Bio
Ramkumar has spent close to two decades in the IT industry and has expertise in building many 0-1 systems and scaling them to millions of users globally. In the last 10 years, he has led multiple large scale and hypercomplex programs with Kanban and Lean frameworks for fortune 100 customers with cutting edge technology stacks delivering multi million dollar benefits. In his current capacity, he is responsible for shipping high impact and population scale products in Supply Chain and E-commerce charters for Swiggy Instamart to deliver fresh groceries to millions of consumers PAN India with unparalleled convenience. He also advises startups on their journey of growth, marketing and scaling up. He is an Engineer by profession with love and passion for technology and building great products. He is also an alumni of IIMA.
Session Title
Business Agility in Startups: A Kanban Tale
Overview
Business Agility is a set of capabilities that can help the organisation to rapidly adapt to market changes, customer demands, and emerging opportunities while maintaining a focus on delivering value to customers. Startups thrive on business agility for a variety of reasons. They have leaner organisational structures, have higher risk taking abilities, are efficient by doing more with less etc. However, startups also grapple with challenges due to limited resources (human capital, budgets, and time) and the inherent uncertainty associated with delivering products of value. However, there are frameworks, strategies around product, tech, ways of working, prioritisation techniques, open cultural practices, lean practices, streamlined processes, feedback loops and productivity tools that empower startups to navigate chaos and overcome challenges, all while consistently delivering exceptional customer experiences. The session explains how the above practices helped in improving shipping of products at exceptional speed, quality and impact at scale in my organisation with some insights on some of the largest programs executed at scale at blitz speed to deliver impact in delivering daily essentials to consumer doorsteps at unparalleled convenience. This session will,
- Give a sneak peak into the startup world on how Kanban and Lean are helping them achieve unparalleled agility at scale. (100+ product releases in a half year)
- Provide participants with mental models, practical applications of Kanban in a startup environment
- Give structured problem solving framework in the most ambiguous ecosystem
- Provide real time examples (customer problems) and solve them through product, technology and operations.
- Provide insights into how some of the key programs spanning 60+ teams came together in delivering value
