Agile India 2022
2022-09-22..2022-09-24
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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]
as the organisers put it
Asia's Premier and Largest Conference on Leading Edge Software Development methods | Business Agility, Agile Mindset, Design Innovation, Design Thinking, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Digital Transformation and more
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A Balancing Act | Anita Bhandari, Rajneesh Bhandari | 46m |
Replaces a €15,000 laser SVV rig with a simple PowerPoint SVV test, models BPPV as a digital twin for BPPV instead of a $100k robotic chair, and uses a… | ||
| Outcome-based Product Planning | Jeff Gothelf | 44m |
Argues that traditional roadmaps are brittle and replaces feature lists with measurable outcome-based planning tied to OKR-like key results, showing how to… | ||
| The Mindset That Kills Product Thinking | Jeff Patton | 58m |
Argues that product thinking is learned not natural and that organizations kill it by treating teams as service providers not outcome owners. Uses a landscaper… | ||
| Fixing the Ultimate Legacy System: You | Andy Hunt | 01h 01m |
Software development fails when mental models age; fix by slicing work into hour-sized stories, developing a tracer-bullet end-to-end thin thread, committing… | ||
| Agile Engineering | Tom Gilb | 55m |
Argues that engineering replaces sticker-driven coding culture with quantified design: uses Impact Estimation Table spreadsheets to compute value/cost ratios… | ||
| Engineering for Software | Dave Farley | 57m |
Argues software engineering means optimizing for learning and managing complexity using two concrete tools: Testability & Speed. Shows TDD via red green… | ||
| Customer Obsession | Konstantin von Schmidt-Pauli | 26m |
Claims that customer obsession means linking UX research to a lean delivery loop, using lean feature canvas and value stream mapping to cut lead time, then… | ||
| Design a future ready Enterprise Agile organization- Agile For HR | Priti Vyas | 21m |
A 17–18,000 person digital services company runs a phased HR-led transformation that maps 25 legacy roles into 11 agile roles, creates 14 personas and pilots… | ||
| Can Dictators Enhance Agility? | Radhesh Radhakrishnan | 24m |
Case study of a stalled product shows concrete fixes: enforce CI quality gates that block merges until shift-left testing and API/critical-journey suites pass… | ||
| Architecting Solutions For Market Transitions - A Case Study | Nagalakshmi H G | 17m |
Routed Optical Networking unifies the IP and optical layers into a single-layer network and claims up to 45% TCO reduction by removing multi‑layer complexity… | ||
| Experience the Power of Pull Systems | Kiran Kashyap | 19m |
A team of 3 developers, 2 testers, 1 PO tries simple WIP limits and learns limits alone worsen friction because work keeps getting pushed onto testers. The… | ||
| Agility Works Only If You Are Truly Agile... | Preeti Desai | 26m |
Claims that a 25‑person project moves from Deep Red to Deep Green over six months by pragmatic steps: join at Sprint 15 with a blank retro, run root‑cause… | ||
| Agile is a disaster today! | Tom Gilb | 03m |
Claims that Agile is in disrepute because methods rarely deliver measurable results and certifications are a racket with no credibility. Cites Standish-style… | ||
| why you should attend! | 02m | |
Eighteen years running with 60 conferences across 13 cities and 1,200+ speakers the event delivers multiple concurrent tracks of Agile and DevOps innovations… | ||
| Elon Musk is doing Agile right | Tom Gilb | 01m |
Claims Elon Musk applies agile engineering at Tesla and SpaceX using quantitative measurement of engineering, illustrated by Tesla cars and SpaceX rockets, and… | ||
| The origins of Agile | Tom Gilb | 03m |
Claim that the iterative EVO method begins from hands‑on work in 1960 when one‑step‑at‑a‑time delivery proved vastly more reliable than large waterfall… | ||
| Agile needs systems thinking | Tom Gilb | 01m |
Argues that Agile teams must stop focusing only on code and become systems engineering organizations that design for high security, high usability, low… | ||
| CFP now open! | 01m | |
Agile India announces a call for proposals that accepts talks, workshops and training sessions and asks submitters to use https://confng.in/j6DJYCo7 with… | ||
| For Agile to work you need to get measurable feedback | Tom Gilb | 02m |
Argues that iterations by themselves are insufficient and teams must gather measurable feedback (advice traced back to a 1976 book) and use it to steer results… | ||
| "Data is evolving beyond databases" - What to expect from Lynn Langit's keynote | Lynn Langit | 02m |
A cloud adoption keynote that claims concrete, actionable patterns for migrating hybrid environments: six core patterns plus extras distilled from eleven years… | ||
| What to expect at Andy Hunt's #AgileIndia 2022 keynote | Andy Hunt | 02m |
Promises inspiration and some hope and argues that progress comes from learn something new every day habits, not big rewrites. Claims many shops have become… | ||
| on the origins of the Agile manifesto | Andy Hunt | 02m |
Consultants see the same failure pattern: teams respond to slipping projects by adding bureaucracy, locking down decisions upfront and treating software like… | ||
| Get to know Lynn Langit - keynote speaker | Lynn Langit | 02m |
Career summary: left Microsoft in 2011 and spends eleven years running a boutique consultancy, an early adopter of Azure (Red Dog) alongside Amazon; brings a… | ||
| "It would be nice if some people had actually tried Agile" | Andy Hunt | 04m |
Argues that Agile means the ability to respond to big shifts in users, technology or market quickly rather than following ceremonies, claiming many teams never… | ||
| the ethics of software development needs to be discussed | Andy Hunt | 01m |
Argues that software ethics is overdue and becomes urgent as code runs government, commerce and daily life, claiming engineering choices now exclude people and… | ||
| What to expect from Jeff Gothelf's #AgileIndia 2022 keynote | Jeff Gothelf | 02m |
Keynote argues for planning by measurable behavior change instead of feature lists, showing how OKRs, product discovery and Lean UX techniques map hypotheses… | ||
| tips for great performing teams | Jeff Gothelf | 03m |
Claims that heavy dose of humility and evidence-based decision making are core to high‑performing teams and describes concrete practices: run small experiments… | ||
| What to expect at Dr. Anita & Rajneesh Bhandari's keynote session | Anita Bhandari, Rajneesh Bhandari | 02m |
NeuroEquilibrium presents a remote diagnostic platform that combines 3D printing, virtual reality, clinical decision support, computer vision, AI to deliver… | ||
| Feature Toggle Promotion via CI/CD Pipeline | Nilesh Mevada, Naresh Jain | 50m |
Concrete recipe for promoting feature flags through CI/CD using Feature Hub, an ft.yaml declared in the decider component, and automated sync/validation steps… | ||
| Contract Driven Development-Deploy MicroServices Independently W/out Integration Testing | Hari Krishnan, Joel Rosario | 01h 21m |
Claim: API specs become executable contracts that let teams find compatibility bugs on laptops and in CI so integration environments stop blocking releases… | ||
| #AgileHumor - Humor is Serious Business | Soma Mazumder | 20m |
Argues that humor is a practical coaching skill: it trains fail fast and improvise by reading audience feedback, raises EQ through observant listening, and… | ||
| The Shape of Agility | Evan Leybourn | 21m |
Research from the Business Agility Institute since 2017 studies over a thousand companies and produces a behavioral model that maps observed behaviors on a -1… | ||
| Cloud Adoption Patterns | Lynn Langit | 57m |
Key patterns emphasize using elastic ephemeral compute, writing logs to durable buckets, and choosing services that fit the data scale (EC2, Lambda, Cloud Run… | ||
| Building your Brand the Agile way | Prithyukshaa Ravi | 20m |
Argues that a personal brand is a project that must be built iteratively with clear outcomes: divide brand into sprints (set a quarterly goal, then weekly… | ||
| How to stop the weaponizing of Agility practices in the workplace | Sharon Robson | 43m |
Claims that agile language is used as a weapon: "that's not agile" to shut stakeholders, MVP abused to justify cutting due diligence, and planning poker/story… | ||
| Test Flow Charts - A Free, No Code Test Automation Platform | Narayan Raman | 43m |
TestFlowCharts (testflowchart.com) is a free no code test automation platform that demos automating an OpenCart shopping cart: flowchart authoring generates… | ||
| 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes: 2022 Edition | Craig Smith | 45m |
Survey lists 40 methods in 40 minutes but actually flashes closer to sixty approaches and gives concrete stats: 66% use Scrum and SAFe 37% uptake. It names… | ||
| Automating Real-User Scenarios Across Multi-Apps, & Multi-Devices | Anand Bagmar | 44m |
Teswiz is an open-source framework that automates multi-user orchestration across Android, iOS, web and Windows desktop by combining Cucumber JVM, Appium and… | ||
| Agile in the KPO (Knowledge Processing Operation) world | Ken Wira, Sayali Thite | 39m |
A wholesale Finance & Accounting KPO moves a 600‑person team from siloed, paper-heavy work to cross‑functional circles (an automation circle, operation circle… | ||
| Systems Thinking for Happy Staff & Elated Customers | Simon Copsey | 42m |
Claim: many separate pains trace to a few root causes and fixing those yields systemic improvement. Using Theory of Constraints and a current reality tree of… | ||
| Planet sends an SOS – Taking Responsibility for our Carbon Footprint | Jutta Eckstein | 41m |
Cloud software often runs more efficiently than self‑hosting yet hides supply‑side emissions; Google commits to 24/7 carbon‑free by 2030 but refuses full… | ||
| Once Upon a Time in Agile | John Le Drew | 43m |
Central claim: reorganizing people is often what prevents teams from changing. Uses the diffusion of innovations numbers 2.5% innovators, 13.5% early adopters… | ||
| You Build It You Run It sounds great... but it won’t work here! | Steve Smith | 44m |
Enterprise case for You Build It You Run It: moving from one team/one microservice to 40 teams and 120 microservices in 2.5 years yields daily deploys, target… | ||
| Securing digital services | Ben Conrad, Gerald Benischke | 35m |
HMRC runs a PaaS on AWS hosting 1000+ microservices (250+ customer journeys) serving ~45M taxpayers and ~5M companies with ~1500 production deployments a month… | ||
| Applying Design Thinking To Talent Acquisition & Management A Game Changer | Suman Thareja | 29m |
Conference research interviews 850 C‑suite execs finds 60% cite digital talent shortages, only 19% actively invest and learning budgets cut ~20% with 13%… | ||
| Improving Performance of Agile Teams using Statistical Analysis | Naresh, Sriram Narayanan | 01h 02m |
Uses Jira and Azure DevOps exports, starts with Excel then moves to R for multiple regression, and pulls ~10k to ~100k API calls to stitch histories. Models… | ||
| Minimal Viable Resiliency - Invest Iteratively in Reliability & Observability | Vilas | 36m |
Framework shows five concrete resiliency levels and claims level three is the recommended Minimum Viable Resiliency because it delivers the best ROI: monthly… | ||
| Agile Recruitment - The Missing Step In Your Agile Transformation | Jakub Jurkiewicz | 46m |
Argues that hiring must shift from checkbox fit to culture-add, using team-run, low-pressure activities instead of timed whiteboard coding: examples include… | ||
| 3 Ways Your Operating Model Can Cultivate An Agile Mindset | Yashasree Barve, Arun Sethu | 41m |
Tata Consultancy Services pilots 14 small agile operating model neighborhoods and experiments with Spotify-style tribes that consolidate into domains and… | ||
| Turbocharge your Scrum | Todd Little | 55m |
Claims that 58% of Scrum rollouts fail lead to a concrete fix: apply Kanban practices on top of Scrum, not replace it. Start with the current process, add… | ||
| Strategy Maps - Connect Your Roadmaps to the Bigger Picture | Craig Cockburn | 47m |
Introduces a concrete visualization practice called strategy maps that links vision to roadmaps, backlogs and Wardley mapping, then turns outcomes into a… | ||
| Repair SAFe® while continuing operations – Theory of Constraints | Wolfram Müller | 42m |
Argues that most failed SAFe rollouts owe to hidden systemic constraints and offers a repair path using Theory of Constraints: identify the single dominant… | ||
| If You Buy It, We'll Build It - Combining Design Sprints & Pretotypes | Penelope Barr | 01h 28m |
Combines Google Design Sprint steps with Alberto Savoia pretotyping methods to get buying signals before building, claiming prototypes should cost near zero… | ||
| Predictably Agile | Karl Scotland | 44m |
Argues that predictability means narrowing lead time variation rather than promising exact scope, uses cycle‑time scatterplots and percentiles (P85=16 days… | ||
| Spurring growth with an Agile culture | Ramkumar Venkatesan | 56m |
Claims that an agile culture is the foundation for startup growth and cites three practical pillars: alignment of goals, decentralised decisioning, continuous… | ||
| Don't Bulldoze The Swamp For Agile | Steve Adolph | 46m |
Large-scale agile efforts often replace local adaptability with centralized tools and rules and that 70% fail because a bulldozer approach kills teams’ ability… | ||
| Evolutionary Database Design & Architecture | Pramod Sadalage | 44m |
Argues that databases can evolve using concrete patterns: apply a Strangler pattern and an expand–transition–contract sequence to add columns, move data, then… | ||
| How to make OKRs Lean again | Bart den Haak | 46m |
Argues that OKRs got bloated and prescribes Lean OKRs: one company single OKR with 3–4 key results, teams sharing objectives, and a max of 4–5 OKRs for ~150… | ||
| Cloud-Native Progressive Delivery | Matt Turner | 43m |
Claims automated production-safe rollouts by separating deployment (running container images in Kubernetes) from release (exposing users), builds a controller… | ||
| Multi Cloud Strategy, A Necessary Evil For An Enterprise | Rashmi Tambe, Sunit Parekh | 43m |
Enterprises already run multi clouds — IDC says 81% use multiple public clouds — but complexity is real: expect to use Terraform or Pulumi for provisioning… | ||
| How we use KPI trees to Maintain Focus on Business Outcomes | Sreekandh, Sriram Narayanan | 41m |
Travelopia builds a KPI tree that maps low-level product and service metrics to top-line business outcomes, overlays funded initiatives, and links nodes to… | ||
| Agile Transformation Or Just Another Restructure? | Terry Haayema | 45m |
Checklist and prescription for an actual transformation versus a paperwork restructure: organizations hire consultants, produce playbooks, redesign org charts… | ||
| Software Engineering Management at Scale with the Theory of Constraints | Steve Tendon | 43m |
Describes a concrete method that turns complex cross-team dependencies into a single linear priority queue using Theory of Constraints plus Drum‑Buffer‑Rope… | ||
| Workshop: Agile Coaching Ethics – Making them real | Shane Hastie | 57m |
A community-built Code of Ethical Conduct for agile coaching claims to reconcile coaching neutrality with a pro‑agility bias and now lists concrete commitments… | ||
| 50 Shades Of Retrospective - Your Guide To Continuous Improvement | Chris Stone | 43m |
Shows concrete techniques: 94 templates available free, live facilitation on Miro/Mural mirror boards, and workflows that turn retro notes into backlog items… | ||
| Championing Security for your Agile Development | Neelu Tripathy | 38m |
Designed a Security Champion Program that runs across ~200 teams / ~3000 developers and integrates threat modeling, SCA/SAST/container scans, secrets managers… | ||
| Accepting To Embracing Change: An Unknown Tool To Thrive In Uncertain Times | Parul Bhagava | 36m |
Claims that embracing change is a learnable skill backed by neuroscience: threats trigger cortisol and rewards trigger serotonin, so communication and… | ||
| Agile Cheer - Bring It On! | Alex Sloley, Roslyn Martin | 01h 18m |
Three practical rituals map cheerleading to team work: use contrast, synchrony, direction (short dance drills with music and pom‑poms) to raise energy, run… | ||
| Pragmatic DevOps | Vaidik Kapoor | 41m |
Company moves from three apps to many microservices on AWS, builds automated self-service provisioning with Ansible (moved away from Puppet), and uses Jenkins… | ||
| De-mystifying Operational Efficiency for Startups | Gautam Rege | 20m |
Claims that operational efficiency wins scaling over funding with concrete moves: switch core collaboration from public clouds to a Nextcloud self-hosted POC… | ||
| Retrospect Yourself! | Christina Lovelock | 43m |
Argues that team outcomes hinge more on behaviour than tech and that self-awareness improves by feedback and seeing your blind spot. Demonstrates four… | ||
| How to Create Products & Services that Customer Love? | Alisha Raghavan | 16m |
Design thinking and field research reveal that sellers want to know profitability and what money is safe to spend not raw transaction logs, so teams run… | ||
| Speed Matters: Client Side Performance Improvement Tips & Tricks | Srinivasan, Ashay | 46m |
A deliberately slow demo site with a 458 KB hero JPEG gives a mobile Lighthouse score of about 18; the page is rebuilt live using the Contentful CDN to serve… | ||
| Agile Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence: Addressing the Hard Problems | Scott W Ambler | 44m |
Recommends adopting Data Vault 2 for scalable DW architecture, adding CI/CD, automated testing and a catalog of ~65 database refactorings to fix data technical… | ||
| Organisation as a Platform | Anna Urbaniak | 37m |
Argues that organisations should become organization as a platform that deliberately enables value between employees and customers, backed by four practical… | ||
| Continuous Monitoring + Continuous Testing in DevOps delivery models | Mohamed, Bhargav | 21m |
Built an in-house tool called ImageVision that runs visual monitoring against live time-series plots and UI regions, integrates with Protractor/Playwright via… | ||
| Finding Your UX Voice | Dan Maccarone | 47m |
Explains how to turn a specific background — theater, poetry, bar ownership, or computer science — into a repeatable UX method, with concrete tools like user… | ||
| Fluid Scaling Technology: When you want to go FAST! | Paige Watson | 42m |
Adapts Open Space rules to engineering: a 40–50 person Collective at Premera Blue Cross runs two-day iterations with a 30-minute FAST meeting and five WIP… | ||
| Minimum Viable Process | Nayan Hajratwala, Julia Fabiszewski | 47m |
A concrete recipe: a Kanban board with WIP limit eight for in‑development and WIP limit four for ready work, daily 15‑minute cadence with a 15-minute stand-up… | ||
| Creating An Unexpected Movement For Good With Agile | Sam Bowtell | 44m |
Creates a volunteer-driven program that gives two free seats per training course to not‑for‑profits and pairs classroom Scrum training with weeks of pro bono… | ||
| The Tester’s Guide to Quality | Mesut Durukal | 41m |
Project arrives with no bug tracker, no metrics and many escaped defects; initiative list includes Bugs Management, Test Review and Feature Housekeeping, plus… | ||
| Are you ready to delete some YAML? | Abhishek Gupta | 21m |
Demonstrates replacing hand-written manifests with code using cdk8s (Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes) and its CLI, bootstrapping Go projects, writing… | ||
| Data Quality: The Holy Grail For A Data Fluent Organization | Balvinder Khurana | 41m |
A concrete data quality framework anchors on a retailer case: baseline schema rules up to fit for purpose rules for a dynamic pricing engine, with checks run… | ||
| Self-governing teams through SoFA (Sociocracy for All) | Ahmed Avais | 54m |
Introduces sociocracy as a practical governance layer for agile teams, claiming three pillars — decision by consent, circle structure and continuous evolution… | ||
| Security & Observability For All Apps - Combining The User/Kernel Powers | Neeraj Poddar | 39m |
Compares Istio sidecar proxies and eBPF/Cilium kernel hooks and shows concrete integrations: socket-level eBPF acceleration routes packets from app sockets… | ||
| How Agility Can Transform Education Preparing Students for the Future | Jessica Cavallo, Roslynn | 33m |
Middle school classes adopt kanban boards and daily stand-up meetings, learn kanban in a week and plan six‑week projects in about an hour, and produce concrete… | ||
| Conducting SEO Testing - The Live Smell | Trisha Chetani | 16m |
Website moved to rank four on Google and sales climb 15% after targeted experiments that combine crawl/index checks, sitemap fixes and mobile‑first tuning… | ||
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