LeaderGains can make your Agile journey smoother through training, consulting, and coaching. The majority of Agile initiatives failed due to resistance, lack of cooperation among different departments, minimum/no involvement of Senior Management. Everyone across the organization should have a basic understanding of Agile principles. We recommend starting the training in the below sequence.
C Suite with Senior Management/Department heads
Training to Departments & Support Functions
Training to Teams
This approach ensures everyone is aware of Agile principles and drive Agile transformation together
2. ❑100+ Trainings on 'Agile' Certified Practitioner (ACP) sessions (classroom/online)
❑ CST Co Trained 5 plus Certified Scrum Master Training (CST)
❑In house Workshops - HP, 3i Infotech, Pfizer, Flex, PMI Chennai Chapter, Knorr-Bremse,
Maximizers, Accion Labs
❑Public Workshops - Participants from following companies
Accenture, Altaken Lucent, Bank of America, Capgemini, Centillion Solutions and
Services Pvt Ltd., Cognizent Technologies Pvt Limited, Comviva Technologies, CSC, CSS
Corp, Dell International services pvt. Ltd., Ellucian sungard, Huawei Technologies, IBM
India Pvt Ltd., Inautix Technologies Private Limited, Infosys, Irely soft services India,
Kalsoft Labs, LG soft India pvt. Ltd., Novadium, Oracle Solution Services India, Play Games
24x7 Pvt. Ltd., QAI Global Services, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Ltd ,
Sapient, Shipnet Software Solutions Private Limited, Symphony, Tata Consultancy Services,
Tech Mahindra, Thomson Reuters, Vernalis Systems, Xerox Services, Yahoo, IBM, SCOPE,
NISSAN, FORD
List of Clients served in Agile
11. Sivaram Athmakuri
Expert Coach/Consultant & Trainer
I believe that spending more time in listening to
Customer and understanding unique strengths of
their existing environment helps to generate
meaningful, measurable & long lasting results with
lesser friction.
- Sivaram Athmakuri
Founder & Director, LeaderGains Pte. Ltd.
12. Speaker Presentations
• “Empower the Hidden Powers” at ‘BEACON 2017’, Hyderabad, India
• "3 Impediments for CEO of Start-up Products" at 'Agile Tour 2016', Chennai, India.
• "Baby steps to become Agile (for Bigger Organizations)" at 'Regional Scrum alliance 2014',
Hyderabad, India.
• "Thinking and Customizing Agile" at 'Agile Tour 2013', Chennai, India.
Book Reviewed & Contributed
• Reviewer to book "Agile Project Management for Governments” by Brian Wernham.
• Contributor to book "A Day in Life of Project Manager" by Frank P.Saladis
• Significant Contributor to book “Say Yes to Project Success” by Karthik Ramamurthy,
Sripriya Narayanasamy.
• Contributor to book "PMI Agile Certified Practitioner: Excel with Ease” by Subramanian
Chandramouli.
Contribution to Agile Community
13. • Define Agile Transformation road map (short term and long term goals)
• Coach Senior Executives to minimize Resistance
• Coach Learning Heads to conduct Agile Awareness sessions
• Coach Delivery Heads on Evaluation Techniques (whether Project needs Agile or not)
• Coach Senior Management on Refining the Existing Metrics or KPIs (as per Agile)
• Coach HR/Finance Teams on applying Agile in their work and meet dynamic needs
• Coach Product Head, Functional Head, Account Head on Agile concepts
• Coach Customers/Clients on impact of Agile (short term & long term)
Coaching
Agile at Organization level
14. • Identify vital few features that excite your customers (minimum marketable features MMF)
• Ensure Predictable and Realistic Product releases with focus on zero errors
• Applying the agile frameworks (Scrum/XP) to accommodate continuous changes
• Align/Motivate Product Teams and Development teams towards Product goals
• Optimize existing Product offerings to improve maintainability
Experts say 50% of features
in the Products delivered,
are rarely or never used.
Consulting
Product Management
15. • Define or Refine Organization Process (CMMI or ISO) without compromising Agile values
• Evaluate Organization needs & recommend Agile Tools
• Define KPIs & Dashboards without compromising Agile values
• Conduct Risk Assessment on achieving Product/Project milestones
• Assess the Projects and recommend suitable Agile framework
• Assess the Projects and recommend Tailoring
• Provide road map to practice Agile on existing Legacy Applications
Experts say 64% of features
in the Products delivered,
are rarely or never used.
Consulting
Agile Assessment
16. Agile
• Agile Concepts & Practices
• Scrum
• Kanban
• Lean
• DSDM (Atern)
• Agile Product Development
• Agile for Senior Executives
(CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, CTOs, Change
Agents)
• Agile for Project Managers
• Agile for Business Analysts
• Agile for Human Resources
Managers
• Agile for Product Managers or
Product Heads
• Agile Engineering Practices (XP)
• Behaviour Driven Development
• Test Driven Development
Our workshops will cover
both success and failure
stories
Training & Workshop
Sivaram Athmakuri conducted 100 plus class room and 50 plus online sessions on different
agile topics.
18. Agile
Testimonials
“ I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude and pleasure of having
worked with Sivaram, who served as an Agile trainer and consultant to our organization. He spent
two full working days training our organizations' development team on Agile methodologies and
while his assignment was just that, he voluntarily took it upon himself to follow up and offer
advice after the training. He has helped transform our organization from one that did not have
any set development practices to one that is successfully following the Agile methodology.
More importantly, he has helped us become more efficient as a product development
organization.
I would definitely recommend him as a trainer or a consultant to any organization that wants to
either streamline their development process or to better fine-tune their product development
process.
Yours faithfully,
- CEO & Founder of Group of Companies
19. Agile
“ I know Sivaram Athmakuri from 2006 onwards. He is experienced in the use of agile
approaches, including Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development and Scrum. He is very
enthusiastic and is taking efforts to spread agile both within and outside the companies he
worked for. His knowledge in Scrum and other agile methodology are adorable.
He is coaching and helping participants in transforming from water fall to agile easily by giving
appropriate examples. He educates people on how to work in an agile way and how to “be Agile.”
He Coach and mentors agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback. He
participates in various online agile forums and attends and present at agile conferences. He is
also creating an Agile coaching “circles,” in the region.
He helped me a lot and gave fruitful thoughts, valid feedback while I wrote the second edition of
the book “PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Excel with ease” published by PEARSON.
I Wish him all the very best!!
- Head of a PMO (Delivery) & Author
Testimonials
20. Agile
Testimonials
“I have attended training session by Sivaram Athmakuri as part of PMI-ACP certification program. I admired with the knowledge he acquired
over years of experience.................real life examples during his training sessions to explain how an agile architecture can evolves with the
product as we progress in the release using following example of building a house that can give end customer satisfaction; “we can build basic
structural engineering of the house by keeping the scale and strength of the building, later we can start customizing each floor house and even
room depending on the customer need”. He focused more on challenges and providing possible solutions that we could face during waterfall to
agile transformation. This helped the participants can pick up the right content can use the knowledge directly in their projects. He kelp all the
participates active always by opening dialogue between the participants while responding questions that helped us not only to get answer to the
question also helped us to know how other participates have solved similar problems using their agile experience.
Later I met him several times to seek his help in my projects. One of the projects that I was providing consulting service has peculiar nature.
Product Owner could identify 262 user stories, however he could not prioritize them of as all these stories equally important and the project
goal cannot be achieved until all 262 are developed. He suggested me to put all these into a three dimensional a grid of grouping of user stories
based on their nature of work, complexity in terms of development and dependency with external systems. Using this grid we have prioritized
based on risk. We have covered maximum number of high risk user stories and unique nature of development in early sprits. This model helped
the team to commit more user stories of same complexity in later sprints. This model is much appreciated by the team and the management.
Over all I use to feel happy to associate with him to gain more knowledge than just treating him as any as any other trainer who can help us to
pass the exam.
I wish him great success in future.
- Agile COE, Global Delivery Center of MNC
21. Agile
Testimonials
•“ Let me take this opportunity to share my views pertaining to Sivaram's PMI - ACP (Agile Certified
Practitioner) training I've attended earlier. It's a very good training and really appreciate his knowledge on
various Agile methodologies like Scrum, DSDM etc and his training skills. The examples Sivaram used to
elucidate the subject really helped me to understand the concepts better The energy he has shown all
throughout the session is worth mentioning. The way how he related the theory and real time Agile
project situations helped to answer many of my queries
- Senior Project Manager, InfoTech Company
22. Project Management
Testimonials
“ Feedback for the training programs that Sivaram conducted has been very good. He puts his heart
to conduct the trainings programs. Though he was in a project and program management role for IT
Service Delivery, he squeezed time to do programs at regular intervals. This was the testimony for his
passion for learning. His overall feedback for the programs that he has conducted was 4.4 out of a scale
of 5. He was among the Top 10 percentile of Professionals in getting such a feedback in our Organization.
Participants have given extremely positive comments for the changes he bought in their lives through
learning.
Wish him good luck!
- Learning Head, MNC
23. Project Management
Testimonials
“ Mr. Sivaram Athmakuri is working with us as an External Faculty/Trainer from Oct 2012. Sivaram has an excellent
personality for trainings. He is able to create comfortable environment while maintaining full participation at all times.
He always demonstrated he can work well under extreme time limitations and demanding schedules. He is skilled not
only in class room environment , with distant learning through online and web-ex, as well. He coordinated our Online
Training programs.
Sivaram consistently showed an eagerness to take on any task handed to him and even helped in launching new products.
He is a joy to work and an invaluable member of our team.
- Associate Director, A leading Learning & Education Company
Few Comments from our Participants:
• Training flow is very well structured and lays emphasis on focus areas explicitly. Very experienced faculty who has
great depth which is evident from the practical examples provided.
• Excellent Coaching! Trainer changed the course from excellent to extra ordinary. Extremely inspired.
• Sivaram Athmakuri is very good in explaining an example first and explaining the concept. The class was very
interesting.
