Kamlesh Ravlani

Bringing innovative and breakthrough ideas to market doesn't have to slow down due to multiple geographies and scale. In fact that's an added reason to be agile, test the product-market-fit early and reduce risk.

How can organizations benefit from being Agile at Scale For Innovation and Growth?

What are the wastes in the traditional organizational structure at scale and What does it take to build customer value delivering feature teams.

We'll dissect and learn how Google… Mehr zeigen

Bringing innovative and breakthrough ideas to market doesn't have to slow down due to multiple geographies and scale. In fact that's an added reason to be agile, test the product-market-fit early and reduce risk.

How can organizations benefit from being Agile at Scale For Innovation and Growth?

What are the wastes in the traditional organizational structure at scale and What does it take to build customer value delivering feature teams.

We'll dissect and learn how Google brought one of their innovative idea rapidly to market when there were multiple partners and geographies involved.

Benefits:

-> Understand the core organizational structure that enables agility in product development at scale
-> What does it take to build value delivering Feature Teams
-> How to rapidly experiment new and breakthrough ideas
-> Being Agile to rapidly adapt to changes
-> Ways to seek user feedback when your ideas can't be shared with the world yet Weniger anzeigen

Large scale product development initiatives involving hundreds, sometimes thousands of team members is becoming norm at large enterprises. Scale brings in additional complexity, non-linear behavior and additional risk, making top-down and heavy plan driven approaches ineffective and useless.

In this session Kamlesh Ravlani will discuss a case study of developing a product with multiple teams spread in two sites implementing Large-Scale Scrum (Less) elements.

Large-Scale Scrum is… Mehr zeigen

Large scale product development initiatives involving hundreds, sometimes thousands of team members is becoming norm at large enterprises. Scale brings in additional complexity, non-linear behavior and additional risk, making top-down and heavy plan driven approaches ineffective and useless.

In this session Kamlesh Ravlani will discuss a case study of developing a product with multiple teams spread in two sites implementing Large-Scale Scrum (Less) elements.

Large-Scale Scrum is Scrum applied to many teams working on one product. LeSS is well balanced between empirical process control and defined elements to work with 2 to 8 teams. LeSS enables scaling the value delivery by descaling the organizational structure and optimizing the whole system.

We'll discuss,
=> Feature Teams and approach to structuring the work in multi-site environment
=> How teams adapted to organize their work and accelerate value delivery.
=> The way, leaders facilitated and contributed towards value delivery.
=> Which experiments worked and which ones didn't?

PS: Interested participants are encouraged to visit https://less.works/less/framework/index.html and familiarize themselves with the LeSS Framework before the session. We will not cover the LeSS Introduction in this session, rather we'll directly jump in to the case study. Weniger anzeigen

Most large scale organizations are designed on the overarching theme of local efficiency and local optimization. Local optimization focus can be seen at all levels and areas in organizations. Effects of such behavior is visible through organizational silos, hand-offs of partly finished work products among groups of SMEs, single function roles (such as Analyst, QA, etc.), communication barriers, everyone being busy, and distance from real user/customer challenges.

In this workshop, we'll… Mehr zeigen

Most large scale organizations are designed on the overarching theme of local efficiency and local optimization. Local optimization focus can be seen at all levels and areas in organizations. Effects of such behavior is visible through organizational silos, hand-offs of partly finished work products among groups of SMEs, single function roles (such as Analyst, QA, etc.), communication barriers, everyone being busy, and distance from real user/customer challenges.

In this workshop, we'll focus on the Software Product Development area of the organizations, identify local optimization, expose the underlying lean wastes and list approaches to optimize the whole system and improve organizational agility.

Kamlesh Ravlani will help attendees see the prevailing local optimization by facilitating activities where the participants expose local optimization and underlying lean wastes.

Equipped with the knowledge of prevailing lean wastes and local optimization, attendees will discuss necessity and approaches to organizational re-design based on Systems Thinking that focus on customer value and remove lean wastes resulting in System Optimization. Focus on optimizing the whole organizational system allows the organization to be more responsive and lean. Weniger anzeigen

Organizations are frequently embarking on large scale product development initiatives involving hundreds, sometimes thousands of team members. Scale brings in additional complexity, non-linear behavior and risk.

Leaders leading large scale product development initiatives seek additional structure and process clarity to fail-proof large scale product development undertaking. In this session Kamlesh Ravlani will discuss Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) framework and how leaders can apply it to… Mehr zeigen

Organizations are frequently embarking on large scale product development initiatives involving hundreds, sometimes thousands of team members. Scale brings in additional complexity, non-linear behavior and risk.

Leaders leading large scale product development initiatives seek additional structure and process clarity to fail-proof large scale product development undertaking. In this session Kamlesh Ravlani will discuss Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) framework and how leaders can apply it to re-design and descale their organization to scale the value delivery.

Large-Scale Scrum is Scrum applied to many teams working on one product. Scrum is almost linearly scalable, hence LeSS framework elements are essentially the same as (one team) Scrum. LeSS is well balanced between empirical process control and defined elements to work with 2 to 8 teams. From my practical experience working on multiple large scale product development initiatives, and LeSS framework, I'll share elements and practices to re-design the organizations and to enhance the focus on customer value.

Learning Objectives:
- Understanding of complexity and risk at scale
- Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) Framework, Principles
- The need for re-designing the organizational structure
- Understanding the role of leadership in scaling value delivery Weniger anzeigen

Games are fun, engaging and addictive. Games have carefully designed elements that keep players engaged consistently for long hours, immerse them in fun and motivate to keep coming back. If you’ve played World of Warcraft, Farmville or Angry Birds – you know what I’m talking about. It isn’t by coincidence. Game designers know the secrets to repeatedly deliver this experience.

On the other hand if we look at the customer engagement data – the way customers interact with most products… Mehr zeigen

Games are fun, engaging and addictive. Games have carefully designed elements that keep players engaged consistently for long hours, immerse them in fun and motivate to keep coming back. If you’ve played World of Warcraft, Farmville or Angry Birds – you know what I’m talking about. It isn’t by coincidence. Game designers know the secrets to repeatedly deliver this experience.

On the other hand if we look at the customer engagement data – the way customers interact with most products, services and providers, the customer loyalty is fleeting and the relation is getting more transactional.

The product owners and designers need newer ways to engage the user and customers. Can they benefit from what the game designers excel at?

In this session, I introduce Gamification for engaging product design – the application of game elements and game design in non-game context. I explain the underlying factors, how to design a Gamification system and products considering Psychology, Motivation, Fun and Learning.

I dissect some real world applications of Gamification - draw the connection with games and take you through the considerations to gamify a system.

http://lanyrd.com/2014/agileroots/sczqfb/
http://www.agileroots.com/presentation/boost-customer-engagement-with-gamification/ Weniger anzeigen

The art of asking questions is a skill most coaches use as their communication engine. The right question when asked at the right time could help the coach not only to get their coachee(s) to think more deeply, but also open up possibilities to get results beyond original expectations. During this 60-minute session, we will share and discuss various aspects of the question-asking skill, including the anatomy of a powerful question, the types of questions, what to avoid, etc. Participants will… Mehr zeigen

The art of asking questions is a skill most coaches use as their communication engine. The right question when asked at the right time could help the coach not only to get their coachee(s) to think more deeply, but also open up possibilities to get results beyond original expectations. During this 60-minute session, we will share and discuss various aspects of the question-asking skill, including the anatomy of a powerful question, the types of questions, what to avoid, etc. Participants will also get the opportunity to exercise their question-asking skill in a group activity. Participants would be able to leverage this skill to coach teams to improve their Agility.
>> Target audience: Agile Coaches, Leaders, Product Owners, ScrumMasters, Project Managers, Team Leaders, etc.
PS: This session is aimed for experienced Agile practitioners to raise their question-asking skills. The session will not cover the basics of Agile principles or practices. Weniger anzeigen