Why My Books? Why Me?


Chandan Lal Patary, lives in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, with his wife and two kids. He commenced his career as an apprentice engineer in an Electrical Machine renovating company. He started his software career as a Software Trainer, subsequently played various alternative roles like Test engineer, Developer, Technical Lead, Project Manager, Program Manager, Global Program Manager, Engineering Manager and as an Agile coach for last several years.
He has been conducting research on Organizational Development and Transformation for a decade. He is a practitioner and captures his analysis and shares his views through his writing.

His focus areas are Organizational Transformation and Business Agility, Innovation, Strategy, Execution excellence and correlation with People Leadership and the impact of all these into Organizational growth.

He is currently working as an Enterprise Agile Coach, at H&M, Bangalore.

He has two decades of deep experience in developing software products across various domains and has executed many large Projects.

He has served in product development for domains like Oil and Gas, Banking software, Healthcare, Aerospace, Building automation, Power automation , Industrial Automaton, Consumer Electronics and Retail under real-time mission-critical product development to large-scale application development.

He has worked with the startup and large Product Based companies like GE Medical system, Honeywell, ABB , Societe Generale , Royal Dutch Shell, Samsung and H&M.

He has worked with the team members of the USA, Germany, Sweden, China, Australia, Finland, Switzerland, France, and Poland, London, Korea and Netherlands which has shaped his knowledge, personality, and skills.

He is a certified PMP from 2008 and Green Belt certified holder since 2005. He is an agile practitioner, a Certified Scrum Master since 2011 , SAFe Agilist since 2017 and Certified LeSS for Executive since 2019.

He has accomplished a Bachelor of Engineering from National Institute of Technology (National Institute of Technology–Agartala, Tripura, India) in Electrical Engineering-1998.

He has finished one-year Executive General Management program from Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B), Karnataka, India in 2007.

He is the author of the best-selling book, The Agilist Guidebook – A Reference for Organizational Agile Transformation,Publsihed in August, 2018 which has sold so far 1700 copies in 2 years.

His second book is The Scrum Master Guidebook, launched in 2019 November and sold 500 copies in the last 12 months.

His third book name The Guidebook of Personal Leadership and Self-coaching has published in July, 2020.

His latest book, A Guidebook of Coaching High-performance Team, has published in December 2021

His latest book, published in 2022 December named - The Product Owner Guidebook - A Pragmatic Reference Manual for Maturing Product Coaching


He has composed seven different free e-books available for download at Slideshare. He has written 700+ blogs in LinkedIn. He has presented 13+ seminars as a speaker in numerous conferences. He has uploaded 30+ presentation at Slide share on diverse topics. He has written 20+ technical papers in various national and foreign journals. He has earned many rewards in all the enterprises he has served for. He has received PM World Journal, 2017 Editor’s Choice Awards for the paper “Increasing Business Agility through Organizational Restructuring and Transformation”.


Publications:

 1)    “Productivity Improvement through Right Governance” paper published in PMI- India, Bangalore              Chapter, and PMPC-2012 conference, (12 pages, 3383 words)
2)     “Operational Excellence through Agile best Practices”, PM world Journal, June – 2013, (7 pages, 2560 words)
3)    “Process for effort estimation and benchmarking of industrial applications, software development”- 2014.icse-conferences, SEIA-2013(7 pages, 3454 words)
4)    “Innovation for survival: An inside into the world of innovation know-how “–PM world Journal, April – 2014, 17 pages, 4063 words. 
5)    “Organizational Survival know-how in Transforming Era” – published in PMI – Bangalore, PMPC – 2013 conference, (18 pages, 3485 words)
6)    “Large Scale Software Project Execution “- PM world journal, August – 2013,12 pages, 1200 words
7)    “Challenges with Quality Assurance for Agile distributed research Project”, Published in 13th Annual International Software Testing Conference [STC 2013], Bangalore, (18 pages, 3772 words)
8)    “Bringing Success through Agility in Software Development: A case study”, PM world Journal, Feb – 2014,19 pages, 5840 words
9)    “Rapid Delivery through Collaborative Release Management”-2014.icse-conferences, SEIA-2014
10) “Lean Agile Testing for increasing customer value and reduce execution cycle time” – Published in 14th Annual International Software Testing Conference [STC 2014], Bangalore, (22 pages, 5185 words)
11) “Challenges in smart grid project execution, View from a manager   “– PMPC-2014, PMI, Bangalore, (19 pages, 3496 words).
12) “Cultural Transformation: Transitioning from Plan Driven to Value Driven Delivery” - ISEC2015, Bangalore, (9 pages, 3844 words)
13) “Gamifying Agile projects to Drive Employee Engagement and Increase Performance”- PM world Journal, November,2014, (17 pages, 3517 words)
14) “Contribution from an agile coach for organizational transformation journey” (18 pages, 5100 words) – PM world Journal
15)“Collaboration Effectiveness: A must for survival in today’s program execution” (20 Pages,4797 words) – PM World Journal
16) “Learning from my consultant colleague” (17 Pages, 4346 words) – PM World Journal
17) “Redefining Product Development: Managing project to build right solutions in right time: A case study”, (21 pages, 3700 words), for PMI National conference, PMPC 2015-Bangalore
18) “Customer value generation through effective user acceptance testing going beyond technical solution” (13 Pages,2700 words), 15th Annual International Software Testing Conference (STC 2015), Bangalore
19) “Exhibiting Rebus Leadership in the Complex Domain”, (19 Pages,3500 words) PMPC 2016 Bangalore, PMI India,
20) “Increasing Business Agility through Organizational Restructuring and Transformation”, (19 pages, 3500 words), PM world Journal, September 2017, PMPC Bangalore 2017
21) “In search of a better Product Owner”, Publication date Feb 7, 2018, PM World Journal
22) “Application Development, Release and Deployment challenges with Enterprise Applications”, publication date Aug 5, 2017, PMI Bangalore India Chapter







His Free e-books available at Slide share, download status.


Speaker:

1)    Speaker at PMPC -2013 conference PMI-Bangalore, on “Organizational Survival know-how in Transforming Era” - http://www.pmibangalorechapter.in/pmpc/2013/downloads/PMPC_2013_Conference_Schedule.pdf
2)    Speaker at Agile in Business – Conference-2013, Bangalore, on “Effective usages of Metrics for Agile project”, Received Star speaker recognition.                      http://www.agileinbusiness.com/bangalore/2013/India_agile_week/speakers
3)    Speaker at ICSE conference-2013, on “Software Effort Estimation -Industrial Product development”
4)    Speaker at India Testing week -2013 Bangalore, on “Challenges with Agile testing process and How to debug and troubleshoot these Challenges”
5)    Speaker at 14th Annual International Software Testing Conference 2014 (STC 2014) Bangalore, on “Lean Agile Testing for increasing customer value and reduce execution cycle time”
6)    Speaker at Regional Scrum Gathering® South Asia 2015 – Bangalore, on “Scaling Scrum under distributed Product Development”.
                      https://indico.scrumalliance.org/event/23/contribution/30
7)    Speaker at India Agile Week-Bangalore, Agile in Business-2015, on “Scaling Scrum under distributed Product Development- Transformational Journey”.
8)    Speaker at Discuss Agile Conference, Bangalore, 2016, Presentation Topic: As a Manager I want to create a space in Agile world!" 
9)    Speaker at Agile and Innovation Conference - 2017, Pune, Presentation Topic: Enterprise Agile coaches are Systems thinker" 

       10)    Speaker at Discuss Agile, Bangalore, 2017, Presentation Topic: The Killing of an Agile Coach.
11) Speaker at APGI Conference 2018, Pune, Presentation Topic: - Agile Coach as a Psychologist or becoming a Psychologist
                      https://www.2018.apgionline.com/home
12) Organizational Structural change to improve Business Agility, TECHNICAL AGILITY CONFERENCE, TAC 2018, Bangalore.
13) Mastering Scrum Master, why it cannot be a destination, but a Journey, Regional Scrum Gathering, 2019, Hyderabad
14) Agile Transformation is a Disruption for a company: Are you using full throttle to Takeoff/Landing? TECHNICAL AGILITY CONFERENCE - 2019 (TAC2019), Bangalore


All the 20+ years he has worked in software product development projects and companies have taught him how to build better software while working with world-class team members.

His real software product development experience started when he worked with the company, Datex Ohmeda (now known as GE Datex Ohmeda). He had spent seven months in Finland working with world-class software architects. He had worked for 3+ years with this product to build a system for monitoring the patient’s vital sign under critical condition. He has acquired awesome learning experience on Software architecture and real-time system development.


His next splendid experience accumulated from the Honeywell Aerospace system, where he had served as a software developer with Honeywell world-class aviation software team. He had delivered products for cockpit systems to many companies including Airbus and Boeing. He had worked seven months in Seattle, Redmond, at Honeywell office. He had worked with many aerospace system engineers and great software architects for this mission-critical product development. He has flown with Honeywell plane for flight testing at the Seattle Honeywell facility. It was a Great experience for him! He had worked for 3+ years for this product.




He also worked for Honeywell Building Solution to build next generation Home building solutions.



His next world class exposure was in the ABB Power automation division with the Sweden-based team. He also visited Sweden, Vasteras office and worked with the team members who had built this system many years back. An outstanding team, they had an excellent robust product built over a period. This product development experience provided him with extensive knowledge of Distributed Agile software product development in a mission-critical situation. He had worked 3+ years for this product. This Product was completely build by using Scrum framework. Started in 2009. Chandan was the Scrum of Scrum Master. The experience of this product development has been captured by Chanand and published a paper in 2012 in PMI Bangalore.


He has many tales about these product developments. These 3 products where he involved in hands-on development changed his life.

Other than these projects, he had many engagements as Manager which had a different exposure about building a better team for software product development. He has worked with Honeywell HVAC system, worked with ABB Industrial Automation control system products , Societe Generale (SG) banking system products and Oil , Gas products in Shell, Consumer Electronics & Mobile Products in Samsung and Retail e-commerce at H&M .

He made a coach by accident! During his assignment as a global program manager for one of the Industrial Automation project, Head of Global Product Management from Finland, shared with his manager that Chandan should be their agile coach! This was in January 2012 when his journey as an agile coach begins. He was born to be an agile coach. And he is enjoying the role.

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