The aim of this talk/mini workshop is to utilise a Story telling way of sharing our experience in the space of Leadership Agility. As the business world moved from the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world to BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear and Incomprehensible) world, we as change agents have come to understand time and again the importance of having a leadership that supports “Being Agile” over “Doing Agile” in their organisations. So it has become more imperative that we design paths for leadership training and coaching that can enable leaders to embrace change with alacrity instead of compulsion. In this session we would give a glimpse of what Leadership Agility workshop might look like and what we had done for one of our customers in our organisation to enable tenets of newer ways of operating in the minds of leaders and important stakeholders for achieving a critical business goal

The aim of this talk is to introduce a technique of imparting knowledge about Agile Tenets to the non-initiated and/or team members who need reinforcement in their understanding of tenets of agility in teams, collaboration, XP practices and dependency resolutions in an agile par lance. The modus of operandi is to take a popular movie, which in this case is Lord of the Rings, and derive analogies from the movie that defines some core concepts of an agile journey with team, dependency resolution and a couple of agile engineering techniques including XP practices that are result driven in this era of distributed agile teams. The intent is to make it a fun session with an audio-visual link for deeper entrenchment and retention of the understanding it intends to impart. This sort of immersive learning with audio visual aims at connecting the learnings to existing neural pathways to create an understanding of the tenets of Agility in a language that everybody understands - "Movies and Fun".

As part of an effort to humanize the concept of Agility, I would like to present a talk on how "Being Agile" is part of what we are born with and not an acquired concept. Agility is present all around us and as human beings we are most agile during the first few years of our lives. This talk would take the examples of reflection and adaptation in human life and nature around to showcase the congenital nature of "Being Agile" by virtue of what and who we are.

This talk aims at delivering a simple way of explaining the tenets of Agile Estimations using stories and examples from our daily life activities. Here you learn how you can utilize these daily life experiences to condition your minds to think with agility while doing estimations. It includes detailing with examples from daily life, the concepts of baselining for estimations , core-flex models of estimations and complexity based estimation techniques.