Agile Network India- Chennai Title: Technical Agility in startups by Sudarshan TS Date: Jul 2023 Hosted by: Truckrr

2. “Technical” Agility at startup
Progress from “doing” to “being” agile
1. Startup Culture
2. Problems we faced
3. Design principles
4. Discipline

3. About me
1. Mechanical Engineer (SASTRA) (2012)
2. MBA - General mgmt, & IT - IIM, Kozhikode
3. GrowthX - Alum (GX14)
- TCS - PLM implementation Consultant
(Heavy Industries)
- Renault - Nissan (RNTBCI)
- PipeCandy (Acquired by Pacvue)- Scrum
Master
- Pacvue Corp - Technical Program
Manager, Agility and Operations.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudarshansridharan/

4. https://youtu.be/UdZ9P_tWFSw
Video 30 sec

6. Lets talk?!

8. What is so different about a Startup?
Mission, Vision, Values (notion.so)
PipeCandy was acquired by withassembly
(pacvue.com) in 2022, any information is
copyright reserved.

9. Culture
Quality
Why Technical Agility?
Team
More
Team

10. Problems we faced
Adhoc
asks
Technical
Debts
Lack of Technical
Creativity
KPI, Sales Targets, ARR, Funding, Reviews

11. ● Single-responsibility Principle
● Open-closed Principle
● Liskov Substitution Principle
● Interface Segregation Principle
● Dependency Inversion Principle
● Make it, Break it, Repair it

12. Results
● Team of Teams - Productized the 8+ million database into 3 separate
products in 4 months (Sales at 100000 USD)
○ (Prospector, Researcher, Commercepedia)
● Team – Create separate function in the org
○ Set them a specific Vision
○ Ensure everyday, everyone listens to the vision, mission and values
● In-Built Quality
○ Introducing how data flows in the org (Data Lineage)

13. https://blog.pipecandy.com/post/story-
pipecandy-logo

14. Thank you