I'm in a group in Facebook and somebody asks, is there like a definitive awakening? And I try to answer that. I don't know if there are some kind of a state which is definitive, especially also when I'm trying to do your, it feels like it's like more a way of humility maybe that every moment, if the life is checking if I learn the lesson maybe, or is there a moment where you just always can follow or do or believe? I try to paraphrase your question, what you're asking me is, is there a point at which one is awakened or enlightened or where after which one can assume that life is not going to slap on anymore? And the answer to that is that it depends on what you want. So there are those that seek enlightenment and enlightenment is actually a state where there is very little connection with the actual body and the larger experience is of the cosmic state and the body and this world around is sort of there, but it is experienced as an illusion and not as real. That's when people say, this is an awakened person. This is an enlightened being. The problem with this idea of enlightenment is that it generally is detaching from the reality of life itself. It's detaching from the reality of the body and instead of transforming the circumstances around, it detaches, I am not this, I am not this pain, I am not this suffering, I am not this body, I am not this jealousy, I am not this anger, but the fact of the matter is that when there is an embodied being, when there is a body, then that body faces these things. And if the circumstances are not changed, the suffering continues and the detachment continues. And at one point the person doesn't know anymore what is going on around them. They've lost a connect with the actual material reality of life. The other side of the story is the self-realization process, which is a acceptance that this body, this thing that we call this, that this is what it's about and that, which is the soul, is what we bend to in humility. And you brought up that word humility and it's exactly what it's about. It's about humility, the ultimate surrender to the soul, to the soul, bending, bending, bending. This is an instrument of that truth, right from here all the way down to the toes is an instrument. And this instrument is in continuous action, impulsed by the truth of the being. And how do I get that impulse of the truth in that I bend in surrender? I start to feel the soul, the source, the truth of my being moving me into action. There is no awakening. It's not about awakening. There's no sleeping and no awakening. It is about bending down. There's no detaching, I'm not this, I'm not that. It is, I am an instrument in surrender to my master, which is the soul, which is the source and that is self-realization. And it is a process that continues throughout life till the very last breath in the body, deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper, an instrument of the truth. More and more and more, I am yours. I'm yours, I'm yours, I'm yours, I'm yours. So there is no final thing where you are self-realized and now you can just do anything you want. No, you're always more self-realized. And the ego and its machinations becomes more and more subtle and you become more and more clever in detecting it and more and more humble in being an instrument of the truth. Very fascinating process. And it's the key to life being joyous for what it actually is. Life is a joyous thing, it's not a suffering thing. It helps me to clear of the mess in my head. I had a very strong pain in my back. It was very, very strong and in this moment I felt like maybe some kind of God came to me to give me this kind of answer that this pain doesn't exist and my body doesn't exist also. So it feels a bit like this going away, but in this moment it was just so real and then the pain goes away and I felt that I didn't felt empty and I wasn't gone, that happened to me also that I was just like. But this was very present and the pain disappeared also. So maybe you can... This is the miracle. This is something that happens to you when you are on that process of self-realization.  There are moments when a person who is on a self-realization path or a self-realization experience or existence will need to have that experience in order to, let's say, deal with pain and it's not just physical pain, it can also be emotional pain. It can be transformative pain. It will happen automatically. You don't have to bring it as a conceptual process which is what a lot of the neo-advaithins do, the neo-advaitha approach which is, I'm not this and I'm not that and I'm not the other, neti, neti, neti. But neti, neti, the concept of neti, neti, not this, not that, is an experience. It is not something which you do. It's like celibacy. Celibacy is something that happens to you. When it is required on a spiritual path, you will automatically become celibate. But what has happened out of that? It has been twisted and now people force themselves to be celibate and create a whole big mess because of that. It's the same thing with neti, neti. Neti, neti happens at the right moment. That's what you experienced. The pain had to go and there was a humility and it just happened. You didn't have to say, I'm not this pain. I'm not this body and force yourself into all those strange thoughts. You see? Yes. As you go into that self-realization, you will have these experiences when they are required. Because I was someplace where they say like I am not the body I did and inside of me I felt very strong to say but I am also the mind. I am also the body. I feel that so I understand now. That's a miracle that has come to you after you realize that it makes no sense to say I am not, how can anyone in their right sense to say I am not the body? One has to just look at someone like this and say, this is conceptual gymnastics and all you'll develop is a conceptual muscle but nothing more and nothing less. It's a twisting of things and it has to be untwisted and that is what my work is. That is what my Agnya is to untwist this for those who come to me. It's a big aberration on the spiritual trajectory, a complete misrepresentation and misunderstanding of what this whole thing is about. Thank you.


Alright, we're back with the breakfast and plus TV Africa and of course to a first major conversation this morning on traffic management in Liga State, I'm glad to say I guess it's already standing by to do justice to this topic. The Liga State Traffic Management Authority last month arrested 19 vehicles, or should I say impounded 19 vehicles for indiscriminate illegal parking of vehicles garages and parks in the state. The arrest followed continuous perennial traffic gridlock experience around parts of the state, for instance we have the Pongbong inwards and outwards, Ligas Island for those who may not know where that part of Liga State is. The general manager of the agency Boraje Oreagwa set the ongoing total clampdown as he put it and backed upon by the authority to also generally ease the traffic situation and traffic flow in Liga State, ease traffic flow to motorists, particularly during what he called the EMBA mounts across the state. This happens to be the months of September, October, November and December, we see maybe a little bit more activity, business activity and movement of people around the country. Now Oreagwa disclosed that a study had revealed that the perennial traffic gridlock experienced by motorists in Liga State is caused by recalcitrant drivers who do not want to comply with the state traffic laws and regulations, they also said the ongoing total enforcement is expected to cover major identified spots and is being coordinated by the core operation commands from last my headquarters in Oshodi, Ligas. However, this ongoing total enforcement isn't being received well by some residents of Nigeria's commercial nef center who feel that traffic agencies doing too hard or going too hard on private vehicles as compared to commercial transportation vehicles popularly known as Stanford, we have joining us to discuss is all important issue of traffic management in Nigeria's largest city, Nigeria's commercial nef center, Ligas, Mr. Manduubani, who is a legal practitioner of Ubani and Co. Mr. Ubani, good morning to you and thank you very much for your time. Thank you for having me, good morning. Last month has given us reasons why they are backing on this total clamp down like they call it a total enforcement against motorists who park indiscriminately in Ligas, different spots of Ligas. What are your thoughts on the work of last month and recent time and the resultant effect of traffic in Ligas, you are joining us from Ligas so you know better than most people. Yeah, thank you for having me once again. I want to say that I live in Ligas and I experience Ligas gridlock. Any time I'm going to cut in Ligas Island, I have to wake up by 4 a.m. and most leave my house by 5.30 or 6.00 latest if I must be caught on time. That is 9 a.m. which is the time the cough sits in Ligas Island. If it's Ikeja, I mean I should leave my house by 8.30, I don't leave by 7.00 a.m. The likelihood of going to court very late is there. Living in Ligas is very early, I must tell you this. Ligas is a beautiful place but the only disadvantage of living in Ligas is the traffic situation. The traffic situation is very, very killing. People are dying gradually in Ligas, people who work in Ligas Island. It takes an average three hours to get to work. It also takes an average of three hours to get back to your home for those who live in mainland. It's a terrible situation and almost every government has found it very difficult to actually ease the gridlock in Ligas. I sent a specialist administration that tried it and then there was this invitation on the part of Ambo Day to really phase out these commercial buses and bringing government buses and private enterprise to actually supplement in ensuring the free flow of traffic in Ligas. We are back to square one in terms of gridlock. It's very clean, it's very clean for those who go to work every day. You have to wake up so early, you might have to be on time in your office and so anything that the government is doing in order to ease traffic congestion in Ligas is clearly welcome. The last man has to be up at the win. They need to wake up very early in order to ensure that the people who drive on the road do not maintain poor driving practices. A lot of these bus drivers and some of you private owners find very easy to commit crime by going through the process of one way or parking illegally, you know, all manner of things.  You see the kind of impunity and kind of carelessness on the part of Ligas drivers. But honestly, the commercial bus drivers, I'm talking about even private owners, they will just park anyhow and block the road.  So whatever that can be done within the parameters of the law, parameters of the law, we may also discuss the use of abuses because anyone who is in uniform in this country tend to be very, you know, abuse the law and all that we take, we talk about it. But I'm saying that last man has to actually, you know, get up and then be alert and then all day again, in order to ease traffic on the issue situation in Ligas, he's becoming so unbearable for those who live in Ligas, you know, spend average three hours to get to work, average three hours to get back to work. I mean, from work, it's terrible. It's a terrible situation. Like you have mentioned, free flow of traffic. And you have you have mentioned that it will be important to face out, you know, private enterprise and have government on versus move around. But really, is that the problem? Because if you look at the road network, especially for those who are on the island, the road network is nothing to write on about. There's a one way in and one way out. Everybody's going through the same road to come in and come out. It's not applicable to, you know, those who are on the main line. And so is this really the solution facing out private enterprise or the road network? No, I agree in addition, it's not one solution in a really, you know, face it. I mean, trying to converse the road in Ligas, you don't probably take only one particular solution, which is the issue of removing this more and more and all this. Is it the yellow buses and all that out the road? Creating road network, creating the road network and diversification of transport system like railway, you know, those who go to sea and all that. We really help to the congested Legos. I understand that Legos is trying to do for the main land bridge. Now that has been in the pipeline and it's obvious that this present government of four year tenure of San Ulu may not probably consider. Maybe he is waiting for his second tenure to continue that particular bid process because four main land bridge will really do a lot in terms of the congestion, then the railway system. I don't know, I also understand that that one has nearly gotten to an advanced stage and very soon it's going to be operational. We need to have a rail working system in Legos also in order to have in the congestion. If you rely only on motor and on cars and applying the road, you know, as only means of transportation in Legos, then you have not planned well for a place called Center of Excellence.  So I agree with you that facing out the yellow buses and all that may not be the only solution. You have to take multi-dimensional measures which include other news of transportation creating other mean more road network, which is not, you know, presently on, except, you know, there is no major, no major, you know, road creation that I'm saying, like the four main land bridge I'm talking about, you know, when Ambode was there, remember what he did in Oshiri? Remember what he did in Begha? Remember what he did in Agi game?  But if we don't have such major, major plan of creation of more additional road and road network, then we will remain where we are now. So I agree with you that creation of more road network. Mr. Bhanu, can you hear us? I seem to have a freeze on the network, but important points he's raised about, you know, we are in response to message question about looking at other means of transportation in Legos state. Mr. Bhanu, can you hear me? Okay, all right. But interesting points you've raised. I'm looking at the reason given by the general manager of the Legos state traffic management agency, LASMA, or authority LASMA, he's saying that they conducted a study which revealed that the perennial traffic gridlock experienced by motorists was caused by recourse and drivers say coming down hard on illegal or indiscriminate what they say illegal parking of vehicles, indiscriminate illegal parking of vehicles. Now, we look at the major spots we have gridlock in Legos state. As a road user in Legos state described the situation as hellish, and you said we are back to square one as far as traffic management is concerned. So we're talking about pre and fascia LAS days. Who was going to be for fascia LAS? Merci. I can't remember all of that. Um, so, so yeah, um, yes, thanks for the reminder, Mr. O'Banni. So, um, do you agree that it's about, it's majorly about indiscriminate or illegal parking? That's why we have the traffic gridlock in, in, in spots in Legos state. So most, the truth of the matter is that Legosians are very indisciplined, you know, when it comes to driving on the road.  Sometimes hours you'll be on the steering. And then when you now get to the place that probably started the gridlock, in order to know the major reason why that gridlock, you will not see anything. Obviously, somebody has shown some level of indiscipline by other parking in order to carry a passenger. And before you know it, the traffic buildup, so he, he, he is right only in one aspect in saying that indiscipline or, you know, drive, you know, drivers, you know, people who are not discipline drivers on the road, but not the only reason is not the only reason. Yes, very rough drivers cause gridlock. Most times you get to the bus stop. It is what they have parked in order to pick passengers, you know, indiscriminately. And in the process, you know, that will be a traffic buildup. And so it is one of the reasons, not the only reason. You know, I am standing here with every sense of responsibility that it is part of the reason. People are so indiscipline on the road. People park wrongly. People drive one way. People are so impatient. Any small green, any small holder, before you know it, people start taking the road and blocking even oncoming vehicles and all that. So that can constitute nuisance. And for hours, if you guys can be there, you know, you have that for several times. You know, yes, people are clearly, clearly, very, very careless and indiscipline on the road. But that is not only the reason. So taking care of making sure that people are punished or disciplined or criminalised from parking around their mother is part of the solution. But not the only solution. I've mentioned the issue of road network. I've also mentioned the issue of diversification of the transport system. You can rely on road transportation only in order to actually ease in the 21st century. And you call a bus, a plane, etc., etc. No, you can't go to London and see how a city that is old functions. You cannot buy any vehicle in London City.  The railways, all of them, the roads, even the sea. So why can't we, you know, with all the kind of resources we have and all the kind of money that Lagos did, you spend four or five hours.  Anyone that comes to Lagos, you know, and probably go to Abuja, you see the difference.  Some of us, if not for the business we do here in Lagos, who don't relocate? You go to some other places outside Lagos, you see line, you see serenity.  But here, here is hellish.  You have high blood pressure. People are collapsing and dying as a result of spending hours on traffic. You know, it can be very frustrating. Any serious government should be able to tackle this issue of transport, you know, the issue of the management of the road, you know, in Lagos. It should spare a greater attention. Make every arrangement. Because in this language, if you're on governance, you know, even go on strength trail, or on the road, going to work. It can be killing. It means that there is no governance, you know, and all that. So I am very happy that they are now working up in order to ensure that the road is free and discipline those that actually block rules, you know, illegally and do the wrong thing. But in doing it, again, as I said earlier, we must also ensure that there is no abuse. We should also monitor them. Because everyone in the country can't have Nigerian abuse, abuse their power. You must make sure that they do it within the ambit of the law, that they not abuse their powers. But I like the fact that you have mentioned, you know, the issues as it is, protection of lives and properties as your objective right there for LASMA, and also ensuring that there's free flow of traffic. But another issue, which is not only, I mean, I don't know, but driving through the roads of Abuja seem to be very seamless. And that's why one would say that the president might not understand people are going through a lot because the roads in Abuja are really different from other paths. I mean, if you're driving through the roads are seamless. I don't know if I've ever experienced a pothole right there in the FCT. But you see there's several potholes. That's another issue.   It probably might just be a pothole that a vehicle is trying to maneuver. These are the issues. So why has this been, you know, on the front bonnet? Now, just recently, we also have reports of, you know, the legacy by the expressway. It's a lot. Teepers are just moving back and forth and, you know, crashing over trailers and what a view because the roads are not motorable. Why haven't we been great? If Lagos is really, you know, the hub of African business and what have you, largest African business center, the accolades will go on and what? But why haven't we been able to, you know, fix the roads? The roads are not motorable. That's also a major concern. I like that you share your thoughts on this one. And this is not just limited to Lagos. It cuts across board. It is clearly, clearly absence of governance. And then I don't know whether to say lack of seriousness on the part of any government to neglect maintenance of the road. Now I live in Magado. I live in Magado in Chile. And I am, and God knows what I'm trying to say now. I would not want to run any government for the sake of doing that. That would be clearly responsible on my part.  I am not too happy with the maintenance of the road under this administration. I live in Magado, as I said earlier. The road to my estate, Magado is sharing. Magado is sharing. The moment we are coming from Homo Lefez II, I want to enter into Magado. Magado.  And this is a road within five minutes from sharing your, you are in Magado estate. Well, because that place has been there for almost two or three months now. And then every day, you know, it is getting worse and worse without any intervention of government. I know, and I'm saying it here, not probably to praise any person or to run down the government. When fashion law was in power, that road almost every three weeks or, you know, even though I also will condemn that attitude of not doing it well, but they make sure that they come there regularly to patch that road and make it very material. The same thing with when I was there. But I'm surprised for over six months now, nothing has been done on the road leading to sharing Magado. And so also all other roads in Lagos. So all other roads in Lagos. And so the moment you don't maintain roads, it will lead to congestion of the road because trying to avoid bad spots will lower your movement. The moment transport, I mean, your movement is lower. Other vehicles will also lower their decision. Before you know it, traffic's hard to build up. If you know about driving, you know about velocity, you know about slowing down. And there are so many vehicles in Lagos. The moment one second is wasted, you know, in trying to avoid bad spots, before you know it, vehicles now will be tried to and then build up. Build up. Before you know it takes three hours for it to get to a destination. So bad road. As Raelio mentioned, he's part of it. And I think that I'm calling on the governor of Lagos to really wake up and really ask those people in the ministry of work what they are doing. All the roads are not being maintained. All the roads. And under this renaissance, and I'll tell you this, a lot of the roads are bad. So unleashing at last mile is good on the road. We must also take all that, you know, actions. Actions that can actually ease transport, one of which is maintenance of the road. The second one is issue of creation of more road network. There are places that are terrible gridlock. What will bring the engineers and I'll tell you, the engineers are so cool. When I saw what Lagos that did in Ojo-Dubega, what Ojo-Dubega have lived in Magado in the Sherry for many years, but when one day I just saw what happened in Ojo-Dubega and I said, which engineers? And I said, and you're an engineer. They just came and they put on their thinking cap and say, what do we do to ensure we deal this gridlock that happens in Ojo-Dubega? And look at it, if it passed to Ojo-Dubega, you know, you can attest to what I did. And I know that is the one engineer. So Lagos that has engineers that can come in and then say, what do we do? They can, you know, fly over, whatever. Before, you know, it's area that has become perennial in terms of gridlock. You can come and before you know it, you can begin to use transport, I mean transport system there. So I think that the Lagos that we need to really put on thinking cap. There are a lot of issues, you know, bordering on issue of transportation issue in Lagos like in other areas. We know there are perennial gridlock. They can bring in engineers from Lagos and I tell you, before you know it, they can be able to solve the problem. You know what happened in Ojo-Dubega? You know what happened in Aghege? It's an engineering engineer that did all this. So it can be done. So let him also ensure that this thing is done. For now, the rules are not being maintained in Lagos and that is contributing to the traffic gridlock. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Mandel, Ubani, and it's interesting the points you've raised. We only hope that that hellish state of traffic situation in Lagos will become a bit more heavenly in the coming months. Thank you so much for your time, Mandel, Ubani, legal practitioner and, of course, joining us from Ubani and co-legal chambers right here on the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. When we return from our break, we have a conversational electricity situation. Workers from the sector are planning to come back on another strike, which we will discuss.


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Novak Djokovic vs Grigory Dmitrov is the final of the Paris Masters for 2023. And both guys have battled to get to the final. Dmitrov started the tournament off unseated and will take on Moussetti in the first round. And after dropping the second set, will fight back to win 6-2, 6-7, 6-3. In the second round he take on the number three seed Meverdev, who he'd had a battle with the previous week in Vienna. And this was no different with Dmitrov losing the second set and having to fight in the third, getting through in three, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6. In the third round he take on Bublik and this is by far the easiest match of the week. Getting through in straights, 6-2, 6-2. In the quarterfinals he take on the 11 seed Hercatch, who was trying to get to the AWP finals and needed a win. And after a hot start, Dmitrov would eventually win in three, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, Dmitrov would take on the number seven seed City Pass, who had made the Paris finals 12 months earlier losing to Djokovic. And after winning the first set, Dmitrov would fight back in the third, getting through in three, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6. To make his second Masters 1000 final. Djokovic entered the tournament as the number one seed and would get a buy in the first round. In the second round he take on Etcheverry. There's no problem getting through in straights. 6-3, 6-2. In this third round he take on Grigsbor, who'd been having a pretty good week. And after dropping the first set, Djokovic would fight back to win 4-6, 7-6, 6-4, to get to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Djokovic would take on the number six seed Runa, who was the defending champion having beaten Djokovic 12 months ago in the final here. And after dropping the second set, Djokovic would fight back to win 7-5, 6-7, 6-4, to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, Djokovic would take on Rublev, the number five seed, who'd been in very good form in recent months. And after dropping the first set, Djokovic would fight back again 5-7, 7-6, 7-5, to make it to another Paris Final. These two have played 12 times before, with Djokovic leading the head-to-head 11-1, with Dmitrov's only win coming in 2013 in Madrid on the clay. However, they have played twice this year and Dmitrov has been competitive, even though Djokovic has won both of those matches. Dmitrov is going to win this one. He needs to be aggressive with that backhand down the line and come to the net like he has been against all the guys so far. I think the times that he's played Djokovic earlier in the season, he was a little bit more passive. These last couple of months, he's been super aggressive, which has allowed him to beat guys like Elkhoraz Mevvedev and City Pass this week. So let's see if he can actually be aggressive against Djokovic, who has the best defense going around. If Djokovic is going to win this one, he needs to get off to a better start, because again, the fatigue seems to be some sort of a problem in that first 30 minutes to an hour. So he needs to be much, much better at the start of the match and get that first set if possible. This is such a good final. You know, two guys over 30 years old, probably one of the oldest finals we've had this year. You've got to go with Djokovic to win his seventh title here. It's so hard to pick against Djokovic to the best of times, but when he's got an 11-1 record against somebody, I mean, it's hard not to pick him again to beat Dmitrov. I reckon it's going to be a close to eight sets though. Let me know down in the comments below. Who do you think is going to win this one?


There's also one more lightning talk slot scheduled at 1.30 today same room if you want to speak or hear other people speak So, please do come back during 1.30 on this schedule. It says it's a talk by the target Varma What is stuck somewhere in Guatemala and can't make it to this place in time? Okay, so that's why we are gonna reschedule that as a series of lightning talks Today we'll take three slots one has already been requested by ZB or something like that So if two people who want to do lightning talks can just show up like first one two two ladies to go We'll put you in the next slot that happens at 1.30 So the rules are simple you get to speak for five minutes You can use slides or not your choice and after five minutes. I'm gonna stop you from speaking So if you are in the middle of the sentence, you I have to stop Okay, so use the speaker or not or use the screen or not your choice That's not everybody So we have done with a couple of activities. So my lightning talk is also We'll start with the activity. So before that I am Ramya from Software AG from Bangalore Let's do a small activity Let's start listing out the numbers from one mentally Stop when I say so Stop you have to remember the number at which you stopped Now start listing out the alphabets from a and stop when I say so Start Stop again, you have to remember the alphabet at which you stop Now think of some five-lettered words The only condition is you don't have to you should not repeat the words Some five-lettered words randomly start Stop it Okay. Now again list down the numbers from where you stopped before Start and same with the alphabets where you stop before now against start from there Stop and some other five-lettered words which you did not think of then start How was this exercise? Lot of context switching right So I think typically all of us go through this context switching every day in our organization day today work, isn't it? So I'm going to precisely talk about how we handle context switching in agile environment So that's what I'm going to talk about it today and context switching is known to reduce the performance and focus But it is an inevitable waste. Do you agree? We cannot avoid it and especially the switching is more when the same development team has to work on the support and maintenance as well So I work for a team which handles eight products and out of which eight products one or two are always in the active lifecycle development and some three to four products are high in support and maintenance and To add more fuel to the fire These eight products are split between two product managers. You can imagine how it would be So how do we handle context switching in my team? The first thing is we always take the features from a single backlog and we make sure that the priorities are set and Accepted by both the PMs. That's the first task and the second thing We always take a single user story at a time so that and then we try to cover all the tasks in that user story third thing All of us work in the same user story This has a lot of benefits One is it always helps in keeping the team in the same knowledge place There's no knowledge gap if one team member is not available There is no delay and always we have since we take only one story at a time There's limited work in progress and at the end of the sprint we have some set of completed tasks though It might be small. There is something deliverable That's the biggest advantage and we also allowed some time for Support issues or some interruptions. We always have some interruptions some admin work some activities some meetings so we all a lot time for that as well and My team it likes the idea of using sticky notes So we physically feel like moving the task from in progress to do and then to done It gives a lot of satisfaction if you have not tried tried once. It's very effective We are really feel like we are empowered. We just pull the sticky notes from one column to another so this is to just to motivate the team and to Make the team less stressed out and be more productive and innovative I'm sure there are other ways to handle context switching in other organizations as well I'd be interested to know if there are more innovative ways to handle this. Thank you 5 and One person is in remote location Alpana I work for a company called Amadeus It is a company that works in the travel domain And we are a competitor of Sabre for the folks who are not very familiar with Amadeus as a company a little bit about myself I My primary job at Amadeus is to lead the agile transformation efforts So this is something that I am doing not just for Bangalore, but rather for a pack and I Wanted to sort of talk about a retrospective on our transformation So meaning that what were the things we did right what? Most companies might run into And I'm going to talk about it with the Indian context because Agile is not something that I see as an easy transition in India in the context of you know where we have hierarchies are very strongly dint into our system and Empowerment is not the most natural thing Some things I would like to talk about is some of the popular sort of misconceptions and misunderstood terms from agile empowerment So I Frequently coach and train teams and and we'll have a follow-up with management who says what are you telling these guys? I mean they want to suddenly run off lose and you know do everything but on their own And that's absolutely not what empowerment really means and there is a tendency to sort of literally translate or interpret the words as they mean and Some some things we frequently run into is that we see teams that are more eager to do transformation than their upper management may like and Some things that I would and I also do is at the same time I tried to coach the management layer on what to expect from these agile teams So I don't know if a lot of you may run into those sort of roadblocks in your Agile transformations and I we heard a lot of stories In the last two days, you know from Nokia and from other companies in their agile transformations so some things that I wanted to highlight is What to avoid when trying to go agile? So one thing that I see is teams will sometimes put together like focus groups You know quality initiatives to improve something and these are you know external teams to the scrum teams So all of a sudden it kind of puts the onus on some other party for managing the quality Which I think is kind of counterproductive or defeats the purpose of developing these cross-functional teams where you want everybody to be self-organized self-disciplined and self-aware of Concepts like quality and things like that Other things that I see is sometimes too much of process-orientedness, you know in the eagerness to do scrum the right way You know, I see people sometimes doing minutes of their stand-ups and I go Okay, that was not the intent of you know The point of getting everybody in the same room is so that you don't have to go away and look at a document to see what you talked About so things like that and the other thing is you know Sometimes it's simply without having the phobia or or the process wrapper of agile and scrum and Kanban or whatever If you see a team that is really doing all the right things just let them work together and get the thing done I mean, this is somewhat extreme But what it allows teams to do is to exploit their own talents to the max Instead of having a formal training or or some sort of a process wrapper around it The other things that I would like to see teams avoid is to map what are fall to agile Meaning that you see a traditional product project manager and you say so who is the project manager of this scrum team? And there isn't one so the team is what you know owns the delivery owns the quality owns everything or sometimes We have told product owners, you know that you know You come closest to the project manager because you own the roadmap you own the product and it's a lot of tutoring and coaching And it's a lot of teams holding everybody accountable in their roles Rather than one person overseeing and blessing everything from the outside from say a management or a coach angle And the last thing that I will say that Maybe most management and companies run into is putting everything on that coach to say You know, I have a team that's doing all the wrong things now you go fix it and it never works that way You know, you will you will never find an external entity or some Coach you know who has about 30 40 years of experience come and fix something that you cannot fix yourself So I would love for management and teams and to put that ultimate faith in your own guys Look inside You have all the talent you have all the raw materials you need and often it's just putting those people together and you know seeing the magic happen so So avoid looking outside for answers and most of the times it's what you can do yourself So looks like we have one more slot if you want to come up Everyone my name is Zunat Gupta. I work as a business analyst with ThoughtWorks Has anyone heard the name when? Anyone aware of this term? Jason. Yes, no one else. Okay. Does everyone remembers 2000 2001 dot-com crash This was supposed to be the biggest flop of that 2000 2001 crash Because of the money involved over a billion US dollars Now what happened is 97 98 the person Lewis borders he came up with an idea That you can order your groceries online and they will be delivered to your location in 30 minutes Now whether Domino's came up with that idea first of 30 minutes of everyone. I don't know For next two and a half years he hired 80 developers people from Goldman Sachs Boston Consulting to manage everything they launched in 2000 2001 around Within first month They had 25% of the customers which they were estimating and still their supply chain was not able to cope up with it Any guesses why why that happened? If you're buying your groceries out, what is the time of the day when you would like them to be delivered? Either morning or in the evening you don't want them to be delivered during your office hours So everyone was ordering but in the evenings and their supply chain was met To take care of things throughout the day and not just in the evening. So the load was too good for them So what could they have done? It's not a big problem to solve. They could have solved it easily But what could they have done so that they have never faced this kind of thing? That's what I'm gonna talk about two two and a half minutes So that's what I call as an MVP loop. You start within hypothesis To hypothesis actually one that there is a problem that needs to be solved or there is an opportunity which can be served Your second hypothesis is the solution you have is the right solution and you need to take those two first And then go ahead and do something. So what do you do? You have an hypothesis? You design an experiment to check those hypothesis. Now what could be those experiments? It could be as simple as a questionnaire or an interview or You can create explainer videos Dropbox is the best example of that You can have your HTML prototypes You can have paper prototypes or you can go with more delicate things like concierge approach or wizard of force approach Zappos did the wizard of force approach Zappos is the biggest online shoe retailer So based on those experiment you run those experiment you get some measures some information Those measures to check your hypothesis and if those hypotheses need to be modified do that Run the experiments again. Keep this loop going till you have enough information to start developing your product That's what I call this loop You start with the first hypothesis you do first round of experimentation learn from it do the second round Keep doing it till you have enough information to say that that's this is what my customers or users want And this is the solution to solve their problem. And that's when you release your first Product normally these days we call this first release as MVP But I like to call it as MMP minimum marketable product or minimum releasable product Or yeah, most popularly call us minimum viable product So instead of going directly coding getting things out Please try first check your hypothesis design experiments to solve those problems and then go end up What you're trying to do is just trying to reduce the risk of a failure It will not make risk zero, but it will reduce it a lot Thank you. I'm not saying trial sprint. So I was what I was talking about is not any coding any database Questionnaire it's a paper question. You can go ask questions to your users or you can interview your users an Explainer video you just create a video showing what you want to do Give it on our Facebook or anywhere else Any other question? I think I still have 38 35 seconds. Thank you All right. Thank you for coming and like I said 130 will do four of these again if you are interested in listening from people who are attending please do come back and Please do present to like that is a good option. It is first come first served