Agile India 2020
2020-10-11..2020-10-18
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[Agile India 2012, Agile India 2017, Agile India 2018, Agile India 2020, Agile India 2021, Agile India 2022, Agile India 2023, Agile India 2025]
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| [UPDATED] Agile India 2020 Virtual Conference: 11-18 October - Asia's largest Agile conference | 02m | |
We are super excited to announce the 16th edition of Agile India, Asia's Largest and Premier International Conference on Leading Edge Software Development… | ||
| Why Product Thinking is so Hard (and what you can do about it) | Jeff Patton | 48m |
Minimum viable product is widely misunderstood and causes teams to focus on time, cost and scope instead of customer outcomes. The concrete prescription is to… | ||
| A Balancing Act | Anita Bhandari, Rajneesh Bhandari | 42m |
Company develops low-cost vertigo diagnostics and remote care: a PowerPoint SVV replacement that replicates a $15,000 laser projector, a miniature 3D-printed… | ||
| Net Positive Development | Michael Feathers | 49m |
Argues that network science explains why code, teams and organizations behave the same way and gives concrete rules: communication costs grow as n squared vs n… | ||
| It Is Not About Software Anymore | Mary Poppendieck | 01h 07m |
Claim: urgent technology change during the pandemic is rarely about software alone but about reconfiguring infrastructure and supply chains now. Examples… | ||
| Technical Excellence, You Need It! | James Grenning | 51m |
Argues that adopting engineering practices—test-driven development, refactoring, continuous design, clean code and automated testing—turns Scrum’s visibility… | ||
| Is Mindset Yet Another Agile Buzzword? | Dave Snowden | 51m |
Argues that “mindset” is a misleading excuse and that decisions are triggered pattern matches not programmable models, supported by the inattentional blindness… | ||
| A Cheap Effective Method for Dealing with Stressful Situations | Linda Rising | 26m |
Expressive writing claims measurable health gains: Pennebaker’s 1983 trial halves subsequent clinic visits, psychoneuroimmunology followups show reduced… | ||
| Why I Wouldn't Use MicroServices | Fred George | 35m |
Argues microservices are often the wrong choice for law-driven domains and shows concrete results: a Norwegian benefits system models the law with 320 concepts… | ||
| A Crystal Ball to Prioritize Technical Debt | Adam Tornhill | 48m |
Claims that version‑control behavior pinpoints where technical debt matters, not raw static metrics; shows a static tool reporting “4,000 years” of debt on a… | ||
| The Future of Work | Patricia Kong | 21m |
Scrum.org releases an updated Evidence-Based Management (EBM) guide and an Agile Measurement open assessment, with a certification coming soon, claiming teams… | ||
| The Dynamics and Constraints of Cynefin - A Case Study | Zhen Goh | 18m |
Shows how Cynefin guided safe-to-fail experiments in SARS 2003 and was selectively reused for COVID: government ships free thermometers to every household… | ||
| Trunk Based Development and Feature Toggles | Leena S N | 18m |
Claim: shipping requires trunk-based development plus feature toggles so code integrates daily and deploys continuously instead of sitting six months (one… | ||
| Building Alignment - Team Working Agreements | Ellen Grove | 20m |
Advocates creating concise, visible team working agreements for remote teams that translate high‑level principles into specific behaviors (examples: set Slack… | ||
| Onboarding 1000 s of Engineers from 60+ Countries | Julian Harty | 23m |
Company reduces onboarding from ~90 days to a five-day program that gets hires working in the real PHP codebase, running tests and able to deploy to production… | ||
| The Evolutionary transformation into a truly Digital Enterprise | Nisha Augustine | 14m |
Enterprise transformation follows a three-stage, step-by-step claim: adopt → scale → transform, where teams first learn Scrum/Kanban, then form team-of-teams… | ||
| Jutta Eckstein - #AgileIndia2020 interview | Jutta Eckstein | 02m |
Full-day workshop shows concrete exercises to replace vanity KPIs and OKRs with outcome-based measures, defines an experiment cadence and simple learning… | ||
| Discover Your Leadership Agility | Sam Bowtell | 43m |
Covers 10 leadership attributes with a timed two‑minute drill for each and a downloadable 16-page workbook containing exercises and a scoring sheet (1–10 with… | ||
| The New Era of the Scrum Master | Danny Kovatch | 41m |
Presents a practical dojo model that maps Scrum Master maturity into five belt levels (white, orange, blue, black, red) and prescribes concrete moves: use a… | ||
| Communities of Practice: The Missing Piece of your Agile Organisation | Emily Webber | 44m |
Communities of practice accelerate onboarding, reduce silos and create usable artifacts (design systems, Gov Service Manual, living docs) using Slack/Teams… | ||
| Ego, Power, Fear ... and Leadership | Oana Juncu | 45m |
Argues that leadership requires dropping protective ego layers built from five childhood wounds — rejection, abandonment, betrayal, humiliation, injustice —… | ||
| Collaboration Deep Dive | Craig Brown | 46m |
A practical workshop that runs a live Google Form survey and a Collaboration workbook, collects multi-year responses from conferences, and returns aggregated… | ||
| Fun! Done! Learn! A Positive Retrospective Born in Japan | Yasunobu Kawaguchi | 22m |
Claims a simple three-question format called Fun! Done! Learn! replaces long kaizen retrospectives by collecting index-card facts: what was done, what was fun… | ||
| Personal Agility - A framework beyond frameworks | Abhigya Pokharel | 44m |
Claims a simple, repeatable system (Peter Stevens’ Personal Agility) that cuts calendar clutter and forces selection of 3–4 priorities instead of a dozen… | ||
| Leading the Remote:AF Enterprise | Andrew Blain | 43m |
Remote:AF is a modular framework launched in February to turn remote work into repeatable operating practice, with specific tools like virtual obeya… | ||
| Co-create the Emotional Culture in Your Org | Jakub Jurkiewicz, Jeremy Dean | 01h 16m |
Hands-on workshop uses the Emotional Culture Deck card game (black/white emotion cards) and four exercises—weekly retro check-in, intention-setting, self top‑3… | ||
| Build the Right Thing with a Formalized Discovery Process | Anjali D Leon | 42m |
A formal discovery framework at a 1,000‑person Pearson unit redirects investment into testing problems before building features for 75,000 full‑time and… | ||
| The Ethics of Agile Coaching | Shane Hastie | 46m |
A working group of about 23–24 people under Agile Alliance drafts a code of ethics for agile coaching and publishes a starter set of nine areas… | ||
| Security & Chaos Engineering: Resilient Distributed Systems | Aaron Rinehart | 40m |
Security Chaos Engineering applies failure injection to validate real controls rather than hope. It shows a Lambda-based, opt-in framework (Chaoslinger /… | ||
| Meet The Social Side of Your Architecture | Adam Tornhill | 46m |
Argues that invisible organizational structure causes defects and delays and gives concrete ways to measure it: compute fractal figures from git by aggregating… | ||
| Visual Validation - The Missing Tip of the Automation Pyramid | Anand Bagmar | 36m |
Argues that UI visual validation joins the automation pyramid as a required layer, showing concrete failures (Amazon, UPS, Financial Times, HDFC examples) and… | ||
| Creating a Culture for Innovation | Karen Ferris | 38m |
Argues that innovation must be everyone's job and gives concrete practices: replace command-and-control with delegated trust, set clear objectives and… | ||
| Agile Data Governance: Measure Anything vs Consistency and Reliability | Jacob Singh | 37m |
Grofers shifts from opinion to measurable signals by back-correlating early events to six‑month retention: three orders in three months becomes the habit… | ||
| Confused Tester in Chaotic World | Ashish Kumar | 22m |
Case study of a contact‑center platform that serves 40K+ agents shows chaos testing using VMware APIs to cut inter‑node communication, PowerShell to kill… | ||
| Mangle -Systematically Introducing Chaos to Your Application | Avinash Shrimali, Aswathy Ramabhadran | 40m |
Mangle is an open-source chaos platform that runs against K8s, Docker, vCenter or any SSH host with a REST API, Cassandra persistence and Hazelcast for HA… | ||
| Shrinking Production Incidents | Damodharan Rajalingam | 51m |
Defines failures with client-facing SLIs/SLOs and uses error budgets to decide tradeoffs, then forces fast detection via client or prober metrics, dashboards… | ||
| Building Event-driven Serverless Applications | Gunnar Grosch | 45m |
Event-driven serverless shifts from API-driven one-to-one calls to asynchronous, one-to-many events so services scale and avoid cascading failures; examples… | ||
| Managing Modern Serverless Workloads Using Knative & Cloud Run | Nikhil Barthwal | 44m |
Explains Knative’s serving and eventing plus Cloud Run (fully managed and Anthos) and shows a working demo: a container built with LibreOffice converts DOC to… | ||
| Product Usage Metrics - Practical Lessons from the Trenches | Kiran Kashyap | 18m |
Shows how an intentional product usage metric strategy is built in practice: instrument events, generate a usage-report that surfaces concrete signals (example… | ||
| Lightning Talks | Naresh Jain | 38m |
Claims that matter: someone stopped TDD after 15 years and argues tests let developers hide complexity, so removing them forces simpler, more experimentable… | ||
| Building Powerful Roadmaps | Gino Marckx | 42m |
Argues for roadmaps built from milestones that either deliver customer value or reduce the biggest risks, not from technical dependencies; demonstrates with a… | ||
| Kube Me This! Kubernetes Ideas and Best Practices | Karthik Gaekwad | 19m |
Recommendation: adopt 12‑factor principles, deploy apps as Kubernetes Deployments, and instrument readiness and liveness probes so pods only serve after… | ||
| Performing Chaos in a Serverless World | Gunnar Grosch | 49m |
Serverless chaos experiments use concrete tools and numbers: wrapping Node.js handlers with failure-lambda (or Python chaos-lambda), storing JSON configs in… | ||
| Creating ValueFirst Product Organisations | Kai Gilb | 44m |
Claims a repeatable method that makes product projects succeed near 100% by quantifying stakeholder outcomes, not features or user stories. Teams list 20–50… | ||
| Embracing Collaborative Chaos: Chaos Days on Large Platforms | Lyndsay Prewer | 46m |
Large government platform running hundreds of microservices across six platform teams runs deliberate Chaos Days to expose real failure modes, using agents of… | ||
| From Pen and Paper to Prototype and Product | Munish Malik | 20m |
Claim: simple, low-cost techniques validate ideas fast and reduce risk. Team uses pen and paper with sticky notes and scissors to build paper prototypes… | ||
| Contract Driven Development: The Death of Integration Hell | Naresh Jain | 48m |
Claims that executable API contracts replace most integration tests and remove "integration hell," demonstrated with the open‑source tool Qontract… | ||
| Beyond Estimates: Forecasting with Little's Law | Todd Little | 41m |
Little's Law gets used to forecast by counting completed stories and applying throughput = WIP / lead time under steady‑state assumptions (arrival rate ≈… | ||
| Stop Complaining& Start Learning! Retrospectives That Drive Change | David Horowitz | 48m |
Retrospectives are the core engine of continuous improvement and work only when three things align: people, facilitation, follow-through. Practical steps: use… | ||
| Types and Property Tests for Software Resiliency | Tony Morris | 44m |
Functional programming uses types to constrain behavior and tests to fill gaps: parametricity yields “free theorems” (a polymorphic a -> a has exactly one… | ||
| Stop Selling Software and Start Selling Lehengas | Umar Akhter | 39m |
Quits IT in 2016 and launches Koskii, an ethnic occasion-wear brand built from four pilot stores into a growing retail chain, using customer-led decisions… | ||
| Why I Stopped Coaching Agility and So Should You! | Vishal Prasad | 24m |
Hypothesis: removing agile coaches speeds organizational improvement more than deploying them—10 years vs 5 years claim. Experiments with ~100–120 Indian… | ||
| Drawing from Psychotherapy to Enrich Agile Coaching | Arundhati Dutta | 42m |
Combines psychotherapy principles with agile practice, claiming clinical training and work with 5000+ clients inform coaching techniques; demonstrates concrete… | ||
| How a Digital Operating Model Creates Diversity Equity and Inclusion | Teri Christian | 39m |
Seven years of practice produces a concrete claim: the DigOps model restructures organizations into a team of teams with an enterprise strategy layer, an… | ||
| The Myth of Perfect Abstractions | Shripad Agashe | 17m |
Argues that abstraction is an inverse problem where observed concepts hide interacting components, illustrated by the concrete claim lock is a lock because of… | ||
| Testing Conversational AI - Strategy to Automation | Shama Ugale | 42m |
Begins with the Microsoft Tay disaster (shut down within 24 hours) and shows concrete failures: CNN alerts that keep sending, weather bot missing “weekend”… | ||
| Property-Based Testing - Examples from Business Applications | Saurabh Nanda | 43m |
Journey from failing with QuickCheck to success using Hedgehog yields concrete patterns: one-line round-trip tests catch Unicode and codec bugs; idempotence… | ||
| Don't Mix Up Our Stuff!! Empathy Interviews - Clean Language | Ricardo Abella | 42m |
Clean Language shows a concrete interview method: use a tiny set of neutral prompts to follow interviewees’ metaphors and remove interviewer bias, not… | ||
| Security Practices for Developers | Prima Virani | 48m |
Covers specific, actionable developer controls: threat modeling steps (identify assets, map architecture, rank threats), use OWASP cheat sheets and Microsoft… | ||
| Building Resilient Security Log Pipelines with Chaos | Prima Virani | 27m |
Applies Chaos Engineering to security log pipelines by injecting controlled failures into specific streams (for example Okta, Duo, AWS and syslog agents) and… | ||
| Securing Your Pipes with a TACO | Peter Maddison | 48m |
Framework maps actual pipeline controls to org controls and ships a concrete checklist of 25 automatable controls that get codified into opinionated pipelines… | ||
| Service Virtualized HTTP - Make Your Tests Resilient with Servirtium | Paul Hammant | 43m |
Servirtium records real HTTP interactions as record/playback Markdown recordings stored in source control and runs as a man-in-the-middle HTTP proxy or… | ||
| Branch By Abstraction | Paul Hammant | 44m |
Branch By Abstraction is a concrete technique for trunk‑based development: introduce an abstraction + toggle, implement both old and new implementations in the… | ||
| Don't Fail Fast -Learn Fast: Innovating Fast is a Must | Jutta Eckstein, John Buck | 01h 28m |
Claim: stop glorifying “fail fast” and instead run targeted probes — each defined as a clear hypothesis, a short safe-to-fail experiment, and pre/post… | ||
| #NoFrameworks: How We Can Take Agile Back! | Scott W Ambler | 43m |
Frameworks like Scrum or SAFe give predictable short‑term gains following an S‑curve—initial dip, then modest improvement, then a plateau—yet marketing… | ||
| 10 years of DevOps - Where Are We Today? | Karthik Gaekwad | 19m |
DevOps started as culture plus practices and today centers on automation and measurement with engineers using tools like Puppet, Terraform, containers… | ||
| Mindful Agile Leadership - the Pillars of Success | Kathy G. Berkidge | 44m |
Argues that effective agile leadership requires three equal pillars — agile mindset, servant leadership and mindfulness — and claims mindfulness is… | ||
| Implementing Resilience with Micronaut | Naresha K. | 14m |
Micronaut implements resilience for JVM microservices using compile-time proxies for HTTP clients, letting developers set per-client timeouts (default ~10s… | ||
| Take Control of your Integration Testing with Testcontainers | Naresha K. | 15m |
Shows concrete failures caught when switching from H2 vs MySQL mismatch (empty IN clause rejected by MySQL) to running a real MySQL instance inside tests via… | ||
| Ruin Your Systems By Making Them Perfect | Dave Rensin | 52m |
Argument: perfection is counterproductive and destroys systems; aim just above the user‑visible “magic line” and treat acceptable failure as an error budget… | ||
| Chaos Engineering: The Path to Reliability | Kolton Andrus | 48m |
Describes using chaos engineering as a repeatable path to reliability: building on Netflix tools like Chaos Monkey and the FIT fault‑injection service and… | ||
| Applied Coaching Practices | Peter Maddison | 47m |
Defines coaching against consulting/mentoring/training using the ICF framing and shows how coaching actually gets used in agile and DevOps transformations… | ||
| DevOps Culture Simulation (with Lego and Chocolate Game) | Dana Pylayeva | 01h 29m |
A hands-on simulation uses Lego and Chocolate game to recreate three sprints and expose real bottlenecks: manual environment setup, large batch deployments… | ||
| Careers in the Age of Accelerations: Crafted Roadmap or Drunkard's Walk? | Anjali D Leon | 41m |
Predicts that by 2030 roughly half of today’s jobs vanish and half will be new, and recommends navigating that with the Ikigai framework (what you love, what… | ||
| Agility at Scale: A Meeting of Mindsets | Daniel Terhorst-North | 57m |
Claim: India built a 400‑million‑customer 4G network in under eight years and is now pivoting into a digital platform, proving industrial scale and product… | ||
| Ruin Your Systems By Making Them Perfect | Dave Rensin | 54m |
Asserts that chasing perfection breaks systems and people and offers concrete practices: measure user-facing metrics as SLIs/SLOs, set an error budget… | ||
| Journey Without Fear. Leading Your Teams to High-performance. | Dana Pylayeva | 46m |
Asserts psychological safety is the top predictor of high-performing teams (Google Project Aristotle) and warns ~70% of US workers are disengaged; offers… | ||
| 3... 2... 1... We Have Sprint-Off | Angie Doyle, Talia Lancaster | 01h 13m |
Claims that the key to high-performance is an intentional, diverse team culture and lays out nine concrete elements using the Team Canvas. Techniques include… | ||
| Unleash The Resiliator Within! | Karen Ferris | 42m |
Claims that resilience is learnable and operationalized into 20 individual superpowers and a matching leaders’ set, backed by handbooks and a workplace program… | ||
| Contract Driven Development: The Death of Integration Hell | Naresh Jain | 48m |
A workflow that treats API specs as executable contracts and stores them in a versioned central repo (Qontract / contract.run) gives immediate, automated… | ||
| Visual Validation - The Missing Tip of the Automation Pyramid | Anand Bagmar | 36m |
Automation misses UI regressions and visual UX breaks so the claim is to add automated visual validation as a fourth tip on the pyramid using Applitools Eyes… | ||
| Property-Based Testing - Examples from Business Applications | Saurabh Nanda | 43m |
Journey from failing with QuickCheck to practical success with Hedgehog: property tests target a Postgres-backed task/job queue and a small Wai/Servant web… | ||
| Build the Right Thing with a Formalized Discovery Process | Anjali D Leon | 42m |
A Pearson education unit (1,000 people, 75k full‑time and 250k part‑time students) formalizes a month‑long discovery cadence to avoid building unused features… | ||
| Stop Complaining& Start Learning! Retrospectives That Drive Change | David Horowitz | 48m |
Claims retrospectives are the core of agility and succeed only when three things line up: triangle of success — people, facilitation, and follow-through… | ||
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