These slides took the audience of Agile Coffee Talk Bangalore through Speaker Jeff Lopez's experience of Agile and agility in India. Jeff feels that India, with its history of adapting to various challenges and invasions over its thousands of years of existence, surely could teach the world about transformation.

1. IS THERE AN INDIAN APPROACH TO AGILE TRANSFORMATION?
(a work in progress…)

4. Symantec ConfidenGal
“Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transforma6on
is sustained change and it is achieved through prac6ce” – BKS Iyengar

5. Jeff Lopez-Stuit
• Nine years as an Agile
pracGGoner
• CerGfied Enterprise
Coach/Scrum Alliance
• Senior Enterprise Agile
Consultant, SoluGonsIQ
• Resident of Tukwila,
Washington, USA
• Coaching full Gme on
the road since 2011

6. Jeff Lopez-Stuit
“I want help people improve
their ability to improve – to
teach people how to leave
behind away the inadequate
structures of the past, and
create space to build an
amazing future every day. “

7. General Motors Headquarters
Detroit, Michigan, USA
January 7, 2014
Temperature: -28 C

8. General Motors Headquarters
Detroit, Michigan
January 7, 2014
Temperature: -28 C
Marathahalli, Bangalore, India
March 31, 2014
Temperature: 38 F

9. General Motors Headquarters
Detroit, Michigan
January 7, 2014
Temperature: -28 C
Marathahalli, Bangalore, India
March 31, 2014
Temperature: 37 C
Berlin, Germany
November 19, 2015
Proper Seacle
weather.

10. General Motors Headquarters
Detroit, Michigan
January 7, 2014
Temperature: -28 C
Temperature: 37 C
BalGmore, Maryland
January 22, 2016
3 feet of snow in 28 hours
High winds
Worst blizzard in recorded history

11. General Motors Headquarters
Detroit, Michigan
January 7, 2014
Temperature: -28 C
Temperature: 37 C
BalGmore, Maryland
January 22, 2016
3 feet of snow in 28 hours
High winds
Worst blizzard in recorded history
Koramangala, Bangalore, India
This morning
Temperature: 21 C J

12. Symantec ConfidenGal
“Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transforma6on
is sustained change and it is achieved through prac6ce” – BKS Iyengar

16. A generaGon has passed since those ideas were born…

17. …and this is sGll the image we use to see what agile looks like.

22. More soAware developers in India than the US by 2017

23. More soAware developers in India than the US by 2017
You can develop your own voice.
Agile can create the space to do this

25. Indian civilizaGon has developed over
thousands of years, through mulGple ruling
and economic systems.
…you can embrace the flavor of agile
without having to adopt the models of
“culture”, “scaling”, and other things
experienced as obstacles by organizaGons
in the West.

26. Culture

27. Culture

28. Culture

29. Corporate Culture

30. Allow PracGce to Unfold Theory
Emerge and evolve through embodied knowing

31. Everything Lives.
Nothing Scales.

32. Arunachala, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India

41. An Indian Approach to Agile
TransformaGon?
• FantasGcal growth in the number of
people making sokware
• Strong willingness to learn
• Deep knowledge, strength, and
perseverance as a civilizaGon
• Innate giks of self-organizaGon and
comfort with chaos and ambiguity

43. Devduc Pacanaik

44. “Greek myth: life is a problem that needs to be solved
Abrahamic myth: there is one soluGon for all
Hindu myth: problem is soluGon is problem”

45. What enabled results in India
1. Global product ideas that are born here.
2. Vision and mission commiced to the
pracGce of agile as a means of
sustaining business survival and growth.
3. Strong willingness to learn and pracGce
fundamentals.
4. Good coaching. J
5. Repeat the above iteraGvely.

46. TM Krishna
- from “A Southern Music”
“…unless we comprehend our
music as a conGnuous river
that travels in Gme, adapGng
and changing to different
environments, we will not be
one of the travellers on that
river. We may create a dam
and divert the water, but this
will change the natural flow.
It is up to each one of us to
decide how we want to
experience music, and by
experiencing it, contribute to
its journeys.”

47. Don’t divert the flow with obstacles that you didn’t create

48. Travel the river that’s started in India, and contribute to the flow