Founded in 2018, PremierAgile is a premier provider in the areas of Agile Consulting, Training, Coaching and Transformation services. The company assists businesses across the world to transform organizations, teams, and individuals into new age organisations. Its coaching programmes are powered by globally recognised Scrum Alliance flagship certifications such as CSM, CSPO, A-CSM, A-CSPO etc; and other programmes of similarly recognised organizations.
Suresh Konduru, the founder of PremierAgile, has nearly 25 years of experience in the IT sector, with a focus on Agile Transformation, Agile Consulting, Agile Coaching & Scrum Training, Delivery Management, Program Management, and Project Management for Fortune 500 companies across the world.
PremierAgile is backed by the founders’ and trainers’ worldwide corporate expertise of nearly 100 years at leading consulting firms such as Infosys, TCS, and Capgemini, among others, and has served global Fortune 500 businesses.
A Wide Range of Services
The teams at PremierAgile help a variety of industries, including banking and finance, insurance, manufacturing, automotive, telecommunications, aerospace, marketing, military, consulting, and services. It shifted numerous organisations from their old ways of operating to new ones. It uses Agile and Scrum to transition to a new way of working, giving it a competitive advantage in terms of Time to Market, Profits, Customer Satisfaction, De-Risking, Compliance, and so on.
Exclusive Services:
Transformation & Coaching: With several years of hands-on transformation experience at global Fortune 500 enterprises, the company’s coaches and trainers can help each client design the roadmap that is just right for their organization’s transformation. Suresh says, “We can even handhold you for the initial Sprints and will make your teams self-sufficient within a short span of time.” Be it organisational change initiatives, Agile and DevOps transformation, tools implementation, scaling to complex portfolio levels, PremierAgile is a one-stop shop for transformation needs.
Training: PremierAgile’s trainers are amongst the first few accredited global trainers. Having trained nearly 20,000 associates and several organisations globally in almost 35 countries and uniquely rated 5/5 on Google, PremierAgile is the preferable training partner for many large and small corporates globally, as well as for individuals looking for career progression. It offers flagship certification programmes of the Scrum Alliance such as CSM, CSPO, A-CSM, A-CSPO, etc., as well as other certification programmes in the areas of scaling, DevOps, coaching, management, technologies, tools, etc.
In-house products:
PACER: PremierAgile has an in-house built framework called “PACER” that helps organisations build great customer products and services. This framework enables early feedback and collaboration in contrast to a traditional way of working. Built on Scrum, the framework defines an iterative cycle of activities to build products incrementally – be in software, hardware, manufacturing, banking, marketing etc.
Exepedia: Partnering with other seasoned practitioners, PremierAgile created a coaching model ‘Exepedia’ that helps create alignment during organisational transformations across the leaders and senior executives. This model consists of a series of group workshops and individual coaching sessions to help leaders co-create a shared transformation vision and align on a collaborative execution plan.
The Know-Believe-Achieve coaching model aids leaders to transform organizations. Launched in Global Scrum Gathering Singapore 2017, this model is currently being used by multiple organisations – large and small.
Metrics: The CEO and lead coach Suresh Konduru compiled ‘Agile Product Metrics’ from his real-world experiences in Agile transformation and coaching. This comprehensive list consists of 101 metrics adopted by several Agile teams across the world. These will help measure and manage the performance of products, services, business processes, team performance, etc.
OD integration: Jointly researched on how Agile practices can be leveraged in Organizational Development (OD), PremierAgile built OD-Agile intelligence and analytics; and also presented its findings at an International OD Conference in 2016.
Reasons for Being World Class
‘For almost 25 years, their associates have been transforming Fortune 500 companies from conventional models to Agile organisations in over 35 countries. While partnering in organisational transformation efforts, it draws on its real-world expertise. Suresh says, “We deploy tools, techniques, models and practises that would transform leaders and teams inside-out.”
Brain Science Learning:
PremierAgile’s training programmes are based on Neuro-Science learning and research conducted for over 50 years. The Brain Science techniques help learners experience real-time learning either in physical classrooms or virtual training sessions. PremierAgile created and leveraged an exclusive guidance called “Training Scrum from the Back of the Room” that would help learning easier and more effectively than ever before, having been among the few in the world as certified instructors in ‘Training from the Back of the Room (TBR).
Enact real-time situations and simulations:
The instructors at PremierAgile, help students enact real-time situations and perform simulations while they learn. These are very close to real-world experiences, helping students to immediately apply their learning in a practical world after attending the company’s workshops. The company doesn’t run any more boring Power Point presentations, thus creating a more engaged audience.
Global BFSI experience:
Having been part of Agile transformations at global banking, financial services, and insurance enterprises, the PremierAgile coaches have accumulated several years of experience and started drawing trends from various customer journeys. They summarised the anti-patterns, leveraged the learnings in other similar journeys; published some of the anti-patterns and mitigation measures as empirical data in various conferences since 2012. These experiences, data, and trends are leveraged while transforming Fortune enterprises in these sectors.
Implementations in non-software industries:
PremierAgile’s workshops boast several non-software industry-related scenarios and examples. It trained associates, not only from the global corporations, but also from universities, schools, governments, NGOs, and alike.
A Renowned Leader
Suresh Konduru, the company’s creator, has been recognised as a Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) after a 5-year journey. This CST certificate paved the way for new opportunities in coaching, training, and change management.
Going independent and starting a full-fledged corporation rather than simply being a one-on-one trainer took bravery. He was working with a non-profit to assist military personnel in making the transition to successful business employment. Suresh specialised in banking and financial services in sub-domains such as wholesale and corporate banking, escrow systems, trade finance, capital markets, P & C Insurance, Insurance Tracking, and Credit Ratings, which have produced big and important systems for many industry domains.
He has also set up and managed significant initiatives to improve Delivery Excellence, Financials, Innovation, Metrics, Customer Satisfaction, and Management Reporting, among other things. He oversaw major turn-key transition initiatives while effortlessly taking over from long-term collaborators.
Suresh built and managed multi-year, multi-million dollar AMS engagements that included SLA compliance, due diligence, and pre-sales, among other things. He also built and managed dispersed and scaled agile environments with big teams in many locations.
Suresh is a regular speaker, reviewer and volunteer at Agile-Scrum conferences and meet-ups in India and across the world. Being an Agile enthusiast, Suresh founded the ISEC (India Scrum Enthusiasts Community) Mumbai Chapter and PremierWednesday communities; also he co-founded another community SpreadAgile along with other similar enthusiasts.
Suresh’s advice for emerging leaders is to give customers the utmost importance and empower employees to make decisions. He says,
“Keep prioritising work daily and check what is more valuable for your customers and focus your energy on the most valuable and relevant tasks.”
Giving back to the Community
Since 2014, PremierAgile’s main trainers and coaches have volunteered at numerous worldwide and local Agile and Scrum conferences. It founded and led groups and local chapters to give back to their communities.
PremierAgile hosts a regular event called “PremierWednesday,” where it offers free access to special learning sessions on Wednesdays. Webinars, meet-ups, online training sessions, case-studies, round tables, and other learning events are among the PremierWednesday learning activities. These are assisting thousands of employees and organisations throughout the world in their pursuit of continual learning, knowledge development, and career advancement.
PremierAgile also hosts the ‘ASK’ (Free life-long mentorship) programme, which provides clients and students with a lifetime of free mentoring from its trainers and coaches. ‘ASK’ is an exploration platform for finding answers to queries about professional growth, industry change, and real-world applications.
For the last many years, the founders and staff have been helping various schools, old-age homes, churches, and other organisations around India with the goal of giving back to the community in more philanthropic ways.
