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‘Nothing will work till they change their mindset.’
As an agile leader or coach, how often would you have said this? Mindset drives behaviors and behaviors drive culture. Culture is the topmost obstacle to adopting and scaling agile practices in organizations consistently as per the State of Agile report for years. Bringing in the right agile mindset in your organization is the right first step to bringing in an agile culture. However, it’s tough, isn’t it?
This book unravels how to bring the change in mindset to be agile using a four-stage approach drenched with real-life stories from the trenches. Start with why one needs to change and then get into what and how through examples. Take a look at what has worked and what did not in the journey of embracing agility, along with techniques that clicked. Get ready to wield the magic of the agile mindset.
Yashasree Barve
Yashasree Barve is an Agile Coach and Transformation Consultant. She is working in the Information Technology industry at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) since 1998, delivering enterprise solutions across the breadth of the technology landscape. Her work includes transformation consulting and coaching for customers and teams to embrace agile ways of working.
A practitioner of agile methods since 2007, she is a Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Professional, Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1), and a Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC 5). As an SPC, she has imparted SAFe certification training to hundreds of TCS associates and customer employees. She is a part of the organization-wide agile initiative since 2013 and co-founded TCS Agile Café, a TCS internal agile conference organized across TCS India during 2013-18. In 2017, TCS awarded her with the Top Individual Agile contributor award.
She has led the agile transformation initiative for the HiTech Business unit of TCS comprising of 20,000+ associates for over five years. In this role, she has consulted, trained, and coached several teams and customers on agile transformation.
She is an avid blogger, conference speaker, and diversity & inclusion champion. She loves music, books, and cricket. She is married and a mother to two wonderful kids.
