Gopalakrishnan is currently working as Agile Program Champion at one of the largest Health Tech Company in the world. He is passionate in driving delivery excellence through Lean, Agile and DevOps practices and has 16+ Years of IT Delivery and transformation experience across global clients.

He has led multiple Agile and DevOps transformations across Telco, Insurance and Health Tech domains.

With his Masters of Technology in IT and an MBA degree in Finance & Investments, he is an proven change agent in coaching and helping teams realize their potential and drive efficiency balanced with happiness and healthy work culture.

He is also an programmer by heart and embraces and evangelizes the latest technologies including DevOps and collaboration tools at work.

Driving Business with Kanban

This Presentation “Kaizen – An Experience Report” provides an in depth view on how businesses can leverage the principles of KANBAN – a flow based approach in driving agility at work.

The real life case study explains the nuances and challenges that the organizations can face in deployment of large-scale software programs, how KANBAN and other Lean Agile principles can help accelerate the delivery in bringing the business value faster and better.

It also discusses various challenges that business can face in this transformation journey and the first time experience on how not to fall into these traps with learnings.

• Current project management challenges, state of Agile and how not to get trapped with the anti-patterns
• Importance of starting projects with end in mind and delivering continuous value to business
• How Flow based delivery approach helps bring the impediments and business challenges early in the radar
• The power of Visual Governance in accelerating delivery – how to bring the sense of ownership and urgency through transparency
• Having focus on E2E value stream brings more value than isolated phase targets.