Overview

Over past few years, more software development teams have been adopting agile and lean methods to deliver better quality products at fast pace. Despite best efforts, it has been observed that missing deadlines and churning out buggy software product continues.

Join us at the Agile Deep Dive Conference on November 03, 2017 in Chennai, India as we explore the best possible solutions and best practices that will make Agile in practice experience rewarding. The conference features insightful sessions taking deep dive in Agile Methodology with a focus on the Agile implementation challenges and success across key areas such as engineering, technology, leadership, cultural and change management.

The Agile Deep Dive is a must event for agile development teams, agile coaches and project/program managers & Leads and agile enthusiast.

Program

Friday, 03 November, 2017

08:00 AM EST Registration and Seating

Registration and Seating

08:00 AM

08:30 AM EST Opening and Welcome Note

Opening and Welcome Note

Neeraj Bachani Head of Agile Consulting, SureCertificate

08:30 AM

09:00 AM EST Scaling Agile

While Agile based project management and software development processes tend to deliver to the promise, still the end to end process is "Water-Scrum-Fall". For any project, huge time is spent of preparing budget proposals/estimates/business case/plan etc before the development kicks off. In the software development phase, Agile in the current form enables quicker analysis, development, testing and showcase to the customer. Another area which takes an enormous time is the integration of the deliverables with the larger program or portfolio before it is truly ready to release and handover to operations. This is where for large IT initiatives, a more holistic approach becomes relevant and this is where the scaled agile frameworks tend to help. In addition, it is also very important to focus much earlier on the project selection, funding and scope to ensure that the right projects and programs are selected and implemented to deliver value to the business. The talk will focus on building the right business case (cost estimate vs value estimate) for projects, scaling agile and the constructs of a scaled agile framework.

Syed Hassan Director - IT - Enterprise Services, DXC Technology

09:00 AM

10:00 AM EST Tea/Coffee Break

Tea/Coffee Break

10:00 AM

10:30 AM EST Scaling Agile @ Service Organisations

"Explore how to scale Agile for a larger project and go further with the horizontals doing Co-located Agile and verticals practicing Distributed Agile with the suitable Agile frameworks. Learn how Lean helps to sustain with the essence of Agile while Scaling for bigger goals"

Ramadevi Lakshmanan Associate Director, Cognizant

10:30 AM

11:30 AM EST Where has all the Coaching gone?

My self-realization over the years on how I kept spending too much time as a coach with the wrong people

Ravishankar R Agile Coach, Scrum Practitioner, Navis

11:30 AM

12:30 PM EST Lunch Break

Lunch Break

12:30 PM

01:30 PM EST Physical Walls in the Age of Online Dashboards?!?

Big Visual Charts (BVC) are great information radiators. Why do we need them? What is the impact? How do we radiate - physical walls or online dashboards? Where do they fit in this digital age? What do we show? How do we keep the culture going?

Balaji Kalyansundaram Technology Leader. Agile and DevOps Evangelist, AstraZeneca

01:30 PM

02:15 PM EST Design Thinking & Agile

Design thinking is about exploring and generating ideas, understanding users and innovating to meet customer needs. It’s about the why. Agile is usually the “How” of a project with the scope cut down to smaller chunks and executed in smaller increments of time, while the quality is fixed. While the above 2 are different, there are also certain complementarities that help in accelerating innovation.

This session will focus on the 2 models and how they contrast and complement each other to deliver highly customer centric innovation at a rapid pace.

Rajaram Venkataraman Digital Evangelist, Navya Insights Consulting

02:15 PM

03:00 PM EST Tea/Coffee Break

Tea/Coffee Break

03:00 PM

03:30 PM EST Less is more: How can we create winning products of high business value within our constraints?

Business agility is not easy to define as it encompasses several aspects within an organization such as organization design, adaptive leadership, governance and strategy as well as Agile practices outside IT. The need of the hour is to sense and respond to customer and market needs with disruptive products and services in an immediate friction less manner. However, in a rapidly evolving and highly competitive environment, how does one adapt to market pressures with consistently better products, processes and organizational environment? How can an enterprise achieve this adaptive state to achieve greater market share and revenue growth?

Studies show that human imaginations, desires, needs and wants grow at a faster pace than the rate at which systems and technologies can support. For example, none of us thought a taxi could be at our doorstep with a click of a button 10 years ago. Today, app-based taxis, even those who conceived and conceptualized the idea of Ola or Uber, did not envision the current version of the product. This leads to complex and adaptive systems.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to understand the customer’s needs and wants through only conversation. Rather customers realize what they want mainly by seeing it. Products emerge and evolve iteratively and incrementally, as value is realized by releasing working software to production, wherein customer validates it and provides their feedback.

Mahesh Varadharajan SAFe Practice Consultant Trainer (SPCT), Accenture

03:30 PM