I presented this talk under a theme - 'Personal Agility' at Discuss Agile Conference 2017 in Bangalore. It is my personal life's journey of using agile values & principles.

1. Personal Agility
Experience Summary
How did I accelerate my own training & coaching business using
agile values?
By Prashant Shinde
Saturday - December 16, 2017

2. HELLO - I am Prashant Shinde
I am here because I want to spread awarenes about ‘Personal Agility’.
Passionate agilist with expertise in coaching, consulting, training on various flavors
including Lean, Agile, Scrum, Kanban and XP.
Clientele - Siemens, Microsoft, DBS Banking, BNP Paribas, L&T InfoTech, Qualcomm,
Hexaware Technologies etc.
Connect with me - pdshinde25@gmail.com
Twitter - @pdshinde25
Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/enterpriseagilecoach4u
Phone - 9820216684
Blog - https://learnagileblog.wordpress.com

3. Let’s do a poll
 How many of you are currently entrepreneurs?
 Are you facing challenges in the business?
 How many of you are planning to be entrepreneurs?
 How many of you want to become agile trainers (freelance) &
coaches?

4. Personal Agility?
Write down the first thought which comes to your mind when you
hear ‘Personal Agility’?

5. Debrief

6. Personal Agility - Definition
• Applying Agile values & principles to your own personal life.
• Applying Agile values & principles to your professional life (business
agility).
• How many of you are doing it currently?
• How many of you have done it in the past?

7. Characteristics
 Passion
 Commitment
 Self confidence
 Patience
 Kaizen Mindset -
 Improve
 Start fresh
 Investment -
 Time
 Money

8. Storytelling – Let’s go back into the past

9. Graduation – 2nd year B.Sc. Mathematics
What I can do?

10. What can I do to support my family?
 No investment
 No much efforts as well
 Less time - more outcome
(money)

11. Idea
Idea -> Idea(s)

12. Idea(s)
I am the topper of my school & college - I can teach

13. Idea -> Teaching
 No investment
 No much efforts as well
 Less time - more outcome
(money)

14. Local tuition classes – SSC / HSC
Paper Correction -
 2 Rs. For 20 marks
 4 Rs. For 40 marks
Exams –
Weekend
Monthly
Semester
Annual
Teaching –
9th/10th Standard
 11th/12th Standard
 Weekday & Weekends -
 150 Rs. / hr
 200 Rs. / hr
 300 Rs. / hr
 500 Rs. / hr

15. Local tuition classes – SSC / HSC
My part time income - Rs. 15000-20000 per month
My dad’s last full time income - Rs. 3000 per month

16. 1st Job – Developer @Reputed IT Org
What else I can do?

17. Technology Training
Developer -
C#
SQL
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
 No investment
 No much efforts as well
 Less time - more outcome
(money)

18. Let’s start my own training company
 No investment
 No much efforts as well
 Less time - more outcome
(money)

19. Let’s work with vendor(s)

20. Let’s work with vendor(s)

21. Scrum Master (Onsite)
Wait a sec – Scrum says
 Decide on a backlog
 Prioritize
 Deliver early & often
 Fail Fast
 Retrospect
 Restart
My Role -
 Project Lead - Scrum Master
 Command & Control
 Micromanager
Our Scrum –
 90 min standup
 4 weeks sprint
 Spill over culture
 No ownership
 Scrum = New waterfall
 No Retro
I am already practicing it

22. Me (Scrum Master - Agilist)
Wait a sec -
 Ask for help
 Join any community
 Google & self learn
 Read books

23. Recommended Book Reading

24. YouTube Videos
YouTube search - Henrik Kniberg
YouTube search - Tathagat Varma
YouTube - A funny Scrum Master movie with Jeff Sutherland
YouTube - Requirements gathering - funny
YouTube - The Impatient Product Owner
YouTube - The wrong ways to do agile
YouTube - Hitler at a sprint review
YouTube - Agile India ConfEngine
YouTube - Agile games
YouTube - The resource utilization trap - Importance of PULL
YouTube - Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Henrik Kniberg
YouTube - Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell
YouTube - Spotify Engineering Culture Part 1
YouTube - Spotify Engineering Culture Part 2

25. Agile Everywhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moKG0RQNiqM
Homework

26. Personal Kanban Board – Grocery Shopping
Things To Buy Went for Shopping Done
Earlier -
Physical
Now -
Trello

27. Annual Vacation

28. Annual Vacation
Let's self organize & pull -
Vacation Project (3 months early)
 Backlog grooming - Every Sunday during lunch
 Bookings (Hotels, Flights, Cab etc.) - Me
 Sightseeing places - Wife
 Packing - Dad & Mom
 Daughter - Nothing ( Customer - Primary stakeholder  )
 Inspect & Adapt

29. What I do – Training & Coaching
Tech Guy | Trainer | Coach | Learner | Consultant | Mentor
Lean - Decide at right time
Pareto 80-20 law
Fail Fast
Field Testing
Keep on trying
Inspect & Adapt
Identify customer needs
Focus on customer value
Prioritize your work
Work on small items
Deliver frequent customer value
Visual Management
Set WIP limits
Stop Starting Start Finishing

30. Agility Landscape
Today ‘Agile’ means many different
things/approaches: Scrum/XP (first
agile frameworks), SAFe/LeSS
(enterprise frameworks), Lean Startup
(startup framework), Beyond
Budgeting/Mgmt 3.0 (management
frameworks), …
So saying “you are using agile” is not
very defining of what you are doing 

31. Let’s end the story
Agile is a toolkit & mindset
Doing CSM / CSP / SAFe Agilist etc. does not make you
a practitioner until you apply it in both personal &
professional life.

32. Agile as a Toolkit

33. Agile as a Mindset
Being Agile
Vs
Doing Agile
Google map changes the path but
not the destination.

34. Agile Everywhere

35. Life full of Buzzwords

36. Buzzwords will come
& go.
“Values & Principles”
will remain forever.

37. Prashant Shinde
Email - pdshinde25@gmail.com
Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/enterpriseagilecoach4u
Phone - 9820216684

38. Questions?