Enterprise Agile Transformations

We have an exciting speaker: Prakash Bettadapur sharing his experiential insights!

The promise and power of Agile in Software actually comes from bringing a group of responsible and multi-talented software professionals to work in a collocated Scrum team environment. Despite best efforts to transform organizations, we find teams’ performance deteriorates after transformation and programs end up being unsuccessful. Why do such transformations go bad? How do we transform our individuals, our teams, our managers, our top leaders, and the entire organization, and align them with the new thinking? What do we do to change the environment – the processes, the tools – and the way we do business? How do we start with the transformation? Apply a big bang approach or an evolutionary one? What are the key metrics for successful adoption and organization transformation? I would like to share my views and experience on the topic of Successful Agile Transformations in this presentation.

Speaker:
Prakash Bettadapur is an Agile Evangelist and Transformation Leader. He transformed a 2000+ members organization in Cisco Systems to Agile, in addition to leading several engineering programs. Prakash believes that Agile effectiveness must be proven by actually leading programs and products by example, and not by letting Agile be run as a process. Agile is a mindset, and right decisions must be applied every moment. Prakash Bettadapur has 30+ Years of Software Development experience. He has spent the last 20 years promoting Agile and Lean development philosophies and guiding most of the programs to success. He started with Agile Scrum in Cisco about 10 years ago,when his teams were part of building the next generation IOS-XE operating system, proving ultra-large-scale systems can be built using Agile methodologies. Prakash did his engineering from India and Masters in Computer Science fromCanada. He did his MBA Executive Education from Stanford University. He holds several Agile Scrum and Scaled Agile certifications (CSM, CSPO, CSP,
SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4)) in addition to other technology qualifications. Prakash now spends time in consulting with startups and other companies in Product Strategy, Business Models, Lean Startup, and in technology areas of IoT, Cloud Computing, AI and Machine Learning.