Program Number: C020-20102015
AGILE for Enterprise Series #1
Category: A
Activity Sponsor: PMINJ Chapter (C020)
PDUs: - 1.5
Leadership - 0.0
Strategic - 0.0
Technical - 1.5
Bio:
Bob is an agile practitioner who has served as Scrum Master
across many projects. He’s currently the Salesforce Program
Manager at Teach For America where he was selected to
present innovations he brought to his teams at Dreamforce.
During his career at IBM, he led efforts to obtain
organizational buy-in for teams to have the option to
leverage Agile methods within the Global Technology Services
Division. To support consolidation efforts within the Office
of the CIO, Bob led teams from multiple divisions in the
creation of Process and Product Quality Assurance and
Service Delivery Life Cycle methods to standardize
enterprise processes and tools that streamlined architecture
review operations and reduce costs. Bob received his MBA
with honors from the New Jersey Institute of Technology as
well as an MS in Management and BS in Mechanical
Engineering. He is working on his Doctoral Dissertation in
Information Technology at Pace University, where he is a
member of the Upsilon Phi Epsilon Honors Society.
Bio:
Nitin Khanna is a a Scrum enthusiast and Agile practitioner.
He has worked as a Product Owner, Scrum Master and Agile
Coach with various Teams and Organizations.He has recently
wrapped an Agile Adoption with a Wealth Management Company
in NJ. As a Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC), he worked
closely to empower a Team to experiment with Scrum. The
initiative was declared a success and the Organization is
looking to leverage Agile practices in the future.
Prior to this, Nitin has worked extensively in the Life
Sciences domain. As a former Product Owner (PSPO II &
CSPO), he has helped launch various internal products (100+)
for Scientists and Researchers. Some of the initiatives have
received corporate recognition, the most prominent of which
received a Chairman’s award for bringng about lab safety.
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