Whether you are about to embark on an Agile transformation or are well under way, Fadi can help accelerate your Agile journey.
Fadi assesses your current state and crafts an Agile adoption roadmap based on your desired business outcomes. There is no one size fits all to an Agile transformation. Each organization’s environment, culture, context, and capacity for change is unique.
Fadi’s approach is guided by your business needs and builds your organization’s capabilities via targeted training and coaching to help you transform, innovate, and deliver impactful products.
Fadi works to ensure your Agile transformation is successful by working with stakeholders and team members at all levels to foster an Agile mindset and build up Agile capabilities.
With leadership, Fadi acts in an advisory role and becomes a thought partner challenging the status quo, and surfacing, escalating, and resolving organizational impediments. Fadi works across the organization, minimizing silos, and improving cross team collaboration.
Fadi leads teams through Agile practices and events and tailors these practices for each team based on their maturity. Fadi assesses each team, running training workshops as needed and building a continuous improvement backlog.
Fadi also helps teams that are struggling with technical debt and as a result are slow to respond to changes in requirements and often miss delivery dates. Fadi coaches these teams to technical excellence by honing in on their Agile Engineering Practices. These include techniques like Test Driven Development (TDD), pairing, refactoring, automated builds and tests, as well as continuous integration and deployment.
Fadi also coaches your Agile leaders on influencing, changing, and championing the right Agile behaviors for continued success beyond his coaching engagement.
Fadi is a Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST®) authorized by the Scrum Alliance® to deliver pubic and corporate Scrum Certification classes.
Fadi's classes are highly interactive and collaborative with elements of exercises, games, simulations, videos, and discussions interwoven throughout.
Fadi delivers the following certified trainings:
Certified ScrumMaster®(CSM®)
Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)
Certified Scrum Developer® (CSD®)
Advanced ScrumMaster (A-CSM®)
Advanced Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO®)
Advanced Scrum Developer (A-CSD®)
Certified Scrum Professional CSP-SM®, CSP-PO®, CSP-D®
Certified Agile Leadership CAL-E, CAL-T, CAL-0
Fadi also customizes class curriculum based on your specific needs and delivers non-certification classes and workshops on:
Agile for Executives
Innovation and Culture
Test Driven Development (TDD)
Working with Legacy Code
Extreme Programming (XP)
Agile Engineering Practices
Agile Testing
Release Planning and Estimation
Product Vision and Roadmap
Product Backlog Management
Writing Effective User Stories
Prioritization
Business Model Canvas
Advanced Facilitation
Building High Performing Teams
Facilitating Effective Retrospectives
Scrumban
Scaling Scrum
Since 2010, Fadi has been an active speaker at premier Agile and Scrum conferences worldwide including the Agile Alliance AgileXX Conferences and the Scrum Alliance Global Scrum Gatherings. Fadi presents talks and workshops on agility, scrum, leadership, product management, user-centered design, Agile engineering practices and DevOps. Fadi is also the author of Scrum In A Nutshell, The Scrum Canvas, and the upcoming book, Bizarro Scrum – Your Guide to Overcoming Scrum misconceptions.
Fadi Stephan is the founder of Kaizenko, a boutique consulting firm providing certified Scrum training and coaching to help organizations transform, innovate, and deliver impactful products. Fadi is a technology consultant, Certified Scrum Trainer® and Agile Coach (CST®) with more than twenty years of experience at startups, government agencies, and Fortune500 companies across various sectors including financial, hospitality, telecom, and homeland. His focus is on transforming and building high-performing innovative organizations and teams that deliver impactful products early and maximize ROI. Fadi coaches clients on agility and organizational culture, leadership, product management, user-centered design, Agile engineering, and DevOps. Fadi is an Agile thought leader who presents frequently at Agile and Scrum conferences worldwide. Fadi is also the founder and organizer of DC’s largest Scrum User Group. Find out more at www.kaizenko.com/about
Fadi Stephan is a technology consultant and a Certified Scrum Trainer® and Agile Coach (CST®) with more than twenty years of experience at startups, government agencies, and Fortune500 companies across various sectors including financial, hospitality, telecom, and homeland. His focus is on building high-performing innovative organizations and teams that deliver value early and maximize ROI. Prior to founding Kaizenko, Fadi was principal and VP of Software Development at Excella Consulting as well as VP of Digital Services Solutions. Before that, he was Director of Product Development at DATABASICS.
In 2014, Fadi became 1 of only 170 trainers worldwide to earn the distinguished Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) designation from the Scrum Alliance® and became authorized to deliver public and private Scrum Alliance certification classes.
Fadi’s background is in technology consulting and product development. He has successfully led digital transformations by combining lean discovery with Agile delivery and a DevOps mindset to deliver impactful digital experiences. At client sites, Fadi trains and coaches teams on agility, leadership, product management, user-centered design, Agile engineering practices and DevOps.
Fadi is a recognized Agile thought leader that frequently presents at Agile and Scrum conferences worldwide. He is also the founder and co-organizer of DC’s largest Scrum User Group.
When Fadi is not teaching or coaching, he enjoys skiing, cycling, as well as diving.
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