Akta Saluja

Akta Saluja

Director Software Engineering, Optum

She is a dynamic engineering leader with 19+ years of software development and engineering experience; AZ900, Safe4ME, DASA dev ops certified; Playing role of Director, Software engineering with Optum; Accountable to drive engineering excellence & metrics; leading multiple strategic initiatives for business as well as leading enterprise level initiatives like Agile transformation (lean, Kanban, Scrum), Dev ops adoption & enablement for multiple line of businesses, Application rationalization & modernization; Passionately contributing to initiatives designed for women leadership in technology as speaker and mentor for few groups.

Passionate participant in WIT hackathons as participant and coach. Had been a speaker at a business word magazine which got printed in the form of an article as well.

Session Title

New Normal - Are we transforming & Adapting at the right pace to survive in a hybrid work model?


Session Overview

For years, our organizations have seen agile ways of working as a path to success. Every org was adopting it at their own pace. The pandemic had changed that perspective and raised an urgency for customized ways of agile transformation. The enterprise of the future is supposed to be analytics driven and nimble enough. However, distributed teams, Dispersed workforces and rapidly changing market dynamics caused agile ways of working to shift overnight from optional to a business imperative. It's important to agree to the industry wide challenges; understand the power of technology enabling us to overcome that as well as appreciating the specific needs of non-traditional agile teams as well.