AGILE TRANSFORMERS, LLC
APOLLO BEACH, FLORIDA

Agile Transformers was formed by a group of seasoned IT Consultants that are passionate about helping streamline the software development process, enabling organizational change, and maximizing the delivery of business values while managing costs and risks for our global clients. We specialize in Enterprise/Scaled Agile transformation, Agile Software Development/Testing, DevOps, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) implementation, Agile training, Agile Maturity Assessment, SAFe certification, Agile coaching/mentoring, as well as fulfilling the IT staffing needs for our valued clients. We believe in achieving excellence in delivering value to our customers and partners by providing innovative and flexible solutions. Our portfolio contains numerous successful IT projects spanning a diverse spectrum of technologies, scope and complexity. Our expertise spans domains such as Banking, Healthcare, Insurance, Retail, Telecommunications, and Financial Services. As a Minority Woman Owned Small Business with SBA WOSB certification, Agile Transformers’ vision is to become one of the most admired organizations for best business practices. We aim to be among the best in ensuring satisfaction, promoting creativity, and fostering trust among our employees, customers, and partners. What sets Agile Transformers apart from the competition? Our consultants have extensive experiences over many years in helping enterprises adapt to new and better collaborative techniques in accomplishing their goals of software delivery better, faster, cheaper, as well as scaling such practices and processes. They have facilitated empirical learning, while encouraging broader adoption of lean and agile techniques to speed up software delivery and increase the quality of product. As a result, they have enabled teamwork collaboration, transparency and trust in organizations enabling agility. We take a pragmatic approach to help tailor and customize solutions for our clients. Each client is treated as a partner whereby we work hand-in-hand to assess problems/challenges and determine best solutions while taking into consideration the organization’s culture and boundary. We have a strong belief in evolving culture and behaviors at all levels (individuals, teams, program, and portfolio), which are proven ways to transform an entire organization. Cisco Video Technologies to implement and rollout set-top box and companion device programming for clients around the world. He also trained and coached Cisco customers in agile and business values. Nirmaljeet Malhotra has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry including 7 years in Enterprise Agile coaching and training. During the last 7 year, he has played multiple roles including that of a Scrum Master, Product Owner, Enterprise Agile Coach and trainer. In his current role as a Principal and Executive Agile Coach at Improving Enterprises, he is presently helping with a large scale agile adoption and transformation for Dell. As an agile evangelist, Nirmal has spent time with multiple large organization in US, Europe, India and Middle East in helping clients transform to the agile way of working (Scrum, XP, Scrumban, Kanban). Major companies that he has been engaged with include Rackspace, TomTom, CapitalOne, FedEx, Citi and JPMorganChase. Nirmal is a firm believer in agile values and principles but at the same time he is not a purest. He understands the need to stay flexible is key to the success of agile as every business, company and projects are unique in many ways. His focus is to make tomorrow a little better than today for project teams which is in line with the idea of continuous improvement. He has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and holds many industry certifications including CSP (Certified Scrum Professional), PSM (Professional Scrum Master), CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner), CSM (Certified Scrum Master), ICACP (ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching) and PMP (Project Management Professional). You can learn more about Nirmal on Rick has worked with clients at many levels, to train and coach on Agile practices, assess teams for existing Agile maturity, and to train and mentor future Agile leaders. Rick focuses his efforts on Scrum, Kanban, and XP teams - assisting with their adoption of Agile processes, engineering practices, team communication skills and dynamics, and professional development of ScrumMasters and Product Owners. Rick is a firm believer that Agile teams naturally evolve, but that evolution frequently deserves mentorship or guidance. Rick stresses the value of Inspect & Adapt exercises, and that Continual Improvement practices will aid in creating the future of Agile software development. Certifications: Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified Agile Tester (CAT) Kai has helped organizations across several industries/domains, namely, telecommunications, healthcare, insurance, pharmaceutical, mining, travel, speech analytics, finance, and infrastructure to successfully implement Agile by customizing/tailoring it to best meet their individual needs. Kai takes a practical approach, which includes both technical and soft skills, to her coaching practice given her experience as a former member of Agile teams in the past. Because of this holistic approach her clients fully benefit from having a coach and mentor who has experienced the challenges, pains, and success of an Agile transformation. As part of her coaching/mentoring activities, Kai has given several brown bags, workshops, and clinics to teams regarding user story writing, acceptance criteria writing, ATDD (acceptance test driven development), product backlog grooming best practices, estimation planning, capacity and velocity planning, retrospective, and others. Kai has held sessions with team members to help them better understand their roles and responsibilities, which includes testers, developers, iteration manager/scrum masters, product owners, business analysts. In addition, she has also helped assess and customized Agile tools as well as train management and team members on efficient usage as they pertain to their individual role(s) and team. All of above activities are to help ensure team members have the confidence in executing and delivering highest quality work in a timely manner within an Agile team environment.