alhad akole

South Africa

Bio

I am a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4.0) with a total of 18+ years of work experience. Acting as an Senior Agile Coach/ Independent Agile Coach for Scrum teams, transforming them from waterfall to SAFe at portfolio level.

Presentation summary: • Vision Creation @ Agile Coaching Day, SUGSA event Centurian 23 June 2018. • “Innovation Backlog” at Agile Tour 2016, At Pune. • “What does Scaling(Rx) Mean to you?” at Discuss Agile Day-Pune, 2016 conference. (#DAD16) • “Empowering Agile Teams to Reach SAFe Zone” @Discuss Agile Day Pune, Nov 2015 • Organizing member for Meetups for Agile in Zensar. Good connect with Agile Experts in India. • “Trust the Stranger” at Agile & Innovation conference by APGI, in Feb 2017 • “Rubber Meets the Road” At BEACON 2017 Global Business Agility Conference at Hyderabad, India.

• Published 6 articles on www.ScrumAlliance.org

I utilized industry best practices, with a focus on Agile values, principles, and organizational change management. Mainly I was involved in 3 main areas of Agile Transformation: Lean & Agile Coaching • Assessment Agile Team and Organization Maturity level • Tailoring of coaching methodology to Client – Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe® • Agile Portfolio Management • Training/Mentoring of managers and teams • Agile Enterprise Transformation

Certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) • Experience with other Agile transformational enterprise methodologies • Experience with small, medium and large enterprise transformations • Supports Team, Program, and Portfolio Management • Organizational Change Management • Agile Training & Certification Services

New Team Training/Quick Start (Certified SP) • Agile Fundamentals • Existing/Experienced Agile Team training • Product Owner • Scrum Master • Program Managers and Executives (Certified SA and SP)

As an Agile coach, I have done following as part of Agile journeys: • Providing Thought Leadership, Consultation, Training and Coaching in the area of Agile Transformations using distributed teams. Currently engaged in leading the SAFe ART implementation for a client from Manufacturing Vertical (Supply Chain Management) • Participated more than 8 PI planning events • Execute and continuously monitor the health of the PI. • Reporting to senior management on the status of the PI • Organizational assessments to assess the current state of the agility and transformation. • Good exposure to proposal and pre-sales phases in the services line of business. • Facilitate/demonstrate effective and efficient Scrum meetings • Empower cross-functional self-organizing teamwork • Leverage situational leadership • Observe team verbal and non-verbal communication and collaboration, and provides meaningful feedback directly to the team, leaders and other stakeholders as appropriate • Recognize when an Agile technique is not the best solution for the team’s needs through Agile Maturity Assessments. • Work with Project Leads to share findings and maximize practice consistency between teams • Collaborate with Project Leads to facilitate continuous delivery, planning, transparency and improvement