Organizations/Teams that play well know how to explore, innovate, and think
unconventionally. A culture of play unlocks rich insights, enables constructive dialog which leads to humanized thinking and encourages taking big risks while creating resiliency through failure on the path to success.

A Playshop is a synergy of Play & Workshop. A playshop is a Hands-
On, Minds-On Learning approach wherein you will undergo a three-stage process of Play + Think + Transform to produce a deeper, more meaningful understanding through an experiential process.

As a participant of the Playshop, you would learn to "Think with your hands" & "Learn by doing" and unravel how one has a natural skill of being agile & think about design from the varied experiences that are brought on the table via metaphors & stories by building 3d Lego-models (using Lego Serious Play kits) of our thought process.

In this playshop, you will understand how Play & Experience are an important & integral part of innovation, design thinking & being agile.

More than 90% of products fail after they are rolled out to end users. Why is that so? Were these products not really innovative enough? Yes, they were innovative in their own ways. But users still discard these products. And again, many of us humans believe that innovation is a rare thing and only some knows the “art of innovating”.

In this brief talk titled "Design Innovation and Agile: Making Innovation a habit", the innovation-is-an-art myth will be busted and we will be looking at the “scientific” approach to innovating. Yes, Innovation can be a culture like many organisations like Google, Pepsi, and Microsoft, are. Design Thinking is a great strategy for innovation and thereby, can help in creating products that can amaze end users. While we discuss these points, we will also see if there is any agility in Design Innovation.

Business agility is an organisation’s ability to respond rapidly to changes in the faster-than-ever changing business environment. It requires good amount of adaptability, flexibility and balance to acquire and sustain long-term business agility.

An organisation is a "complex system" comprising of good number of individual "components" - people, infrastructure, departments, etc. Each of these components need to be well oiled and needs to contribute towards achieving the true business agility and stay relevant, competitive and alive. It's not the “best individually performing component(s)” that can take the organisation towards agility. These "Super-Heroes" will lead to local optimisation and eventually, an overall disaster or death for an organisation. So, we do not need super-heroes working in silos.

Rather, we need all the components to work together and collaborate. For instance, even a small software delivery team needs a bunch of skilled individuals can work with others effectively and collaboratively, and that one inspiring leader who can coach them “we” over “me” mindset. Real Agile teams are great teams outperforming themselves every time.

In this brief talk titled "Super-Hero Culture: The Achilles' Heel of an organisation's Business Agility", we will be exploring some aspects of a truly Agile business organisations, and what “ingredients” can make them outperform themselves. The super-hero culture needs to go away for organisations to survive in the complex business environment.

What does "Scaling Agile" mean? Is it about taking agile to a higher level? Or, is it about scaling our delivery capability using Agile? 

SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), LeSS (Large Scale Scrum), DAD (Disciplined Agile Delivery) are some of the names of the frameworks that first come to our mind in the context of scaling agile. And it's a great time for the software industry which is getting more and more matured and adept with Agile in general, and scaling agile in particular. It's great that we have a problem of "plenty" when it comes to choosing the appropriate framework to use when agile is to be scaled up. 

The purpose of this talk is about highlighting the core challenges that we face when we scale agile, and how the solution lies in the basic principles, than in any of the frameworks. Without getting into the comparison (pros and cons) of the frameworks, the intention is to have the right mindset, about choosing the right set of values and principles, about valuing "Principles" over "Frameworks". 

What came first - Lean or Agile? It's a chicken-and-egg question for many. And then, there are beliefs that these two are separated twins.

If you think that Lean software development and Agile are the same, think again!

There are both difference and similarities in the Lean and Agile principles and practices.

During this talk, we will discuss on how Agile and Lean are related or different. Or are they two different names of the same thing? how the principles of Lean and Agile can be leveraged in order to create complex software solutions at enterprise level.