Rucha Kapare Heads the Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Data team at Springer Nature. She is passionate about DEI in the research world and in general. Working on something new everyday keeps her motivated. She is an agile and product development enthusiast and wants to work on getting the DEI element incorporated in the Agile world.

She likes to facilitate meetings and workshops and also conduct sessions on Business Analysis and agile related topics. Being a Business Analyst and a Business Agility Meetup leader gives her ample opportunities to facilitate, share and learn.

She is a travel freak and loves reading and it's been an old love reunion during the pandemic. She relates to a lot of social causes and in her free time you will find her working for these or chilling with her parents and family.

Allyship in Agile

Are we doing enough to welcome the DEI concepts at Agile workspaces?

Though it is believed that Agile is more inclusive and equitable than what came before, A survey done through the BAI suggests that about 17% of individuals witnessed exclusion in inequity inside agile organisations and about 26% of them believed agile itself could actively create exclusion and inequality.

So what are we doing for it? DEI is not a side project which a team or the Leadership has to work on. It's an individual responsibility too which we can fulfil by being allies or better allies to the less privileged.

Want to know more? Join my session on Allyship in Agile and get some immediate tangible actions to work on.

• Understand your own privilege
• Acknowledge that gaps exists, we are all human
• In a world where you could be anything, Be an Ally
• And find an Ally!