Aravinda Gandhi Subramanian

Aravinda Gandhi is an experienced Agile Coach, an Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) with Kanban University,  a Kanban Management Professional & Practitioner and a Safe Program Consultant with a proven expertise in training, leading and coaching Application development, QA and Dev Ops Scrum / Kanban team’s with fortune 500 clients for over 20 years.

Aravinda has expertise in

• Serving as an Enterprise Agile Coach and Mentor within the organization
• Working with Agile Transformation Office in framing organizational goals, agile policies and best practices
• Evangelizing agile values, principles, methods and practices across the Organization
• Facilitating quarterly Product Increment Planning Events (PIPE) at Enterprise Level including Pre & Post PIPE activities
• Building highly motivated, self-organized decision making teams which can remove obstacles by themselves
• Introducing Technical Product Owners & teams to various story writing, estimation, backlog refinement, grooming & prioritization techniques such Kano Model, Class of Service, Cost of Delay etc and help prioritize Product Backlog
• Leading & Assisting Agile Ceremonies such as Backlog Refinement, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews & Demos, Release Planning & Retrospectives
• Conducting Scrum of Scrums with distributed agile teams
• Encouraging acts of leadership at all levels by building a safe environment
• Improving flow by encouraging Agile Teams into Systems Thinking by introducing them to various visualization techniques
• Working on Enterprise Scaled Agile Framework and scaling principles including SAFE, LESS, TDD with App Dev, QA and Dev Ops teams
• Evaluating organizational agile maturity and creating continuous improvement & integration CICD plans
• Creating Qualitative & Quantitative agile metrics to gain insight that helps Create Business Value
• Creating Fit For Purpose Organizations by utilizing every opportunity to introduce Punctuation Points, Stress and Reflection Mechanisms with Leadership Teams and change Organizational equilibrium towards agile maturity
• Conducting Agile Boot Camps and trainings for startup Scrum and Kanban teams
• Conducting Certified Kanban Training classes – Team Kanban Practitioner, Kanban Management Professional (KMP1 & KMP2) at the team level, mid management level and executive leadership level
• Implementing Lean Agile initiatives for SDLC processes and deliverables
• Performing end to end Value Stream Mapping exercises with Development / Solutions teams & Service teams
• Fostering an agile mindset to achieve maximum business value from distributed technical & functional teams with diverse culture and background
• Working with Jira, Confluence, Swiftly, NANT and Bit Bucket to support multiple code stream collaboration, and CI/CD