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Shyam Kumar

Shyam Kumar
UST-Global

Shyam Kumar currently serves as a Principal Agile Consultant at UST-Global.  He has helped multiple teams and programs adopt and improve upon their agile practices, in Scrum, Kanban and SAFe, at both the team and program levels including co-located as well as distributed teams. He is a CSM, CSP0, SPC and an Innovation Games Certified Collaboration Architect. Shyam is also actively engaged with Agile New England, a non-profit agile user group, dedicated to accelerating the adoption of agile throughout the New England region.

Speaker Presentations
Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 10:00am
Culture Change
Now That We're Agile, What's a Manager to Do?

We teach managers to foster agility by encouraging their teams to self-organize, stop assigning work, and telling them how to do it. Since the Product Owner defines the what and the team defines the how, what’s left for managers to do? Managers need to become servant leaders. It’s a key success factor for agile transformations. However, most managers have no idea what servant leadership is or what these leaders do. David Grabel teaches the true meaning of servant leadership—transforming it from a buzzword to a guiding principle. Learn how, as a leader, you can accelerate your team’s agile journey. Working in groups, participants discuss the challenges faced by an agile manager. As part of your learning, create artwork using Legos, clay, and pictures to illustrate how a servant leader meets the challenges of today. David defines the new job description for today’s managers in tomorrow’s agile culture. Come and prepare to take your part in it.