Practice Agile: Transforming Businesses by Introducing Agility

CIO Vendor The demand for agile transformation in India is growing at a rapid pace, owing to the increase in competition in the market, and changing customer behavior. Businesses and professionals are looking at coaching and consulting opportunities in the arena. Previously these demands were mostly in IT space, but recently the non-IT sector has also understood the crucial need of embracing agility and is looking for assistance. 'Although technology is playing a crucial role in any business growth, but streamlined operations, overall efficiency and business ability to quickly cater to customer issues plays a paramount role,' says Punit R. Doshi, Principal Consultant, Practice Agile.

Businesses today are striving to bring in two-fold transformation in their approach. One being transforming the technical capabilities and automating their business operations for enhanced results and the other being shift in the mindsets of the team and collaboration to boost positive impact. Practice Agile, an agile training and coaching consultancy caters to these needs of any business.

The team first meets the key decision-maker of an organization, and then understands their expectations, baseline the current process, strategizes the course of action and makes the needle move in the right direction. The consultants and trainers then focus on the pain points and impediments of its client's business and offer solutions for the same to streamline their processes. 'We identify gaps in a business that needs to be bridged and thus offer our expertise and help them deliver value to their clients,' says Punit R. Doshi, Principal Consultant, Practice Agile.

Founded in 2011, the company helps businesses collaborate better with technology teams,
augment over-all visibility throughout the organization and boost operations. The company strives to assist organizations to be able to sustain the transformation they are going through and helps them to choose the best path for maximum business outcomes. It works with the goal to offer its clients with a different perspective of an outsider and inspect if there is an opportunity that they are missing out on.

At least once every month, Practice Agile conducts meetings with its clients to retrospect the opportunities that current market conditions is creating that organizations can leverage and reap benefits from. It also serves to highlight the challenges faced by delivery teams and brainstorm to-wards successful resolution. Under-standing the opportunities, the team starts identifying the crucial areas and the spaces that need amendments for seamless operations and growth.


We identify gaps in a business that needs to be bridged and thus offer our expertise and help them deliver value to their clients


It then strategies the way ahead and thus assists an organization to implement the strategies and game-changing approaches. The team at Practice Agile moves forward with the approaches that the leadership is comfortable with and has faith in. Once Practice Agile is done with coaching a client, the company slowly hands over the back-end of the training process to the internal coaches of the client so that they can take accountability of the journey forward.

Currently, Practice Agile is working as a consultant to an Oil and Gas giant based out of Netherlands and Mumbai, a cancer research company based out of Pune having global presence and many more. The company since its inception has seen a 30 percent year over year growth and is expecting to boost their revenue more in the coming years. Practice Agile caters to clients from both India and foreign countries and is endeavoring to grow its customer base with the focus of ad-dressing the transforming demands of the market.