Conference Program Schedule

Conference Themes

Broadly the conference is divided into the following independent parts:

Pre-Conference Workshop - March 14th

The conference sessions might not give you a very in-depth learning experience on the topics. To address this issue, we plan to host 5-8 workshops before the conference by our expert international speakers. This will help you get the insights directly from the experts.

Draft Schedule...

Agile Leadership - March 15th

  • Role of leadership in Agile transformation
  • Leadership model and type of organizational structures required to embrace agility
  • Agile leader's approach to traditional HR systems such as hiring, performance reviews ...
  • What type of decision making and influencing strategies are used by Agile leaders?
  • 90 mins Hands-On Workshops
Draft Schedule...

Agile Team Culture - March 16th

  • Creating a high trust environment where Agile values and principles can thrive
  • Good collaboration
  • Harnessing the knowledge of the team
  • Building teams that enjoy working together
  • 90 mins Hands-On Workshops
Draft Schedule...

Enterprise Agile - March 17th

  • Scaling Agile - Frameworks
  • People (career) & Performance Appraisals
  • Tools - Portfolio Management, Distributed Teams
  • 90 mins Hands-On Workshops
Draft Schedule...

Continuous Delivery & DevOps- March 18th

  • Culture Transformation
  • Software Craftsmanship
    • TDD/BDD, CI, Refactoring
    • Evolutionary Design
    • Test Pyramid
    • Legacy Code
  • Cross-functional Team Collaboration
  • DevOps Tools - Build, Deployment, Monitoring
  • 90 mins Hands-On Workshops
Draft Schedule...

Lean Startup - March 19th

  • Customer Development (Product Discovery)
  • Crafting MVPs & Safe-Fail Experimentation
  • Design Thinking
  • Lean UX
  • Lean Delivery
  • Actionable Metrics
  • 90 mins Hands-On Workshops
Draft Schedule...

Post-Conference Workshop - March 20th & 21st

Similar to the Pre-Workshops, we'll also host some workshops post the conference.

Draft Schedule...

Session Formats

  • 3 Mins Lightning Talks (10 Talks in one 30 mins slot)
  • 20 Mins Experience Reports (followed by 10 mins break)
  • 45 Mins Case Study (followed by 15 mins break)
  • 45 Mins Expert Talk/Demo (followed by 15 mins break)
  • 60 Mins Keynote
  • 90 Mins Hands-On Workshop/Tutorial

Experience Report authors have to write a 2-3 page report about their experience.

Case study authors have to write a 5-6 page report about the experience.

Like at Agile India 2014, we'll help the authors to write and publish these reports. They'll be available to all participants.

Important Timeline

  • July 27th - Call for Proposals
  • Aug 25th - Zero in on the invited speaker list & send out the invites
  • Sep 10th - Early Bird Submission Closes
  • Sep 20th - Early accept/reject emails
  • Oct 25th - Draft Conference Program Live
  • Oct 31st - Submissions Close
  • Nov 10th - Online Registration starts
  • Nov 10th - Finalise invited speaker sessions
  • Nov 15th - Lock down submission system
  • Nov 24th - Pre/Post Conference Workshop Registrations Start
  • Dec 1st - Publish the Final Program
  • Feb 26th onwards - Live Webinar with Speakers
  • Mar 14th - Conference Starts

Pre-Conference Workshop - March 14th

The conference sessions might not give you a very in-depth learning experience on the topics. To address this issue, we've planned the following workshops before the conference by our expert international speakers. This will help you get the insights directly from the experts.

Post-Conference Workshop - March 20th - 22nd

Similar to the pre-conference workshops, we'll host the following workshops post the conference.

We've organized the following workshops in the past:

Agile India 2015 - Attendees Profile

Agile India 2015 Conference was happy to host 817 Attendees from 26 different countries. The attendees belong to 165 different companies and play 270 different roles.

For detailed stats refer to Agile India 2015 Delegate Profile.

Agile India 2015 Attendees Profile

Agile India 2015 Attendees Country Profile

Agile India 2015 - Speakers

We had 73 speakers from 9 different countries:

Agile India 2015 Conference Speaker Country

With the following Agile Experience:

Agile India 2015 Conference Speaker Agile Experience

Agile India 2015 - Program Session Types

We had 90 distinct sessions across the following types:

Agile India 2015 Conference Session Types

Agile India 2014 - Attendees Profile

Agile India 2014 Conference was happy to host 1236 Attendees from 28 different countries. The attendees belong to 226 different companies and play 342 different roles.

For detailed stats refer to Agile India 2014 Delegate Profile.

Agile India 2014 Attendees Country Profile

Agile India 2014 - Speakers

We had 86 speakers from 12 different countries:

Agile India 2014 Conference Speaker Country

Agile India 2014 - Program Session Types

We had 87 distinct sessions across the following types:

Agile India 2014 Conference Session Types

Agile India 2013 - Attendees Profile

Agile India 2013 Conference hosted a total of 904 attendees from 25 different countries over the 4 days. These attendees has 320 unique roles representing 195 different companies.

For detailed stats refer to Agile India 2013 Delegate Profile.

Agile India 2013 Attendees Country Profile

Agile India 2012 - Attendees Profile

The Agile India 2012 Conference was fully SOLD OUT. We have 750 delegates from 21 Countries attending the conference with 337 unique Roles from 228 different Companies.

For detailed stats refer to Agile India 2012 Delegate Profile.

Agile India 2012 Attendees Country Profile

Agile India 2012 - Program

We hosted total of 12 Stages, 120 Sessions, 125 Speakers from 18 Countries. Detailed stats below:

Agile India 2012 Conference Stages

With a wide variety of session types:

Agile India 2012 Session Types

63% of session targeted at practitioners:

Agile India 2012 Conference Session Levels

Large number of 60 and 90 mins sessions:

Agile India 2012 Conference Session Duration

Agile India 2012 - Program Team

We had an extremely good team of 111 program committee members from 21 Countries who reviewed all the submission and selected the conference program:

Agile India 2012 Conference Program Committee

Agile India 2012 - Speakers

We had 120 speakers selected through the open submissions system and 5 invited speakers:

Agile India 2012 Conference Speaker Country

Call for Proposals

There are 5 broad categories (Agile Leadership, Agile Team Culture, Enterprise Agile, Continuous Delivery & DevOps and Lean Startup) under which you can submit your proposals. Please check Conference Theme page for details on the themes and session formats.

REVIEW PROCESS

Interested speakers are requested to submit their proposals directly on our proposal submission system. All proposals will be public. Registered user of the submission system will be able to comment on your proposal. You are required to reply to those comments to provide clarifications, explain revisions and respond to questions. The program team will look at how well you've responded to comments and updated your proposal to incorporate public suggestions. Ultimately the decision to accept a session resides with the program team.

Your proposal stands the best chance to be selected, if it's unique, fully flushed, ready-to-go. Please ensure you've read:

To encourage early submissions and iterative improvement of proposals, we'll start accepting proposals as soon as we find them a good fit. As time passes by, the competition gets tougher. So don't wait till the last to submit your proposal.

We Value

In terms of the overarching themes or values in the proposals, we look at the following criteria during selection:

  • Diversity  - As a conference, we want to be more inclusive (different approaches, different frameworks, gender, countries, background etc.)
  • Balance - We want to strike a good balance between different types of presentations (expert talks, experience reports, tutorials, workshops, etc.) and different types of experience the speakers bring to the conference.
  • Equality - We encourage more students and women speakers. We won't select any proposal just because it came from a student or a female speaker. But given we have to pick 1 out of 2 equal proposal, we'll pick the one, which was proposed by a student or a female speaker.
  • Practicality - People come to a conference to learn, network, have an experience and leave motivated. Proposals which directly help this are always preferred. While a little bit of theory is good, but if the proposal lacks practical application, it does not really help the participants. Also people learn more by doing rather than listening. If proposals has an element of "learn by doing" it wins over other proposals. Take people on a learning journey.
  • Opportunity - While we want to ensure the conference has at least 70% rock solid speakers, we also want to give an opportunity to new speakers, who have real potential
  • Originality - Original ideas wins hands-on from copied one. People always prefer listening to an idea from its creator rather than second or third person. However, you might have taken an idea and tweaked it in your context. You would have gained an insight by doing so. And certainly all of us want to hear your first-hand experience, even though you were not the creator of the original idea. We are looking for Thought-Leadership.
  • Radical Ideas - We really respect people, who want to push the boundaries and challenge the status quo. We have a soft-corner for unconventional ideas and will try our best to support them and bring awareness to their work.
  • Demand - Votes on a proposal and buzz on social media gives us an idea of how many people are really interested in the topic. (We fully understand votes can be gamed, but we've a system that can eliminate some bogus votes and use different types of patterns to give us a decent sense of the real demand.)

We Expect

Once the proposal fits into our value system, here are some basic/obvious stuff we expect when we look at the proposal in the submission system:

  • Is the Title matching the Abstract?
  • Under the Outline/Structure of the Session, will the time break-up for each sub-topic will do justice to the topic?
  • Is there a logical sequencing/progression of the topics?
  • Has the speaker selected the right session type and duration for the topic? For Ex: 60 mins talk might be very boring.
  • Has the speaker selected the best matching Theme/Topic/Category for the proposal?
  • Is the Target Audience specific and correct? Also does it match with the Session Level?
  • Is the Learning Outcome clearly articulated? Ideally 3-5 points, one on each line.
  • Based on the Outline/Structure, will the speaker be able to achieve the Learning Outcomes?
  • Based on the presentation link, does the speaker have good quality content and good way to present it?
  • Based on the video link, does the speaker have a good presentation (edutainment) skills? Will the speaker be able to hold the attention of a large audience?
  • Based on the additional links, does the speaker have subject matter expertise and thought leadership on the proposed topic?
  • Are the Labels/Tags meaningful?

We Select

Proposal stands the best chance to be selected, if it's unique, fully flushed, ready-to-go. Speaker please ensure to provide links to your:

  • previous conference or user group presentations
  • open source project contributions
  • slides & videos of (present/past) presentations (other conferences or local user group or in-office)
  • blog posts or articles on this topic
  • and so on...

When selecting a proposal, we pay attention not only to the quality of the proposal, but also quality of the speaker, .i.e. whether the speaker will be able to effectively present/share their knowledge with others. Hence past speaking experience (videos & slides) are extremely important. If you don't have a video from past conference presentation, that's fine. Try to setup google hangout in one of your upcoming local user group meeting or internal office meeting, where you are presenting and share that link. This will give the committee a feel for your presentation skills and subject matter expertise.

Compensation for Speakers

Speakers will be compensated as follows:

90 minutes session 1 Free Registration + 2 Hotel Night
45 minutes session 1 Free Registration + 1 Hotel Night
20 minutes session 1 Free Registration
< 20 minutes No Compensation

Contact [email protected] for discount code for the other conference days.

Compensation listed above is only for primary speakers. Co-presenters can avail a 50% discount on their registrations. Hotel nights are capped at 4 nights for speakers with multiple accepted sessions. They cannot be accumulated beyond the cap or transferred to another person. Free registrations cannot be accumulated or transferred.

Tips for Proposals

Make sure you've read the following guidelines carefully.

1. Summary. The summary must sell and exude excitement. Since its the only thing the attendees will see, it needs to pull them into your session instead of the 15 others they can visit at the same time. The attendees should be able to show the abstract to their manager/team and have them understand the value of the session.

2. Catchy title. A catchy title may help to build stronger mental model and focus the session's abstract better. Watch out for catchy becoming corny, though.

3. Sell yourself. The reviewers should have confidence that you are a good presenter and that you will be successful at facilitating the session. Don't assume you can cruise on your reputation, not all the reviewers will know you well enough to judge. Include a link to other material/web sites that may help you to sell yourself.

4. Prior experience with session. Share experiences giving the session. Links to slides, videos or people's blog about those sessions. If you're planning to do a test run at the local user group, mention that - it makes a big difference as far as a reviewers' confidence about the quality of delivery is concerned.

5. Co-presenters. For long presentations 90 minutes a second presenter is really a good idea. After about 5-10 (max 20) minutes of hearing someone's voice you become habituated and tune out. Switching presenters delays that.

6. Interactivity. Even 60 minute talks need some interactive element, they need some event, exercise, or discussion to help the attendees integrate the knowledge they've acquired and make it their own. Spell out at least the names/short descriptions of the activities, and how the participants will participate

7. Have a plan. At least a minimal plan is necessary so the reviewer will have an idea how you will spend your limited time budget. The longer a session you want the more details you need to provide.

8. Clarity. Make a clear statement of what the attendees will do or expect. Sometimes proposers can err too much on the side of selling their ideas in a catchy way that exactly what will be done in the session is not clear.

9. Clear learning objective. State how will their lives of attendees will be better, more effective, more enjoyable as a result of attending.

10. Slides/Video. While the topic is important, the presenters' presentation style and past experience presenting is equally important. For the program committee to understand speaker's presentation skills, providing slides and video links is extremely important. It is possible that you don't have slides/video of the topic you are proposing. That's fine. At least provide links to something you've presented in the past.

11. Enjoyment. Make the reviewer feel the attendees will enjoy themselves during the session. At best, they should learn specific concepts, skills, principles, approaches, frameworks. The amount of material taken away should not be overwhelming. As one reviewer said, "At the end of the day, what I'm looking for is something that gets my juices flowing and makes me want to fight for a place in the session."

12. Questions. It may be appropriate to pose questions to the reviewers and gives us options for adjusting the proposal.

13. Language. Use active verbs, not passive language.

  • Bad: "This session allows you to learn..."
  • Good: "Learn/experience..."
  • Bad: words like "might", "could", "intent"
  • Good: words/phrases like "master", "learn", "experience", "do", "participate"
  • Not "You can participate", but "As you participate, you learn..."

14. For Experience Reports and Case Studies, background context is essential. Tell us what the story arc of the experience is, some lessons learned, some challenges. Tell us whether you have empirical evidence or anecdotal experience.

Official Host for Agile India 2016

Hotel Chancery Pavilion, a 5 Star Luxury Business Hotel, located in the heart of the city.

The Chancery Pavilion Hotel Bangalore
#135, Residency Road, Bangalore - 560 025, India
Tel : +91-080-41-41-41-41
Fax : +91-080-41-41-42-42
www.chancerypavilion.com

Special Discount for Conference Attendees

We've worked out a special discounted price of 4500 INR + Taxes for Superior Room.

Book Online Now!

Alternatively to book your rooms, please contact:

Ms. Shveta Datta, Sales Manager @ The Chancery Pavilion:
Email: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Mobile: +91 99000 94659
Tel: +91 80 4141 4141

USE "AgileIndia" CODE TO AVAIL THIS DISCOUNT

VISA for Entering India

e-Visa Facility is available for passport holders of following countries/territories:

Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Island, Chile, China, China- SAR Hong Kong, China- SAR Macau, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Laos, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niue Island, Norway, Oman, Palau, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Republic of Macedonia, Russia, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Turks & Caicos Island, Tuvalu, UAE, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vatican City-Holy See, Venezuela, Vietnam.

We recommend all foreign delegates (speakers & participants) apply for this visa, 1 month before your departure to India. This is the safest, cheapest and most hassle-free visa.

While filling your visa application online, please use the following person's details as the contact person:

Ms. Shveta Datta,
Sales Manager,
The Chancery Pavilion Hotel
#135, Residency Road, Bangalore - 560 025, India
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +91 99000 94659

Citizens from other countries are required to apply for a tourist or business visa at their nearest Indian Embassy. Please request us for an invitation letter. Start your visa process at least 2 months before your departure to India.

Please do not apply for Conference Visa. This visa is only applicable for government run conferences.

Want to help the Conference?

  • Submit Proposals: We would love to hear your first-hand experience with Agile & Lean methods. Why don't you consider submitting a proposal to share your experience on a specific topic? We look forward to some great proposals from you.
  • Encourage Others to Submit Proposals: If you know an agile practitioner/expert, with good presentation skills and deep insights, please encourage them to submit a proposal.
  • Register for the Conference: While the conference program is important, the conference delegates are equally important. Our International Speakers from past conferences, have consistently praised the quality of participants we are able to attract at the Agile India conference. The quality of interactions/questions have been extremely good. We want to push the bar further up.
  • Spread the Word: For the last 11 years, Agile India conferences have thrived on Word-Of-Mouth publicity. Your help is greatly appreciated. Click the "Spread the Word" link on the left menu for more details on how you can help.
  • Sponsor: Right from the beginning (2005), Agile India has always been community-run, non-profit event. We rely on corporate sponsorship to keep ticket prices low for attendees, cover the cost of flying international speakers, as well as cover the cost of venue, food, beverages, t-shirts, and more. Checkout how to become a sponsor.

Join the Review and Program Team

The Conference Program is the heart of the conference and we really need your help to put together a rock-solid program.

Review team is responsible for giving feedback to the speakers to improve their proposal. The goal of the review team is to improve the overall quality of the proposal via continuous review.

Program team is responsible for selecting the proposals and putting together the schedule for the conference. The goal of the program team is to ensure conference program exceeds delegate's expectations.

While, we've selected a program team via a public call for volunteers. We are open to add other members to the team based on their actual contributions via our Submission system.

Depending on your contributions in the submission system, you'll automatically get selected as a reviewer by the system. If you consistently contribute as a reviewer, you'll get selected as a program team members.

We've believe in a merit based system where everyone gets a fair chance. Look forward to your participation.

Contributing Via the Submission System

To start with, please visit the Submission System and review the proposals:

  • Is the Title matching the Abstract?
  • Under the Outline/Structure of the Session, will the time break-up for each sub-topic will do justice to the topic?
  • Is there a logical sequencing/progression of the topics?
  • Has the speaker selected the right session type and duration for the topic? For Ex: 60 mins talk might be very boring.
  • Has the speaker selected the best matching Theme/Topic/Category for the proposal?
  • Is the Target Audience specific and correct? Also does it match with the Session Level?
  • Is the Learning Outcome clearly articulated? Ideally 3-5 points, one on each line.
  • Based on the Outline/Structure, will the speaker be able to achieve the Learning Outcomes?
  • Based on the presentation link, does the speaker have good quality content and good way to present it?
  • Based on the video link, does the speaker have a good presentation (edutainment) skills? Will the speaker be able to hold the attention of a large audience?
  • Based on the additional links, does the speaker have subject matter expertise and thought leadership on the proposed topic?
  • Are the Labels/Tags meaningful?

While you are looking at the proposals, please leave suggestions for the speaker to improve their proposal. In some cases, you might need to ask clarifying questions to truly understand the proposal. This would help the speaker refine their proposal. Eventually, this would lead to a much higher quality presentations.

If you like the proposal and want to make sure it gets selected for the conference program, then please vote for the proposal. Your vote matters!

What can you do to spread the word?

You can be our Brand Ambassador by helping us with the following:

  • Regularly communicate (Tweet/Email/Blog) about the updates from the conference. This will help people in your network get interested in the conference. Please use @agileindia handle & #AgileIndia2016 hashtags in your tweets.
  • If you are active on certainly mailing lists, user forums, meetups, etc. please inform people about the conference.
  • Share the conference overview presentation or (pdf version) within your office/network.
  • If you know any journalists, who might help us publish some info about the conference, please connect us with them

Love to hear from you about any other ideas or suggestions you might have.

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Program Team

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Agile Team Culture

Enterprise Agile

Continuous Delivery & DevOps

This conference is organized and managed by:

Agile FAQs Technology Pvt. Ltd.
No.20, 12th Cross, Cubbonpet,
Bengaluru - 560002, India
Ph No: +91 80 41244690
Email: [email protected]

For the past 11 years, to help grow a sustainable software community, we've organized over 50 conferences world-wide.

AgileFAQs was founded by Naresh Jain to help organizations embrace, scale and sustain essential Agile and Lean thinking.

Checkout the various conferences that we've organised so far at http://agilefaqs.com/initiatives/conferences.

This conference is presented by:

Agile Software Community of India
27 Srinilaya, 3rd Floor, Between 10th and 11th cross
Margosa Road
Malleswaram
Bangalore 560003.

Agile Software Community of India (ASCI) is a registered society founded by a group of agile enthusiasts and practitioners from companies that practice Agile Software Development methodologies.

ASCI is formed to create a platform for people from different software organizations to come together and share their experience with Software development methodologies. ASCI's focus is Agile and related light weight methodologies/philosophies. ASCI evangelizes itself to be a facilitating body which fosters and innovates lightweight methodologies in software development in India. ASCI is working with Universities and Student chapters to increase Agile awareness within the academic circles.

Core Principles behind Agile India Conference

  • Quality OVER Quantity: At Agile India, we believe in staying small and providing a richer experience to the participants. Its never about how many talks we can jam into the program or how many participants we can gather. Its about building a strong, sustainable community.
  • Zero Marketing: You cannot pay to get a speaking slot. Conference talks are never sold to sponsors. All talks have to go through our public submission system.
  • Respect Privacy:The conference participant database is never sold or given to sponsors. We respect and protect your privacy.
  • Equal Platform: Right from 2004, Agile India has maintained an independent/neural stand, when it comes to various Agile Methods, Tools, Certifications, etc. At Agile India, each of us might have our preferences/opinions, but we ensure, we provide an equal opportunity platform to everyone, who wants to present at the conference.
  • Moderately Priced: At Agile India we strive really hard to make the conference affordable. Our aim is to ensure that interested participants should be able pay out of their pocket, without having to depend on their company for sponsorship.
  • Networking: At Agile India you will learn as much (if not more) by meeting other practitioners, making connections with them, sharing your ideas, and building a strong community.
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