Sudipta Malakar - AGILE in Practice: Practical Use-cases on Project Management Methods including Agile, Kanban and Scrum (English Edition)

My loving Wife Sangita, son Shreyan, brother Sabya and father Ganesh Chandra Malakar.

Sudipta Malakar is an accomplished SAP Agile Practice Area Head, Certified IT Sr. Program Manager, Agile Coach Advanced level, Harvard Business School, USA alumnus with more than eighteen years of experience in directing SAP DEV teams in supporting many major Global fortune 500 clients in multiple large accounts.

He is Certified Sr. Program Manager (MSP Practitioner), Sr. Project Manager (PRINCE2 Practitioner), PMP, PARP, CSP, ICP-ACC, ITIL(F), Certified Agile Leader(CDL), CLMM, CMM, Advanced Certified Scrum Master(A-CSM) , CSPO, CSM, KMP2, KMP1, TKP, ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, CMMi (Expert).

He worked in various IT companies like DXC Technology, IBM, Wipro, Satyam, Tech Mahindra, Patni, Syntel and played very crucial Sr. Management / Agile Coach role in various global clients like Sterlite, Lufthansa, Nestle, PMI, Suncor, IPA, Canadian Pacific railways, Sony, Volvo, Allstate, BOC Linde etc.

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.

No task is a single man's effort. Cooperation and coordination of various people at different levels have gone into the successful implementation of this book.

Everyone feels a sense of gratitude at some point in their life and wish to express it to the ones who offered them help and guidance when it was needed the most. This gratitude is even deeper when those special people help one to meet their life-long goals despite the difficulties of life. I am no different and I would like to begin by thanking the almighty who is constantly and subtly guiding everybody and who has also helped me to work on the right path.

I am the son of a retired professor (Shri Ganesh Chandra Malakar) and I am forever indebted to my father. Without his support it would not be possible for me to reach this milestone. My loving mother (Smt. Sikha Malakar) was a constant source of inspiration to me. Im also very grateful to my adorable, loving son (Master Shreyan Malakar), my elder brother (Shri Sabyasachi Malakar) and my wife (Smt. Sangita Malakar) who constantly offer me their love and support, which guides me in all my endeavors.

I am thankful to my parents, spouse, son, family and my Sirs (Mr. Todd Little, Chairman of Kanban University, USA, Mr. Julian Birkinshaw, Dean and Professor of London Business School, Mr. Clayton M. Christensen, Professor of Harvard Business School -USA and Father of Global Innovations, disruption, and growth strategy, Mr. David J Anderson - Creator of Kanban Method and CEO, David J Anderson School of Management, J.J. Sutherland - CEO of Scrum, Inc., Dave Litten CEO of Projex Academy, Mike Cohn - CST, Nanda Lankalapalli - CST, Peter Stevens - CST, Abid Quereshi - CST, Brian Tracy - CEO of Brian Tracy International) for their guidance which motivated me to work for the betterment of consultants by writing this book with sincerity and honesty. Without their support, this book would not have been materialised.

We also thank the Publisher and the whole staff at BPB Publications, especially Mr. Manish Jain for motivation and for bringing this text to life.

Finally, I thank everyone who has directly or indirectly contributed to complete this authentic work.

This book is for businesses that aspire to superior business agility, to deliver fit-for-purpose products and services, to delight customers, and to provide the security of long-term survival associated with mature businesses that consistently meet or exceed customer expectations. Learn an lean approach by seeing how Kanban made a difference in four real-world situations. You'll explore how different teams used Kanban to make paradigm-changing improvements in software development. These teams were struggling with overwork, unclear priorities, and lack of direction. As you discover what worked for them, you'll understand how to make significant changes in real situations, what are the key strategies to beat the Covid-19 pandemic and for crisis management. You will also gain insight into how key enablers help us build organizational resilience and enterprise maturity model along with Portfolio/Upstream Kanban implementations lessons learnt. Change is difficult. Even the US government is going agile. Are you aware that "The brain processes visual information 60,000 times faster than text"?