Agile Ahmedabad 2025 : Premier Lean

Sudarshan Sridharan

Technical Program Manager (Cyber security and Global Operations)
Pacvue Corporation

Sudarshan is a Technology and Business Management professional, with a rich background in automotive PLM software, commerce acceleration platforms, and strategic business management, thereby establishing a strong foundation as a future-proof leader. His experience includes curating and leading high-performance diverse teams that help solve complex strategic business problems.

Sudarshan excels at driving efficiency and aligning cross-functional teams for delivery excellence. He portrays his character as being a funny, witty human being evangelising the charm in the student and leadership communities to fuel ideas that are thought-provoking. Sudarshan is a lifelong learner and plays the bass guitar and music.

Session Title

Agile Scars, AI Lessons: 5 Mistakes We Must Not Repeat

Session Overview

Every transformation journey leaves its own lessons. Two decades ago, many organizations embraced Agile only to stumble—treating it as a tool, mismeasuring progress, and ignoring cultural change. Today, as leaders push AI adoption, we risk repeating those same mistakes in new forms.

In this session, I’ll share five critical Agile-era missteps—such as metrics misalignment, silver-bullet thinking, and culture neglect—and reveal their direct parallels in AI initiatives. Drawing on my real-world experience leading Agile and AI transformations, I’ll offer a practical playbook: aligning AI use cases with business value streams, embedding human-centered change management, choosing meaningful outcomes over flashy outputs, and avoiding diffusion of focus.