Quest Beyond Agile

Industry is going through a demanding change. To cope up, organizations moved to Agile. The change
made leaders think beyond Agile. It was applicable to Principal Financial Group as well. We studied
patterns of successful organizations and tried to learn from them. This learning gave us a direction to
work towards:
1. The mindset of people
2. Change approach from outputs to outcomes
3. Always build for change
4. Product mindset
5. Customer centricity and so on
I learnt a lot while leading the transformation team at Pune for one of the Principal’s business pillars. I
will be sharing my experience and challenges in driving the transformation. I’ll talk about the concepts
and methods we’ve learnt from other organizations. We have had several roadblocks, challenges and
failures thru the journey. Participants will get insights into how we experimented to get to new ways of
doing things and how some of those helped us. Some of the key takeaways from the session would be:
1. New ways to create the mindset and culture shifts
2. Key challenges for the organization on the journey of beyond Agile
3. How as leaders can you make a difference