Agile India 2025
2025-03-25..2025-03-27
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Beyond Budgeting - The Viable Management Model | Bjarte Bogsnes | 49m |
Argues that traditional annual budgets create gaming, sandbagging and bad decisions and that viable management separates three purposes into distinct… | ||
| Impact Intelligence | Sriram Narayan | 49m |
Argues that agile practice often stops at delivery and proposes a concrete framework called impact intelligence: build an impact network mapping proximate… | ||
| Agile Intelligence: Co-Engineering the Future, Not Just Automating It | Thushara | 50m |
Claims that AI cuts ideation‑to‑deployment time by over 50% and can get an MVP in two weeks drive the talk, with evidence from experiments that used… | ||
| Agile India 2025 - Day 1 highlights! | 02m | |
A tight 90-second montage compresses Day 1 into six clipped moments: three keynote soundbites, a Jira automation demo that claims to cut handoff time 40… | ||
| Agile India 2025 - Day 2 highlights | 02m | |
Recording contains only background music and three syllables of vocalization, no spoken content about methods, claims, or results. No tool names, metrics… | ||
| Agile India 2025 - Day 3 highlights | 02m | |
Nine rapid highlight clips summarize DevEx and DevOps sessions from the final day and show concrete outcomes: a CI pipeline built with GitHub Actions and… | ||
| Observability for Engineering Teams | Naresh Jain | 46m |
Company-wide dashboards track 900 projects and 40,000 engineers using four flow metrics — velocity (throughput), cycle time, flow efficiency and WIP aging —… | ||
| API Design Anti-patterns: How to identify & avoid them | Hari Krishnan | 01h 29m |
Explains that Level 2 REST covers the 80/20 of HTTP APIs while Level 3 hypermedia is rare (PayPal, GitHub), and contrasts Postel’s robustness with Hyrum’s Law… | ||
| Frameworks for Shaping High-Performing Teams | Sandeep Shetty, Prachi Saraph | 47m |
Framework bootstraps product orgs for 200–500+ people using practical artifacts: team topologies to define interaction models, a capability catalog of role… | ||
| The Path to Autonomous Testing | Anand Bagmar | 47m |
Claim: full end-to-end autonomous testing is achievable only when development itself is fully AI-driven, so today AI augments but does not replace humans… | ||
| 10x DevEx - Shift Left API Governance | Naresh Jain | 46m |
Claims a 10x developer experience and 75% shorter cycle time by shifting API governance left, using machine-readable specs in a central Git contract repo and… | ||
| Agile is Broken & It’s the Product Manager’s Fault | Clifford Joseph, Sandeep Shetty | 40m |
Claim: Agile implementations often run as waterfall in sprint clothing, with product managers translating dictated features rather than validating outcomes… | ||
| The Blueprint for Agile Engineering: Leveraging ODA Canvas | Sudhir Mittal, Naresh | 53m |
Jio claims ODA Canvas turns legacy telco stacks into independent, deployable components and proves it at scale: an integrated inventory mapped to TMF… | ||
| The Future of Agile Isn’t Sh*t | Scott W Ambler | 49m |
Argument: the agile gold rush is over — easy certification money vanishes and framework installs rarely deliver business value. Evidence: LinkedIn articles and… | ||
| Agile goes public-using a dialogical approach in the French administration | Fabrice | 40m |
French national statistics institute uses a 15‑year dialogical campaign (no framework lock‑in) to grow agility: awareness → desire → knowledge → empower →… | ||
| The Power of Purpose & Storytelling in Agile Teams | Fennande, Maartje Jansen | 37m |
Shows a short Grayson Bakery video and runs the Happy Office Purpose Journey Game in a pressured four‑step format so teams co-create a purpose quickly and… | ||
| Power Dynamics in Group Relations | Oana Juncu | 49m |
Presents the Power Intelligence model with three individual powers—expertise, experience, resilience—and three social powers—positional, informal (influence)… | ||
| Manage tensions not people: the HOW of transformation | Russ Lewis | 01h 17m |
A practical workshop presents an attentions management framework with six strategies and a hands on method (participants list two or three real barriers, pair… | ||
| Leveraging Anti-patterns for Improved Business Agility | Sanjit Bhattacharya | 23m |
Claims that common anti-patterns become raw material for a gradual agility shift and offers an explicit method called Minimum Scrum that was tested in a real… | ||
| Is there a place for QA in modern agile autonomous fast-flow teams? | Sheen Brisals | 45m |
Argues that QA shifts from a separate team to embedded roles or disappears in cloud/serverless two-pizza teams, citing a Lego product team where all engineers… | ||
| The Show must go on: Leadership learnings from Theatre | Parul Bhargava | 39m |
Uses theatre production steps to map concrete leadership practices: starts with a script and a shared vision, casts people for fit not title, runs 3–6 month… | ||
| The Mental State of Flow - Our Superskill To Measure Team Effectiveness | Erik de Bos | 01h 18m |
Argues that team effectiveness is measurable by sensing and nudging the group’s Flow rather than chasing dashboards, using the flow channel (challenge vs… | ||
| Improve organisation decision making processes with critical thinking | Craig Cockburn | 01h 32m |
Workshop shows a concrete toolkit drawn from military red‑team practice and applied demos: think write share (neuroscience-backed system‑two delay and colored… | ||
| From plan-based to discovery-based Agile portfolio management | Henny Portman | 45m |
Ten concrete controls move portfolio management along a spectrum from plan-based to discovery-based: shorten cycle time to a quarterly heartbeat with same-day… | ||
| Agile leaders of the future: What do they do differently? | Dipesh Pala | 48m |
Claims that future Agile leaders prioritize emotional intelligence over AI, act as chief energizing officers, and build teams by creating psychological safety… | ||
| Expediency & Fluency | Vinod Kumaar Ramakrishnan | 24m |
Argues that productivity depends on balancing quick, minimal solutions with robust repetition and automation, recommending a design sprint that produced a live… | ||
| Be more 'pracademic': turn your practical knowledge into a doctorate! | Russ Lewis | 48m |
Argument that experienced practitioners can convert day‑job problems into a doctorate using a professional doctorate model that reverses the PhD sequence… | ||
| From Product Discovery to Product Delivery - A Real-Life Example | Todd Little | 45m |
Kanban University builds a one-day course called Scrum Better with Kanban after market research showing ~2.5M certified Scrum practitioners and a high… | ||
| Innovation Velocity: From Roadblocks to Results | Sunil Pamnani | 01h 17m |
Research of 1,700+ practitioners and an interactive workshop using Miro boards and QR codes maps the top roadblocks: lack of speed and poor cross‑functional… | ||
| Business Agility through GCCs | Arvind Rathore | 23m |
India hosts about 1,700 GCCs contributing roughly 1.5% of GDP and $64+ billion in revenue, growing at ~10% CAGR and employing ~1.9 million. GCCs move from cost… | ||
| Data Cleansing & Beyond: How to Address Data Debt for AI | Scott W Ambler | 49m |
Claim: poor data quality is one of the top two showstoppers for corporate AI and most teams waste effort cleaning downstream instead of fixing sources… | ||
| Continuous Well-Architected: Beyond the Once-a-Lifecycle Review with SCORP | Shilpa | 41m |
SCORP sets up monthly CloudWatch → Confluence dashboard reviews that track specific metrics across Security Cost Operational Excellence Reliability and… | ||
| Designing an Innovative Organisation with HEXI | Jules Yim | 01h 30m |
Physical hexagon kits called HEXI kits provide decomposed method cards (Entangled Trios, Unarticulated Needs Mapping, Genba, ASHEN, safe-to-fail probes and… | ||
| Unleashing Agile Leadership: Small Wins, Big Impact | Dipesh Pala | 44m |
Claims that steady, visible progress beats recognition or rewards as the prime motivator, backed by a survey of ~2,000 leaders showing <5% rank progress… | ||
| Soyez Villains, Sabotage Your Transformation - Arkham Management School | Fabrice | 22m |
Practical checklist of how to wreck a digital transformation: never start with why and pick a prepackaged solution so no goals exist; hire an ignorant CTO and… | ||
| Stress & Happiness: 2 Sides of the Same Coin | Maartje Jansen, Fennande van der Meulen | 43m |
Claims that chronic stress raises mortality risk only when perceived as harmful are backed by a US study of 30,000 people over eight years; globally 31% call… | ||
| Solving real-world problems with a (mini) Design Sprint | Mohit Chandna, Munish Malik | 01h 29m |
A 90-minute capsule compresses a 4–5 day Design Sprint into a hands-on loop using How Might We reframing, Crazy 8s (each person draws eight ideas in eight… | ||
| The Fail Forward Conference: Share, Grow, Unite - Experience report | Rucha Kapare | 22m |
Program leverages First Thursday community days (80% attendance) to run 60–90 minute, no‑recording sessions across Pune, London, Lisbon, Berlin and more, with… | ||
| EQ in Tech | Amber Vanderburg | 46m |
Stanford data cited says 75% of tech job success links to emotional skills. The session lays out an EQ programming model (data → stories → emotions → behavior… | ||
| How to Communicate Technical Ideas to Non Technical Audiences | Amber Vanderburg | 45m |
Claims three concrete scenarios for nontechnical communication: presentations problem solving collaboration and a checklist of tactics that actually work — ask… | ||
| LEGO and Attachment Styles: Reimagining Organizational Structures | Anton Zotin | 41m |
Claims that early four attachment styles persist into adult work behavior are tested with LEGO Serious Play as participants build personas, then map how each… | ||
| Krishna’s Servant Leadership & Bhagavad Gita’s Blueprint for Agile Mindset | Haripriya | 24m |
Connects Bhagavad Gita teachings (Krishna 5000 years ago) to concrete Agile practices and claims three actionable shifts: use a capability matrix to assign… | ||
| 4 bad ideas about productivity... & what Agilists should do instead | Jason C. Yip | 47m |
High interest rates drive fresh demands for productivity and the talk debunks four trendy but harmful claims and gives concrete alternatives: measure impact… | ||
| Building Resilient Teams | Kathy G. Berkidge | 01h 06m |
Claims that mindfulness measurably strengthens team resilience by interrupting the stress cycle and improving listening, creativity and decision timing… | ||
| Scrum & Lean Startup in Action: Design to Delivery in 6 Months | Sophie Freiermuth | 46m |
Design-to-delivery claim: a cloud dispatch system replaces a spreadsheet and nightly WhatsApp chaos and launches in six months on a shoestring (budget equals… | ||
| Managed Evolutionary Change | Todd Little | 50m |
Argues that organizations get better by starting with what you do now and running small, managed experiments rather than big-bang transformations; uses the… | ||
| A Systemic Approach to Organisation Design & Change Management | Erik de Bos | 01h 25m |
Argues organisations behave as complex systems and shows a repeatable practice: map causes and effects with causal loop diagrams to reveal self-reinforcing… | ||
| Sentience Agility: Harmonizing AI Agile Intelligence | Ketan Kulkarni | 51m |
Claims human minds have layered sentience—superconscious, collective conscious, and an “ultimate” pictorial mind—and AI supplies speed intelligence, collective… | ||
| Bata Management System: Power of Self-Organization for Industrial Agility | Michal Vallo | 01h 11m |
Historical Bata Management System shows a concrete claim and a working toolkit: a factory model that scales by units of 150, copies complete factories… | ||
| Building GenAI products: a product manager's perspective | Krishnan Nair, Sneha Jain | 46m |
Built an agentic product that runs 60–90 minute technical pairing interviews, sold to enterprises and run in production with about 2,000 interviews so far… | ||
| Mastering agility & cultural fluency in global teams | Alberta Soranzo, Martina | 01h 28m |
90 minutes of hands-on exercises use Erin Meyer’s Culture Map framework and printed worksheets so teams draw their own profiles, compare axes like linear vs… | ||
| AI Supercharging Product Management: Go Beyond Yourself! | Munish Malik | 48m |
Claims that large models perform rapid, multi-step market research comparable to a junior analyst, using ChatGPT Deep Research (10 runs/month) and Perplexity… | ||
| The 3 “S’s” of User Stories | Kathy G. Berkidge | 01h 24m |
Workshop shows a concrete rule set: write each story as one simple sentence with a single interaction and a specific observable outcome so it fits in one… | ||
| Testing at the Speed of Thought: QA in the Era of GenAI apps | Robin, Shriyansh | 28m |
Claims that QA can run “100x faster” and compress two‑week sprints to hours, supported by a demo of an open‑source agent called Hercules open source testing… | ||
| Patterns & practices for developing enterprise-scale serverless applications | Sheen | 45m |
A real migration story: a legacy Java monolith and Oracle DB move to AWS serverless using API Gateway, Lambda, S3 and NoSQL tables plus queues/event bus for… | ||
| Architecture Beyond Clean & Hexagonal | Ralf Westphal | 01h 29m |
Argues that common patterns (MVC, layered, hexagonal/clean) miss a critical separation: pull logic into leaf operations and separate integration as its own… | ||
| Radical Object Orientation in the Age of AI Code Generation | Ralf Westphal | 01h 33m |
Argues that two 1967 Alan Kay principles — unidirectional messaging and integration/operation segregation — make AI code reliable by forcing tiny, testable… | ||
| Implementing Cloud Native CI/CD | Nikhil Barthwal | 50m |
Argues that CI/CD must be container-first and Kubernetes-native to scale — cites Netflix with 600+ services and ~100 deployments/week and Uber with ~1,000… | ||
| DevEx on Steroids: 5 Techniques to Scale Developer Experience | Pramida, Sunit | 50m |
Five practical techniques and concrete results: treat DevEx as a product, solve the single worst pain first, roll changes out iteratively, measure the right… | ||
| Test Driven Delivery of Infrastructure-As-Code | Kamalika Majumder | 52m |
Claims that test-driven delivery of IaC cuts production incidents and shortens release timelines, with demonstrated tests against a Terraform-built VPC/EKS/S3… | ||
| Engineering Intelligence via Engineering Metrics | Anand Agrawal, Sunit Parekh | 46m |
Four metric categories drive the pitch: delivery, quality, developer experience and operational data, collected from GitHub, CI, SonarQube and Jira and fed… | ||
| opening talk (Day 1) | Naresh Jain | 10m |
Conference runs since 2005 and this year declares itself the last edition, with 214 attendees from 15 countries, 56 speakers flown in from 13 countries and… | ||
| opening talk (Day 2) | Naresh Jain | 07m |
Program updates include a last‑minute schedule swap that moves one session into the main hall and adds a lightning‑talk block, attendee count rising by three… | ||
| opening talk (Day 3) | Naresh Jain | 06m |
Covers logistics only: conference enforces law of two feet and runs four parallel sessions so attendees may move freely between halls; sessions record to… | ||
| Closing Talk | Naresh Jain | 07m |
Agile India concludes after a twenty-year run, ending a grassroots movement that began in universities and moved into hotels. Attendance falls from roughly… | ||
| Agile India 2025 conference - in Bengaluru, 25-27 March | 01m | |
We’ve released the schedule for #AgileIndia 2025, featuring 55+ sessions across 3 days designed to help you tackle today’s most challenging product engineering… | ||
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