Abhishek Johri

Hello,

My name is Abhishek Johri, working as Agile Coach with Prowareness, Bangalore.

With more than 11 years of experience in diverse domains and technologies like Banking, Healthcare, Mainframes, .NET, MS Dynamics, I now focus my energy upon learning new software methodologies and technologies and spread the word about agile and better and more efficient ways of working.

I read, write and passionately talk about agile and draw my motivation out of helping individuals and organizations in their joyful pursuit of high performance and better quality.

I have good exposure to concepts like Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP, CD/CI, LEAN, VSM, 6σ(DMAIC), KANO, Kaizen.

I have also succesfully contributed to multiple teams on their journey towards agility, in process, learning valuable lessons for myself.

I have participated in agile transformations, governance and cadence setup, metrics definition, designing and conducting workshops for cultural, process, delivery and change agility at portfolio and organization level.

Presently working for Prowareness, learning firsthand what nimbleness, responsiveness and "continuous learning as a culture" really means.

Prior to this, I have worked in capacity of Project Manager, QA Manager, developer, testers in various software models like Waterfall, V model etc in diverse domains like banking, US healthcare, travel and H&B benefits etc. 

Some of the reponsibilities i have handled in the past - 

Demonstrated experience in setting teams from ground up and designing, implementing and

integrating delivery model centered around relevant process/quality metrics.

 Led numerous transitions from onshore to offshore and contributed in trainings and competency 

development.

 Risk Identification, Impact Analysis, Risk Register, RMMM.

 Scope Definition and control, integrated change control, schedule creation and baselining.

 Resource planning, work prioritization, performance management and appraisal.

 Adept in various process models like V model, Agile methodology, scrum, scaled agile 

framework(SAFe)

 Scrum Master and Agile Coach for ensuring agile best practices and smooth transition from 

traditional projects.

 Developed important test artifacts like Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Summary Report, Conditional 

Acceptance Memo, Requirement Traceability Matrix and Gantt Charts.

 Adept in various process models like Waterfall, V model, Agile and Scrum methodology.

 Mainframe Testing, Client Server Testing, Web Testing, Desktop Applications Testing and ERP 

testing.

 Test Execution, Defect analysis and reporting, escalations and coordination between test partners. 

 Test Optimization techniques like OATS, RBT and Reusability.

 Exposure of working and managing distributed teams across multiple geographies.

Some of the responsibilities I have handled in previous role - 

Manage the portfolio of multiple synchronized agile projects delivering business value every two

weeks. 

 Develop governance cadence and track minimal metrics to proactively resolve risks and conflicts.

 Identify opportunities of improvement and take corrective steps to eliminate muda(Waste) and 

maximize business value.

 Work with Product Owners and SMs to coordinate with support functions and shared services and 

ensure resources' availability and other required support.

 Collaborate with multiple work groups to support ART(Agile Release Trains), release planning 

spanning several agile teams.

 Work closely with senior management to mature the overall delivery to SAFe model.

 Performance Management, team management, pipeline maturity, leaves, capacity planning.

 Client Interfacing, proposals, competency building, product backlog grooming, story acceptance.