Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “agile”
Mar, 2024 - About
Books
Exploring the Metaverse Redefining Reality in the Digital Age Natural evolution in technology and human interactions converge to the metaverse
☞ Amazon - Coming in 2024. ☞ Flipkart - Coming in 2024. ☞ Coming soon.
My Thoughtworkings The guiding thoughts that work for me In celebration of Thoughtworks’ 30th anniversary, I have launched this book featuring guiding thoughts from a diverse set of 30 thoughtworkers. These thoughts have resonated with me and shaped my journey within the organization and life.
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Dec, 2023 - Post
Foundational shifts: Reflecting on 2023 and anticipating ahead
As we say goodbye to 2023 and welcome 2024, it’s a time to think about the good and tough parts of the year. Not everything goes the way we want, but we can learn from both the good and bad experiences. I see 2023 as a year of making things better, like fixing the base of a building. I’ve picked my top five observations on foundational changes from this year, and some might continue into 2024.
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Mar, 2023 - Event
Speaker - Agility Today Fest 2023 - Generative AI and XR
Agility Today is a 2 days annual UnConference, to meet Agility needs of industry, gathered over past few years via meetups, Conferences and Webinar. This UnConference intends to give you best of Agile Psyche (Mindset Culture and Practice) and Geekery (Engineering, Tools and DevOps). This year in Agility Today Fest 2023 there are couple of programs.
I am speaking to at Agile Engineering Lab (Technical Agility & Engineering Excellence), on topic of Scaling content generation for XR using AI.
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Dec, 2022 - Post
Guest Lecture on 'Forward Looking Reflection' at DesignersX
Every end is a beginning, if there is no end, then there is no beginning, just like the year 2023 can only start after the end of year 2022. So this is the right time to reflect and plan for a better beginning. A “Forward Looking Reflection” was my topic of a guest lecture at DesignersX at their year end event. We discussed challenges of software development, and how the industry is trying to solve them.
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Mar, 2021 - Event
Speaker - AT2020 - Agility in Enterprise XR
Enterprise XR is gaining good traction, and software development’s best practices like Agile principles really matters due to multitude of tooling and tech stacks used for Enterprise XR solutions
Enterprises do face multiple challenges with the XR development lifecycle. One of them is the automation of testing XR applications. In response to this gap, ThoughtWorks has developed Arium – an open-source, lightweight, extensible, platform-agnostic framework that helps write automation tests that are built specifically for XR Applications.
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Apr, 2020 - Post
XR development from home
Covid19 has challenged the way we eat, the way we commute, the way we socialize, and the way we work. In short, it impacted the way we live. More than a million people got infected and the number is growing exponentially, it has impacted the whole world. We need to find new ways of life and change our focus and priorities to save nature and humanity. Technology can play a great role in coping with it.
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Apr, 2019 - Post
Can IT modernization lead to revenue loss?
IT Modernization is one of the key factors of today’s digital transformation. Most of the enterprises trying to define digital transformation strategy. IT organizations trying to redesign the organizations to meet the changing business need, and uplift the technology and people. Non-IT organizations are also trying to setup digital department to take care of companies digital assets and modernize them. However, IT modernization does not always result in a profit, it may lead to revenue loss if it does not fit to the organization design.
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Nov, 2018 - Post
Software Development as a Design Process
The book “Agile IT Organization Design - For digital transformation and continuous delivery” by Sriram Narayan explains software development as a design process. Following statement from the book means a lot.
“Software development is a design process, and the production environment is the factory where product takes place. IT OPS work to keep the factory running..”
It questions the way we traditionally think of operation support, maintenance, production bugs, rework, their costs and budgets and the focus in software development life.
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Sep, 2018 - Post
Boost your organisation agility by test-first-pair development
Agile software development methodology is the key selling point for most of the IT organisations, however many of the organisations have gone by the literal meaning of the word “Agile”. They follow agile practices without really being agile. If we go by Manifesto for Agile Software Development, it focus more on human factor (people, interaction, collaboration) which produces working software as per the need of time, than on processes, tools and strict planning.
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