It has been deliberated and accepted that

Happy employees lead to happy customers.

Delivering innovative, high quality software at a steady pace requires motivated, involved and happy teams.

Happiness is strongly correlated with team well-being.

So, a team that’s happy, will also be more efficient, more cohesive, more ready for the tasks at hand and will deliver higher quality software.

But how do you interpret happiness? Happiness is said to be a subjective state-of-mind.

Can we as Agile leaders delve into this secret of happiness to deliver value to our customers?

Can we create an environment that induces happiness?

In this session we will discuss

1.What is happiness ?

1. Can we measure happiness ?
2. Can individual happiness roll up to team happiness or organizational happiness ? May be not, we will deep dive on this
3. Can happiness create can create connections and unique moments that can improve collaboration ? ( e,g ring the bell experiment)
4. Can a happy team be more innovative and agile?
5. Tools to analyse happiness ( Search Inside Yourself , Crisp Happiness Index) or tailor made
6. Some enablers for happiness ( Pat on the back, thank you handshake)

For organizations to achieve business agility,they have to organically focus on various aspects of their organization and in this session I would share these aspects and various pointers for each of these aspects with the audience.

The core of Agile Transformation is a change of mindset and there is a lot of struggle that organizations and individuals face when they have to learn agile ways of working.

It is often observed, when teams or individuals initiate their agile transformation journey they struggle a lot to part ways with their old models of delivering projects and as long as they are hand held by a coach or a trainer they push themselves to adopt the agile ways. But as soon as they hit their first blocker or their coaches are not with them anymore, they tend to fall back to their old ways of working, i.e. not agile.

In my experience as agile coach at a few organiztions, I realized that one has to unlearn before re-learning or learning new ways of working to see sustainable change happen and reap the benifits of their agile tranformation.

In my session I would be sharing a few of my thoughts and experiences on how to structure the unlearning process as a natural and self driven initiative by each one of the agile team member. This helps one unleash their own learning potential and overcome the inertia of learing new ways.