Anuj M Ojha
Agile Enterprise Coach & Head of Delivery
Anuj is a seasoned agile professional with over 17 years of IT industry experience, dedicated to Agile ways of working since 2009. He excels at establishing agile environments, training and coaching both IT and non-IT teams on lean-agile principles, facilitating agile practices, and mentoring individuals and teams in roles such as Portfolio Leaders, RTEs, Agile Coach, Product Owner and Scrum Master.
Expanding Agile Horizons: Anuj has successfully extended agile principles beyond IT, implementing them in Sales, Marketing, HR, Finance, Admin, and other back-office functions, demonstrating the versatility of agile across various business domains.
Core Focus: Anuj is passionate about fostering business agility and collaborating with leaders and teams to cultivate sustainable agile cultures and mindsets. He believes in a progressive approach, guiding teams and companies to evolve and optimize their processes for continuous improvement.
Delivered services at 50+ clients: Verifone, ServiceNow, Mckinsey, Honeywell, Fidelity, SAP Labs, Sourcebits, Dell, Dell EMC, Nets Norway, Maersk, NEC Technologies, Tesco, Reliance JIO, Reliance ADA, Ericsson, Orange, L&T Infotech, Gemalto, Pearson and many more.
Led 16 Large scale agile Transformation across diverse industries: Laerdal, Helpshift, Verifone (28 teams), ServiceNow (Cloud Solutions Group), Sun Life Philippines (400+ employees), eInfochips (1 group), Sourcebits (Org wide), Techjini (Org wide) and others.
Summary
- Anuj is a Computer Science Engineer and has worked as a Trainer, Coach, Mentor on Agile methodologies with a cumulative IT industry experience of 17+ years, of which over 11+ years have been in Agile delivery lifecycles and environment playing varied roles
- Trained 12000+ participants through 450+ workshops on Agile and its approaches like Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean and Scaled Agile
- Has played an active role in transforming 150+ projects to agile and has overall 7 years of coaching experience
- Diversified Agile learning to Non IT teams successfully like Sales, Marketing, HR functions and industries like Banking, Manufacturing & Aeronautics.
- He has extensively played different roles & also coached people to become effective Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner & Development team member in agile environment
- Certified Agility Health Facilitator, assessing Agile Health of single teams, program & product lines, entire enterprise level agility and helping them in preparing their Growth Plans.
- He has participated as Product Owner & Scrum-Master for over 12 projects & SCRUM Teams, including PO for Onsite Client teams
- Designed & implemented KPI (Key Performance Indicators) across the organization as per agile mindset
- Anuj has successfully raised the quarterly agility index from 4.5/10 – 8.5+/10 and customer satisfaction index raised from 2.0/3- 2.5/3
- He has successfully implemented agile methodologies in Delivery teams, sales, HR, finance, admin and other back office processing
Transformational Leadership:
Anuj has spearheaded large-scale agile transformations for 16 organizations across diverse industries, including Fintech, Proptech, Insurance, Crypto, SaaS, Semiconductors, BPM, and Healthcare. He has successfully guided transformations for organizations like Laerdal, Helpshift, Verifone (28 teams), ServiceNow (Cloud Solutions Group), Sun Life Philippines (400+ employees), eInfochips, Sourcebits, Techjini and others. He works closely with CXOs and key leaders to translate business objectives into actionable transformation plans, building buy-in at all levels and leading teams of coaches & to implement agility across 200+ teams, training over 15,000 members.
Areas of Expertise
Business Agility, Agility Health Assessments, Organizational Transformation, Agile Coaching (Leadership, Business Stakeholders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Development Teams), Agile in Distributed & Scaled Teams, Agile Engineering Practices (XP, Pair Programming, TDD, BDD).
Experience
17+ years of experience with relevant agile experience of 11+ years and have trained 15000+ participants & coached 125+ teams on agile practices & implementation techniques. Have been to various geographies to deliver consulting services.
My special area of interest has been bringing in business agility, appropriate mindset & enriching Culture. It all starts from no process to some process which helps teams & companies in being their own better version by healing their broken processes and other aspects.
Agile Health & Performance Improvement:
As a certified Agility Health Facilitator, Anuj assesses the agile health of teams, programs, product lines, and entire enterprises, developing growth plans to enhance their agility. He has served as Product Owner and Scrum Master for over 12 projects and Scrum teams, including on-site client teams. He has also designed and implemented KPIs aligned with an agile mindset, significantly raising agility and customer satisfaction indices.
Global Expertise & Impact
Anuj’s international experience spans many years in Norway and assignments in countries such as the UK, Czech Republic, Romania, Netherlands, Dubai, and the Philippines. He has delivered services to 50+ clients, including industry giants like ServiceNow, EY, WazirX, Verifone, eInfochips, McKinsey, QAI, KPMG, Schlumberger, Honeywell, Laerdal, Aditya Birla Sun Life, Fidelity, SAP Labs, Sun Life Philippines, QAI Global, Sourcebits, Infosys BPM, Dell, Dell EMC, Nets Norway, Prudential, Maersk, NEC Technologies, Tesco, Reliance JIO, Reliance ADA, Ericsson, Orange, L&T Infotech, Thales, and Gemalto.
Training & Coaching Prowess
Anuj is a highly sought-after trainer and coach, having trained over 18,000 participants through 350+ workshops on Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, and Scaled Agile frameworks (Spotify, LeSS, Nexus, SAFe). He has coached 300+ teams globally, playing an active role in transitioning 130+ projects to agile.