Agile Network India - Coimbatore Title: Agile Design Thinking Experience and Opportunities by Shanthini Suresh Date: 20th Jan, 2024 Hosted by: Birlasoft

1. Agile Design Thinking
Experience and Opportunities
Shanthini Suresh

2. Introduction
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Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scaled Agilist (SAFe 6.0)
Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC)
Project Manager
Bosch Global Software Technologies

3. Agenda
What is Agile
4
Experience : Story Time
5
Design Thinking – dive in
6
Agile and Design Thinking
7
Summary
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What is AGILE ???
Here’s What Google says, what ‘AGILE’ means…
So, we cannot “Do Agile”, but we can “Be Agile”
Agile is a Mindset ! !
The 4 values and 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto serve
as the foundation for the agile mindset.
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5. Story Time
The Thought
Study the nature of work.
Explore opportunities.
Organize and prioritize backlog – the famous
Pareto Principle helped.
Mentor the Team, motivate, work in harmony
and shine !
The Problem
❑ Day-to-day Production support.
❑ Adrenalin rushes with P1 and P2.
❑ When there is no P1 or P2, we were bored !
❑ Problems piled up.
❑ We were tired.
The Solution
Daily meet up and daily commitment.
Preparedness to face unknowns.
Problems were prioritized for
solution.
Boost is the secret of our energy.
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6. Design Thinking – dive in
IDENTIFY THE RIGHT
PROBLEM TO SOLVE
GENERATE IDEAS
&
MAKE IDEAS TANGIBLE
MAKE MEANING OUT OF
DIVERSE INFORMATION TO
IDENTIFY A STRATEGIC
FOCUS
INSPIRE NEW THINKING BY
DISCOVERING WHAT PEOPLE
REALLY NEED
ITERATIVE PROTOTYPING
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Agile and Design Thinking

8. Summary
▪ Design thinking is an approach to find user problems.
▪ Agile mindset supported by any of its many framework, is
a practice of solving problems.
▪ To begin at a small level,
o Focus on high-value
o Low-risk opportunities
o With better results, take on more challenging initiatives.
▪ Design thinking is a user-centered approach,Agile is a
problem-solving approach that iteratively builds solutions
to solve those problems.
▪ Agile design thinking is a combination of design thinking
and agile methods.
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9. Questions

10. shanthini.rks@gmail.com