Prerna Kale is a product manager who advocates for innovation and an agile mindset. She believes agile and innovation go hand in hand by allowing teams to focus on crucial features that will create new, desirable products. Some ways she suggests teams innovate include using open spaces for brainstorming, setting OKRs to guide product development, conducting innovation games for product discovery and risk assessment, and facilitating innovative retrospectives like a futuristic hot air balloon theme. Her overall message is that teams should lead innovation rather than follow by continuously challenging assumptions and creating new solutions.

1. Prerna Kale, Product Manager
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Innovate Your Agile Quotient. Be
the Leader not the Follower

2. My Thoughts…
Any change to create something new is Innovation. Agile itself
was an innovative discovery in the world of waterfall projects.
Like agile, Innovation is not saying yes to all but only to the
crucial features that will bring new and desirable product. So, I
believe that Agile and Innovation are not at all misnomer or
misconstruedbut the duo bring amazing energy in what you
build and how you build

3. Be the Leader…
Innovate with Open Spaces
Innovate Process: OKR’s
Product Discovery with Innovation Games
Product Risks with Innovation Games
Innovative Retrospectives

4. Innovate using Open Spaces
Open Spaces
 Whoever comes are the right
people
 Whatever happens is the only
thing that could
 It starts when it starts
 It’s over when it’s over

5. Innovate Process- Facilitate Development

6. OKR’s

7. Product Discovery with Innovation Games
Product Discovery: Design an Envelope and launch your product!
• Duration: 10 min
• Design: 7 min
• Presentation:3 min
• Note: Only one group will be requested to present

8. Innovation Game to unleash Product Risks
What’s Your Worst Nightmare !!!
Products:
 Sports drink for Athletes
 Yoghurt for kids
 Snacks for office
 Tomato Sauce chilli
flavour
Duration:15 min
Design: 10 min
Presentation: 5 min

9. Innovative Fun Retrospectives
Hot Air Balloon: A Futuristic Retrospective
- Looking Back:
Fire and hot air:
What helps us go higher or pushing forward?
Forces pulling down:
Which are the forces pulling us down?
- Looking Ahead
Storm:
What is the storm ahead of us?
Sunny day:
What could we do to avoid the storm and turn towards sunny

10. Keep Innovating..
Thank You!!