Alhad Akole

Mr. Alhad Akole @ SAFe Agilist, CSP, CSM,CSPO, PMP, and ITIL v3 has over 23+ years of experience in Agile Project Management for product development, Support and maintenance.

Have experience using Agile-Scrum, Kanban in development, product development, managed services, R&D space.

Performed several roles. Agile coach, Scrum Master, Project Manager, Project lead, team lead, technical expert for different projects.

• Playing key role in building Scrum master’s community and Agile COE.
• Conducted different sessions on agile for organization
• Helped quality teams conduct agile assessment audits
• Define quality metrics for agile projects.
• Implement Agile on pilot basis in Oracle application space.
• Conduct interviews during walk-in drives
• Acting as Agile Coach for offshore teams for SAFe ART (10 teams) teams.
• Training the team members on Scrum.
• Conduct Agile Assessment and readiness audits to help teams fill the gaps
• Facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Coach the teams on agile best practices
• Educate scrum masters on metrics- how it can help do prediction on team progress
• Track metrics for projects- Velocity, burn down, scope changes, etc. using RallyDev ALM tool
• Create and analyze reports on track status, issues and risks and report the major risks and issues to the Project leadership
• Promotes the value of agile project processes and establishes them on the project
• Created agile execution plan, checklists, and promoting DOD, DOR
• Actively participating in Agile gatherings, conferences across India.

Handled critical projects in domains like: Utility Domain, Mutual Funds, Medical Equipment (CT scan) Applications, and Design Tools.