How do we learn the right thing at the right time and in the most cost-effective way? How do we organise the process, new insides an

Getting new teams to work together is hard. Really. Hard.

Is it because there is so much hype around new Agile teams? Or is it

Are you born as an Agile leader or can you develop or pivot your leadership style to be one? This talk will uncover ten Agile leade

Unlike typical operating models, the DigOps model focuses on organizational mindset, mechanics, maturity and market share. The model

While it is true to say that people’s attitudes and beliefs are key to implementing an agile project, or Agile in itself, much of the use o

A dōjō (道場) is a hall or space for immersive learning or meditation. This is traditionally in the field of martial arts, but has bee

When organisations are truly agile and at an enterprise level, constant and rapid change becomes the norm.

Successful organisa

For the last few years, I have been diving into what Collaboration really means. I have been collecting stories and examples and discoverin

When the concept of a Scrum master was introduced to the world, it was way too far to digest. Having a coach to a team was a new tim

In this talk, the speaker will present a brand new retrospective format quickly becoming popular in Japan. This method is heavily in

The story goes ...

During the Agile Coach Camp at Agile India 2019, we had an interesting discussion driven by Woody Zuill aro

Connecting with other people, finding a sense of belonging and the need for support are natural human desires. Employees who don’t f

Wether you are an Agile Coach, an Agile transformation facilitator or a Scrum Master, did it happen to you to feel frustrated becaus

In today's busy world, you have more things to do, than time to get them done. Deciding upon the priorities is a big question. 'What

The shift from industrial to product thinking is profound. Digital product thinking is not an evolution of industrial thinking, it i

Psychological Safety has been identified as a #1 condition for creating high-performing teams by Google’s Project Aristotle. Yet, many orga

This talk is about my journey to become an ICF certified coach and how I apply those skills both to my role as a strategy consultant

The rules of the game have changed! Studies indicate that by the year 2030, half of jobs will be ones that do no exist today and hal

A fundamental philosophy from the early days of Agile, and particularly of XP, is that teams should own their process. Today we woul

Good retrospectives (you know, the ones that actually lead to real change?) rest on three pillars:

* people,
* process, and

At the core of the agile mindset is learning. Continuous learning is only possible through active feedback loops. Linear approaches

What does agile have to do with psychotherapy? It turns out quite a lot. If you think about it, ultimately agile is about working cl

Happy birthday, Devops- you are officially ten years old this year!!! Let’s blow out the candles on our cake, and reflect on our dev

Aren’t we fascinated looking at a gymnast performing a routine? A trapeze artist swinging from one side to the other? An acrobat doi

How do you allow teams the freedom to pollute the data lake, and protect the security, privacy, sanity and usability of data?

Traditional accounting methods measure and manage innovation efforts but this can in fact be one of its biggest disablers. Internal

The move away from traditional ways of working and thinking to digitization leads to change in the way we work, learn and measure. I

This Workshop will help you understand why emotional culture matters to building a more high performing and connected team in a more

This presentation is about building a culture for innovation that enables the design and delivery of great products and experiences

Creating a Product Development Organisation that Delivers On-Time and Under-Budget, every time.

The Problem: 

In 2016 I quit a very successful career in IT which spanned multiple countries including US, Canada, Europe, UK, Singapore & India. I stopp

A crisis is a great motivator and organisations have adapted remarkably well to remote work. Many leaders have been surprised at the

Often in agile working environments, people aim for failing fast. Yet failure is not the goal - learning is. Failure can lead to lea

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth in the end be

1. How do I motivate my developers when I cannot show them the financial value of the features they build?

2. How d

Do you have a nagging feeling that you may not be investing in building the right thing?

Do your products have features that a

Design Thinking is one of the best tools available to create products and services with the potential to satisfy people’s needs. Sin

Any organization’s ability to focus on what matters most to their customers is directly related to their ability to get valuable fee

We all know what a product is. We buy and use them all the time. But, what does it mean where you work? Are the things you build or make re

In a complex, interdependent eco-system, where each service is evolving rapidly, we typically end up with an Integration Hell .i.e.

Last year was dominated by the smart devices and voice-based home assistants. These use the conversational interfaces unlike other a

Effective organizational security is a shared responsibility and yet, a big number of organizations suffer from testing security issues at

The technical debt metaphor has taken the software world with storm. No wonder, since software projects have their fair share of cha

The Test Automation Pyramid is not a new concept.

Serverless applications are usually made up of functions interacting with fully-managed services, so you can develop applications without h

Branch By Abstraction is the lesser-known development practice for software development organizations doing Trunk-Based Development. It is

I got excited about property-based testing after hearing John Hughes talk at Functional Conf 2016. I tried it that year with QuickCh

Organizations today can no longer afford to deliver new features to their respective markets once a year or even once a quarter. In

Little’s Law has been used in queuing theory for over half a century. It is an elegant explanation of the relationship between avera

TACO is an acronym I use with clients to help them map controls from their software delivery pipelines to the organizational control

How easy is it to write and maintain integration tests when the system under test interacts with databases and message stores? It ca

Deriving abstractions for a given problem description is always challenging. No matter what your experience level is, a new scenario

Kubernetes is a force to be reckoned with for enterprises, and there’s been a major shift to move their infrastructure to use Kubernetes. T

Networks pervade nearly everything we do in software development. Our code runs on networks but it is also a network of relationships among

Perfection is unattainable yet we live in a world where we are encouraged to compare ourselves and our work to an impossible standard. Come

Chaos Engineering is an up and coming method used by SREs for autonomously introducing random failures into a system and measuring whether

This introduces Knative &

Nikhil Barthwal Product Manager Google

Shrinking Production Incidents details an organized approach for reducing the overall time of production outages.

Reliability

Micronaut is a framework for developing microservices-based applications on JVM. Micronaut supports Java, Groovy and Kotlin language

You can’t legislate against failure, focus on fast detection and response.

You can think this as a fairy tale

Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting in a distributed system to identify the weakness in the Architecture and Design

Mangle is an open-source project that enables you to run cha

Software projects often mistake organizational problems for technical issues and treat the symptoms instead of the root cause. The main rea

In this talk, we utilise the tools of Functional Programming to provide robust and resilient software components. We start off by de

The principles of chaos engineering have been battle-tested for years using traditional infrastructure and containerized microservices, but

Servirtium == Service Virtualized HTTP (for Java and other languages) in a record/playback style, making plain Markdown recordings t

Today’s systems are inherently complex, with some component parts often operating in or close to suboptimal or failure modes. Left u

Modern systems pose a number of thorny challenges and securing the transformation from legacy monolithic systems to distributed systems dem

We are all here for the same purpose: to ensure the systems we build operate reliably. This is a difficult task, one that must balance peop