Machine learning is everywhere from self driving cars to smart speakers that act as our personal voice controlled assistants. If you are related to tech industry, you have likely heard about machine learning. I'm not here to tell you what machine learning is but to propose a potential use case for it, something you may or may not have thought about. That use case is Advancing Agile. I am going to leave you with a hypothesis that Machine Learning can be used to advance this software development methodology that we call Agile and can bring about efficiencies that are otherwise challenging to...
Bharat Nagpal
Senior Manager
Capital One
Bharat Nagpal is a senior technology manager at Capital One, Chicago. Bharat is well known for creating high-performing teams and for his ability to lead through influence, mentorship, and transparency. During his tenure at the company, he has led several technology transformation projects. More recently, Bharat has developed extensive interest in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He has worked with his teams to incorporate machine learning into customer experience, better detection of faults etc. One area that he is especially interested in, is automation of agile metrics and improvement of teams' "Agile health". He has experimented with applying machine learning to achieve these important goals and learned significantly from the same. Previously, Bharat worked at Discover, Sears, and IBM in various technology leadership roles. Bharat holds a master's degree from Virginia Tech and an MBA from University of Chicago.