Abhi Chaturvedi    

   

Enterprise Lean Transformation & Training, Agile Coaching, Consulting, Digital Advisory Services.

Email:scalenow@scalenow.com.au; Mobile: +61 (0) 422-149-614

I am a lean evangelist,training organisations and individuals on scaling agility to enterprise levels using SAFe framework.My courses teach all areas of implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

  • Learn how to leverage lean frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high-level overviews.
  • Master using iterative approaches to corporate strategy and collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition.
 

 

    Challenges organisations face today.

  • As enterprise teams adopt agile practices, some common problems occur when developing large solutions.These are misaligned priorities, lack of cross functional team collaboration and system architecture that does not scale or integrate efficiently.
  • Objectives for business and IT departments are not aligned to organizational strategy.Individual teams often prioritize objectives that benefit their team or product over the enterprise goals.
  •  Business and IT teams often operate in silos.In many organizations that use Waterfall software development lifecycles, business owners develop business cases independent of IT and IT teams develop solutions without the cadence of regular feedback from their business sponsors.
  •  Business and IT have traditionally had separate and sometimes competing priorities.Corporations need to align business and IT interests into a combined prioritized backlog. As well, the prioritized backlog gives employees across the organization clear direction on where their efforts should be focused at any time.

    Remediations of these challenges

  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has become a leading methodology to scale Lean and Agile principles from individual teams to the program and portfolio levels.
  • SAFe starts with clearly defining strategic themes that are aligned to a common enterprise business strategy. Value streams and Portfolio Epics are derived from these strategic themes.
  • The top down approach of formulating backlogs ensures that initiatives and solutions are aligned to the business goals of the organization. These backlogs are re-evaluated at regular intervals to provide opportunities to capitalize on market changes, leading successful agile transformation.
  • SAFe places cross-functional teams, comprised of business and IT members, at all levels (team, program and portfolio). Cross-functional teams work together on a daily basis and collaborate to determine the what and the how of the product or solution.

 

 

 SAFe Scrum Master

 SAFe Product Owner

 SAFe Advanced Scrum Master

 SAFe Practitioner

 SAFe Agilist

SAFe DevOps

 

SAFe Scrum Master Certification

In this two-day course, attendees will gain an understanding of the role of a Scrum Master in a SAFe enterprise. This course explores the role of the Scrum Master in the context of the entire enterprise, and prepares attendees to successfully plan and execute the Program Increment.

Attendees will discover how to build high performing Agile teams by becoming a servant leader and coach, and how to coach those teams to deliver the maximum business value at scale.

Price $1,300.00(AUD) ,inclusive GST

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SAFe Scrum Master on weekend in Sydney- 6th April and 7th April,2019

 
SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager

In this two-day course, attendees will develop the skillsets needed to guide the delivery of value in a Lean enterprise and learn about the activities, tools, and mechanics used to manage backlogs and programs by becoming a SAFe 4 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM).

They will also learn how to apply Lean thinking to write Epics, break them down into Features and Stories, plan and execute Iterations, and plan Program Increments.

Price $1,300.00(AUD) inclusive GST

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SAFe Product Owner/ Product Manager on weekend in Sydney- 23rd Feb and 3rd March,2019
SAFe Product Owner/ Product Manager on weekend in Sydney- 25th May and 26th May,2019

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master

This two-day course prepares current Scrum Masters for their leadership role in facilitating Agile team, program, and enterprise success in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) implementation. The course covers facilitation of cross-team interactions in support of program execution and relentless improvement.

The course offers actionable tools for building high-performing teams and explores practical ways of addressing Agile and Scrum anti-patterns in the enterprise.

Price $1,300.00(AUD),inclusive GST

SAFe Practitioner

This two days course will build the skills needed to become a high-performing team member of an Agile Release Train (ART) and learn how to collaborate effectively with other teams by becoming a SAFe 4 Practitioner (SP).

They will also learn how to write stories and break down features, plan and execute iterations, and plan Program Increments.

Price $1,300.00(AUD),inclusive GST

 

SAFe Agilist

During this two-day course, attendees will gain the knowledge necessary to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise by leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), and its underlying principles derived from Lean, systems thinking, Agile development, product development flow, and DevOps

Attendees will gain an understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset, why it is so effective in today's adapt-or-die marketplace, and what it means to lead a Lean-Agile transformation. They will empower their enterprises to succeed in a disruptive marketplace.

Price$1,300.00(AUD),inclusive GST

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Leading SAFe on weekend in Sydney- 4th May  and 11th May, 2019

 

SAFe DevOps

This two-day course provides a comprehensive overview for understanding the DevOps competencies needed to accelerate time-to-market by improving the flow of value through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Attendees will map the current value stream through their delivery pipeline from idea to cash, and identify practices that will eliminate bottlenecks to flow.

The course will build an understanding of the complete flow of value from Continuous Exploration to Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Release on Demand

Price$1,300.00(AUD),inclusive GST Venue and course timings

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SAFe DevOps on weekend in Sydney- 9th March and 10th March,2019

Business Agility

1. Lean Portfolio Management

Lean portfolio management (LPM) is a process of managing a portfolio of projects by applying lean thinking. It's a result-oriented approach that prioritizes and delivers high-quality work by aligning tasks with a company's objectives. Lean thinking eliminates waste in processes and improves efficiencies.

In summary, the three aspects of Lean portfolio management�strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance�provide a leaner, more Agile, and yet fully comprehensive governance approach that can help assure each portfolio fulfills its role in helping the enterprise achieve its larger business objectives.
 

In summary, the three aspects of Lean portfolio management�strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance�provide a leaner, more Agile, and yet fully comprehensive governance approach that can help assure each portfolio fulfills its role in helping the enterprise achieve its larger business objectives.

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In summary, the three aspects of lean portfolio management strategy and investment funding, agile portfolio operations, and lean governance provide a leaner, more agile, and yet fully comprehensive governance approach that can help assure each portfolio fulfils its role in helping the enterprise achieve its larger business objectives.

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This workshop is targeted towards Portfolio Managers and members of  PMO interested in understanding the Portfolio View of scaling agility to enterprise level.

Attendees of this one-day practical workshop will gain the knowledge necessary to implement lean-agile portfolio management, governance and will leave with an understanding of how scaled agile principles and practices can support portfolio management, governance to enable flow of information. Please send expression of interest to scalenow@scalenow.com.au.

2. Lean Budgeting for DevOps

This is the workshop for Portfolio, Program, Project managers and members of a PMO interested in understanding the lean budget view of the scaled  agile course. The one-day practical workshop will focus on lean budgeting and a set of practices that will minimize overhead by funding and empowering value streams rather than projects, while maintaining financial and fitness-for-use of governance.

Attendees of this one-day practical workshop  will leave with an understanding of how scaled agile principles and practices supports lean budgeting through objective evaluation of working systems, active management of epic investments, and dynamic budget adjustments.Please send expression of interest to scalenow@scalenow.com.au

3. Human-Centered Design

Human-centered design (HCD) is a design and management framework that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process. Human involvement typically takes place in observing the problem within context, brainstorming, conceptualizing, developing, and implementing the solution.


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4. Enterprise Agile Strategy

 

The Agile Strategy Map is an Agile tool that allows a leadership team to align and coordinate their organizational continuous improvement efforts. It supports work on both the strategic level and the tactical level. The Agile Strategy Map provides a framework for designing an organization's Strategy as well as visualizing and tracking progress and evolution. As such the Agile Strategy Map supports decision making, and, according to an Agile approach, provides a controlled and safe way to run experiments and learn from them, becoming a fundamental tool for organizational improvement.
 

Attendees of this one-day practical workshop will leave with an understanding of how scaled agile principles and practices supports lean strategy.They will have an understanding of a tool to design the changes in an organization in a way that makes the process transparent, incremental, available to everyone, and based on continuous experimentation and adaptation.Please send expression of interest to scalenow@scalenow.com.au

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5. Hypothesis and Epic generation

 

Lean Hypothesis are an effective way to help the team connect the problem they're trying to solve to the product they're building.

"We believe [TYPE OF USER] has a problem [DOING THING]. We can help them with [OUR SOLUTION]. 
We'll know we're right if [CHANGE IN METRIC]."
"We believe SHOPPERS have a problem CHOOSING FROM THE MASSIVE SELECTION OF PORK PRODUCTS. 
 We can help them by SHOWING RECOMMENDATIONS FROM OTHER SHOPPERS. 
 We'll know we're right if SHOPPERS ADD ITEMS TO CART MORE QUICKLY".
 
6.Value Stream Mapping 
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Attendees of this one-day practical workshop will leave with an understanding of how scaled agile principles and practices supports value stream mapping. As part of the learning process, participants will practice the Value Stream Mapping cycle in a real lean environment. This rare opportunity will help embed the learning through an experiential activity in a fast-paced, critical operation. Please send expression of interest to scalenow@scalenow.com.au

 

 

 

7.Program Increment (PI) - Coming soon

 

  • Masters in Computing (software Engineering), University of Western Sydney, Australia
  • Bachelors in Electrical Engineering
  • PMP, PRINCE2,Six Sigma
  • Scrum Master,Scaled Agilist(SA),Scaled Program Consultant(SPC)
  • Certified Practitioner Human Centred Design
  • Certified AWS Business Professional
  • Certified Insurance Professional from ASIC
  • Certified Content Management Professional
  • Apart from being a consultant, I enjoy most of my time being outdoors. In the winter, I go bush walking and strolling in the woods. During the warmer months in Sydney, I enjoy going to the beach. I like to play tennis, watch soccer and lately I have developed an interest in meditation and yoga.

    I like to read about dharma, which represents a code of conduct, a value system that has spiritual freedom as its core. Any pathway or vision that accepts the spiritual freedom of others is considered part of dharma.

     

     

     

     

     
         

      Please send me an email on scalenow@scalenow.com.au or contact me directly at +61 (0) 422-149-614

      expressing your level of interest for SAFe certifications.