Agile & DevOps Coaching/Consulting - Blue Ocean Strategy
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Ankit Kumar Singhal is an experienced agile and DevOps coach and consultant with over 8 years in IT consulting, specializing in digital transformation and business process improvements for Fortune 100 clients. He emphasizes the growing demand for cross-functional coaches who possess both technical and process skills to meet evolving client expectations and highlights challenges faced by global IT consulting firms in addressing these requirements. The document also discusses strategies for developing internal leaders and creating an engaging corporate culture to retain talent amid rapid technological changes.
Agile & DevOps Coaching/Consulting - Blue Ocean Strategy
- 1. Agile & DevOps Coach / Consulting : Blue Ocean Strategy Author : Ankit Kumar Singhal | Digital Transformation , Business Process , Agile & DevOps | | Coach & Consultant | |SA , CSP, CSPO , CSM , ICP-ACC , KMP , PSD , PSM, Prince 2|
- 2. About Author Ankit has overall 8+ years of IT consulting experience in : Digital Transformation , Business Process , Agile & DevOps Consulting & Coaching. He has consulted several Fortune 100 US / UK/ Europe clients Digital, Business Process , DevOps & Agile Transformation right from the strategic choice of process, tools, vendor, workplace changes, and technology evaluation to the execution of the same at their clients home office and global delivery location implementation. Summary • Digital , Business Process, Agile & DevOps Transformation and Coaching • Advisory and training • Readiness and maturity assessments • Agile / Lean practices implementation Agile Frameworks Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean, XP, LeSS, DAD, Spotify etc. Academics • Executive MBA form top 10 B-School in India • B.Tech (Computer Science Engg.) • Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA, MITx (Entrepreneurship 101 & 102) • Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, IIMBx (Innovation and Information Technology Management) • Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore, ISI (Six Sigma Green Belt) https://www.linkedin.com/in/aks14feb88/ http://www.ankitsinghal.co.in/ aks14feb88@gmail.com +91-9113541385
- 3. Table of Content Exciting Situation How Does a Cross Functional Coach/Consultant looks like ? Organizational Challenge 2 3 4 5 What global IT consulting players are doing ? Problem Solving Framework Business Problem1 6 Author : Ankit Singhal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aks14feb88/)
- 4. Business Problem • Currently most of the major Global IT consulting player unable to solve this problem especially the Coaches / Consultant in the Indian Geography. • Example : I have seen in last 2- 3 years based on my experience & interaction with various CoE / Practice heads / Senior Practitioners across industry, we are unable to meet the client coaching expectation or we will provide separate coaches for : Technical skills & Process skills. Exciting Situation • Client expectation got changed in the last 1.5 years . They need a cross functional Agile Coaches/Consultants who should be a combination of : Technical & Process skills . What global IT consulting players are doing ? • If we left 1-2 Major or new startup players , who already building & deploying cross functional coaches from the last 2 years. Most of them are providing separate coaches for : Technical skills & Process skills , which will increase / overshoot their transformation budget. Author : Ankit Singhal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aks14feb88/)
- 5. How Does a Cross Functional Coach/Consultant looks like ? Current Client Demand Process Skills Cross Functional Coach Technical Skills Process Skills Cloud Skills Cross Functional Coach Technical Skills After2–4Years Future Client Demand Industry Current Situation Cloud Coach DevOps Coach Agile Coach OR OR Author : Ankit Singhal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aks14feb88/)
- 6. Problem Solving Framework ALM Version Control Code Quality Analysis Unit Testing Framework Build Automation Artifact Repository CI Tools System Integration Functional Regression Testing E2E Testing User Acceptance Testing Security Testing Performance Testing Self Service Provisioning (2 Day) Release Management Software Deployment Database Automation Infra Automation Configuration Management Deployment automation Monitoring Performance Management Dashboard Cloud Scrum Kanban Spotify SAFe LeSS Nexus Scrum @Scale DAD XP Agile Coach Amazon Web Services Azure Cloud Google Cloud Platform Cloud Coach DevOps Coach Coaching Techniques Deep Listening Micro Services Architecture Big Data Ecosystem Machine Learning Basic Artificial Intelligence Basic IOT Basic CROSS FUNCTIONAL COACH / CONSULTANT Other Skills Author : Ankit Singhal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aks14feb88/)
- 7. Author : Ankit Singhal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aks14feb88/) Organization Challenges How to solve them ? • Cross Functional consultant are very rare to find or very costly. • High Iteration Rate • High Training / Certification cost • Faster change of technology & market • Fear of loosening employee after training • No dedicating time for cross skilling • Higher & similar expectation from each candidate • Expecting them to be available 24 * 7 • Create your own : “NAVRATAN” . • “Train Your Employees’ Enough Train Them So Much So That Any Body Can Pay Them Double Salary of What You are Giving Them.” • “Treat Them Well Enough So they Don’t Want to Leave” . • Encourage “INTERNAL PROMOTIONS” over “HELICOPTER LANDING”. • Develop “INTERNAL LEADERS & COACHES” within your organization . • Know your employee strength , engage their talent , ask the advice , involve them , don’t only inform them also listen to them . • Setup Physical & Mental “GLASSDOOR CULTURE & POLICY”. • Create “FEELING OF SIGNIFICANCE” : Involvement is directly proportional to commitment . • Treat them as “HUMAN” not as “RESOURCE”. • Create a “ASSEST LIGHT MODEL” for your training . • Implement dedicated Learning hours/leave policy . • Every person , strength & behavior are different , hence don’t expect same from everyone & define same KPI’s for everyone .
- 8. Author : Ankit Singhal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aks14feb88/) THANK YOU