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This workshop has limited seats. The need for an Agile coach and a right channel for coaching has become imperative for many Agile organisations. This forces us to nurture a community of coaches who understand the role requirements and goes beyond the usual to tackle the implementation challenges.

Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd are pioneers in coaching the Agile coaches to handle large enterprise problems. Their experience in life coaching and expertise in the industry gives them an edge. They have more than 15 years of experience in leading projects and organisations. Lyssa is also trained as a Co-active coach and leader.

Michael is trained as a Team and Organizational coach, in co-active leadership and in executive coaching. Currently he is writing a book called Coaching in the Agile Enterprise.

Lyssa and Michael are running a workshop at Agile India for Agilists who wants to increase their overall Agile coaching skills, including in the areas of Teaching, Mentoring, Facilitation, and Professional Coaching. What is the role of an Agile Coach in the Agile transformation journey? Lyssa Adkins: You know Agile coach is a word that we just use generically because almost every corporation has their own version of these words. What we care is about how the coaches help teams move beyond just getting the practices up and running and, into helping teams on their joyful and deliberate pursuit of high performance.

Michael Spayd: It is, as Lyssa is saying, a pretty broad range of definitions. You know, it means sports coach to some people, it means professional coach — like a life coach or an executive coach to some people, and it means kind of you having coaching by your manager which really means telling you what you need to do or you are going to get fired.

Not like doing things for the team, not getting and making all the decisions for the team — anything like that, but really trying to help the team become a better team. What does it take to be an effective Agile Coach? So we look to impart facilitation, like professional facilitation and having skill at being a neutral facilitator of meetings and events you know games whatever it is in the Agile environment.

The thing that most people think about when they think about an Agile coach is what we call an Agile-Lean practitioner, so knowing about the Agile processes, knowing how the values relate to the principles, relate to and generate the practices, how you innovate, how you modify them in a consistent way — that sort of thing — so all the world of knowing all about Agile and Lean. And how at any given moment they will choose which one serves the purposes of the transformation best.

Michael Spayd: So making for an Agile coach in terms of transforming or working with a team they have to draw on this pallet, if you think about this, because coaching, facilitation, teaching, mentoring, Agile Lean practitioner. So, in the center of all of those disciplines is this thing we call the coaching stance.

Which is very much just like a home base that an Agile coach comes back to as a way to help activate in other people their next positive steps towards the transformation they see needs to take place. It is unleashing a wave of positive change everywhere that it goes.

And we believe that Agile coaches when they are well equipped are powerful transformation agents to help that virus spread in a positive and useful way. Not only for people but also for products. What are the key take-aways from your workshop?

Goals : Learn and practice Agile by doing Agile. Build community. Make art! The art piece will be a large two-dimensional wall hanging. The center of the piece will be the Agile India logo. Thus the piece will be both ephemeral and permanent. The unified piece will exist for only a short time, the fourth day of the conference, before we dismantle it. Small individual pieces of art will live on permanently in the homes and offices of the people who take them home with them, as reminders of the community, and as symbols of the power of art and Agile to create greatness together.

Enterprise solutions for Agile have always been a challenge for many organisations. This workshop will introduce the participants to the principles, values and practices of SAFe. His deep rooted expertise and his pragmatic solutions to real time problems have resulted in successful enterprise level implementation of Agile across organisations.

His hands-on approach and practical examples make him as one of the sort after expert in this domain. We had a short chat with him, where we discussed about SAFe and his experience with various kinds of organisations.

In your opinion, what is the biggest challenge companies are facing while scaling agile methods at their org. SAFe has been successfully applied to enterprises with hundreds, and even thousands, of practitioners.

There is a common misconception that Leadership has no role to play in Agile. What do you think is the role of leadership in implementing SAFe? In SAFe, Leadership is not excluded. Indeed, leaders assume the primary responsibility for successfully implementing the new way of working.

Training is provided to help them on this new learning journey. Is there any difference? No tangible differences. The principles and values of SAFe, and the underlying principles of product development flow, apply in both contexts. Are there any gotchas that teams should be aware while implementing SAFe? Any transformation of this scope is hard. If enterprises could have achieved the benefits via their old way of working, they would have already done so. Lean, Agile and Scaled Agile change most everything!

But SAFe is powered by Agile, so the personal, team and business benefits are well worth the effort. What is the key take away from your 1-Day SAFe workshop? While it lacks the depth that the two-day course provides, it covers all the foundational elements and is delivered by Dean Leffingwell, the creator of SAFe. Based on my past experience running others international conferences for the last 10 years, I put together the following review process: Interested speakers are requested to submit their proposals directly on our proposal submission system.

Following is my rationale behind this review process for conferences: Fact : Writing a good proposal is one thing and Presenting on stage is a completely different thing.

One could write really good proposal, but might be a poor speaker on stage. Hence selecting proposals based on their ability to present rather than JUST their proposal becomes extremely important.

I understand we want diversity and we want to give new speakers an opportunity. But do we really want a speaker on stage who has never presented anything ever? Hopefully they have presented at a local conference or a local user group or even within their company. If noting, they can do a short 5 mins screencast or video on the talk and upload that video. We want them to contribute to open source projects and write at least a blog or an article about it. My thinking is: what is the harm is asking speakers to provide us this info, so the community and the review team can make a better, more informed decision?

It really helps create a buzz for the conference. Which in-turn helps us get really good proposals and opportunity to get sponsorship. When I as a speaker, look at other proposals, I get encouraged to submit a proposal myself. Also in my experience the overall quality of the proposals increase because of the open eco-system and public feedback mechanism. With the help of public voting, the review team gets a good sense of which topics people are most interested.

Public voting can be gamed, but there are ways to limit it. Also we might not pick the exact proposal with the highest votes, but certainly select similar topic. In the end, if the team still wants to do a blind selection, we can certainly export the proposals into a format they want and give them just the info they need. The approach we take is more open and allows us to achieve both options. Would love to hear your experience. Long Version: As we are wrapping up the last few tasks from AI14, I would like to take a few minutes and share my reflections on conference and the growth of agile community in India since we started in 10 years ago.

We also hear and see many horror stories of failed scaling attempts. Smart Pricing is still available as of 11 January. Also check out the Conference Program. Sponsorship: Interesting in supporting this conference, checkout our sponsorship guide. Isabel Evans — Independent Quality and Testing consultant. Isabel has more than thirty years of IT experience in the financial, communications, and software sectors. Her work focuses on quality management, software testing and user experience UX , She encourages IT teams and customers to work together, via flexible processes designed and tailored by the teams that use them.

Joshua is a globally recognized thought leader in Agile and Lean software development. He is an entrepreneur, author and programmer passionate about excellent software and discovering better, faster and safer ways to produce it. As the founder and visionary leader of Industrial Logic, Joshua is currently defining what it means to practice modern agility.

He is an active blogger on forward-thinking, modern software topics with an edge. Conferences Kx Systems. Dave is a popular, humorous, albeit opinionated keynote speaker with an impressive breadth of business experience and technical depth. He is a thought leader in large-scale software engineering and a founding director of the Agile Alliance. He has been a business and technical advisor to many technology. Dave is founder and chairman of the YOW! Offering in-depth business and technical acumen, complemented by strong expertise in shaping product strategies into tangible products, strengthening stakeholder alliances, integrating Agile best practices, and streamlining processes that increase revenue, lower costs, and create business value.

Nate Clinton — Managing Director Cooper. Nate is the Managing Director at the San Francisco office. In his role, he blends the decisiveness and collaborative skills of a product manager with the acumen of an economist to build bridges with people and organizations. Equal parts teacher and student, Nate leads initiatives in content creation, business development, and creative leadership.

At Cooper, he helped United Airlines find new ways to reward loyal customers, led an effort at GE Healthcare to create a strategy for the international expansion of a key product line, and designed solutions for workplace collaboration, delivering technology to schools, and the future of the connected kitchen. Mitchell is the founder of HashiCorp, a company that builds powerful and elegant DevOps tools. He is one of the top GitHub users by followers, activity, and contributions.

He has consulted for many Global companies to help them achieve technical excellence and deploy a culture of experimentation and learning. His focus is on helping organizations discover and deliver valuable, high-quality products. Workshops have very limited seats. Modern Agile Workshop: Joshua Kerievsky.

Much has changed since the publishing of the Agile Manifesto in Pioneers and practitioners of lean and agile methods have examined weaknesses and friction points, experimented with simpler approaches, and produced agile processes that are safer, simpler and far more capital efficient. The result is modern agile. Modern agile amplifies the values and practices of organizations that have discovered better ways to get awesome results.

As testers, it is vital that we understand quality in use and the user experience, in order that we focus our tests correctly. This builds to a User Experience UX and are underpinned by technical and engineering qualities.

For the people selling, supporting, or using the products, this is the beating heart of the customer experience. In the tutorial, Isabel will use examples from real projects to discuss how to design tests derived from the user personas, contexts of use, and acceptance criteria. Leaders today face constant, accelerating change driven by technology and incredibly high expectations from both internal and external.

As IT leaders, we need to transform our roles and our departments. In this workshop, we focus on, teach and practice the tools of transformational leadership. After each part of the training, participants are ready to use the tools to re-define their roles and deliver what their organizations need — brilliant leadership. Disciplined Agile in a Nutshell by Scott Ambler. Disciplined Agile DA is an IT process decision framework for delivering sophisticated agile solutions in the enterprise.

It builds on the existing proven practices from agile methods such as Scrum, Extreme Programming XP , Lean software development, Unified Process, and Agile Modeling to include other aspects necessary for success in the enterprise. The one-day workshop is not technical and is suitable for all team members.

The workshop is also valuable for management tasked with moving from traditional approaches to agile. Crack your head open and release a surge of creative ideas with engaging activities that promote clarity, inspiration, and buzz within your organization. The Art of Refactoring by Joshua Kerievsky. Code that is difficult to understand, hard to modify and challenging to extend is hazardous to developers, users and organizations.

Refactoring, or improving the design of existing code, is one of our greatest defenses against such code. Yet many programmers lack formal training in refactoring. Furthermore, management tends to lack knowledge about the value of refactoring. This one-day workshop is designed to address these needs. Why do we estimate and are we making estimates that are actually useful? We will examine the nature of software development projects and explore some real data to shed light on the art and science of software estimation.

Our exploration goal is to see if we can work together to come up with some ideas about improving on the traditional approaches to using estimates. Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble. Getting software released to users is often a painful, risky, and time-consuming process.

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