My keynote talk at Agile Canvass event in Bangalore, Oct 14

1. Is Agile killing your
Agility?
Tathagat Varna
Country Head, Chinasoft India

2. What is Agility?
respond commensurate
to the quantum and
rate of change

3. Impediments to Agility
• Not the same as impediments
to agile adoption!!!
• What are your favourite ones?

4. State of Business Agility,
2017

5. State of Business Agility

6. State of Business Agility

7. State of Business Agility

8. Guruspeak…
“The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t
mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined
company, and we have great processes. But that’s not
what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient. But
innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways
or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or
because they realized something that shoots holes in
how we’ve been thinking about a problem. It’s ad hoc
meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he
has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who
wants to know what other people think of his idea. And it
comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we
don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much.”

9. The agility pyramid
Mindset, Knowledge,
Passion, Culture
Business Results
Vision, Process,
Resources, Tools
Goods, Products
and Services
Metrics and Key
Performance Indicators

10. What can you (= “I”) do?
• Why: Always start with the business goal.
• Who: Staff with people best-suited to serve
the goal.
• What: The only process (and tools) that
matters is what the team uses.
• How: Achieving higher-order agility is
possible only after a lower-order agility is
self-sustainable.