Agility is a Mindset. Being agile is useful in everything we do even in your day-to-day to life. Traditional concepts of leadership will not work in the Agile paradigm. Leaders need to think differently when working in the Agile world. What makes a good leader in the agile world.

2. ● CEO - Founder of TAASHATECH
Infosolutions Pvt. Ltd and IT Services
company
● 30+ years of experience in the field of IT
● Certified Scrummaster since 10+ years
● Conducted Multiple Trainings on
Agile/SCRUM Implementations in IT
and non-IT worlds
● Holding Multiple Professional
Certificates - Certified Information
Systems Auditor (CISA), Project
Management Professional (PMP), Six
Sigma-Green Belt. Diploma in
Innovation and Design Thinking.
● Visiting faculty at a few colleges like
IIM(A), Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of
Information And communication
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3. The Stories of
AGILE Mindset
and
AGILE Leadership
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5. What is Agility ?
•Agility or nimbleness is an ability to
change the body’s position efficiently,
•Balance – Static and Dynamic
•Speed
•Strength
•Coordination
Taken from wikipedia
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7. SPEED
Straight
Acceleration
No Sudden
Changes
Path is known
Practice
possible for
exact task
AGILIT
Y
Constant
Change
Changes
Sudden
Constant
Reaction
Each Game is
Unique/New
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8. Coachi
ng ?
Cannot instruct
for the exact
event
Training for
multiple
alternatives
Coachi
ng ?
Train for the
exact event
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9. What is Agility ?
Nimbleness !! Reacting to
Change !!
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10. Change is
the only
Constant
BLACKBERRY –
Marketleader
Nokia – MarketLeader
IBM – Repositioned Itself
Microsoft – Was born
because it handled Change
Google – Changed the
Search engine market.
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11. Agility in
Software
Development
Group
•Software Development
projects – 90s statistics (US
Government)
•Approx USD 250 Billion worth of
Projects
•31.1% Project will be cancelled
before completion
•52.7% Projects will cost 189%
more to complete
•Bridge building projects –
90s Statistics (US
Government)
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12. Agility in
Software
Development
Oregon to discuss how they
could speed up development
times in order bring new
software to market faster.
•Recognized two key
opportunities
•Shortening the delay of
demonstrating the benefits to
users
•Getting feedback from users
quickly to confirm the
usefulness of new software
and continue to improve on it
accordingly.
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13. Agility in
Software
Development
•In 2001 they met again in
Snowbird UTAH and in 3
days laid the foundation to
Agile Manifesto
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14. AGILEMANIFESTO !!
INDIVIDUALS
AND
INTERACTION
S
OVER
PROCESSES
WORKING
SOFTWARE
OVER
COMPREHEN
SIVE
DOCUMENTA
CUSTOMER
COLLABORA
TION
OVER
CONTRACT
NEGOTIATIO
RESPONDING
TO CHANGE
OVER
FOLLOWING
A PLAN
Values of any
Agile
Methodology!
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15. 12
Principles
of Agility
2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in
development.
3. Deliver working software frequently,
4. Businesspeople and developers must work
together
5. Build projects around motivated individuals
6. The most efficient and effective method of
conveying information to and within a
development team is face-to-face conversation.
7. Working software is the primary measure of
progress.
8. Agile processes promote sustainable
development.
9. Continuous attention to technical excellence
and good design enhances agility.
10. Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of
work not done–is essential.
11. The best architectures, requirements, and
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16. Agile
Leadership
•Focus
•Manage Change
•Manage heterogenous
team
•Manage self managing
team – Everyone is a
Leader
•Maximizing the
Amount of Work not
Done
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17. FACILITATOR
Facilitate -
Ownership
EXPERIMENT
OR
Learn Faster
CULTURE
LEADER
Inculcate
Healthy
INSPIRATOR
Co-Create
Customer
AGILE
LEADE
R
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18. Jules Ostin
• 20+ CEO of a
fast-growing Startup
• Last to leave office
• Hands On
• Customer Focus
• Sends a package of her
own products herself
• Ready to step down to
Ben Whittaker
• 70 Year Executive – 40+
years of experience - ex
VP (retired)
• Joins as an Intern to a 20+
year CEO
• Ready to do any role –
even as a Driver
• Ready to Learn
• Cleans the table of rubbish
without being asked
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19. RATAN
TATA
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20. India Cricket Tour of Australia – 20-21
• Lost the First Test – Lowest Score
• Last Test Historic Win – First visiting side to
win at Brisbane after 32 years
• One of the Weakest Indian Team on paper
• The only fit 11 players
• Without the top / star players
• In third test players stayed on the ground for
4+ hours even after being injured
• R.Jadeja ready to bat even with a broken
thumb
• Determined to WIN
• Rishabh Pant
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May 2002 Test at Antigua
Breaks the JAW
India scored 500 + runs
Kumble thought if he could take a few wickets
on the last day, India could win
He got LARA out
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