Aravinda Gandhi Subramanian

<p>Aravinda Gandhi is an experienced Agile Coach, an Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) with Kanban University,&nbsp; a Kanban Management Professional &amp; 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.</p><p><strong>Aravinda has expertise in</strong></p><ul style="margin-left: 40px;"><li>Serving as an Enterprise Agile Coach and Mentor within the organization</li><li>Working with Agile Transformation Office in framing organizational goals, agile policies and best practices</li><li>Evangelizing agile values, principles, methods and practices across the Organization</li><li>Facilitating quarterly Product Increment Planning Events (PIPE) at Enterprise Level including Pre &amp; Post PIPE activities</li><li>Building highly motivated, self-organized decision making teams which can remove obstacles by themselves</li><li>Introducing Technical Product Owners &amp; teams to various story writing, estimation, backlog refinement, grooming &amp; prioritization techniques such Kano Model, Class of Service, Cost of Delay etc and help prioritize Product Backlog</li><li>Leading &amp; Assisting Agile Ceremonies such as Backlog Refinement, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews &amp; Demos, Release Planning &amp; Retrospectives</li><li>Conducting Scrum of Scrums with distributed agile teams</li><li>Encouraging acts of leadership at all levels by building a safe environment</li><li>Improving flow by encouraging Agile Teams into Systems Thinking by introducing them to various visualization techniques</li><li>Working on Enterprise Scaled Agile Framework and scaling principles including SAFE, LESS, TDD with App Dev, QA and Dev Ops teams</li><li>Evaluating organizational agile maturity and creating continuous improvement &amp; integration CICD plans</li><li>Creating Qualitative &amp; Quantitative agile metrics to gain insight that helps Create Business Value</li><li>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</li><li>Conducting Agile Boot Camps and trainings for startup Scrum and Kanban teams</li><li>Conducting Certified Kanban Training classes – Team Kanban Practitioner, Kanban Management Professional (KMP1 &amp; KMP2) at the team level, mid management level and executive leadership level</li><li>Implementing Lean Agile initiatives for SDLC processes and deliverables</li><li>Performing end to end Value Stream Mapping exercises with Development / Solutions teams &amp; Service teams</li><li>Fostering an agile mindset to achieve maximum business value from distributed technical &amp; functional teams with diverse culture and background</li><li>Working with Jira, Confluence, Swiftly, NANT and Bit Bucket to support multiple code stream collaboration, and CI/CD</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p>