Me@AgileIndia2015

Agile-India is Asia’s largest & premier international conference on Agile and Lean Software Development methods. AgileIndia 2015 conference held between 25^th and 28^th of March, focused on scaling agile & lean methods in Large Enterprises.  This year the conference attracted 850+ delegates from 43 different countries. The conference is organized by Agile Software Community of India (ASCI), a registered society founded by a group of agile enthusiasts and practitioners from companies that practice Agile Software Development methodologies.  I was part of Organizing committee of Agile India, got opportunity to interact and rub shoulders with multiple thought leaders in the space of Agiity.

 

I also did present a paper with Alok  Spee2 Value..  you can watch the video here

 

Speed-2-Value Abstract

More connected consumers, automated processes, and sophisticated analytics place unprecedented demands on IT functions. Many Enterprises are struggling to cope-up, as they seek to deliver on new demands by adding piecemeal elements to their existing operations. This is easier said than done. Reinventing the IT function at Global Enterprise requires far-reaching changes, from talent to infrastructure, tools, delivery models, partnership model. Speed to Value brings a holistic view of IT across the value stream, Plan- Build – Run and   brings strategy & levers, to 'renew' Enterprise IT to be responsive and help Business in realizing the business cases quickly. Key themes discussed in the session were about challenges related to large and complex Enterprise IT,. This session was well received and gave participants insights into the challenges faced by large Enterprise IT in their quest to accelerate Business Value Realization, key levers such as Lean thinking, Design Thinking, Value stream orchestration, Enterprise Agile, DevOps, and IT4IT and the approach for Speed-2-Value.

~ Pras 

 

 

Re- (New) IT for Digital world

 

Two decades back Nicholas Negroponte In “Being Digital”, book on the future of digital technology, talks of the transformation of the world from atoms to bits, a transformation he terms irrevocable, irreplaceable and exponential. We are witnessing Nicholas prediction in coming to reality.

The new Global Enterprise paradigm is increasingly shifting power into the hands of the end consumers. This empowerment will make consumers more connected, intelligent, more capable of taking good decisions, and certainly more demanding. 

Technology has blurred the lines between the digital and traditional methods of dealing with a consumer of any Global Enterprises. The Business Process and IT is no more separate, in most of the industry verticals the Business is driven by IT.   Constant Innovation around IT has become the new normal to the Enterprises to meet rapidly changing consumer expectations and behavior dynamics.

There will be a constant demand from the consumer for compelling IT experiences and stories. Consumer tend to switch places where he is more empowered, also switching cost is becoming more negligible across industry verticals.

More connected consumers, automated processes, and sophisticated analytics place unprecedented demands on IT functions. Many Enterprises are struggling to cope, and they seek to deliver on new demands by adding piecemeal elements to their existing operations.  This is easier said than done. Reinventing the IT function at Global Enterprise requires far-reaching changes, from talent to infrastructure, delivery models, partnership model and will takes multiple years to complete. Business and consumer is not ready to wait for multiple years. The only way we can meet their rising expectations is through a dual approach of renew and new, where we transform existing systems across the IT stack - from infrastructure to applications - to yield higher efficiency and a much better experience, while creating completely new systems to deliver what the consumer desire.

Fortunately, companies can adopt an approach that delivers results quickly while still reshaping IT for the long term. This two-speed approach requires first building a “high-speed” IT function to work alongside the existing IT function, focusing on one or two valuable business areas such as web and customer relationship management

Technology has blurred the lines between the digital and traditional methods of dealing with a consumer of any Global Enterprises. The Business Process and IT is no more separate, in most of the industry verticals the Business is driven by IT.   Constant Innovation around IT has become the new normal to the Enterprises to meet rapidly changing consumer expectations and behavior dynamics.

More connected consumers, automated processes, and sophisticated analytics place unprecedented demands on IT functions. Many Enterprises are struggling to cope, and they seek to deliver on new demands by adding piecemeal elements to their existing operations.  This is easier said than done. Reinventing the IT function at Global Enterprise requires far-reaching changes, from talent to infrastructure, tools, delivery models, partnership model.

~Pras