Innovation Games Workshop

Agile Innovation Games – Converting Ideas into Action : A Workshop by Rahul Sudame

Overview:

In this experiential workshop, participants will practice various Agile innovation games, which can be used to build collaboration amongst the team members and stakeholders. During the workshop, participants will engage in discussions about some best practices or real-life challenges faced by Project Managers and will practice Agile Innovation games to share their experiences with the group.

This exercise will bring out many best practices as well as challenges faced by participants from various project teams. Agile Innovation games are very effective for learning and applying Agile practices to identify and solve some of the project issues through team collaboration. It helps in discovering new ideas and also helps in enhancing collaboration within the teams. We would learn and practice some of the Innovation Games with real-life examples which would help the participants to can conduct these games with their teams going forward.

Takeaways for Participants:

• Tools for building collaboration between the team members.
• Tools for building Product Road-map, Prioritizing Requirements, Gathering Team Feedback etc.
• Handouts, reference and reading material for conducting Innovation Games at workplace.

Facilitator:  Rahul Sudame

Facilitator Profile:

Mr Rahul Sudame is Director of Engineering & Agile Practice Head at Faichi Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Rahul is Senior Management Professional and Agile expert.

He is a proven leader and Project/Program manager in the IT industry and has more than 14 years of experience. He was Vice President (Corporate) and Director (Programs) at PMI Pune-Deccan India Chapter. Rahul is a PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Project Management Professional (PMP) and ITIL Foundation certified.

He is also certified by PMI as Leadership Institute Masters Class (LIMC). He is also involved in developing Agile awareness as Chapter Engagement Representative for PMI Agile Community of Practice. He is on the editorial committee of “OnTarget” magazine of PMI Pune Chapter. He has participated and contributed in many Project Management/ Agile conferences in India and globally, like Agile Tour, Scrum Gathering, OnTarget etc. Rahul has been involved in successfully establishing Project Management/Agile/Scrum practices in multiple organizations from scratch since 2006. It involves an assessment of current process maturity, developing and executing the plan for process adoption and periodic reviews of successful implementation and deliveries. Rahul has conducted the Agile workshop for some corporates and at PMI’s Asia Pacific Leadership Institute Meeting at Singapore and North America Leadership Institute Meeting at New Orleans, USA.

He is currently managing multiple global teams and he works on continuous process improvement using the latest trends in Project/Program management. He has conducted many corporate/open workshops and seminars for Agile/Scrum processes and certification successfully. He has conducted PMP, PMBOK and Project Management framework awareness sessions for various organizations.

Webinars conducted by Mr. Rahul Sudame:

Leading Agile Transformation: http://www.techgig.com/webinars/Project-Management-Leadership-Series-Session-18-Leading-Agile-Transformation-309 /

Project Estimation – Techniques, Challenges and Best Practices: http://www.techgig.com/webinars/Software-Project-Management-Series-Session-9-Project-Estimation-Techniques-Challenges-and-Best-Practices-47

Venue: Trident Hotel, Madhapur, Hyderabad

Capacity:  18-20

Contact: events@indiascrumcommunity.org

Date:  10 July, 2014

Time:  9:00 AM – 1:00 PM