AgileChennai.com AI-Powered Agile : Transforming How We Deliver Extraordinary Impact Gayathri Pandian General Manager, Thoughtworks & Kalarani Lakshmanan Engineering Director, Thoughtworks

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AI-Powered Agile : Transforming How We Deliver
Extraordinary Impact
Kalarani Lakshmanan
Gayathri Pandian
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Time to greet!
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Agenda
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Agenda
● The Game
● Why this topic ?
● Back to Basics
● Business Context
○ Problem definition, Market research, Design, Roadmap, Stories
● Technology Context
○ Development, Testing, Deployment, Operational Aspects
● Conclusion

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The Game
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Take a seat if you still rely
on physical maps for
navigation.
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Take a seat if you print out
photos regularly.

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Take a seat if you have not
used food delivery through
a mobile app.

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Take a seat if you still use a
Rolodex.

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Take a seat if you still use a
dial-up modem for the
internet.

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Take a seat if you haven't
embraced sustainable or
eco-friendly choices in life
in any form

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Take a seat if you pay
using card or cash only and
do not have a digital wallet
or mobile payment app.

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Take a seat if you believe
the importance of mental
wellness is often
overstated.

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Why this topic?
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AI has taken the world by
storm,reshaping industries
and our future. Now, it's up
to us to harness its
potential in our daily lives.
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We stand at a crossroad,
where the choices we make
in AI will shape our future.

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● How can AI revolutionize
and streamline my life?
● How can I benefit from AI ?
● Can AI and Agile go hand in
hand?
Let's explore approaches to
tackle this
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Back to Basics
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Defining in a glance the basics of Agile Software
development
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Our iterative process for delivering value
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Discover Define and design Product backlog Planning Team card wall/board
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Retrospective Showcase Demo
Potentially
shippable increment
Develop
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Epic
User Story
Epic
User Story
Epic
User Story
TO DO DOING DONE
Analyse
Design
Develop
Deploy
Test and review
Delivery Manager
Team
Inspect
and adapt
Product Manager
Priority

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The Tools
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Splunk AI
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Business context
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Business scenario
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Problem definition
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AI tools that aid in ideation
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Boardmix : An online collaborative whiteboard
software that blends AI mind map generator tools
with a user-friendly interface.

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Brainstorming Ideas in seconds
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Persona definition
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AI tools for Personas
Opinio : Is a solution to one of the difficult challenges in
market, product or academic research: getting the human
responses and the necessary data.
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Research
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AI tools for analyzing data
Dovetail : Analyze data, Store insights and scale research,
sentiment analysis, Voice of the customer
ResearchStudio : Competitive intelligence, user research
sentiment analysis, who are providing similar services, looks
into user research and gives input. Helps create user
journey maps.
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Design and Prototyping
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AI tools for prototyping
Uizard : Mission is to democratize design to empower
non-designers everywhere to build digital, interactive
products.
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Documentation
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AI Documentation tools
chatGPT is my go to tool for all things text.
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Technical Context
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Break it down and build it up
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Technical Context
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Developer effectiveness Deployment reliability Operational resilience
Automated Developer Env Setup
Automated provisioning/
extraction of test data
Various levels of automated test suites
Automated functionality test suites
Continuous Delivery pipeline
Infrastructure as
code
Independently-
deployable units
Performance and
resiliency tests
Automated
security tests
Metrics dashboards and
information radiators
Centralized host and
application-level monitoring
Centralized
logging
Distributed
tracing
Correlation ID
Synthetic
transactions

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Development
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Unlike traditional code generators, we are not
really raising the abstraction level with GenAI
coding assistants. We can use this assistance on
all of the levels
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https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/podcasts/technology-podcasts/ai-assisted-coding-experiences-perspectives

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Software Development ≠ Coding
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRcpEpVNhRc

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Testing
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If you're using CI/CD, you'll have a Deployment
Pipeline in place that will run automated tests
every time you make a change to your software.
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https://martinfowler.com/articles/practical-test-pyramid.html

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Our approach to testing
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Building the product right
Concept Start development Write acceptance test
Write unit test
Write code
Run, build on local
Business Logic
Database Mig
Configurations
Secrets
Pipeline Config
Did build pass?
Commit code and
Push to remote
Triggers build on CI
Did build pass?
Unit test
Acceptance test
Contracts test
Code lint
Static Code analysis
Dependency check
API security test
Push artifact
Deploy to test/QA
environment
Run automated tests
Did all tests pass?
Contract tests
UI tests
Cross app integration
tests
E2E system test
security scan
Run Automated Test
Deploy to NFT
Run automated test
Did all tests pass
Deploy to Pre Prod Mark artifact as release
Contract Test
UI Test
Cross App Integration Test
E2E System Test
Security Scan
Load test
Latency test
Volume test
Hold for release Deploy to Prod Run automated test
Deploy to
disaster recovery
Synthetic test
Smoke test
YES
NO
NO
YES
YES NO

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Deployment
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We live the Cloud Age, where firing up a new
server is a matter of seconds. This is a dynamic
infrastructure where software commands are
used to create servers, provision them, and tear
them down.
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https://martinfowler.com/bliki/InfrastructureAsCode.html

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Operational aspects
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A Ship in harbor is safe.
But that is not what it is built for.
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Warnings!
They often indicate a potential bug, a tolerable
mishap or a problem hiding somewhere.
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Key takeaways
● Mindset Shift: Embrace AI tools and learn to work with them, not against them.
● Upskilling in AI: Continuously upgrade your skills in AI to stay relevant; follow the
rules of adaptability without becoming stagnant.
● Staying Informed: Regularly follow updates from major AI platforms and events
like MS ChatGPT, OpenAI Devdays, Github Universe, and Google Gemini.
● Practical Application: Be creative in applying AI in your daily work tasks.
● Balancing Techniques: Know when to use traditional, deterministic methods and
when to leverage AI, avoiding a 'hammer looking for a nail' approach.
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From point A
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To point B
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Closing note
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All the images, video and some text in this document are AI
generated with suitable prompts.
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Thank you!
Kalarani Lakshmanan Gayathri Pandian
kalarani@thoughtworks.com gayathri.pandian@thoughtworks.com
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