Usha is passionate about agile, with expertise in helping teams to transform from "doing" agile to "being" agile. A Thought Leader on driving ALM tool transformations, she has helped teams adopt tools to enhance digital maturity and engineering excellence.

Partnering predominantly with Banking customers, in Product and IT Services organizations, she has been enriched with a melange of experience across Delivery management, Process consulting, Agile coaching and Product Management.

She is constantly looking for ways to simplify transformation in a complex world, and enjoys coaching teams to become high performing.

Kanban Chronicles - A Tale of Plans and Pivots

A Kanban implementation can start with a plan suited for the organization. The journey is influenced by the People, Structures, Process, Tools and Technology. Cognizance of these factors and being flexible to inspect and adapt is critical to success and sustenance of the implementation.

Join me as I take you through my journey of implementing Kanban. This is a tale of :
- how we started with an extensive plan, hit resistance and misalignment
- our experiments in executing the plan
- endeavours to establish psychological safety
- pivots to unblock the journey
- outcomes and the road ahead
- insights gained