Scaling Agile India - Gladwell India

As the Great Confucius said: “By three methods we may learn wisdom; by reflection which is noblest; by imitation which is easiest and by experience which is the bitterest.” Building on the former philosophy, the objective of our conference is to learn from each other by sharing the experience and knowledge. SCAIN 2020 will introduce two tracks; Business Agility and Emotion Agility.

This conference will be hosted by Gladwell Academy’s Agile Coach, SPCT and founder of SCAIN, Anand Murthy Raj. Expect an exciting event to catch-up and share best practices with your peers!

Virtual Experience

SCAIN 2020 will be hosted via a fully interactive virtual event platform that gives you the opportunity to attend from your home while professionally engaged with speakers and fellow attendees.
Gladwell Academy will transport you to the event using the latest in communication technology to simulate the in-person event experience. SCAIN 2020 will feature interactive polls, live Q&A’s, multiple breakout rooms, to deliver the same learning experience virtually.

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Program Dec 12 2020

Time - From	Time - To	Item	Speaker	Company	Icon or Button
12:00 PM IST	12:30 PM IST	Virtual Event Platform open: Register online and visit the Chatrooms
12:30 PM IST	12: 40 PM IST	Live Opening and Welcome	Anand Murthy Raj	Gladwell Academy
12:40 PM IST	1:10 PM IST	Opening Keynote: Agile and Design Thinking: The Parallels and Verticals	Dr. Pavan Soni	Inflexion Point Consulting

Time - From	Time - To	Speaker (Emotional Agility)	Subject	Company	Icon or Button
1:10 PM IST	1:45 PM IST	Elsy Thomas	Demystifying Emotional Agility	Hewlett-Packard
1:45 PM IST	2:00 PM IST	Virtual Coffee Break Round Table session	Dealing with Emotional stress	Anand Murthy Raj
2:00 PM IST	2:30 PM IST	Gaurang Vora	Leadership - Fulcrum above and beyond	LRN
2:30 PM IST	3:00 PM IST	Anand Murthy Raj	Dealing with emotional voids in transformations	Gladwell Academy
3:00 PM IST	3:30 PM IST	Sander Bosma	Five perfect ways to fail SAFe	The Future Group
3:30 PM IST	4:00 PM IST	Virtual Coffee Break Round Table Session	Adopt an Agile approach by Videoscribe	Laurens Bonnema
4:00 PM IST	4:30 PM IST	Ali Hajou	Agile Hippies will make Agile Hype	Blinklane Consulting
4:30 PM IST	5:00 PM IST	Tamara Nation	Dealing with inner emotions during a SAFe transformation	Scaled Agile Inc

Time - From	Time - To	Speaker (Business agility)	Subject	Company	Icon or Button
1:10 PM IST	1:45 PM IST	Sanjay Saini	Business Agility is a Myth	Agile Ways Of Working
1:45 PM IST	2:00 PM IST	Virtual Coffee Break, Round Table Session	Dealing with Emotional Stress	Anand Murthy Raj
2:00 PM IST	2:30 PM IST	Suraj Pujari	Bard of Rewards: Team driven rewards and recognitions	Tavisca
2:30 PM IST	3:00 PM IST	Roel de Ponti	Jumping The Enterprice Agile Gap	Agility Masters
3:00 PM IST	3:30 PM IST	Anuj Malik	Innovation as a Culture - Democratizing Innovation	Publicis Sapient
3:30 PM IST	4:00 PM IST	Virtual Coffee Break Round Table Session	Adopt an Agile approach by Videoscribe	Laurens Bonnema
4:00 PM IST	4:30 PM IST	Boris de Jong	Transformations as storytelling	Gladwell Academy
4:30 PM IST	5:00 PM IST	Eelco Rustenburg	Business agility is an engineers job	Blinklane Consulting

Time - From	Time - To	Item	Speaker	Company	Icon or Button
5:00 PM IST	5:30 PM IST	Closing Keynote	Tathagat Varma	Walmart Labs India
5:30 PM IST	5:45 PM IST	Winner SCAIN Agilist of the year 2020 quiz
5:45 PM IST	6:00 PM IST	Thanks and Closure Note	Anand Murthy Raj	Gladwell Academy

Speakers

Anand Murthy Raj

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Chairman Anand Murthy Raj

SAFe Program Consultants Trainer (SPCT)

Subject

Dealing with emotional voids in transformations

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dr. Pavan Soni

12:40 PM - 1:10 PM

dr. Pavan Soni

Innovation Evangelist and Founder, Inflexion Point Consulting

Subject

Agile and Design Thinking: The Parallels and Verticals

What to expect

Key takeaways:

How Agile and Design Thinking overlaps
Borrowing from best of the two to address problems elegantly
Designing your Agile approach to be more effective

Elsy Thomas

1:15 PM - 1:50 PM

Elsy Thomas

Leadership and professional skills Trainer

Subject

Demystifying Emotional Agility

What to expect

Description of the topic – World is changing faster than we anticipated and to keep up with this overwhelming change and to navigate life’s twists and turns with self-acceptance, clear-sightedness, and an open mind both at work and life requires special skill called Emotional Agility , the vehicle that helps you make the important journey between being best to Excellent and thrive in this fast changing environment and convert situations in to opportunities . Come join us in Demystifying Emotional Agility .

Sanjay Saini

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Sanjay Saini

Leadership, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Professional Trainer

Subject

Business Agility is a Myth

What to expect

The talk is focused about the current state of business agility and the radical shift required in thinking and execution for getting the true benefits of business agility.

Gaurang Vora

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Gaurang Vora

Top 15 Global PMO Influencer | Sr. Information Technology Professional

Subject

Leadership – Fulcrum above and beyond

What to expect

We all would be aware about Leadership but how a Leader has to be in current VUCA world is something which we will embark upon. Leadership is like Love – Mother n Son, Father n Daughter, Brother n sister and the love of leader with his team, which is an evolving journey. In the current world where knowledge is abandonedly available the Leader has to have idiosyncratic characteristic to drive the vision. Leadership that impacts is about knowing one’s strength, is about earning respect, loyality and commitment from the team, is about decisive decision making, vision, communication and above all lead with a spirit of humility. Leadership is not a easy task but those who have led in some form or other know how difficult is it to leave an engrave and reverberations that is positive and inspiring.

Suraj Pujari

2:00 PM -2:30 PM

Suraj Pujari

Iteration Manager

Subject

Bard of Rewards: Team driven rewards and recognitions

What to expect

Is it possible to recognize top performers and boost team performance at the same time?
Recognizing a single team member seems to have a positive and contagious effect on all the other members in the team.
In Agile world we talk about empowering team and navigate them to become self-organized. Then why stick to management driven awards which will dilute over a period of time.

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To overcome this, every team needs to form some better practices for implementing recognition fairly and effectively. High performing organizations should follow a bottom-up approach to appreciate that the special individual contribution and award should be given by the team to the deserving team members. Organizations should become innovative, and innovation requires teamwork for the progress of fresh solutions. Team-based incentives create, as well as emphasize, the demand for collaboration across the team. Team-based reward system is more benefited where the organization has a more individualistic culture. The team-based reward will function better when the task interdependence is immense.

Takeaways:
Transparency: R & R program become more transparent Collaboration: Team feel privileged to collaborate
Trust: as the program is transparent Trust can be easily built. Innovation: Team can come up with ideas outside the technology.

Roel de Ponti

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Roel de Ponti

Agile Enterprice Coach // SAFe Program Consultant

Subject

Jumping The Enterprice Agile Gap

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Sander Bosma

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Sander Bosma

Agile Coach and Trainer

Subject

Five perfect ways to fail SAFe

What to expect

During my career as an Agile Coach and SAFe Program Consultant I have seen my share of misinterpretations of the Scaled Agile Framework, failed implementations, misused practices and believe it or not made some stupid mistakes myself along the way. In this talk I want to share five of these failures as a learning opportunity for all of you. Don’t expect any fancy solutions or well- thought-out strategies just plain simple experiences that will make you laugh and that you’ll remember to avoid in your own scaling journey.

Anuj Malik

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Anuj Malik

Servant Leader, Passionate SPC and Change Agent for DBT & Business Agility

Subject

Innovation as a Culture – Democratizing Innovation

What to expect

The talk on innovation as a culture will be rooted in busting the myths around innovation labs, sacred spaces for innovation are not the way teams will be able to innovate. Democratizing innovation is a way that I have spoken to team about and also created the environment for it to grow naturally within the teams.

Innovation for so long has been considered to be the privilege of few who get the access to the ‘Innovation Lab’. This construct breaks down the aspect of freedom to innovate at scale. I believe that people align on the need for innovation only if they align on the ‘why’ of the client needs. Allowing teams to shape up a vision of tomorrow directly with the clients – without any bureaucracy. I will share a real life example on how a team changed the actions first and then behaviors in this regard.

This kind of culture is like a tidal wave , where each of the doer’s have now become thinkers. They become one of the customers using the solution and experiment with emerging technologies. Desire to change and experiment is something that connects the teams together. My endeavor is to provide an environment (a liquid network) where such a culture is enhanced, slow hunches are connected and brilliant ideas spawn up. This is not a day in life event (Hackathon), but rather a journey each one traverses over time and form a part of the team culture.

Key takeaways from the talk
1. Actions will precede the behavior change – in democratizing innovation
2. Structure and/or scaffolding is needed to support the change in initial days
3. the network effects will soon take over and the innovation engine will be unstoppable 4. this will be the true differentiator for the organization (not cost, margins)

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Ali Hajou

3:40 PM - 4:10 PM

Ali Hajou

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Boris de Jong

4:10 PM - 4:50 PM

Boris de Jong

Storyteller, Trainer

Subject

Transformations as storytelling

What to expect

“Agile transformations are stories we need to keep telling ourselves.”
The Agile transformation usually launches from a burning platform: a clear and present
danger to escape from. Time to market frustrates; competitors nip at the heels,
customers complain; workloads bring colleagues to despair.

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Five years into the journey however, with the low-hanging fruit more or less harvested, people
tend to forget what it was that brought them to seek the change.
Losing sight of the why, new frustrations brought on imperfections in the new ways of
working may lead to change fatigue and even a desire to return to the bad old
ways. How do you ‘keep the nightmare fresh’ to keep the dream alive?

In this workshop by master storyteller Boris de Jong, you’ll become familiar with basic
principles of modern-day storytelling to keep the fires of change burning
bright.

Laurens Bonnema

3:30 PM IST - 4:00 PM IST

Laurens Bonnema

Agile trainer, SPC, PST

Subject

Adopt an Agile approach by Videoscribe

What to expect

Are you struggling to convince people in your organization to really adopt an Agile approach? Trying to get managers to agree to changes in procedure that will help the teams you are working with? Tired of doing that in endless meetings, presentations, and training sessions? So were we! Until we tried something else and doodled the change. Then, we animated our doodles and published them as a videoscribe. The results were amazing! For some reason, our hand-drawn animated videos touched people deeper than we’d been able to before. And change came faster after that. We were able to accelerate the Agile transformation, and scale it from one business unit to the entire organization by leveraging the power of video. Want to learn how? Come to our session, and we’ll teach you how to draw, animate your drawings, and publish them with a nice voice-over so you can add visual flavor to your Agile approach when you get back to work.
Can’t draw? Don’t worry, we can’t either. We’ll show you how to do it anyway, then teach you how to animate it and add a voice-over. Some knowledge of Agile principles and practices is helpful, as we’ll be using real-life examples from our Agile coaching and training.