Ravi is an experienced Manager, Leader, Coach, Trainer, Scrum Master, and Lean/Kanban expert. His expertise ranges from assisting multiple teams to large-scale business transformation; by conducting hands-on training and coaching on adopting Agile/Scrum or Lean/Kanban process frameworks, with XP and DevOps practices.

Ravi has been working in major Silicon Valley companies in US & SF bay area for over 20 years. Prior to HCL-Axon, he worked at eBay, Infosys, Western Digital, Cisco, PayPal & Symantec for last 10 years, coaching at all levels of agile adoption- individuals, teams, management and executives, specifically on servant leadership, software craftsmanship, agile software/hardware/firmware development & DevOps. During 8 years prior to that, Ravi worked as Development Manager in a startup. During 4 years during Dot Com era, hands-on Software Developer & Architect. Prior to US (SF Bay Area), Ravi spent 3 years consulting on software engineering with offshore software development centers including C-DAC Pune and Telecom NZ in Auckland NZ. Ravi contributed to UML 0.8 draft for IEEE task force, during that time. In summary, Ravi has grown through progressive ranks from Developer to Scrum Master to DevOps Consultant to Lean-Agile Coach to Manager.

Ravi believes in community giving, actively working the Lean-Agile communities in USA, India and beyond. Ravi was co-founder of agilecamp.org in SF bay area, organizer of SV-ALN, and co-founder of Cisco’s internal coaches network. Ravi has been working closely with Lean Kanban India and Agile Network India communities.

Flow Based Development- A Venture of the 5G Development Team in December 2019

As a process coach from a 3 person team of IL (Industrial Logic) coaches, I coached this 5G software development team to move from Scrum (mandated process) to a much leaner Scrumban process, teaching the team value of flow based development, in conjunction with team practices such as distributed mob programming and behavior driven dev/ testing. It a very short presentation about this case study.

• Transition From Output to Outcome can happen only when the focus is on "flow" based development.
• Technical practices like mob programming and BDD increase the team collaboration and productivity.
• Mob programming is probably the leanest of all XP practices, in that it cuts the time it takes to develop shippable code!
• Transition from waterfall/big-bang/compliant process culture requires a shift to focus on the 4 values of the agile manifesto.
• Look for opportunities to inject Lean principles of (faster) flow in everything the team does!