ANIn Chennai 2025 | What’s next for Agile? by Subrahmaniam S.R.V

Agile Network India - Chennai
Title: What’s next for Agile?
Date: 23rd Aug 2025
Hosted By: SI Systems

1. The Future of Agile Exploring how Agile evolves with technology and culture S R V Subrahmaniam ANI Chennai August 2025

2. Agile நேற்று இன்று நாளை Agile has been the standard for decades, but what if its true power isn't in its processes, but in its ability to adapt to a changing world? 

3. Agile as a Mindset We thought Agile was a process, right? Is it so? Let us see how Agile has expanded its lexicon with complementing frameworks

4. Defining Customer centric products Gemba Walk - Persona Value stream mapping Outcome Metrics Integration with Business goals Pivot or Persevere

5. Product development – Simpler, Quicker and building quality in Continuous improvement Online collaboration Gamification

6. Agile Leadership

7. AI inspired development Code Generation: Tools like GitHub Copilot suggest code snippets, speeding up development. Bug Detection: AI (e.g., DeepCode ) identifies errors and suggests fixes. Test Automation: Tools like CodiumAI generate unit tests, enhancing TDD. Refactoring: AI optimizes code for efficiency and readability. Productivity: Automates repetitive tasks, letting coders focus on complex logic. PDCA cycles are going to get much shorter

8. Integration of Artificial Intelligence into Agile Planning

9. AI in Product Functionality & Value Streams Sparking New Product Ideas : AI analyzes user behavior , market trends, and social data (e.g., X posts) to uncover unmet needs, inspiring innovative products like personalized finance apps or smart home assistants. Optimizing Operational Value Streams : AI automates and connects value stream stages (e.g., inventory forecasting, customer feedback loops), enabling efficient delivery of products like real-time retail analytics tools. Enabling New Functionality : AI embeds advanced capabilities like natural language processing or predictive analytics into products, powering features such as voice-activated shopping apps or predictive maintenance for IoT devices. Personalized User Experiences : AI tailors product functionality to individual users (e.g., recommendation engines in streaming apps), enhancing engagement and solving real-world problems like content overload. Rapid Prototyping of Features : AI tools generate interactive prototypes from user needs (e.g., AI-driven UI mockups ), enabling faster validation of innovative functionalities like AR-based shopping previews.

10. Agile Beyond IT: Expanding Into Other Business Areas Agile in Marketing Agile principles improve flexibility and responsiveness in marketing campaigns and customer engagement strategies. Agile in HR HR departments use agile to enhance recruitment, employee engagement, and organisational development. Agile in Finance Finance teams adopt agile to increase adaptability and improve financial planning and analysis.

11. What next? Adapting to Agile to AI heavy product developments Tying closer to Business goals (with OKRs and KPIs) Smarter ways to enhance team collaboration ALM tools having built in intelligence

12. Future of Agile Is there a better framework available for innovation centric product development? Till we have YES for that, immaterial of the Agile Fatigue , Agile will continue to be mainstream. Taking in newer disciplines to complement its value offering