Trainers and Coaches

With strong experience of coaching 4 major financial, 2 insurance, 1 healthcare and 1 Aviation & Aerospace organizations in the US on transformation from the Waterfall to Agile and Scaled Agile 4.0, 4.5 & 4.6, with a specialized skill in coaching to implement the basic Scrum, Kanban, XP and engineering practices, Coaching the Leadership, management and development teams on launching and smoothly executing the Agile Release Trains, implementing Portfolio and Solution constructs of SAFe, Coaching the Solution Stakeholders on building, managing and prioritizing the Solution backlog for the capabilities, conducting Solution workshops for the cross-capabilities dependancy management across the Value Streams, ARTS and Portfolios, Coaching the ART level stakeholders in preparing the Program and Team backlogs for the upcoming Program Increments, Coaching to execute the Team and Program level ceremonies for the value delivery, Coaching to implement the DevOps mindset and culture, building the Continuous delivery pipeline (CI/CD), implementing the Test First development methods TDD, ATDD, BDD, conducting feature and user story writing workshops, helping to improve on delivering the business value in a shortest sustainable time.

A relentless Executor, SAFe Trainer, and SAFe Program Consultant (SPC since 2016), Praveen has successfully led the SAFe implementation journey in multiple large enterprises. He has successfully launched 10+ Agile Release Trains and has experience with coaching and executing large complex initiatives for fortune 100 companies using Agile methodology. His strengths include a Lean-Agile mindset, deep understanding of Agile principles and practises, and a proven ability to effectively collaborate, lead and coach at all levels of an organization.

A thorough professional with deep-rooted experience in delivering the newest and effective solutions for business process digitalization, Agile Transformation, and efficiency through automation, Manish Holey is an Agile Enthusiast and a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 5.0). As an Enterprise Agile Coach, he has steered multiple projects across geographies and has been instrumental in assessing agile maturity; leveraging his expertise in implementing Scaled Agile Framework, Scrum of Scrum, Agile Transformation & Coaching, and Kanban.

With over 23 years of rich and varied professional experience with multinational corporations, including 17+ years into Agile, Prasid has worked in a diversity of roles from hands-on Practitioner to Agile Coach and Design Thinker. 

He holds a Master of Science (Applied Statistics and Informatics) from IIT Bombay and has certifications from industry acclaimed bodies that include:

• Scaled Agile:   SAFe Program Consultant, SAFe Agilist, SAFe Remote Trainer
• Scrum.org:   Professional Scrum Master II, Professional Agile Leader I, Professional Scrum with Kanban I, Scaled Professional Scrum
•  Scrum Alliance:   Certification Scrum Product Owner
• ICAgile:   Certified Professional - Agile Team Facilitation, Agile Coaching, Coaching Agile Transitions, Business Agility Foundations
•  IBM:   Enterprise Design Thinking - Co-Creator, Team Essentials for AI, Practitioner

He is a Management 3.0 and “Training from the Back of the Room” (TBR) Practitioner. 

As a Lean-Agile/Design Thinking coach and consultant, he has worked on:

• Lean-Agile coaching, Nurturing Communities of Practice, at Finastra
• Design Thinking to co-create value with diverse & empowered teams at #HackToTheFuture
• Agile consultancy for a Banking client, at Infosys
• Agile/Scrum coaching and training at Nokia & Accenture
• Agile project management for Mobile Apps, at Infosys
• Smartphone Software Integration management, at Nokia

His passion for innovative practices and strategic thinking shines in his training workshops, which makes him a highly recommended SAFe Consultant with Cyberbahn.

A Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), product innovator, and digital leader, Valerio Zanini is passionate about creating products that customers love. He is the author of the book “Deliver Great Products That Customers Love” and works with organizations worldwide to learn and adopt Agile and Product practices.

With more than 20 years of professional experience spanning software development, system integration, agile transformation, design thinking, and product innovation, he excels at building new products in the early stages of product innovation, where uncertainty and lack of a clear solution are the biggest challenges. He is the founder and CEO of the digital innovation firm 5D Vision, with offices in Washington, DC and Rome, Italy. He provides consulting and training to organizations of any size, helping them become more innovative with product mastery, agile methodologies and design thinking.