Dhandapany Kalianasundaram

Dhandapany Kalianasundaram

Agile Coach, Tata Consultancy Services

Dhandapany Kalianasundaram has 17+ years of IT program management experience and 7+ years of experience in Scrum & SAFe methodologies, working with FinTech and US Cards payments customers in an agile way in India and the US with globally dispersed teams, have a practical implementation experience of empiricism and servant leadership.

Certified in PSM, PSPO, Design Thinking, Agile Ninja Coach, golden mentor, Lean Six Sigma, and ITIL always focus on continuous improvement through value stream analysis, waste elimination through proactive problem/risk management, and automation.

Have implemented multiple enterprise change management initiatives successfully in different capacities as Delivery/Program Manager, Agile Coach, and Product Manager.

Session Title

Building Teams imbibed with a Culture of Innovation - Powered by Agile


Session Overview

Though many organizations were advocating co-location, as the prescribed Agile way of working, I have experimented with agile teams across locations and time zone and successfully delivered within schedule and timeline prior to Covid. When the teams had to move to remote working when Covid struck, because of the agile best practices followed in the team even prior to covid, the movement was seamless and the team did not face any hassle and were comfortable working in the new spaces, without any dip in velocity, even in the initial week. These practices were further strengthened in the last 2+ years and have seen successful implementation of innovative ideas in different teams across the technology spectrum, location, and types of projects (development, testing, production support, or SRE) Would like to share my experience as an Agile coach working with these teams, building talent imbibing the culture of innovation and the enablers which made this happen.