Nanda Lankalapalli

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Nanda Lankalapalli has been involved in software development since 1992. He has unique combination of skills. As a Certified Scrum Trainer, he has expert level knowledge in Agile and Scrum and as a Software Architect, he has expert level technical skills on Agile Engineering Practices. With this combination, Nanda can help technology people as well as process people understand agile well. Nanda alsoĀ  offers advance level certifications like Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM) which is path in achieving Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM) certification from Scrum Alliance. He conducted more than 100 workshops and certified more than 4000 people.

Nanda is a professional coach and can help you if you need help with life coaching or executive coaching to surpass the hurdles you are currently facing.

Nandaā€™s agile journey started in 2002, when he was part of a team with Mike Cohn and Lisa Crispin in Denver, Colorado, USA. He practiced Scrum and other Agile methods thoroughly over several years, and his teams are highly successful in delivering products using Agile techniques. Nanda is proficient in Agile Engineering practices (from XP) and Lean Software Development practices. He is a hands-on developer and architect and has been developing software for more than 20 years. He religiously follows key agile engineering practices like Test Driven Development, Ruthless Re-factoring, Technical Debt management, Continuous Integration etc.

Nanda moved back to India in 2008 and founded the user group ā€œAgile Hyderabad ā€. He built this group single-handedly, and it now has more than 1400 members representing over 60 organizations in Hyderabad. Nanda conducted several meet ups and knowledge sharing sessions under ā€œAgile Hyderabadā€ to build agile community in Hyderabad. He has trained and coached teams in organizations of various sizes on Scrum as well as Engineering Practices. He coached a large-scale transformation using LeSS framework. He is also passionate about using games to teach, and his game with Jenga blocks is widely used to teach team-collaboration.

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