Yashasree Barve, a technologist at Tata Consultancy Services, emphasizes the importance of agile teams in enhancing business value and managing architecture that adapts to change. The focus is on collaboration, promoting engineering practices, and empowering team members to ensure agile enterprises thrive. Key initiatives include connecting with various teams, teaching best practices, and facilitating learning through retrospectives and shared knowledge.

1. As an Architect, I want to do things, so that My Enterprise is Agile Yashasree Barve Tata Consultancy Services

2. About me I am Yashasree loving my job as a Technologist @TCS since last 13 years an Agile Ruby developer and Architect since 2007

3. So what does an Agile Team focus on?

4. An Agile Team focuses on Enhancing Business Value Ensuring High Quality Delivering Frequently Embracing Change Enhancing Business Value Ensuring High Quality Delivering Frequently Embracing Change

5. Architect on Agile Team? All I wanna say is that They don't really care about us

6. BUT… Do the Agile Teams care about the ARCHITECTURE? Well.. They surely do…

7. They care about An Architecture that Manages change Manages complexity Ensures quality Evolves continuously

8. Enter an Enterprise

9. Does this evolving Architecture Cover non functional requirements? Deem acceptable to the support groups? Follow proven patterns of the Enterprise? Fit into the Enterprise landscape? Work for years to come?

10. User An Agile Architect’s ^ Story As an Architect We want to do things So that We answer these questions and ensure that our Enterprise is Agile!

11. Rethinking People Process Technology

12. No more Ivory Towers, Getting hands dirty!

13. Our Model Architects’ Group at Enterprise Level Agile Team Agile Team Agile Team

14. Way we work towards it Promote Connect Excel Empower

15. Promote Engineering Practices Techniques, Practices, Tools Caring for Code Quality

16. How do we Promote these? Talk, Talk and Talk about those Have fun while talking! Drive special initiatives

17. Connect – Be the super glue Agile Team Business Infrastructure Team Operations Team Architects’ Group Architect Other Agile Teams

18. How do we Connect? Open up Architecture Group meetings Evangelize Collaboration platforms Support the Support Groups

19. Empower T each L isten D o

20. How do we Empower? Teach the right practices Design together – Review individually Do it with them through Pairing up Code Jams

21. Excel GOOD TO GREAT

22. How do we Excel? Use Retrospectives! Study Circles to play with new technologies Dare to Share! Learn from the Industry, take it back, and Apply

23. In short, As an Architect Promote Practices Techniques Connect Be the Super glue Excel by Learning Improving Empower Skills and Knowledge I can do many things such as So that My Enterprise is Agile!

24. Happy to take Questions Hope This Session Helps! Thank you ?

25. Appendix

26. Engineering Practices for Dummies Back

27. Product Scorecard Initiative Back Next

28. Presentation Services Formed a team Talk to project teams Get them started Publish a scorecard Back

29. Engineering Practices Back

30. Open the doors to everyone! Back

31. Supporting the Support Groups Back