
Vikas Kapila
Consultant Mentor Trainer
Agile Sparks
location_on United States
Member since 6 years
Vikas Kapila
Specialises In
Vikas is a business transformation practitioner with a passion for applying Lean-Agile principles, behaviors and practices to enable delivery of highest business value with built-in quality at the earliest in a predictably and sustainable cycle. He excels at quickly delivering business value, simplifying the seemingly complex, and delighting customers. He is able to achieve these results by consistently building radically prolific, high performing teams by believing to look listen & learn before initiating collaboration, coaching, training and facilitation. Vikas is a trusted partner, synergist and change catalyst with consultative communication style, qualified to unify stakeholders. He has, across various digital transformation initiatives, inspired cross-functional teams to deliver that propel business forward & accelerate business strategies.
Experience – 20+ Years Solutions Delivery, Consulting, and Coaching | 12+ years Solutions Management | Being Agile 15+ years | Training & Coaching Agile 5+ years (Devops | System Team | Portfolio Management | Product Owner | Scrum Master | UI – UX)
Companies Coached | Trained: 724 Solutions, Acision, AIG, Andanza Technologies, Bank Of America, Cisco Systems, Capital One, Fannie Mae, Mercedes, Mobixell, National Geographic Society, Nestle, Peer1 Hosting, Scottrade, Tennessee Valley Authority to name a few
Prior Roles: Executive Mentor, Leadership Coach, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Solution Architect, Agile Program Manager, Product Manager, Product Owner
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7 Highly Effective Ds for Continuous Delivery Pipeline
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
Continuous Delivery Pipeline is needed to provide continuous release of value to the end user. Agility & DevOps principles and behaviors working in Alignment is the need of today to deliver & delight our customers. This session highlights the set of behaviors needed for Leadership to Enterprise Agility and Prosperity with Continuous Delivery pipeline. The pipeline consists of four practices: Continuous Exploration (CE), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), and Release on Demand applied in synchronization and cadence to build a rhythm for the enterprise applying Lean and Agile values and principles very much like the four elements of the Grandfather Clock with date; the hour, minute and seconds arms remaining always in sync and predictable heartbeat (cadence) to the date (milestone / release) perspective.
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Devops an Effective Mindset: Beyond Automation and Tooling
45 Mins
Workshop
Intermediate
DevOps is a buzz word in the industry for the last couple of years to the extent that enterprise are now creating job requisitions for DevOps engineers. Is this solving the right problem or are we creating yet another silo within an organization of multiple stove pipes? This interactive session will enable you to take away experiential learnings of my customers / clients applying the 3 ways DevOps principle described by Gene Kim with the CALMR approach for scaling DevOps in an enterprise.
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Continuous Delivery Pipeline
45 Mins
Case Study
Executive
Continuous Delivery Pipeline is needed to provide continuous release of value to the end user. Agility & DevOps principles and behaviors working in Alignment is the need of today to deliver & delight our customers. This session highlights the set of behaviors needed for Leadership to Enterprise Agility and Prosperity with Continuous Delivery pipeline. The pipeline consists of four practices: Continuous Exploration (CE), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), and Release on Demand applied in synchronization and cadence to build a rhythm for the enterprise applying Lean and Agile values and principles very much like the four elements of the Grandfather Clock with date; the hour, minute and seconds arms remaining always in sync and predictable heartbeat (cadence) to the date (milestone / release) perspective.
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DREAM TO DELIGHT – LEADING ENTERPRISE PORTFOLIOS TO AGILITY THROUGH LEAN-AGILE TRANSITION
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
Dream to Delight is the concept to cash value stream practiced with proven success across 4 industries: Utilities, Media, Banking and Mortgage. It is a set of 7 Highly Effective Ds: Dream, Discover, Define, Design, Develop, Deploy & Delight.
This session is about leading enterprise portfolios to agility through lean-agile transition. It talks about the journey highlighted as steps & activities taken at each “D” stage aligning to promise of agility: highest business value fastest to market with built in quality. I do highlight the importance of context and perspective and thereby the need of choices and options at respective “D” stages to increase visibility, transparency and thus improve accountability across the program.
It does seem to me “The Silver Bullet” applying the 7 Ds across four industries as a leap to Enterprise Agility, however I trust to raise awareness and agreement towards the importance of coaching and mentoring to impact and sustain agility in an organization with people and their mindsets still internalizing and going through their respective “J” curves of acceptance and adoption.
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Are we Collaborating or Cooperating?
45 Mins
Workshop
Intermediate
Agile stresses the benefits of collaboration, working with cross-functional teams to encourage communication across business and IT. However, communication and coordination - both internally and with customers - are often challenged due to human dynamics, logistics, locations and timing.Let's discover in this interactive session are our communications cooperation or collaboration. -
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