About
Ramanathan Yegyanarayanan is an Agile practitioner, experienced in creating, leading, and managing the Agile team in a distributed setup. He is active in the Agile community building in Chennai. For the past 8 years his primary focus is on Agile and its Scaling with Continuous Integration and Improvement with Lean, Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework. He is also an Atlassian User Group Team member for Chennai.
In the past worked in Test Management/ Quality Management / Project/Program Management,
Based out of Chennai, He is very Agile to work with International and National Clients in India at Chennai, Bangalore as a Consultant, Coach, and Renowned Agile, Soft skills, and communication skills Trainer. Trained and aspired 5000+ people till date.
Community Engagements:
- Speaker Agile Canvass Chennai Conference, July 2017
- Speaker and Organizer Discuss Agile Chennai Conference, August 2017
- Speaker Discuss Agile Bangalore Conference, December 2017
- Volunteer Agile Canvass – Agile Chennai Conference, August 2019
- Volunteer Lean Kanban India Conference, August 2019
- Speaker in various prestigious conferences and meetup groups across India
- Volunteer for Agile Mumbai, January 2019
- Speaker at Agile of East, November 2019 at Kolkata
- Reviewer for Global Scrum Gathering NYC 2020, APGI 2020
- World Agility Forum Jury Member 2020
- Graphical Recorder of FutureOfWork24Hours OpenSpace 2020
- Speaker at Agile Leadership Summit 2020 by Unicom Learning
Specialties:
- Scaling Software Agility at Large Enterprises using Scrum framework and Lean-Agile Practices
- Agile Transformation and Adoption Consulting, Coaching, Mentoring and Training
- Agile Frameworks SAFe, Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean-Agile Consulting and Training
- Agile Readiness Assessments
- Work with Senior Management to introduce Agile, Scrum, and Scaled Scrum, explain its benefits
- Run Role-Based coaching sessions for Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Teams
- Training and Consulting for ATLASSIAN Tools JIRA, Confluence
- Facilitation of larger groups using liberating structures
Personally, Ramanathan loves to connect and interact with people. Been part of many industry-academia programs as a trainer.
Certifications:
- Certified Scrum Professional (CSP®) from Scrumalliance.org
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®) from Scrumalliance.org
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM®) from Scrumalliance.org
- Certified SAFe® Agilist (SA) from Scaled Agile, Inc
- Certified Professional Agile Leadership (PAL I™) from Scrum. Org
- Certified Professional ScrumMaster (PSM I & PSM II™) from Scrum. Org
- Certified Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I & PSPO II ™) from Scrum. Org
- Certified Professional Scrum with Kanban(PSK I™) from Scrum. Org
- Certified Professional Scrum with User Experience I (PSU I™) from Scrum. Org
- Certified Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS ™) from Scrum.org
- Certified Disciplined Agilist (CDA) (Shu) from Disciplined Agile Consortium.org
- ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
- ICAgile Certified Professional Agile Testing (ICP-TST)
- ICAgile Certified Professional in Leading with Agility(ICP-LEA)
- KMP1 - Kanban System Design from Lean Kanban University
- KMP2 - Kanban Management Professional from Lean Kanban University (LKU)
- Harvard Management Mentor
- Certified LeSS Basics from LeSS.works (CLB)
- Certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner from Scrum.inc
- Certified Management 3.0 Attendee
- Emotional Mastery Program from Beyond You
- Relationship Mastery Program from Beyond You