Agile India 2017
2017-03-05..2017-03-12
Bengaluru, India
[Agile India 2012, Agile India 2017, Agile India 2018, Agile India 2020, Agile India 2021, Agile India 2022, Agile India 2023, Agile India 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: Engineering the Switch to Digital | Ron Van Kemenade | 01h 05m |
Digital proficiency is no longer just "nice to have" for banks; it is a requirement for successful customer engagement and long-term growth. In 2010, the… | ||
| Keynote: Modern Agile | Joshua Kerievsky | 57m |
Genuine agility is enormously effective in helping us achieve our dreams. The trouble is, Agile has grown into a complex tangle of roles and rituals… | ||
| Keynote: Value Driven Development | Dave Thomas | 01h 11m |
Agile, OOP... are like good hygiene in the kitchen, it results in meals with consistent quality and predictable prep and service times. It doesn't result in… | ||
| Keynote: Continous Delivery Sounds Great | Jez Humble | 53m |
Since the Continuous Delivery book came out in 2010, it's gone from being a controversial idea to a commonplace... until you consider that many people who say… | ||
| Keynote: Conversations with Machines | Nate Clinton | 45m |
Claims that conversational interfaces will reshape work and services, backed by concrete examples: Amazon Echo and Google Home voice devices (30 million+ units… | ||
| Keynote: Towards Future Ops | Mitchell Hashimoto | 54m |
Argues operations evolve toward heterogeneity and multicloud strategies: teams run VMs and containers across AWS, Google and Azure (example: one company keeps… | ||
| Panel: Agile Scaling Frameworks And Their Ecos system - Boon or Bane | Jutta Eckstein, Naresh Jain, Scott W Ambler, Chris James, Kurt Bittner, Bas Vodde | 01h 10m |
Over the last few years, as agile has gained traction inside the enterprises, we've seen many scaling frameworks have sprung up. These scaling frameworks claim… | ||
| Thaalavattam Project | Montry Manuel | 01h 08m |
Builds percussion instruments from waste plastic and metal—paint cans, soda cans, PVC pipe and repurposed chemical drums—and runs public drum circles that… | ||
| DIFFY Catching Bugs without Writing Tests | Puneet Khanduri | 38m |
Diffy is a tool used at Twitter to automatically catch regressions in our backend services before they are deployed to production.
Diffy is open source and… | ||
| Why Scaling Agile Doesn't Work | Jez Humble | 48m |
There are now several frameworks designed to address the demand for “big agile.”
In this talk Jez will explain the flaws in such frameworks, why they so often… | ||
| Technical Debt Trap | Doc Norton | 48m |
Argues that real technical debt is deliberate, refactorable code with tests, not messy legacy which is re-labeled crust, and shows a plotted cost-of-change… | ||
| The Story of LESS | Bas Vodde | 52m |
This talk is based on story-telling, where Bas will share the creation of LeSS and within that side-track on explaining better how LeSS works.
LeSS is a… | ||
| Creating Great Teams - How Self-Selection Lets People Excel | Sandy Mamoli | 43m |
Here’s a radical idea: Trust people to know best and let them decide which team they should work in. Let them Self-Select!
Self-selection is the simplest… | ||
| Tis Better to be Effective Than Efficient | Kent McDonald | 43m |
Better. Faster. Cheaper. Many IT organizations are constantly seeking the "best" practices that will deliver those characteristics, and the fact that they… | ||
| Purposeful Agile | Oana Juncu | 47m |
Claims that a clear shared purpose makes teams self‑organize and scaling a side effect, and lays out three stages: how‑to, attitude, purpose with concrete… | ||
| Hike Down the Devops Road | RishuMehrotra | 48m |
As India's first (and perhaps only) home-grown messaging platform, Hike messenger has been at the forefront of delivering user delight and technological… | ||
| The Only 2 Things needed to Scale Agile | Erwin van der Koogh | 47m |
Claim: scale adaptability by doing two specific things not adopting a framework. Move funding from projects to product-based portfolio management (example… | ||
| Designing Business Outcomes (#noprojects) | Evan Leybourn | 49m |
Argues organizations must stop funding outputs and start funding measurable outcomes with a clear profile: metric, baseline, time‑bound target, budget… | ||
| What I learned from a Professional Sports Career | Sandy Mamoli | 46m |
Covers six concrete habits drawn from Olympic handball: pick the team where you are the worst player to normalize high performance; use both instant vs delayed… | ||
| The top 5 problems with distributed agile | Hugo Messer | 26m |
Distills five specific failure modes: teams-in-the-dark from poor domain access, the vendor-as-black box, persistent us versus them thinking, collapsed… | ||
| Path to Devops: Cloud Native Applications | Ankur Sambhar | 23m |
Migration to Cloud is the need of an hour as it brings in the required agility to the way the applications are built and hosted. With ever changing business… | ||
| Deliver Impact With Empathy | Joy Montello | 32m |
Central claim: delivery without empathy is useless — start by getting inside users’ shoes, not guessing solutions. Practical moves at Target: require 140 teams… | ||
| Examining the Product Owner Role | Kent McDonald | 38m |
Argues product ownership is about three concrete responsibilities not a title: outcome over output (prioritize work that learns fastest or reduces biggest… | ||
| Be Ready, Be Done: The Art of Slicing User Stories | RajIndugula | 47m |
Advocates splitting epics into vertical slices that deliver testable, end‑to‑end value rather than horizontal layers; presents nine concrete patterns (workflow… | ||
| Refactoring Legacy Code Guided by Simple Design | Nayan Hajratwala | 44m |
Walks through a real legacy Java module and performs safe refactorings guided by the Four Rules of Simple Design: enable Eclipse warnings, remove dead code… | ||
| 7 Sins of Scaling and Other Agile Anti Patterns | ToddLittle | 47m |
Argues that common scaling anti‑patterns produce fast but useless work and offers concrete fixes: replace status overflow of value with delivery of tangible… | ||
| An Ode to the Instagram generation | Karthik Kamal B | 49m |
Claims that visuals drive retention give way to a hands-on claim: usability testing finds concrete friction points in Instagram/Snapchat/Hike. Workshop runs a… | ||
| Agile India 2017 - Kent McDonald | Kent McDonald | 07m |
Argues that teams must prioritize outcome over output and measure progress by how close work gets to a specific objective rather than by story points. Offers a… | ||
| Mob Programming and NoEstimates | Woody Zuill | 04m |
Argues that mob programming shifts optimization from individual utilization to optimize for flow, measuring how fast work moves from start to done and reducing… | ||
| Safety in Agile Transformations | Isabel Evans | 05m |
Resistance stems from fear from prior authoritarian environments and lack of confidence, so change requires a careful, scaffolded approach: an agile coach runs… | ||
| Empathy and Data | Joy Montello-Fitzharris | 05m |
Argues that combining quantitative measures with firsthand user immersion improves product impact: Apple’s design lab finds teams that bring actual users are… | ||
| Company-Wide Agility | Jutta Eckstein | 05m |
Argues that scaling agility beyond IT requires changing budgeting, power and meeting practices rather than just applying Scrum to HR or legal; gives concrete… | ||
| Creating Create Teams | Sandy Mamoli | 04m |
Argues that unguided self-selection creates a risk of reduced diversity but shows a simple intervention: facilitated sessions where coaches ask if choices… | ||
| Distributed Teams | Hugo Messer | 06m |
Describes concrete fixes for India–West distributed teams: use a proxy product owner co‑located with the dev team who travels monthly and gains decision… | ||
| Enterprise Transformation | Parikshit Basrur | 06m |
Claims a concrete transformation playbook that lists step‑by‑step actions developers can take to influence culture, reframes job titles into skill sets so… | ||
| Design and Agility | Andrew Kaufteil | 05m |
Cooper uses pair design on every project pairing a generator and synthesizer so divergent creativity meets convergent craft, creating deliberate constructive… | ||
| Todd Little, Program Chair of Agile India 2017 | Todd Little | 05m |
Program chair narrative traces involvement since 2014 attendee turned program chair and describes concrete changes: sessions move from prescriptive “do this”… | ||
| Scrum Myths and Misconceptions | Steve Porter | 05m |
Scrum has a brand problem: many complaints come from practices that are not in the Scrum Guide, a 16 pages rulebook. Key claims: teams must produce a… | ||
| Scaling Your Continuous Deployment using Docker and Containers | Sean, Chris | 01h 32m |
How can new tools and technologies shorten our feedback cycles, and reduce pain and frustration of deployment and maintenance of systems? How do you scale your… | ||
| No Estimates? | Woody Zuill | 01h 32m |
Let’s explore the purpose and use of estimates in the management of software development efforts, and consider possible alternatives. We depend on estimates to… | ||
| Does software testing need to be this way? | Julian Harty | 49m |
Software development teams recognise testing is relevant and important. Testers want to add value and do purposeful and meaningful work, however software… | ||
| Devops Lead IT Transformation | Prasad | 29m |
Total cost of ownership of the Investment Bank IT portfolio is way too high. Business is also keen in getting high responsiveness from IT. There is high… | ||
| Can BI Teams be Nimble and Continuously Deliver Value | Joy Montello | 24m |
Sixteen years ago the ‘Agile Manifesto’ was written out of a “need for an alternative to documentation driven, heavyweight software development processes”[1]…… | ||
| What's Measured Improves: Metrics that Matter | Raj, Robert | 47m |
So your organization has embarked upon a transformation to be more nimble and responsive by employing the latest tools and thinking in the Agile and DevOps… | ||
| UI Automation: Keeping Pace with Product Evolution | Narayan Raman | 45m |
Team A's application is evolving fast. Team B is switching UI frameworks (jQuery to Angular). Team C is migrating an applet application to web. Team D is… | ||
| Testing Strategy: New Model, Better Outcome | David Laribee | 50m |
Pyramids? Quadrants? Cupcakes?! There are a wide array of models that describe approaches to test automation strategy and their possible positive (or negative)… | ||
| Confessions of a Reformed Agile Coach | Sean Dunn | 42m |
Becomes a programmer on a team maintaining 15–20 year legacy code and discovers standard coaching rituals actually distract from deep work; replaces rote… | ||
| Devopsec: Rapid Security in the Cloud with AWS and CIS | Mikhail, Tamhane | 15m |
An open‑source tool that automates CIS AWS Foundations checks and AWS best‑practice tests at the account level and runs them inside CI/CD pipelines, detecting… | ||
| Evolutionary Anatomy of Test Automation Code | George Dinwiddie | 01h 21m |
Many people agree that one important outcome of Behavior Driven Development is a set of regression tests to demonstrate the desired behavior and ensure that it… | ||
| Lightning Talks | 07m | |
A set of short experiences argues that padded estimates in a travel project consistently eat the buffer and push work buffers 2–3× beyond planned time so… | ||
| Demystifying a Powerful Collaboration Technique | Jeremy Kriegel | 01h 04m |
"This meeting is a waste of my time."
When was the last time you had that thought? Was it because the conversation wasn't focused, or people couldn't agree… | ||
| Postmortem of a Product Everyone Loved | Erwin van der Koogh | 46m |
It was 2011 and I was invited to participate in an extremely exciting gig. Help out the Strategic Innovation team at a large Telco with both technical… | ||
| Lean Startup from the Trenches | Manish Chiniwalar | 25m |
A startup builds GoodKarma with a design sprint then an MVP, validates pricing by selling before product completion and signs the 5% fee deal as part of early… | ||
| Improving Mobile Apps using an Analytical Feedback | Julian Harty | 46m |
There are various ways we can improve the testing of mobile apps. These include:
Better testing
Test automation
Scaling testing
Using software tools e.g… | ||
| Product Design | Sumit Mehra | 47m |
Product design is essentially an efficient and effective generation and development of ideas through a process that leads to new products. Well "isn't that… | ||
| MVP in Fintech | Ramki Gaddipari | 47m |
MVP in Fintech by Ramki Gaddipari at #AgileIndia2017
More details: https://confengine.com/agile-india-2017/proposal/3613/mvp-in-fintech
Conference details… | ||
| Lean Products Discovery in Medtech | Rajneesh Bhandari | 47m |
Every year startups fail, because they build too much and validate too little. I did the same mistake with my first tech startup. However when I started… | ||
| Design Thinking Vs Lean Startup | Tathagat Varma | 53m |
In recent years, two similar-sounding but distinct approaches to product discovery have emerged: Design Thinking and Lean Startup. Most of the literature and… | ||
| Customer Discovery or Product Discovery | Raghu Kashyap | 39m |
As the co-founders of Intentwise we strongly believe in few things;
1. Customer discovery and product discovery cannot be done in isolation.
2. Search and… | ||
| Business Value Over Architecture? | Jutta Eckstein | 24m |
Explains a pragmatic decision map: plot uncertainty (new tech) versus rate of change, then pick one of four architecture supports — chief architect or… | ||
| With Sociocracy, Hierarchy becomes Agile | Jutta Eckstein, John Buck | 01h 14m |
Many agile teams suffer from the mismatch of agile and organizational leadership, with the latter being reflected by the organizational hierarchy. Based on… | ||
| The Power of Purpose | Fennande, Maartje | 40m |
Having a clear purpose in both life and work is essential to happiness. And, science and business support this view. Companies with a clear purpose perform… | ||
| Lightning Talks | 04m | |
Argues that start with personal questions builds quick rapport, using simple storytelling and name memory as the primary tools, not techniques or slides… | ||
| Lightning Talks | 16m | |
Organization-wide agile transformation uses an early-adopter model and volunteers, with only about 1 in 10 initiatives actually reaching a logical conclusion… | ||
| Philips scaled Agile Transformation journey | Sundaresan Jagadeesan | 28m |
Philips - SW transformation program is involved in the deployment of (Scaled) Agile framework to enable TTM and Quality in Business from the year 2014. We… | ||
| Two Dimensions Of Agile At Scale | Kurt Bittner | 48m |
Distinguishes two concrete problems: scaling breadth to change culture and shared services, and scaling depth to coordinate multiple teams on one product… | ||
| Scaleable Devops With SAFE | Chris James | 42m |
Real, tangible development value occurs only when the end users are successfully operating the Solution in their environment. This demands that the complex… | ||
| How To Facilitate Distribution Retrospectives | Aino Vonge Corry | 44m |
Distributed retrospectives are harder but unavoidable and work if you follow concrete practices: prepare asynchronously (share a Google Doc/Drawings timeline… | ||
| Beyond Easy Agile | Scott W Ambler | 48m |
Many agile methods and strategies are geared towards small teams working in reasonably straightforward situations. That’s great work if you can get it. Most… | ||
| Mob Programming: A whole team approach | Woody Zuill | 48m |
Mob Programming is a development practice where the whole team works on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and on the same computer. It is a… | ||
| Agile Introverts, An Oxymoron? | Chris Edwards | 36m |
Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration. This is probably the most used word you'll hear from agilists. It sits right at the core of agile principles. How… | ||
| Blow your self sealing bubble of Beliefs about Agile | Oana Juncu | 01h 13m |
We are drawn to people who share the same beliefs and have had similar relevant experiences. These groups give us strength and a sense of belonging. However… | ||
| Making Sense of Sense making | Diane, Doc | 59m |
The world as we know it is growing more complex. As we automate away those things that can be easily repeated, we leave ourselves with ever more challenging… | ||
| Lightning Talks | 11m | |
Calls to question default practices lead with no estimates as a prompt to audit habits and assumptions, not just rename ceremonies. Multiple teams report three… | ||
| Importance of preparation in an agile world | Prabhakar Karve | 25m |
Presents a concrete Way of Working (WoW) framework that maps five layers — actions, interactions, emotions, decisions, opinions — and a step‑by‑step practice… | ||
| Let’s play the ‘Choose Happiness@work’ game | Maartie Wolff | 38m |
Happiness@work is about a lot of things. For example purpose, culture, autonomy, personal grow, attention, fun, flow, results, being yourself and friendship… | ||
| Lightning Talks | 14m | |
Claims that authority is what others grant not position, demonstrated by taking a room with a three‑piece suit and a two‑second attention window; shows Rubik’s… | ||
| Work Culture Masala: 9 keys to innovation | Andrew Kaufteil | 33m |
Designing a highly creative and productive work culture looks easy, but is actually hard work. In this talk, I will explain my transition from more traditional… | ||
| The Power of Doubt - Becoming a Software Skeptic | Zeger | 43m |
"I don’t know".
These might just be the hardest words to say in any language. We avoid saying them, scared of coming across as doubtful and uncertain. This… | ||
| Mindfulness: Cultivating Agile Minds | Vishweshwar Hegde | 22m |
Claims that mindfulness improves emotional intelligence and measured outcomes using neuroscience: reduced hypothalamus gray matter, increased neocortex… | ||
| How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love my Agile Team | Dipesh Pala | 34m |
As we reflect back on our numerous struggles with making Agile Teams more efficient and operate like well-oiled machines, we are often overwhelmed with… | ||
| Improve Together | Craig Brown | 43m |
How does your team improve? What are the limits to what you can do? Have you set your sights high enough?
We are in this together in everything. We need to… | ||
| Without a Data Culture, Agile is Just a Process | Ashwin Apte | 48m |
“We have tons of data, we don’t do enough with it”. Sound familiar? This is a familiar refrain from CxOs and Product leaders.
Entire business models today… | ||
| Mentoring technical practices, what works and not | Stanly Lau | 47m |
Describes a five-year mentoring program that uses pairing, weekly exercises derived from the production repo and one-day workshops to teach refactoring and… | ||
| Release Status Analyser to bring more agility @ work | Pooja Shah | 23m |
A lightweight dashboard called Release Status Analyser aggregates CI results, test metadata (environment, machine, code version), screenshots and console logs… | ||
| Selecting scaling framework | Nilesh Kulkarni | 47m |
Explains a decision checklist: first start with purpose (bid requirements, amplify a successful team, or reduce complexity), next match candidate frameworks to… | ||
| A Comment on How We Learn | Aino Vonge Corry | 49m |
As an expert you will be asked to facilitate the learning of others, not to mention your personal eternal learning in your field. Join an interactive session… | ||
| A Visual Thinking Warmup | Alexandra West | 01h 08m |
Do strong personalities dominate your development team? Are code reviews painful? Are you blindly following orders from a backlog, or are you learning from… | ||
| Dynamic Reteaming | Heidi Helfand | 46m |
Argues that deliberate team changes boost learning, reduce silos and sometimes save products, citing interviews with ~30 people and companies that doubled… | ||
| Rewarding Open Sourse with $$$ | Gautam Rege | 24m |
A platform called CodeCuriosity measures and scores every open‑source action — commits, issues, docs and PRs — using a heat‑map algorithm that weights hotspot… | ||
| The structure of an agile organisation ... | Evan Leybourn | 42m |
Traditional business models are failing to keep up with the needs of the modern economy. While business has never been predictable, technological and cultural… | ||
| Agile India Conference - The Journey So Far! | 03m | |
Asia's largest Agile conference reports 14 years and 56 conferences across 13 cities, runs as a non‑profit volunteer community, and claims 950+ speakers and… | ||
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