The Sage on the Stage model of learning where the trainer talks and you sit and listen has been proven to be ineffective. Repeated studies show active, collaborative learning significantly increases retention and engagement. Active, hands-on learning is also far more effective and far more fun! As Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches you will often be wearing the hat of a trainer. Learn how to design exceptional and fun training sessions and learning experiences that stand out. Whether you do 30 minute or 3 day trainings, you'll learn awesome techniques from Training from the Back of the Room principles using which you will be able to design amazing workshops of your own. Come with an open mind and leave with concrete tools you'll be able to take to work the very next day. Training from the Back of the Room has been developed by the internationally acclaimed Sharon Bowman. Arundhati is a certified trainer for Training from the Back of the Room workshops.

Scrum has helped thousands of companies around the world deliver products that customers love & do it faster and cheaper. Yet alongside Scrum’s popularity has also come misconceptions around what Scrum is & what it isn’t. As the Scrum Guide tells us, “Scrum is simple to understand but difficult to master”. And in recent years that has proved to be true with many companies adopting variations of Scrum. Consequently companies fail to derive the full benefits of Scrum. On the topic of misconceptions, I’ve heard things like: “we are so busy that we don't have time for the Daily Standup" or “we have 8 week sprints." In this interactive talk, we go to the first principles, the essence of Scrum, to understand more deeply what Scrum is and what it isn’t. We discuss 3-5-3 scrum and go over scenarios of Scrum variants being practiced. Whether you are just getting started with Scrum or a seasoned practitioner come by for a fun interactive session.

The worldwide cost of attrition and low engagement is upwards of USD 600 billion every year! Surveys by ADP and others have shown that employee engagement levels in India stand at approximately 22% as of 2018. This means as much as 78% of the workforce is not engaged. Think about the tremendous impact we as agile practitioners can make in our organizations, if we increase engagement levels. Even a slight increase in team engagement can result not only in cost savings for the company but also increased performance and greater happiness levels among team members. In fact, happiness levels within the team has been found to directly impact performance and velocity.

In this interactive talk we will explore current engagement levels, review the latest research on metrics that influence employee engagement, understand the tremendous and far-reaching benefits of creating a fun, engaging workplace (drawn from research by Amy Edmondson and others) and brainstorm ideas to increase engagement in our teams and our organizations at large.

Through inclusive facilitation approaches like 1-2-4-all, 25/10 crowdsourcing, gallery walk and others we will collectively generate ideas for increasing engagement in our teams.

By the end of this session you'll have concrete ideas to carry back to your teams and start implementing all while having a lot of fun!

"Is this clear?" As a trainer, I asked numerous times. However, I tried to fix the wrong problem: I must not have told them clearly enough. In reality, my problem was that was I telling. After understanding how people learn best from Training from the Back of the Room by Sharon Bowman, it's clear our current approach was insufficient. Lecturing others or simply stating “you’re now certified”; rarely gets the intended results. People are skeptical about something until they experience it. Join us in this experiential workshop to design and engage first-hand in the power of using exercises to experience a key value/message. Together, we will dissect and explore interactive exercises to gain insights on how they deliver important learnings including self-organization, Psychological safety, communication, wisdom of the crowd, vulnerability, and responding to change. Leave with tools that you can apply tomorrow to stop telling people and start engaging and having your audience experience

What does agile have to do with psychotherapy? It turns out quite a lot. If you think about it, ultimately agile is about working closely with people and working closely with people requires our understanding of each other. That's where psychotherapy comes in. Psychotherapy is the science and art of working well with each other, of understanding ourselves and the other person at a deeper level. I hold a masters in clinical psychotherapy (MSW) from New York University and have worked with 5000+ clients to provide coaching/advisory. As a startup founder, I also have hands on experience of applying agile methodologies at my startup. I combine all of that knowledge and experience in this interactive session to cover concepts such as empathy, self limiting beliefs and cognitive biases and how it impacts us and our teams.

Join me for a fun session that is designed by drawing from the latest brain science research to help you learn effectively through interactivity and activities.

By the end of the session, you'll have a clear picture of the importance of concepts like empathy, self-limiting beliefs, systems thinking and cognitive biases and their significance in individual and team performance.

And you won't just learn concepts, you'll take back concrete ideas to implement in your teams starting the next day!

The worldwide cost of attrition and low engagement is upwards of USD 600 billion every year! Surveys by ADP and others have shown that employee engagement levels in India stand at approximately 22% as of 2018. This means as much as 78% of the workforce is not engaged. Think about the tremendous impact we as agile practitioners can make in our organizations, if we increase engagement levels. Even a slight increase in team engagement can result not only in cost savings for the company but also increased performance.

In this workshop we will explore current engagement levels, review the latest research on metrics that influence employee engagement, understand the tremendous and far-reaching benefits of creating a fun, engaging workplace (drawn from research by Amy Edmondson and others) and brainstorm ideas to increase engagement in our teams and our organizations at large.

Through interactive facilitation approaches including 1-2-4-all, 25/10 crowdsourcing, gallery walk and others we will collectively generate ideas for increasing engagement in our teams.

By the end of this session you'll have concrete ideas to carry back to your teams and start implementing all while having a lot of fun!