About Us

Agile Gurgaon is the pioneer Agile event initiated by the Agile Network India community.

Our mission is to build a unique and independent continuous-learning platform for sharing knowledge created by people from different experience & expectation set. This platform would support participant in exploring agile software development, management and leadership related skills and foster networking opportunity --locally-- with global experts.

Agile Gurgaon would provide a unique way to connect with potential customers and partners to showcase your offerings, and a full pack two day event full of Learning, Networking and Fun @ Gurgaon, Delhi-National Capital Region.

Agile Gurgaon is a community organized event, and it would bring Software- IT, Business, Hardware & Electronics professionals, students, teachers, academicians, researchers, scientists, innovators, authors, Thinkers & Thought Leaders, Start-ups, Governance & Administrative Agencies, NGOs and Corporate entities together and collaborate to share best practices to the larger audience.

WHAT ARE OUR GOALS?

  • Promoting High Value Learning and Knowledge Sharing
  • Enabling Networking Opportunity
  • Foster Agile Software Development Adaption
  • Collaboration opportunity for novices, practitioners, managers, leaders, change agents and experts
  • Concrete take-away of industry best practice, and practical applicability
  • Last but not least - create an Open and Fun loving energised environment for new ideas

REASONS TO JOIN

Invest in Yourself !

  1. Sharpen your Skills
  2. Break Out of Your Comfort Zone
  3. New Tools, New Stuffs
  4. Learning in New Space
  5. Meet the Experts Face to Face
  6. Share your Thoughts to World
  7. Takeaway Fresh Ideas to Work

The value coefficient of conference

Unique platform to share knowledge, Great Networking Opportunity, Value for Money, Unlimited Fun !

27-28, May
2016

Gurgaon
INDIA

150+
Delegates

20+
Speakers

Speakers

Keynote Speaker

Jurgen Appelo

Jurgen Appelo is pioneering management to help creative organizations survive and thrive in the 21st century. He offers concrete games, tools, and practices, so you can introduce better management, with fewer managers.

Jurgen can help you upgrade your enterprise with more engagement and faster results; He can show you how to become an agile business with better software; He shows you how to creatively manage your company; And he can inspire professionals with a purpose, advocating work-life integration for creative people.Jurgen calls himself a creative networker.Jurgen is CEO of the business network Happy Melly, and co-founder of the Agile Lean Europe network and the Stoos Network.

Keynote Speaker

Mike Burrows

Mike Burrows, founder of Agendashift (www.agendashift.com), is a management consultant, coach and trainer specialising in values-based change, leadership and delivery. A former Executive Director, IT Director and global development manager, Mike has been a long time associate of David Anderson and a Lean Kanban thought-leader in his own right. He’s has done extensive work in, and consults in, a wide range of topics related to Lean, Agile and Kanban. His book “Kanban from the Inside”, published in 2014, quickly became one of the leading books on Kanban.

Program Schedule

Theme

  • Looking at problems and finding creative solutions.
  • Developing innovative ideas, looking at interconnectedness of various factors to understand there is a bigger picture.
  • How modern Enterprise solving the business problems?
  • How learning Agility drives enterprise Agility?
  • Diagnose enterprise Agility, ability to business strategy fit.
  • Scientific approach to creating and managing startups.
  • How successful entrepreneurial business are created, benefits, engageability How it is helping in building big things?
  • Case Studies
  • How technology can impact scaling of agility?
  • Managing Legacy systems.
  • Challenges in aligning, adapting, sustaining.
  • Cultural Transformation
  • Challenges in sustaining cultural transformation.
  • Focus areas, role of leadership, case studies.
  • Looking at problems and finding creative solutions.
  • Developing innovative ideas, looking at interconnectedness of various factors to understand there is a bigger picture.
  • How modern Enterprise solving the business problems?
  • How learning Agility drives enterprise Agility?
  • Diagnose enterprise Agility, ability to business strategy fit.
  • Scientific approach to creating and managing startups.
  • How successful entrepreneurial business are created, benefits, engageability How it is helping in building big things?
  • Case Studies
  • How technology can impact scaling of agility?
  • Managing Legacy systems.
  • Challenges in aligning, adapting, sustaining.
  • Power of cultural transformation.
  • Challenges in sustaining cultural transformation.
  • Focus areas, role of leadership, case studies.

Friday 27th May

 System Thinking & Design  Enterprise Agility  Lean startup  Technical Stake in Scaling Agility  Cultural Transformation  Keynote Speaker
 Panel Discussion  Program Introduction
Time Event
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:45
Jurgen Appelo
( CEO “Happy Melly”, Author - Management 3.0)
9:45 - 10:00 Program Overview - Noopur
10:00-10:45
Sudipta Lahiri
(Sr. Vice President - Digite Inc)
10:45-11:00 AM Break
The Royal Room 1 The Royal Room 2 Pre Funcation Area
11:00 - 11:45
Mike Leber
( Management Consultant, Lean & Agile Coach - Agile Experts e.U.)

Mosesraj R
(CIO - Brillio)
OpenSpace Coaching Clinic
11:45 - 12:30
Uday Kumar
(PM, DevOps & ALM Consultant - Addteq)

KE Siew
(Certified Scrum Trainer & Agile Coach - Qumility Consulting)
12:30- 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 - 14:00
Utpal Chakraborty
(IT Delivery Manager - Firmenich)

Mike Burrows
(Author- Kanban from the Inside)
OpenSpace Coaching Clinic
14:00 - 14:30
Ritu Arora
(Director Engineering - Aricent )
14:30 - 15:00
Ajay Jain
(Sr.Manager-Software Development,
Accretive Health)
15:00 - 15:15 PM Break
15:15 - 16:00
Uday Atla
(Sr. Technical Program Manager - VMware)

Meetu Arora
(Sr V.P QA - Info Edge India Ltd.)
OpenSpace Coaching Clinic
16:00 - 16:45 Panel Discussion : "Fish bowl / Dot Voted from OpenSpace Topics"
Panellist: Sudipta Lahiri, Mosesraj R, Mike and Priyank Pathak
(The Royal Room)

Saturday 28th May

 System Thinking & Design  Enterprise Agility  Lean startup  Technical Stake in Scaling Agility  Cultural Transformation  Keynote Speaker
 Panel Discussion  Program Introduction
Time Event
9:00 - 9:45
Mike Burrows
(Founder "Agendashift", Author- Kanban from the Inside)
9:45 - 10:00 Program Overview-Noopur
10:00-10:45
Priyank Pathak
(Curator "INNOVATION ROOTS" , "Agile Community")
10:45-11:00 AM Break
The Royal Room 1 The Royal Room 2 OpenSpace Coaching Clinic
11:00 - 11:45
Ajay Kabra
(Sr. Director, Agile Transformation - Xebia)

Sudipta Lahiri
(Senior Vice President - Digite Inc)
OpenSpace Coaching Clinic
11:45 - 12:30
Harpreet Singh
(Project Manager - R Systems International)

Ranjith Tharayil
(Coach - SolutionsIQ)
12:30- 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 - 14:00
Cdr. Manish K Tyagi (Retd)
(Training Consultant / Host / Stand-Up Comic - Ground Zero Learnings)

Vinay Krishna
(Agile Transformation Consultant - SolutionsIQ)
(13.30-14:15)
OpenSpace Coaching Clinic
14:00 - 14:30
Sanjay Saini
(Agile Learner, Practitioner and Mentor)
14:30 - 15:00
Anand Murthy Raj
(Agile Coach - Philips)

Kshitij Agrwal
(Lead Consultant - Thoughtworks)
(14:15-15:00)
15:00 - 15:15 PM Break
15:15 - 16:00
Vibhor Mahajan
(Artist, Dreamer, Programmer & Leader - Trantor)

Vidya Bhushan
(Agile Consultant -TCS)
OpenSpace Coaching Clinic
16:00 - 16:45
Jurgen Appelo
( CEO “Happy Melly”, Author - Management 3.0)

Workshops

Leading SAFe Agilist

This two-day workshop teaches the Lean-Agile principles and practices of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®).You’ll learn how to execute and release value through Agile Release Trains, how to build an Agile Portfolio, and how to lead a Lean-Agile transformation at enterprise scale

You will gain an understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset and how to apply the principles and practices of SAFe to support Agile teams, programs, program portfolio management, and to coordinate large Value Streams.

Attending the class prepares you to take the exam and become a certified SAFe® Agilist (SA.

All Workshop attendees will get a complimentary conference pass.

  • Time: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Date: May 23-24, 2016
  • Venue: Meeting Room No. 3
    Ibis Gurgaon, Block 1 , Sector-53, Golf Course Road, Gurgaon-122002
  • Participant Profile: Intermediate (Experience minimum 2 years and above)
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Approach: Classroom training
  • Seats: 30
  • Trainer: Priyank Pathak (SPC)

Certified Scrum Master

A Certified ScrumMaster® helps project teams properly use Scrum, increasing the likelihood of the project's overall success. CSMs understand Scrum values, practices, and applications and provide a level of knowledge and expertise above and beyond that of typical project managers.

CSMs act as "servant leaders," helping the rest of the Scrum team work together and learn the Scrum framework. CSMs also protect the team from both internal and external distractions.

You expand your career opportunities by staying relevant and marketable across all industry sectors adopting Agile practices, demonstrating your attainment to core Scrum knowledge. Engage with a community of recognized Scrum experts who are committed to continuous improvement.

Note: All workshop attendees will get a complimentary conference pass.

  • Time: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Date: May 25-26, 2016
  • Participant Profile: Intermediate
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Approach: Classroom training
  • Seats: 30
  • Trainer: Kok Ewe Siew (CST)

Kanban System Design(KMP-1)

The Kanban Method is a comprehensive approach for introducing systems thinking into any organization on all levels. It fosters a holistic service focus throughout an organization, with the goal of better understanding business risk, support for decision making and improving service delivery activities.

This training and workshop sets a solid foundation for organizations, teams or individuals to start their concrete service improvement efforts via the Kanban Method.

You receive a great mix of deep conceptual lessons, combined with case studies and real life experience. You will get hands-on exercises, games and interactive exercises, providing a maximum learning experience. After the class you will be ready to kick off or deepen your own Kanban initiative.

All workshop attendees will get a complimentary conference pass.

  • Time: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM
  • Date: May 25-26, 2016
  • Participant Profile: Beginner
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Approach: Classroom training
  • Seats: 30
  • Trainer: Mike Leber (AKT)

Review Committee

  • Sudipta Lahiri

  • Sudipta Lahiri

  • Anthony Vigneron

  • Anthony Vigneron

  • Prasad Prabhakaran

  • Prasad Prabhakaran

  •  Charlcye Mitchell

  • Charlcye Mitchell

  •  Aditya Nautiyal

  • Aditya Nautiyal

  •  Arathi G Rao

  • Arathi G Rao

Organizing Team

  • M J Prashant

  • M J Prashant

  • Noopur Pathak

  • Noopur Pathak

  • Thriveni Shetty

  • Thriveni Shetty

Sponsors

Title Sponsor

INNOVATION ROOTS

An end-to-end Agile Software Development Solution Provider and Consultancy, having expertise of thousands of consulting hours in Agile, Kanban, Scrum, SAFe and Lean Start-ups ways of working. We provide Education, Skill Transfer & Consulting services to our customers to “Create Things of Great Value” by growing their People, Operations and Business Agility. We are partnered with CA-Rally and guide customers organizing with RallyDev, and being bronze partners of Scaled Agile Academy, we help customers scale with Scaled Agile Framework. In our endeavour to provide sustainable learning we provide Training, Coaching and Mentoring on Lean – Agile, Scrum, SAFe and DevOp. Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) & Certified Scrum Developer® (CSD) by Scrum Alliance, Certified SAFe Agilist® (SA) & Certified SAFe Practitioner ®(SP) by Scaled Agile Academy, Kanban Management Professional, Kanban System Design/Kanban Foundation certification by Lean Kanban University and DevOps Certification are our some of the most popular offerings.

Come sprint with us at www.innovationroots.com/

Silver Sponsor

Scrum Alliance

Become part of something bigger than you alone. Founded in 2001, Scrum Alliance® is the largest, most established and influential professional membership and certification organization in the Agile community. Scrum Alliance® is a nonprofit association, having certified more than 450,000 individuals worldwide. Its vision is to "Transform the World of Work” with a mission to guide and inspire individuals, leaders, and organizations with practices, principles, and values that create workplaces that are joyful, prosperous, and sustainable.

Come sprint with us at https://www.scrumalliance.org/

Feedback Partner

Zykrr

Zykrr is a one of a kind exciting feedback and customer experience management platform. Zykrr provides a fun & unique approach to rapidly collect rich and reliable feedback data from internal and external customers. It’s patent pending design is easy to use and extremely flexible, so it can help you gather specific and actionable insights.

Event Location

Date: 27th& 28th May, 2016

Venue: The Leela Ambience Gurgaon Hotel & Residences, Ambience Island, National Highway 8, Gurgaon - 122 002

Location - Gurgaon