Krishnakumar Chinnappachari
Enterprise agile coach
cPrime
location_on India
Member since 6 years
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Krishnakumar Chinnappachari
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Krishna has over 24 years of experience in Software Quality Engineering, Project/Program/Delivery management, Scrum Mastery, Kanban and Agile Coaching. His expertise in this field is backed up by strong background and prior hands-on work in Software Product Development, Captive Centers & Consulting firms.
Krishna worked in Tesco where he introduced Scrum practices. He was part of the Cognizant agile CoE and responsible for agile transformation initiatives for an European conglomerate(Philips). He worked as a Principal Agile Coach & Bangalore site Leader in Sabre Travel Technologies responsible for Enterprise Agile Deployment initiative. He worked in EPAM and managed transformations in key accounts such as Master Card, Maersk. He was a transformation leader and coach in ANZ for implementing Spotify model. Currently he is involved in enterprise-wide transformation of US based Home Improvement Retailer (Lowe's) through cPrime.
A BE (Electronics and Communication) graduate from BMS College of engineering. Certifications he holds are as below
- Project Management Professional, PMI, 2008
- Scrum Alliance Certifications (2015): Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Certified Scrum Developer, Certified Scrum Professional
- Professional Scrum Master-I (99%), Professional Scrum Product Owner Scrum.org, 2016, Professional Scrum Master-II
- Creating Successful New Products, IIMB, Jul 2016
- A day in the life of a product manager, Institute of Product Leadership, Jul 2016
- Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant v4 (2017)
- TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) (2017)
- Scaled Agile Framework Agilist, Scaled Agile (2015)
- Kanban Management Professional, Lean Kanban Institute (2015)
- Microsoft certified Professional for MS Dynamics CRM (2014)
- Bullet Proof Manager, Crestcom International (2009)
- QAI certifications: Certified Software Test Engineer (2006), Agile Quality Associate (2013)
- Toast Masters International Competent communicator, Competent Leader
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Learning & Expanding Mindset in a sprint or 2
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Learning & Expanding Mindset in a sprint or 2
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Achieving personal agility and become a better Change Agent in Life (personally first then professionally)
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
There is this buzzword “Agile” everywhere in almost all industry not just the IT industry. Every corner of a company is trying to adopt Agile. Every company or team wants to embrace Agile and deliver value to their customers. However, the big question
that remains unanswered is how truly these organizations or teams understand the core values and principles of Agile (Agile Manifesto in short)As we are aware “responding to change over following a plan” is one of the core values in the manifesto. How do we embrace change?
In this talk, the speaker will give some practical tips/tricks/techniques to develop agility at personal or individual level and embrace change. In turn, these practices will the help individual to evolve and become better. Then he/she can easily carry some of the patterns or habits in to his/her professional life and strive for professional agility as well. In short, what started as personal level agility or transformation can eventually be scaled in another dimensions of his/her life.
From the organizational point of view, it can be visualized as follows;
Individual agility -> Team agility -> Departmental agility -> Organizational/Business agility
Key takeaways:participants can start implementing some of the techniques in their life and start seeing the changes in their lives (both personally and professionally), if they consistently practice them
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Achieving personal agility and become a better Change Agent in Life (personally first then professionally)
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
There is this buzzword “Agile” everywhere in almost all industry not just the IT industry. Every corner of a company is trying to adopt Agile. Every company or team wants to embrace Agile and deliver value to their customers. However, the big question
that remains unanswered is how truly these organizations or teams understand the core values and principles of Agile (Agile Manifesto in short)As we are aware “responding to change over following a plan” is one of the core values in the manifesto. How do we embrace change?
In this talk, the speaker will give some practical tips/tricks/techniques to develop agility at personal or individual level and embrace change. In turn, these practices will the help individual to evolve and become better. Then he/she can easily carry some of the patterns or habits in to his/her professional life and strive for professional agility as well. In short, what started as personal level agility or transformation can eventually be scaled in another dimensions of his/her life.
From the organizational point of view, it can be visualized as follows;
Individual agility -> Team agility -> Departmental agility -> Organizational/Business agility
Key takeaways:participants can start implementing some of the techniques in their life and start seeing the changes in their lives (both personally and professionally), if they consistently practice them
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The art and science behind a habit and how it will bring about change in mindset
45 Mins
Demonstration
Advanced
In this demonstration I am going to facilitate a session which describes both the art and science behind a habit followed by a game. And there will be a debrief on how we can apply this in our real lives through 6 Steps to develop & sustain a habit and bring about change in mindset.
Inspiration: Charles Duhigg is a reporter for The New York Times and author of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. He says, every habit has three components.
- A cue, which is like a trigger for the behavior to start unfolding.
- A routine, which is the habit itself, the behavior, the automatic sort of doing what you do when you do a habit.
- And a reward. The reward is how our neurology learns to encode this pattern for the future.
And most of us, when we think about habits, we only focus on the behavior or the routine, isn’t it? But Charles says that it’s the cue and the reward that really determine why a habit unfolds.
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Why is Scrum hard to implement? Fresh Perspectives and remedies from an agile practitioner
45 Mins
Talk
Advanced
Scrum being the most popular agile framework, yet it is not fully understood rather not implemented effectively by the Organization, Leaders or the team. In this interactive talk, I am going to discuss on some of the fundamental root causes on why Scrum is hard to implement.
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Business transformation using 4DX approach and Scrum as the engine
20 Mins
Experience Report
Beginner
When my previous organization (Travel Technology company) embarked on Agile Transformation journey, we started with Scrum framework. After 6 months, when coaches met with Agile Transformation Leader for a review, we realized that the results were sub-optimal. When we did a deeper drive into to find out root causes, we realized that the Business Units were having many initiatives and focused on many things. For them, agile was just another change initiative to the existing priorities. That’s when we started to discover how we can address their current business priorities through agile methods. And we came across 4DX (4 Disciplines of Execution). 4DX is a FranklinCovey's execution approach that talks about taking action on your strategic goals, not developing more theory. There are four clear road maps to help you overcome the “whirlwind” of the day-to-day work that keeps leaders, and teams, from executing the programs that drive real change.
The Four Disciplines are:
- Focus on the Wildly Important
- Act on the Lead Measures
- Keep a Compelling Scoreboard
- Create a Cadence of Accountability
In this talk I am going to share about my experience in implementing 4DX approach with Scrum as the product development engine.
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Coaching lessons learnt during Enterprise Agile Transformation
45 Mins
Experience Report
Beginner
Our Agile Transformation journey started about 20 months ago. In this talk I am going to share some of the key challenges faced by me as an Agile Coach and how did I over come them. As a change agent you will learn few critical tips or tricks from my experience and implement them in your transformation journey at your organization.
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