Jayaprakash Puttaswamy (often called as 'JP') is an Agile Consulting Coach and helps enterprise organizations in agile adoption, both at project team level and at organizational level. He works with project managers, delivery managers and other relevant senior management people to come up with agile implementation strategies and coach the teams to evolve in their agile adoption journey. In his recent experience, JP is involved in driving agile transformation for large enterprises including GE and McKinsey. Some of the other notable clients where JP has coached include JDA, ADP, and FICO to name a few.
With a “Bachelor of Engineering” degree in Computer Science & Engineering, JP started his career as a software engineering professional in 2002 and has witnessed wide range of experience in Enterprise Software Development, Agile Consulting, Coaching & Training., JP has a decade of overall experience, working for different companies in various capacities including Developer, Technical Lead, Project Manager, Scrum Master, Development Manager and an Agile Coach/Consultant role.
JP has worked with both product-based and service-based companies, including start-ups and software giants like Wipro, IBM India Software Labs, Robert Bosch, and Sungard. His domain experience includes E-Commerce, Automotive, Talent Management, Higher Education & Telecom domain. He has worked with distributed teams.
With over 10 years of experience in Agile practices, JP has spent most of his time implementing Agile at team levels and across organizations and has trained and coached over 250 professionals spread across 40 Agile teams in India. He has used various implementation techniques like Extreme programming, Iterative development, RUP, Scrum and Lean development. He has the experience of harnessing existing agility of a team to take Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices to higher levels, with continuous improvements, thus helping the team build quality into the product.
JP has a wide exposure to different technologies; primarily to Java/J2EE and web technologies. He is backed with sound technical knowledge in Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) using UML & Design Patterns.
Specialties
- In-depth understanding of Agile methodology and principles
- Hands-on experience in practicing & implementing Scrum
- Strategic mind-set with a good hold on using situation-based leadership styles
- Extensive experience of coaching more than 25 teams on Scrum, XP and Lean implementations, tackling India specific challenges.
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