Biography
Kavina Nagrani started her career in IT Project Management in the Financial Sector, working at a major Canadian Financial Institution, RBC Investments using mainly RUP, RAD and waterfall methodologies. During this time, the team she worked with partnered with Athient Technologies in India and started to leverage an offshore development relationship to accelerate project lifecycles. In 2005, Kavina joined a software consulting company named "Workbrain" in Toronto, Canada as a Senior Project Manager. She managed implementations of the Workbrain software product across many verticals such as Law Enforcement, Airlines, Entertainment, Health Care and Retail. She was quickly recognized as someone who brought something new to the term 'managing a project' and eventually pioneered a shift in the company's implementation approach from being mainly waterfall based to something more agile. Today, Kavina works as a Director in Professional Services at Infor Global Solutions Inc. a software consulting company. She manages a portfolio of accounts and oversee's multiple implementations. She is asked to speak and present regularly at INFORUM, Infor's Global User Conferences about using the Agile approach in her implementations and is seen as a mentor and coach to others within the company. Kavina is PMP certified and has been a Certified Scrum master since 2007.