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

Back

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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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