Ravi K. Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru Area, India

- Change agent co-creating organization change and driving delivery excellence. Hands on practitioner; experience spanning over 22+ years across Consulting, Technology and Management.- Highly skilled in project , people management and delivery execution.- SME in agile/lean software development methods and practices with 12+ years in leading agile and lean transformation, coaching and consulting.- Enterprise agile coaching and consulting experience across product, captive and… Show more - Change agent co-creating organization change and driving delivery excellence. Hands on practitioner; experience spanning over 22+ years across Consulting, Technology and Management.- Highly skilled in project , people management and delivery execution.- SME in agile/lean software development methods and practices with 12+ years in leading agile and lean transformation, coaching and consulting.- Enterprise agile coaching and consulting experience across product, captive and services organizations.- Agile India: Conference Chair - (2014, 2015, 2016 & Agile India 2018) - Founding member: Agile Leadership Network - Bengaluru Chapter.- Invited speaker at agile conferences/meet up events Show less

- Dojo Coach - Oversee customization of the dojo experience for the client teams - Responsible for Intake & Framing process - Mentoring coaches new to the dojo approach and owning the dojo coach’s playbook - Organize the dojo coaching staff (coach coaching) - Coaching teams in product & technical areas of product development - Maintains Dojo Kanban to provide visibility and progress to management - Recommend and implement new tools and framework that… Show more - Dojo Coach - Oversee customization of the dojo experience for the client teams - Responsible for Intake & Framing process - Mentoring coaches new to the dojo approach and owning the dojo coach’s playbook - Organize the dojo coaching staff (coach coaching) - Coaching teams in product & technical areas of product development - Maintains Dojo Kanban to provide visibility and progress to management - Recommend and implement new tools and framework that enable team agility. - Coaching and mentoring teams, scrum master and product owners to implement agile ways of working- Evangelizing, Transformation & Change management - - Working with leadership and change management office. - Enabling collaboration with support teams, stakeholders and leadership in right ways of implementing change. Show less

- Restructuring teams - Establish right structures, process and practices within user journey based teams for driving futuristic solutions, strategies across Platform Engineering, Business, Solution, PMO and Support teams- Product management flow - Enabling effective product management and roadmaps by influencing and changing ways of working in business/product and tech solution teams with product discovery and user story mapping.- Championing Azure Devops rollout -… Show more - Restructuring teams - Establish right structures, process and practices within user journey based teams for driving futuristic solutions, strategies across Platform Engineering, Business, Solution, PMO and Support teams- Product management flow - Enabling effective product management and roadmaps by influencing and changing ways of working in business/product and tech solution teams with product discovery and user story mapping.- Championing Azure Devops rollout - - Architected and implemented standardized build pipelines across technology stack that is highly scalable, maintainable and enabling organization wide adoption. - Shift left quality and sec-ops by integrated Sonar static code analysis and Fortify/OWASP security ops into build pipelines. - Driving adoption of azure devops tool chain, branching strategy, pull request process and moving teams towards Gitflow/Trunk Based development. - Migration from traditional ITSM based process to agile and devops with migration from disparate/legacy tool echo systems to implementation of Azure Devops - Evangelizing, Transformation & Change management - Working with business and leadership across a complex, dynamic, fast paced and distributed team echo system for creating a New Ways of Working.Mentoring support teams, stakeholders and leadership in right ways of implementing change aligned to propagate agile and devops culture.- Knowledge sharing via presentations and talks across various groups and verticals.- Embedded team coaching - Coaching and mentoring teams, scrum master and product owners to implement agile ways of working in fast paced multi-location, evolving product landscape. Show less

Bengaluru Area, India

Engaging with Leadership and Management: • Help identify organizational impediments to successful Agile transformation and work with the leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them. • Foster active engagement, collaboration and relationship among Leadership, Management and Teams • Build teams that succeed by continually assessing the product needs and aligning team members with the appropriate skillsCoaching and Developing People: • Mentor and guide… Show more Engaging with Leadership and Management: • Help identify organizational impediments to successful Agile transformation and work with the leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them. • Foster active engagement, collaboration and relationship among Leadership, Management and Teams • Build teams that succeed by continually assessing the product needs and aligning team members with the appropriate skillsCoaching and Developing People: • Mentor and guide multiple teams in the portfolio across geo locations on a day-to-day basis. • Hands-on embedded coaching of individual teams in all aspects of Agile - daily meetings, planning, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, limiting wip, etc. • Leverage measures and data for opportunities to optimize team(s) and their performance. • Establish effective branching and CI/CD workflow.Culture Management: • Collaborate directly with business and product development teams to coach and guide them on the mechanics of Agile methods and backlog management to achieve optimal team effectiveness. • Help teams create an environment that fosters transparency, learning, innovation, quality and speed. • Establish distributed agile culture fine tuning practices to foster essence of agile and optimized for achieving delivery outcomes. • Participate and observe team in agile ceremonies without interfering and influencing their delivery. • Hold Regular check in’s with all team members (regular 1:1’s with all team members) Show less

Bengaluru Area, India

Agile/Lean/DevOps Coach:Engaging with Leadership and Management: • Help identify organizational impediments to successful Agile transformation and work with the leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them. • Establish roadmap for implementing Continuous Integration and Deployment in a complex DW BI/A portfolio. • Foster active engagement, collaboration and relationship among Leadership, Management and TeamsCulture Management, Coaching and… Show more Agile/Lean/DevOps Coach:Engaging with Leadership and Management: • Help identify organizational impediments to successful Agile transformation and work with the leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them. • Establish roadmap for implementing Continuous Integration and Deployment in a complex DW BI/A portfolio. • Foster active engagement, collaboration and relationship among Leadership, Management and TeamsCulture Management, Coaching and Consulting • Coaching teams to successfully establish/implement OKRs. • Influencing teams to implement organization mandates while incorporating agile mindset without interfering in delivery by regular check in’s with all teams. • Identified internal agile champions to enable long term sustenance and continuous improvement by training, mentoring and including as shadow members during the transformation journey. • Establish effective branching and version control management and built dashboards to enable devops metrics driven progression. • Engage and guide teams towards implementing Product Thinkings and Agile Mindset across teams. • Enabled high performance team culture, transparency, learning and collaboration by establishing periodic demos on transformation progress. Show less

Bengaluru Area, India

Agile India 2018: Conference committee member and theme chair

Bengaluru

Agile India 2016 conference committee member and theme chair.

Bengaluru Area, India

Agile India 2015 conference committee member and theme chair.

Bengaluru Area, India

- Coaching and consulting on agile/lean methods.- Assist large engagements and organizations in agile transformation.- Socialize agile practices and value system at various levels from C2 level executives to software engineers/developers.

Bengaluru Area, India

- Customer advocacy on adopting and implementing agile.- Facilitating teams/engagements in adopting and sustaining agile ways of working. - Agile project coaching, mentoring and assessments.

- Consultancy (Coaching and mentoring) services for both internal projects and clients on implementing and sustaining agile ways of working.- Delivered workshop an training sessions on agile.- Key contributions towards the agile consultancy offerings and Agile CoE.- Developed role based training content on agile.

Bengalur

Strategic Initiatives:- Lead practice initiatives in Software Reuse that involved in the growth of the CoP, artifacts evaluations and awareness building. - Technical evaluations and vendor evaluations for key initiatives.- Empowering delivery teams achieve productivity improvements.- Participated in the key RFP/RFI and pre-sales initiatives.Project Delivery:- Managed and lead distributed development teams that included senior level architects, leads, designers and… Show more Strategic Initiatives:- Lead practice initiatives in Software Reuse that involved in the growth of the CoP, artifacts evaluations and awareness building. - Technical evaluations and vendor evaluations for key initiatives.- Empowering delivery teams achieve productivity improvements.- Participated in the key RFP/RFI and pre-sales initiatives.Project Delivery:- Managed and lead distributed development teams that included senior level architects, leads, designers and developers cutting across multiple delivery verticals. - Liaise with Account Managers and engagement specific finance SPOCs to manage monthly billing and invoices to customers.- Project management activities involved meeting client expectations, strong adherence to organization qualitative and functional aspects of the projects, client communication, overseeing day to day project activities. - Responsible for project delivery, review and approval key design artifacts.- Designed, developed and delivered training programs on Sybase ASE.- Onsite implementation manager responsible for enhancements of critical applications. - Interfaced with business users and leaders of client and their respective customers by offering directions and strategy to implement key solutions. Show less

Bengaluru Area, India

Agile India 2014 conference committee member and theme chair.

Onsite and offshore coordination and management.Enhancements to business critical applications.Maintenance and support of applications and key business functions.Migration for applications and platforms.Disaster recovery of business critical applications.

- Lead a team of developers for application enhancement/maintenance/support.- Transitioning of large application from onsite to offshore for support and re-engineering.- Responsible for writing proposals and resource allocation for maintenance/support.- Provided valuable training to the technical staff on the entire system for migration of the existing legacy system to an Internet based WEB system.

- Development, implementation and maintenance/support of various MIS and Financial Accounting applications utilized by 500 plus users.- Presented the results of research and analysis to the upper management on the various thin client technologies to web enable MIS applications. The research helped the management decide on the implementation of Citrix organization wide.- Lead the effort in requirements gathering, wrote program specifications and design/development of a critical and a… Show more - Development, implementation and maintenance/support of various MIS and Financial Accounting applications utilized by 500 plus users.- Presented the results of research and analysis to the upper management on the various thin client technologies to web enable MIS applications. The research helped the management decide on the implementation of Citrix organization wide.- Lead the effort in requirements gathering, wrote program specifications and design/development of a critical and a highly visible system targeted towards the senior most management of the organization. Show less

- Team member involved in developing bank automation software product for the retail banks.- Design and development of a POC effort for carrying out replication over a dialed up connectivity that is integrated with Integrated Voice Response System (IVRS) Telebanking system.

- Development of custom accounting and other software for clients.- Training and implementation of software developed at the client site.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc

Diploma