Sheba Annie John

Sheba Annie John

Principal Agilist
Cognizant

She is Principal Agilist / Agile transformation coach, from Cognizant, with 22 years of IT experience, spanning from mainframe to latest digital technologies as a delivery manager, portfolio lead, and then into various Agile roles. Been part of multiple Agile transformation engagements with different frameworks, supporting organizations to transform to agile ways of working. Passionate about training and mentoring; Academy trainer in Agile, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps. Currently transformation Coach for a Financial client in Europe, enabling project to product transformation. Certified OKR Coach and ICP-ACC certified, along with CSM, SAFe Agilist 5.0, Google certified Cloud Digital Transformation Leader. Life quote : "Be passionate about what you do, and success would follow".

Session Title

Demystifying Cognitive Load : A Key to Sustainable Agility


Session Overview

Organizations everywhere are seeking to become more flexible, more adaptable to ever changing market environments and shifting consumer behaviors. Adaptability and agility are key competitive advantages in order to survive and thrive. The awareness of cognitive load (the amount of mental effort required to perform effectively) is highly essential in the current competitive world, not only in business, but other areas like education, health etc. In this session, let us try to demystify cognitive load, and explore how to optimize it with some simple techniques. Would also like to share thoughts on a few strategies experimented in our organization, along with the challenges and learnings, to show how consistent practices could help in reducing the cognitive team overload and improve the ways of working