Sheba John

Sheba John

Principal Agilist, Cognizant

Principal Agilist from Cognizant, with ~21 years of IT experience, spanning from mainframe to latest digital technologies as a delivery manager, portfolio lead and then into various Agile roles. Been part of multiple Agile transformation engagements with different frameworks, assessing the maturity of teams at organization and team levels, supporting organizations to transform to agile way of working. Consultant and Academy trainer in Agile, Jira, Confluence, Azure Devops. Currently Agile/DevOps Coach for a Financial client in Europe, enabling project to product transformation. Certified OKR Coach and ICP-ACC certified coach, along with being CSM and SAFe. Message to quote : "Be passionate about what you do, and success would follow.

Session Title

Agile story with new age leadership and empiricism


Session Overview

Empiricism is the heart of agility, but many organizations fail to understand this. Agile is not just about processes and ceremonies, but about having the agile mindset to bring in value delivery to business. Leadership support is crucial for this, which requires today’s leaders to use empiricism in a transformed way aligning to new age behaviours. In this session, we would see what are the changes in leadership behaviours needed to move from process oriented to people oriented style, and a case study where a combination of people, process and tools helped to provide transparency and sustained value delivery effectively in true agile spirit.