Agile India 2018
2018-03-04..2018-03-11
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Working Backwards | Alan Cooper | 44m |
Explains a repeatable design practice called working backwards: start by throwing out assumptions, identify users and their goals, then imagine ideal solutions… | ||
| How Novel Compute Technology Transforms Life Science Research | Denis C. Bauer | 42m |
Team describes genome‑scale pipelines that use serverless (AWS Lambda) and Apache Spark / VariantSpark to run feature selection across 22,000 samples (~1.7… | ||
| Experiments, the Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful | Linda Rising | 48m |
Argues for replacing grand "experiments" with tiny actionable trials, showing why randomized science is usually impossible in orgs and why small simple fast… | ||
| How Agile Screwed Up Product Ownership and 5 Things You Can Do to Fix It | Jeff Patton | 01h 01m |
Argues that Agile’s fixation on points and velocity sacrifices real product value and urges five changes: form a cross-functional core team (product, UX, tech… | ||
| Beyond Budgeting – Business Agility for New Business & People Realities | Bjarte Bogsnes | 38m |
Statoil replaces annual budgets with an Ambition to Action model that ties strategic objectives to team-level commitments, deploys no traditional budgets… | ||
| From Operational to Strategic Agility | Steve Denning | 48m |
Argues that making existing products cheaper/faster — operational agility — often fails to create big financial gains, while strategic agility intentionally… | ||
| From Doing Things Right to Doing the Right Things | Peter Jacobs | 38m |
ING describes moving from process optimization to outcome-driven work by running tens of thousands of fully automated changes per month and using an assembly… | ||
| Winning Capabilities in a changing Energy Environment | Nils Kappeyne | 29m |
Shell frames digitalization as core to competing with 2016 figures cited: $21B cash from operations, 43,000 retail stations, 30→33 million tonnes LNG and 2%… | ||
| Adopting DevOps? You are Aiming at the Wrong Target! | Gregor Hohpe | 50m |
Argues that DevOps is a transformation not an adoption and shows concrete levers: remove friction, cut inventory and stop building useless features. Cites a… | ||
| The Foundations of Business Agility | Shane Hastie | 51m |
Argues that true business agility requires structural change not a veneer: adopt the nine domains of business agility with the customer at the centre, move… | ||
| A Fighter Pilot Perspective on Business Agility | Tomas Eilse | 48m |
An F16 fighter pilot perspective on how we can achieve business agility at scale using fighter pilots ideas about decentralization, planning, mutual trust and… | ||
| The Wizard of OSS | Jutta Eckstein | 48m |
Argues enterprise agility requires combining Beyond Budgeting, Open Space and Sociocracy with Agile and shows concrete practices: run open space days to… | ||
| Certain Uncertainty | Evan Leybourn | 49m |
Claims a practical model with three dimensions—work, connections, mindset—and nine domains called the Domains of Business Agility, tested with case studies in… | ||
| Design for a Better Living | Dan Makoski | 45m |
Walmart buys Jet for $3 billion, pilots free fast shipping and a local pickup incentive for items stocked within about 50 miles of stores, and sees doubled… | ||
| Betting On Evolutionary Architecture | James L | 42m |
Claims that placing small bets with continuous delivery and infrastructure-as-code beats one big upfront architecture decision; built an S3+XSLT pipeline… | ||
| Breaking a Monolithic Devops | Predeep | 44m |
Describes a two-year migration from a monolithic EDW to integrated data marts that yields concrete results: deployment lead time drops 30 days to 2 hours… | ||
| Chaos Engineering | Nikhil Barthwal | 36m |
Defines Chaos Engineering as live experiments that inject failures into production to learn real failure modes, names Netflix tools Chaos Monkey and Chaos Kong… | ||
| Cloud Security Essentials | James Stewart | 44m |
Highlights concrete claims and practices: cites the 1.35 Tbps GitHub DDoS, £130 billion UK cybercrime 2017, and NHS/WannaCry impact to argue scale is rising… | ||
| Designing for Change Management | Mary Wharmby | 44m |
BBVA moves design from boutique to backbone: the global design team grows from under 6 to ~200 designers in two years, design reaches the CEO on video, and a… | ||
| Better SAFe Than Sorry | Chris James | 46m |
Overview of SAFe v4.5, the ten essential SAFe elements and a live Micro Focus rollout that starts Sept 2016 and combines 50+ product teams into six large… | ||
| Beyond Agile: Preparing for Digitalization | Jutta Eckstein | 34m |
Argues that Agile alone is insufficient for company-level digitalization and proposes combining beyond budgeting, open space, and sociocracy with Agile to… | ||
| Enterprise Architecture = Architecting the Enterprise | Gregor Hohpe | 50m |
Enterprise architecture claims the only feasible path to transparency across hundreds or thousands of applications by mapping business strategy to IT strategy… | ||
| Myths and Patterns of Organisational Change | Linda Rising | 46m |
Claim: rational argument alone rarely changes organizations, so use social psychology, influence research and repeated small trials to shift behavior. Concrete… | ||
| It's Not Continuous Delivery if You Can't Deploy Right Now | Ken Mugrage | 47m |
Claim: continuous delivery only counts if the team can deploy right now to production. Explains daily trunk commits (no long-lived feature branches), CI… | ||
| Business Agility Panel | 29m | |
Discussion names concrete levers: change hiring to screen for agile mindset in leaders (experiments show big lift), make managers own the transformation so… | ||
| Transformation for Inclusion | Naresh Jain, Prachi Saraph | 48m |
All transformations have to start from within. This session was an attempt to create awareness on Diversity and Inclusion
Slide and Other details… | ||
| Change Your Focus | Ray Arell | 43m |
Argues that organizations trade true customer value for speed and activity metrics and shows a working alternative used inside Intel: a refactored lifecycle… | ||
| Making Value Visible | Andy Cooper | 49m |
Argues for a repeatable Value Engineering process that turns fuzzy choices into numbers: borrow Cynefin, design thinking, Lean Startup and Agile, map options… | ||
| Performance Reviews that Don't Suck | Todd Little | 46m |
A values‑based review system replaces SMART objectives with five clear dimensions and level‑based expectations, uses coaching and frequent one‑on‑ones, and… | ||
| Connecting Strategy Design and Delivery | Ricardo Viana Vargas | 50m |
Research-backed claim: only 1 in 10 strategies fully succeed and organizations lose about $1M every 20 seconds from ideas that never reach impact. Brightline… | ||
| Women in Design & Tech Leadership - Panel Discussion | Sue Cooper, Reema Diwan, Mary Wharmby, Deepa Bachu, Poornima Girish, Sujitha Karnad, Teresa Brazen | 48m |
Discussion cites NCWIT evidence that gender diversity in senior management raises financial performance, notes India’s female labor-force share falling from… | ||
| Agile UX Research Methodologies | Dushyantsinh Jadeja | 27m |
Describes concrete methods used at Google: heuristic evaluation that measured Android tablet setup time in seconds and produced a faster build within a week… | ||
| Designing with a biased mind | Nitin Ramrakhyani | 27m |
Claims that the brain makes ~32,000 choices daily and 95% of decisions by System 1 lead to predictable errors; notes 186 biases reduced to four buckets (too… | ||
| Research Methods: Receive Inspiration and Design Delightful Solutions | Deepa Bachu | 54m |
Teams show that a simple smiley-face cue on bills changes tenant behavior over time, not surveys. Field methods include wild-safari mystery shopping, 90/10… | ||
| Unleashing Your Innovation Potential | Praveen Vajpeyi | 47m |
Claims concrete wins: the SAT is redesigned after 18 months of field research and the College Board still delivers ~7 million assessments a year while only… | ||
| From The Iron Age To The Cloud Age | Kief Morris | 45m |
Argues that cloud plus automation only helps when old Iron Age processes change, citing a client with a 20 minutes VM who still waits two weeks process because… | ||
| Cloud Native Java | Josh Long | 48m |
Builds a cloud-native reservation service end-to-end and shows it running: Spring Boot + Spring Cloud with a reactive WebFlux API, Reactive MongoDB for… | ||
| IoT & Microservices | Fred George | 40m |
Proposes solving IoT platform chaos with Asynchronous MicroServices that publish device state to a RabbitMQ event bus and vote via lightweight, idempotent… | ||
| Product-Mode | Sriram Narayan | 44m |
Digital success demands market-responsive teams that can truly solve problems and not just build some software. Software projects are a popular way of funding… | ||
| Unikernels: The Next Evolution in Cloud Infrastructure | Nikhil Barthwal | 38m |
Unikernels fuse application and OS libraries into a single sealed image, claiming drastically smaller attack surface and millisecond boot times; MirageOS is… | ||
| #Devops Journey | Vinod Joshi | 44m |
Microsoft reports moving 82,000+ Microsofties onto VSTS and running about 40 feature crews inside an ~800-person org using three-week sprints with a… | ||
| Painless Micro Frontends Delivery | Nick Balestra | 38m |
OpenComponents provides a runtime registry with versioned endpoints where each frontend component is a separately published package; a CLI builds and uploads… | ||
| Implementing Infrastructure as Code | Kief Morris | 46m |
Argues that defining infrastructure in versioned code and running it through CI pipelines turns risky, slow provisioning into routine, testable change. Shows… | ||
| Infrastructure as service code using | Srini Kadiam, Mohan | 45m |
Demo shows automated Azure provisioning using PowerShell modules and ARM JSON templates to create a resource group, vNet with two subnets, two Windows VMs in… | ||
| Serverless Application Development using | Nikhil Barthwal | 43m |
Explains how to build elastic serverless apps with Azure Functions and C#, using the Azure CLI and the Azure Functions runtime locally for hybrid testing and… | ||
| Going Server less for Web Services | Denis C. Bauer | 32m |
A genome-search web service shards whole-genome off-target searches into hundreds of AWS Lambda workers behind an API Gateway and DynamoDB, cutting… | ||
| Design Dive: An Immersive workshop on Design Thinking | Anirban Bhattacharya | 01h 15m |
Design Dive (D2) is a 2-hour programme that offers leaders and managers a simulative experience of the powerful process of Design Thinking. The workshop offers… | ||
| A Practical Experiences implementing Business Agility at Ericsson | Hendrik Esser | 54m |
A 2000‑person R&D unit that started agile in 2008 runs seven workstreams, enlists 140 volunteers who produce 600 process slides, and builds a distributed… | ||
| Build Voice-Enabled Experiences | Sohan Maheshwar | 43m |
Amazon Alexa is presented as a cloud service plus hardware: an Echo with a seven-microphone array for far-field pickup, backed by the Alexa Skills Kit and… | ||
| Continuous Innovation | Steve Denning | 52m |
Argues that continuous innovation requires strategic agility not just operational improvements, guided by three laws: Law of the Customer, Law of the Small… | ||
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