About the Speaker
He is an Enterprise Lean-Agile Coach and Certified Professional Scrum Trainer (PST), has multiple years of product development experience, and has worked with many organizations in different roles, including developer to delivery head. He has consulted organizations in large-scale agile adoption to become agile, reduce time to market, and respond to change faster. He is an early agile developer and teaches the development team and organizations about DevOps culture, methods, and tools. He has working knowledge in Healthcare, Insurance, Banking, Telecom, Travel, and Retail business domains and has worked on multiple digital transformation initiatives.
He facilitates innovation sprints for teams to come up with breakthrough ideas within 40 hours and build a product in 30 days. He helps grow businesses with sprint(s). You heard it right. It is all about sprint. It can be a design, innovation, improvement, development, or DevOps sprint. It is 40 hours to 4 month program. Highly customizable based on organization, culture, and team maturity.
Areas of Expertise:
- The Leadership Circle Profile™ Coach
- Marshal Goldsmith Executive Coach
- Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT)
- SAFe® Practice Consultant (SPC)
- A Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) from Scrum.org
- LeSS-Friendly Scrum Trainer (LFST) from LeSS
- Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) trainer from Scrum Alliance
- ICAgile Trainer for Agile Coaching & DevOps
- PMI Approved Trainer for Discipline Agile (DA)
Naveen focuses on large-scale agile adoption starting from lean portfolio management by helping organizations with lean budgeting, agile contracts, and relevant metrics to track the outcome. In addition, having experience in software development enables him to guide them on engineering practices through teaching and coaching practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Pair Programming, DevOps, Emergent Design, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Agile Testing, etc.
He is active in the Agile community and participates in major events as a speaker and volunteer. He has presented papers in Global Scrum Gatherings and other Agile and Scrum conferences and meet-ups globally. He shares his knowledge of agile, scrum, Kanban, and technical practices on Medium. He runs a community of 18,000+ people to learn and share practices and tools in agile ways of working through Agile 30.
