era of technology innovations have consciously embraced empirical approaches to model cutting edge products for customers across the globe. An organization’s ability to balance focus between ‘Building the product right’ and ‘Building the right product’ is often the difference between its creativity and failure. So, in today’s fiercely competitive landscape of product design, how would one choose a toolset to develop innovative products in a cost-effective manner?

Behold the ‘Zorro Circles’ of Product Prototyping as a comprehensive framework to blueprint a plan that affords you an opportunity to choose from a gamut of techniques with origins from Lean Startup and Rapid Prototyping. This approach shall showcase a holistic path to model complex products by unraveling the multi-layered circles of customer identification. Attend this session to discover several strategies and tactics to identify your customers, empathize with their pain and bridge their perception with reality in order to create products that market themselves.

Have you ever wondered how to progressively harness focus on your goals and influence your outcomes?

Woody Zuill once famously quoted “If you could adopt only one agile practice, then let it be retrospectives. Everything else will follow”. The constantly evolving world of business in modern times demands frequent inspection and adaptation of methods and strategies in order for the latter to stay relevant. The empirical nature of agile features such assessments that can help individuals and teams adjust to constant change and establish a sustainable pace to deliver complex products.

Behold the ‘Zorro Circles’ of retrospectives to create an excellence in execution in behaviors and tactics. Discover the essentials of designing retrospectives by understanding the multi layered circles of projects' and peoples' characteristics. Experience the applicability of the ‘Zorro Circles’ in a variety of locales through real world instances and walk away with a handful of effective techniques to design moments of inspection and adaptation in your organization’s ecosystem.