Agile India 2021
2021-11-18..2021-11-20
-- online --
[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 |
|---|---|---|
| Why you should attend Agile India 2021 | 02m | |
Attendee testimonials describe a tightly organized conference with cutting-edge content across multiple tracks, strong international and gender diversity, and… | ||
| Move Fast & Scale Things - The Jio Way | Anish Shah | 50m |
Jio describes concrete practices: a 1.5-year internal 4G trial, a public 180 days free trial that yields 80% converted in 7 days, and parallel product paths… | ||
| Building for a Billion: Aadhaar & India Stack Experience | Pramod Varma | 45m |
Aadhaar underpins an open India Stack of identity, payments and data layers that actually reduced onboarding cost and enabled scale: more than 1.25 billion… | ||
| Digital Disruption in health & medical research | Denis C. Bauer | 45m |
CSIRO software uses Spark on AWS (EMR + S3 + Jupyter) and an ML method VariancePath that claims 3.6× speedup over competitors and scales linearly to handle a… | ||
| Octopus Execution-Building world's most powerful AI platform for education | Aditi Avasthi | 43m |
Embibe builds a single AI education backbone powering 345 exams, 60,000 concepts, 1.5 million questions from 1,500 books and 49,000 3D models, with 200 million… | ||
| How to Talk to the Elephant | Linda Rising | 45m |
Uses Kahneman’s System 1/2 mapped to Haidt’s elephant (emotional) vs rider (rational) and gives concrete tactics: tell identifying stories, ask for advice… | ||
| Shaping the Work: Assigning Whole Projects, not Tasks - keynote | Ryan Singer | 45m |
Claims that teams ship reliably by assigning whole projects into a six-week time box staffed by 2–4 people, with work fixed time, variable scope. Shaping… | ||
| Creativity Before & After Agile | Ward Cunningham | 48m |
Argues computing evolves through three learning loops: the read-eval-print loop, the desktop iterative loop that births XP practices, and the cloud “incident… | ||
| Its transformation! But, is it though? | Ray Arell | 23m |
Real-world failure rate: 73% fail for digital transformations, often because change is a bonus task, top-down mandate, and speed gains in engineering get… | ||
| Joy of Agility | Joshua Kerievsky | 23m |
Defines agile as an adjective: a “ready ability to move with quick easy grace,” backed by six concrete mantras and real outcomes. Shows how a social-media team… | ||
| 4 Maps of DevOps | Peter Maddison | 22m |
Four specific maps — Outcome Mapping, Value Stream Mapping and Dependency Mapping paired with Capability Mapping — create a prioritized roadmap: clarify… | ||
| Building a highly scalable system to assure Business Resilience | Ramya Murthy, Sai Subramanian | 25m |
Shows how a resilience engineering CoE, shift‑left practices and SREs combine chaos experiments, CI integration and a unified observability stack to harden a… | ||
| Resilience & Agility through Evolutionary Change & Kanban Maturity Model | Todd Little, Joey | 21m |
Kanban is presented as a roadmap for evolutionary change: the Kanban Maturity Model maps 150 practices across seven levels and focuses on observable outcomes… | ||
| Making big impacts via visual strategic planning | Charu Arora | 25m |
Impact mapping is presented as a lightweight visual planning method that links outputs to outcomes to organizational impact and claims to reduce wasted effort… | ||
| Dojo- Taking Agile & DevOps To The Next Level | Jeffson Dsouza, Vijeth Hegde | 20m |
Applied Dojo converts a struggling telco e‑commerce pipeline (25,000 concurrent users, thousands of weekly releases) into predictable, faster delivery by… | ||
| Achieving Aligned Autonomy in Product Development with Inceptions | Lakshmi | 20m |
Practical guide to running multi-day inceptions (typically 2–4 days) that produce a shared backlog and “aligned autonomy”: preparation requirements (customer… | ||
| Config as Code | Nilesh Mevada | 19m |
Configuration changes, not code, cause most bad outages and treating configs as plain text creates mismatch and drift; adding Config as Code enforces… | ||
| Applying Data Science to Infotainment Experiences | Shruti Pandey | 17m |
Claim: automotive infotainment is no longer UI fluff but a safety‑critical, data‑driven system built on Android Automotive since a 2015 OEM alliance, requiring… | ||
| Team Meetings That Don't Suck - Avoid Retrospectives Antipatterns | Aino Vonge Corry | 42m |
Six concrete anti‑patterns and fixes: retrospectives often trade symptoms for root causes so teams should follow the five phases (set the stage, gather data… | ||
| Innovation Accounting- Financial Modelling that Works for Ventures | Elijah Eilert | 46m |
Argues that startups must stop inventing single-point ROIs and instead extract funnel rates from storyboards and journey maps, encode them in a spreadsheet… | ||
| .tune - Eliminate Waste in SW Development | Sundaresan Jagadeesan | 44m |
Claims measurable waste reduction: a program of deep observations spends 60–90 minutes at dev desks, records task flows and feedback, and surfaces concrete… | ||
| Supercharging your Personal Growth Journey | Faiza Yousuf | 44m |
Practical systems for personal growth: use Asana to track intentions, pick three priorities per day, and run quarterly reviews; limit goals to four per year… | ||
| The Why, How & What of an Outcome centric team | Archana Maliyackal | 19m |
Argues that teams must measure customer impact rather than optimize velocity, defect rate or cycle time, and gives concrete replacements like usage, retention… | ||
| Software Devs in Test Automation - Dream or Reality in Agile Software Dev? | Blerina | 46m |
Product team trains software developers to write e2e tests, picks Cypress after PoCs, and automates the 35 most valuable cases out of 65 using the Graham… | ||
| Passwordless: a story of risk, protection & excellent UX | Kelsey van Haaster | 34m |
Argues that replacing passwords with public‑key authentication cuts support load and improves security while keeping UX frictionless, backed by an internal… | ||
| The Agile People Coach - an Alternative Career Path for Leaders & HR | Pia-Maria | 43m |
Argues HR and managers must become Agile People Coaches who treat organizations as social systems, not machines, and remove annual budgets and fixed… | ||
| Moving from the License Raj to Light Touch Agile Governance | Sanjiv Augustine | 40m |
Legacy waterfall governance breaks large programs (healthcare.gov cost ~$500M, 54 contractors) while a cross‑hierarchy Agile Value Management Office assembles… | ||
| Humans are Hard, Code is Easy | Tom Henricksen | 42m |
Claim: technical chops land interviews but coding skills get you the job and soft skills — listening, clear questions, influence — influence gets you the… | ||
| Design for Cognitive Bias: Using Mental Shortcuts for Good | David Dylan Thomas | 38m |
Shows specific biases and fixes: evidence that confirmation bias sank Amazon’s resume-screener (it downgraded women) and that a Philadelphia anonymized-resume… | ||
| After CI/CD, there's now Continuous Configuration | Gunnar Grosch | 45m |
Shows that runtime config is a distinct deployment axis: Amazon uses AWS AppConfig (internal since 2016, public 2019) to push JSON config and feature flags to… | ||
| 8 Guiding Principles for Agile Coaches | Jason C. Yip | 19m |
Eight principles developed over five years inside Spotify Ads R&D describe concrete practices: build team-level and senior leadership relationships so you both… | ||
| The Architecture of Change | Alberta Soranzo | 42m |
Argues that most transformations optimize toward a local optimum vs global optimum—Kodak had a 10‑year warning after inventing the digital camera in 1975 but… | ||
| Agile India 2021 - keynote speakers | Ryan Singer, Denis C. Bauer, Ward Cunningham, Aditi Avasthi | 01m |
Catch these keynote speakers at Agile India 2021: https://2021.agileindia.org/
Keynote talks:
"Shaping the Work: Assigning Whole Project, not Tasks" by Ryan… | ||
| Embracing Complexity- Case Study of leveraging 'Agent' Interactions | Sunil Mundra | 20m |
A UK online womens apparel retailer builds an obeya room to co-locate business and IT, uses cross functional communities (product+design, digital+IT), rotates… | ||
| Agile Outside Technology | Sriram Narayan | 43m |
Argues that agile applied outside software requires concrete shifts not rituals: a short checklist of practices (experiment-first cycles, outcome KPIs… | ||
| Embracing Agility with Inclusion & Equity | Tina Vinod | 44m |
ThoughtWorks builds an Inclusive Teams - Social Contract as a facilitated, repeatable exercise (often a 90-minute session) using a mural board or PPT template… | ||
| The Stakeholder Engagement Canvas | Kathy G. Berkidge | 01h 17m |
A practical nine-section canvas combines a lean-canvas layout with traditional tools (RACI, power/interest, onion) and explicit mindfulness work to map each… | ||
| Discuss-Define-Do: Playing your way to amazing goals | Talia Lancaster | 01h 29m |
A playable board game turns vague objectives into measurable OKRs: teams move a key-result token across a board, draw one of three card decks… | ||
| Moving from Feedback to Feedforward | Jakub Jurkiewicz | 52m |
Workshop argues that shifting from past-focused feedback to future-focused feedforward reduces defensiveness and produces actionable next steps. Compares SBI… | ||
| Gamifying Dev Effectiveness in a Remote-first Work Environment | Vilas Veeraraghavan | 40m |
Remote-first teams cut onboarding from two weeks to as little as three days by shipping preset developer images, pairing new hires with tenured engineers and… | ||
| Automation beyond test - Test Data as Code | Atmaram Naik | 20m |
Demonstrates a workflow to treat test data as executable artifacts using an open-source tool Corr and IDE plugins that run snippets directly, with support for… | ||
| Journey towards autonomous teams | A coach's toolkit | Yashasree Barve | 18m |
Defines five practical dimensions of team autonomy and supplies a workshop format plus a reusable toolkit that coaches can run in a half‑day. Uses a… | ||
| Tips from the Trenches: Accessibility Testing | Manoj Kumar | 45m |
Estimating one billion people with disabilities, the talk argues that accessible products reduce legal risk and improve UX while catching roughly 40–50% of… | ||
| Data Technical Debt: Looking Beyond Code | Scott W Ambler | 45m |
Data technical debt costs are concrete: bad data costs the US an estimated $3 trillion per year and the average organization loses about $15 million a year… | ||
| Continuous Fun: Game Driven Dev to drive software eng. practices | Jorge Luis Castro | 43m |
A nine‑step Game Driven Development framework uses a gamification design canvas plus a Miro board, business‑model canvas and pipeline dashboards to turn CI/CD… | ||
| Team Transformation Canvas: Team Building Starts With You | Richard Kasperowski | 54m |
Claims that psychological safety and broader team emotional intelligence predict high performance (research distilled from ~250 attributes and reproduced on… | ||
| Agile India 2021 online - now accepting proposals | 01m | |
Agile India 2021, the 17th edition, runs online 18–20 November 2021 and is actively accepting proposals with submissions closing 16 July 2021. The program… | ||
| Achieving Business Agility with Value Stream Management | Al Shalloway | 42m |
Argues that improving business agility requires shrinking delays across the workflow using Theory of Constraints, flow theories and Lean thinking and gives… | ||
| Experimenting with BAPO | Jason C. Yip | 20m |
Applied BAPO inside Spotify Ads R&D to translate strategy into a straw‑man C4-style architecture and a product capability map, then validated with a senior… | ||
| Enhancing Desirability: 5 Considerations for Winning Digital Initiatives | Raja Bavani | 42m |
Five practical considerations for enhancing desirability with concrete examples and outcomes: apply design thinking plus UI/interaction patterns while treating… | ||
| Agile Leaders - Are You Future Ready? | Karen Ferris | 45m |
Research shows 77% never managed a fully remote team and 89% never managed hybrid, and surveillance spikes—employee monitoring demand up 87% in April… | ||
| Continuously deploying a distributed monolith | Vaidik Kapoor | 43m |
Team turns a fragile distributed monolith that required manual orchestration into a system that ships almost 10 deployments per day by building an automated… | ||
| Rewrite Vs Refactor | Anand Bagmar | 46m |
Provides concrete rules for choosing rewrite versus refactor for test automation: keep refactoring when tests are >70% coverage and most failures are isolated… | ||
| Technical Debt Prioritisation - Identifying & Fixing Highest ROI Issues | Naresh Jain | 45m |
Shows concrete ways to shrink an overwhelming tech-debt backlog: visualize hotspots with SonarQube, CodeScene and a homegrown C3 tool, correlate… | ||
| Environmental impact of digital disruption | Archana Joshi | 40m |
Digitalization drives big energy demand as software needs storage, compute and networks that emit carbon, with IDC forecasting 6.8 trillion by 2023 in digital… | ||
| Developing a Culture of Reliability & Resilience through Chaos | Russ Miles | 49m |
Argues that speed and reliability coexist: high performers deploy frequently, have low change lead time and much lower MTTR (Accelerate data), so invest in… | ||
| Improve resilience with automated chaos engineering | Gunnar Grosch | 35m |
Automated chaos engineering uses AWS Fault Injection Simulator plus Lambda, EventBridge and Step Functions to run reproducible experiments (example: stop an… | ||
| Agile Coaching Ethics - Making them Real | Shane Hastie | 52m |
A community-built code of ethical conduct (V1.0 published this year) lays out nine topic areas and 18 “I will” statements for agile coaching and pairs each… | ||
| 'Self-Healing Tests' - The holy grail of test automation? | Matthias Zax | 30m |
Claims that machine learning can reduce locator-driven failures by adapting tests at runtime using an open source stack: Healenium (Java/Selenium client +… | ||
| Stuck in Limbo with Magical Solutions | Isabel Evans | 44m |
Research uses interviews, workshops and an anonymous survey of nearly 200 testers (111 survey responses referenced) and finds 82 respondents report tooling… | ||
| Helping Your Whole Team Own Software Quality | Kristin Jackvony | 40m |
Paylocity builds a quality maturity model with seven attributes and three levels (minimum/standard/excellent), asks teams to write team-specific quality… | ||
| The Art of Teams | Ralph van Roosmalen | 34m |
Combines research, existing team models (Five Dysfunctions, Rocket, Google’s Project Aristotle) and managerial experience to present six concrete components… | ||
| Taking biases into account:Why retrospectives promise more & deliver less | Deepak | 18m |
Argument that retrospectives fail because cognitive biases corrupt recall and power dynamics and that frequent, in-sprint journaling fixes most problems… | ||
| User Research Crash Course - 13 Tips to Maximize Learning | Jeremy Kriegel | 36m |
Thirteen concrete hacks for interviews and usability tests, including running moderated sessions with a facilitator plus note‑taker, streaming observers to a… | ||
| Software delivery with skills-based, self organising teams | Vedavalli, Priyank | 45m |
Claims seven years of running zero-role product teams that trade constant specialization for poly-skilled engineers and measurable results: a UK ad‑tech line… | ||
| Empathetically Define & Rigorously Measure Customer Value you Deliver | Deepa, Kavitha | 01h 00m |
Argues that customer value is a specific benefit measured as time money frequency, not product features, and shows practical measures: Google tracks relevancy… | ||
| A Simple Approach to Managing Complexity | Jutta Eckstein | 01h 00m |
Introduces the HSD difference matrix (differences vs exchanges vs containers) and applies it to a crypto startup case: top manager is supportive but distant… | ||
| Get ready for the storm - Remote Event storming in action | Karan Singh, Giovanni | 37m |
Workshop demonstrates remote event storming applied to a travel-agency business case using a shared Miro board with a left‑to‑right event timeline, sticky‑note… | ||
| The remote leader - distant but not removed | Alberta Soranzo, Martina Hodges-Schell | 43m |
Research of global leaders shows concrete shifts not platitudes: most managers oversee teams of 1–5 with indirect reports usually under 50, and only 30%… | ||
| Measuring agility: Data analytics ex psychology to grow your teams agility | Matt, Mia | 44m |
Ten years of longitudinal data from 30 organizations and 500+ teams feed a behavioral model that explains 85% of variance in business agility using expert… | ||
| Lessons in addressing data challenges while using OKRs | Asheesh, Sujatha | 19m |
Organization faces fragmented data across multiple systems, poor accessibility, and inconsistent OKR interpretation, so teams pilot a six-month, top-down OKR… | ||
| Are Agile organisations really inclusive? | Ashay Saxena, Deanna Spowart | 39m |
Year-long Business Agility Institute research surveys ~500 people (425 analyzed) and reports concrete results: 17% witnessed exclusion, 26% believe agile can… | ||
| Creating Happy Engineers - Anecdotes from the Trenches | Vivek Ganesan, Kiran Kashyap | 17m |
A product owner adds a metric showing extra hours of sleep users regain to turn feature counts into purpose, prompting engineers to improve UX; a rewards… | ||
| Work Smarter: Learn, Optimize, Accelerate | Mark Lines, Scott W Ambler | 46m |
Disciplined Agile offers a pragmatic toolkit — a browsable DA browser and a printed book — that catalogs about 1,600 techniques and 26 process goals, plus… | ||
| Testing Service Mesh configs & k8s manifests | Srinivasan Sekar, Ashay Thorat | 44m |
Shows concrete checks and tools to catch config errors early: schema validation with kubeval or kubectl --dry-run (flags show spec.replicas must be integer)… | ||
| Agile Successes in Regulated Medical Development | Brian Shoemaker, Nancy Van S | 41m |
Case studies show agile practices delivering auditable, regulator-friendly outcomes: OpenClinica wires BDD with Cucumber and Gherkin into Jira to generate… | ||
| Real time insights for better products, CX & resilient platform | Balvinder Rana, Sushant | 36m |
A banking platform delivers near‑real‑time business and tech insights by ingesting logs, Prometheus metrics and transactional records into a cloud data lake… | ||
| Scaling up a modern digital business to reach a million users | Sneha Prabhu, Archanaa | 44m |
A Singapore insurtech pivots into a health-first platform, builds a distribution model to sell through banks (one partner multiplies reach), and within 11… | ||
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