Alhad Akole

SAFe Program Consultant

Trainer, Alhad Akole, is a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4.0) with a total of 15+ years of work experience. He has helped organizations to effectively implement and transform the portfolios to SAFe.

• Expert Agile Coach with ability to help transform large Portfolio to adopt Agile methods at a scale.
• Providing Thought Leadership, Consultation, Training and Coaching in the area of Agile Transformations using distributed teams. Currently engaged in leading the SAFe implementation for a client from Manufacturing Vertical (Supply Chain Management)
• Participated more than 8 PI planning events
• Execute, cross train collaborate and continuously monitor the health of the PI
• Reporting to senior management on the status of the PI
• Organizational assessments to assess the current state of the agility and transformation.
• Providing Lean Agile Leadership coaching and influencing Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Program Managers, Technical Teams, Functional Managers and Executives on Agile principles/values and how to build, grow and maintain a thriving Agile organization at scale
• Speaker at Discuss Agile Day-Pune, 2015 conference. (#DAD15)
• Published articles on www.ScrumAlliance.org
• Conducted different sessions on Agile for organization - Design Thinking, SAFe, Agile - Scrum, Kanban, XP, Product Development, Testing in Agile, Advance topics- retrospectives, portfolio management, ALM tool usage
• Trained more than 500+ members on SAFe, Agile methodology, roles, and practices