Sujith G
Agile Coach
Sujith G is an agile consultant/practitioner at Benzne, where he is responsible for delivering turnkey agile transformation at team, product and program level.
With over 9+ years of experience in Agile consulting, he has partnered and delivered 6+ org-wide Agile transformation. He has extensive experience in driving outcome driven Agile transformation in multiple organizations, coaching and implementing Scrum, Kanban, Behavior driven Development and XP practices across 100+ teams in Product and service organizations across the globe. He has experience in structuring and implementing Scaled Agile frameworks like SAFe, Scrum of Scrums and Kanban. He also has extensive experience in setting up JIRA and Azure DevOps. Sujith is also an expert in setting up Agile Metrics at team, program and portfolio level with a special focus on leadership dashboards.
Sujith has trained 2000+ professionals on Agile ways of working, JIRA, Scrum, Azure DevOps, Kanban, SAFe across multiple organization with topics ranging from agile adoption, scrum simulations, sprint roles and ceremonies, product discovery, creating product and sprint backlog, prioritization and estimation techniques, definition of done and ready, backlog grooming, Kanban boards, WIP limits, release management, spring planning, SAFe trainings and many other related topics.
Summary
- Experience in driving outcome driven Agile transformation across 6+ organizations across various domains
- Implemented SAFe and coached teams on the practices and events along with role based coaching for RTEs, PMs and Solution teams
- Successfully coached , trained and Implemented Scrum and Kanban over 100+ teams and 45+ Scrum masters and 40+ Product Owners
- Extensive experience in driving key business factors like Visibility, Predictability, Transparency and Quality with Agile ways of working
- Trained multiple batches on SAFe Agilist
- Trained 2k+ professionals on Agility, Scrum and Kanban
- Proficient in setting up , educating and cross pollination of JIRA and ADO usage and setting up metrics
- Extensive experience in scaling agile to achieve business agility for IT and Non IT teams
- Experienced in setting up and implementing OKRs
- Experiences in implementing DORA metrics
- Setting up role based communities for constant sharing of knowledge and cross pollination of practices
- Experienced in deriving the backlog with Discovery sessions with design sprints and predicting delivery.
Areas of Expertise
Driving outcome driven Agile transformation. Coaching and implementing Scrum, Kanban, Behavior driven Development.setting up metrics, configuring, setting and modifying JIRA & Azure DevOps. Experienced in identifying gaps in the system, creating scrum awareness, piloting and scaling scrum. Extensive experience in project budgeting, roadmapping and resource management along with risk mitigation processes by setting up governance models. Conducting agility health assessments and preparing growth plans.
Implementation of SAFe from Inception and successfully launched multiple ARTs, coached RTEs and instrumental in delivering business critical values through multiple teams spread across geographies.
Experience
Delivered services at multiple clients like Verifone, Schlumberger, EY, Sony, Yodlee, Helpshift, One.com, Datamatics, Finzly, Laerdal, Invenio, Antino, Incture, Fastfilmz and more.
Coached 100+ teams on agile practices & implementation techniques + trained over 2000 on Agile ways of working.
Agility health Assessment, Agile team level coaching, training facilitation, BDD, Kanban, SAFe, Design Sprints, Product Discovery, JIRA, ADO, PO, SM & Team Coaching
Proficient in metrics & reporting at multiple levels of portfolio, program and teams and worked across segments like Complex payments systems, O&G, Gaming, Healthcare, Service Organizations, Big 4 Consulting.