Anand Vardhan — CEO
Anand is a certified Agile coach and Trainer with more than 20 years of industry experience. He has been practicing and training agile for more than a decade. In his current role as Agile coach, his KRA are: Bringing Agile Transformation to life by showing the path, training, and supporting teams in the transition to agile ways of working Coaching agile teams and program level roles at varying levels of maturity (DevOps, Scrum and Kanban teams) to ensure they are using agile best practices and continually improving Educate and mature an Agile Mindset, building a culture of continuous collaboration and value realization Work hands on with cross-functional agile teams applying agile principles and practices, resulting in improved outcomes such as shorter development cycles, fast feedback, reduction of waste and continuous discovery. Foster collaboration between business, product, engineering, and shared services to help establish the vision, set the direction, and maintain alignment to enable the delivery of relevant solutions meeting customer and business objectives. Enhance Agile Maturity of teams through Agile Maturity Assessments and create an improvement plan that brings an uplift in teams’ delivery capabilities Help create content for agile related training and workshops Deliver agile related training, Facilitate workshops on various related topics Teaching teams to maintain relevant metrics that guide them to continuously improve and provide management visibility on the status and delivery successes Supporting the ongoing development of the agile implementation roadmap and driving a stronger and deeper agile culture in the delivery teams Support development of Agile Communities of Practice to foster the growth of internal change agents, increase innovation and continuous improvement
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Agile coach with extensive experience in enterprise software and transformation initiatives.
Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Experience: 24 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Product Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Enterprise Software
Career Highlights
- 20+ years of industry experience in Agile coaching.
- Expert in Agile transformation and team coaching.
- Proven track record in enhancing Agile maturity.
Work Experience
Deutsche Bank
Vice President (4 yrs 1 mo)
Assistant Vice President (7 yrs 1 mo)
EMC
Principal Software Engineer (9 mos)
PlanetRIA (Division of Clarion Technologies Pvt. Ltd)
Founder, Chief Architect, Usability Expert (1 yr 7 mos)
Clarion Technologies Pvt Ltd
Chief Technology Officer (RIA Business) (1 yr 7 mos)
Capgemini
Delivery Lead - Technology (8 mos)
Lead Consultant (1 yr 11 mos)
Project Lead - Capital Market Solutions (1 yr 2 mos)
Technical Author (9 mos)
Sr. Consultant (3 yrs 8 mos)
Pune Flex User Group
Group Manager and Contributor (11 yrs 6 mos)
Morgan Stanley
Senior Consultant (10 mos)
Flex India Group
Contributor (10 mos)
Capsilon Technology
Lead Flex Engineer (Flex & RIA) (11 mos)
Capsilon India
Lead Flex Engineer (1 yr)
Hurix Systems
Sr. Software Engineer (7 mos)
Aptara Inc.
Associate Program Design Manager (1 yr)
TechDex Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Technology Lead (Web) (2 yrs 8 mos)
BGates Systems Integrators Pvt. Ltd
Web Developer (2 yrs)
Education
Postgraduate Degree at Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning
Bachelor of Science (BS) at Magadh University
I.Sc at Bihar Intermidiate Education Council