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1 Agile Tour 2015 Hyderabad
Yashasree Barve
What Women Want, What makes or breaks them in Agile IT
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About myself
Diversity & Women’s Network @ TCS
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Agenda
What women want
What makes them
What breaks them
Sharing our story
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What women want
What makes them
What breaks them
Sharing our story
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Have it all…
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In defense of being average
Mark Manson’s Blog - http://markmanson.net/being-average
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Know Thyself…
What
makes me
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What women want
What makes them
What breaks them
Sharing our story
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Empathy
• Maximize the
team game
• Understand Individuals better through Interactions
Ability to converse
• Strike right
conversations
• Stakeholder management
Creativity
• Trainings,
scrum games
• Retrospectives
• Cherishing
Attention to details
• Ensure the
right acceptance criteria
• Able to review, test well
Factors that make Women successful in Agile Women bring a lot of inherent qualities to the table…
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Time boxing Constant Feedback
Focus on Interaction
Sustainable Pace Prioritization Possibility of
Remote working
Factors that make Women successful in Agile Some agile principles that work in favor
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Urge to Excel
Strong Values
Support systems at Work or Home
Sensitization on Diversity issues
Some observations
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What women want
What makes them
What breaks them
Sharing our story
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Negotiation Skills Being Perfectionist? Narrow Scope
Career Gaps Distributed teams Aspiration Deficit
Few points to ponder
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What women want
What makes them
What breaks them
Sharing our story
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Circle of Women
Cognizance
• Women aware of typical Diversity issues
• Forum available to discuss issues if needed
• Hear from others
Confidence
• Help each other to achieve individual goals
• Meet regularly to learn and grow together
• Focus on confidence and assertiveness
Leadership
• 40% women in account leadership
• 15+ Initiatives led by women associates such as CSR, Agile, L&D, Product Owner Interest Group, Newsletter, Magazine, Conferences, Domain CoE
More
A grass-roots Forum aimed at Professional Development of Lady Associates
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Hope it helps!
Connect with me Yashasree.barve@gmail.com
@yashasreebarve
http://yashasree.blogspot.int
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/yashasree-barve/12/b27/208
Thank you for your patience!
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Negotiation Skills
What
Inability to say No or Push back
Offshoring – Vendor mindset
How
Public Speaking, Trainings, Workshops
Have a buddy or mentor to go back to talk
Leadership/Customer support
Courage
Openness
Back
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Perfectionist?
What
• Focus on right things and Value
• Prioritize, Prioritize and Prioritize
• Time box anything and everything
How
• Be conscious about time-eating activities
• Question value added each and every time
Focus
Deliver Value
Back
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Aspiration Deficit
• Strategic thinking / career planing missing
• Aspiration Deficit as one grows in career
What
• A letter to yourself
• Role models, Be Inspired sessions
• Thursday Thoughts mailers
• Meet, discuss, share, open space
• Build a personal brand
How
Back
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Narrow Scope
What
• Project or team focus may create silos
• How to get the big picture?
• Aspirational Deficit
How
• Interest Groups, Share best practices
• Mentorship
• Build a Community, share experiences
• Build Big picture and Strategic Thinking skills
Team game
Focus on teams
delivering software
Back
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Distributed Teams
What
Demand on personal time at odd hours
for collaboration
Frequent travel needed
Safety Issues
How
Flexi hours, laptops and Remote working
can help a bit
Work with stakeholders to
minimize strain on just one location
Safety Workshops, Companies policies
to ensure safety
Face-to-face
conversations
Work together daily
Back
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Career Gaps
• Gaps in career due to child care or education
• After re-joining after a long gap can cause anxiety, dis-orientation
• Skill gap
• Aspiration Deficit
What
• Re-orientation programs
• Helping hand and mentoring sessions
• Be connected while away How
Back
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Cherishing Creativity
• A corner in the ODC to showcase creativity to everyone, open to all
• Workshops to teach each other, sessions to share
Creative Corner
• Session to reinvigorate forgotten hobbies and make time to pursue those
• Emphasis on making time for hobbies, and “Me Time”
Hobby Lobby
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TCS CEO, Mr. N. Chandra
says, “Our diversity of
talent remains a significant
source of strength as a
company”.
TCS' 'Diversity and Inclusion' initiative
launched in 2009 aims to aid professional
growth and development through focused
intervention, and foster an inclusive culture
within the company through awareness,
engagement, and enablement.
Spearheaded by advisory councils across
branches and geographies, the initiative
comprises initiatives targeted at deploying
diversity friendly policies, reintegration,
leadership, and Social Media
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