Track: Life Beyond Scrum
Type of Paper: Experience
Summary
Day in and Day out, lot of people are using Agile to deliver customer value faster and make continuous improvements. Have you thought about how the same concepts can be used to fulfil your dreams faster? Come let us explore lifelong agility which is an extended version of Agile values and principles
Track: Transparency, Inspection & Adaption
Type of Paper: Experience
Summary
RADAR Retrospective : A Focused Problem identification and Improvement Centric technique. Focus on actual issues, leading to a definite measurable goal.
Method :Reviewed last 10 sprints retrospective points, identified the problem areas, converted into RADAR. Team/Leadership rate themselves from 0-10 on every point , identify the issues and provide improvement area.
Followed and monitored for consecutive sprints. .
Refined the problem areas .
ROI : Collaboration and Productivity increase
Track: Agile and Organizational Behavior
Type of Paper: Experience
Summary
Why there is so much hype about culture in agile transformation?
Who design culture of an organisation?
What are culture metrics? How we can measure culture change?
Can we change culture of organisation after years of it’s existence in business?
Who are the right brand ambassador for culture change?
Track: Agile and Organizational Behavior
Type of Paper: Experience
Summary
Through this whitepaper, we would like to share our journey of how an Agile mindset was imbibed in a traditionally inclined workforce by shifting focus from Agile frameworks to Agile values and principles. By keeping human at the core, leveraging tools, technologies and leaning processes, a culture of innovation was fostered. This resulted in delivering exponential value with reduced time to market and enhanced user experience.
Track: Software Development Done Right
Type of Paper: Experience
Summary
“This is not what I wanted” – Is this a repeated frustration of your product owner? Do you wonder if Behavior Driven Development can help your team in specifying requirements better? Yet, is budget a constraint for starting BDD as a practice? If yes, this session is for you.
This interactive talk will take you through practical scenarios which play out in a team, while you role-play as a developer/tester/product owner/scrum master.
Track: Agile and Organizational Behavior
Type of Paper: Experience
Summary
While collaboration seems be buzz word everywhere, are we collaborating to the level of suffocation? With open offices which are supposed to enhance our communication and collaboration, is it throwing us in all time “distracted” phase.
What are the long term consequences of this kind of over collaborative approach? Do we really have to stay connected all the time?
Track: Software Development Done Right
Type of Paper: Case study
Summary
The session will be about how Software is eating the world and how it can make or destroy it. We are trying to run too fast without realizing that the Software we are creating is Right or Wrong? We crib a lot about government officials, blaming them corrupt. Have we ever done our introspection? We may be in the most corrupt profession.
Track: Transparency, Inspection & Adaption
Type of Paper: Experience
Summary
Transparency is an integral part of any business.
There are multiple ways to achieve that, one such way is flowing the agile methodology from top-down.
An engineer’s concern
– I do not know how my work contributes towards the overall goals of the management.
– I do not even know about the top goals of my organization.
Management’s concern
– I do not know how each task done by my team is contributing towards the BU’s goals
Track: Software Development Done Right
Type of Paper: Experience
Summary
1. How do I motivate my developers when I cannot show them the financial value of the features they build?
2. How do I prioritize which production defect to fix first?
3. How do I choose the right solution for the customer when I have multiple solutions to solve the problem?
4. How do I decide which feature to enhance first, using real data instead of personal intuition?
If any of these questions keep you awake at night, this session is for you.
Track: Agile and Organizational Behavior
Type of Paper: Research
Summary
Apart from being a Certified Agile Coach, I am Marshall Goldsmith Certified Executive Coach to carry out 1-on-1 executive coaching for leadership development. Also, I am Marshall Goldsmith Certified Team Coach to help teams enhance leadership growth and team effectiveness.