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Prateek Verma

Agile & DevOps Coach

IT as a Business - Continuous Delivery

Prateek is an Agile and DevOps Enthusiast, Coach and Trainer at Cisco. He is passionate about Continuous Value delivery. He focuses on mindset shift towards agility at every level of the organisation through coaching and consulting assignments. He has trained over 600 employees across the globe on Lean Agile Thinking and associated practices.

His mission is to take agility beyond software development to every function of the Enterprise.

Prateek is a passionate speaker and has shared Cisco’s story with several customers and advised them on Agile and DevSecOps transformation. He has been invited by customers like Standard Chartered Bank and Tata Business Excellency Group to deliver talks and provide guidance on their state of agility.

Prior to discovering his passion for Lean Agile, Prateek worked as a Software Engineer in Cisco Engineering division working on OSS/BSS products in Cisco Network Management Technology Group and Cisco’ UCS product line. He has also served as a Business Operations Analyst for CX organisation and as a Project Manager in Cisco IT.

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October 2, 2019

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INSIDE CISCO IT

Principles of Agile Infrastructure

Agile has long been considered an exclusive software paradigm. Agility as we all know is a mindset and as the Law of Conservation of Agility states, it needs to be inculcated. Imagine that you want to go on a healthy diet, and you focus only on lunch, ignoring the dietary considerations of breakfast…

August 28, 2019

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INSIDE CISCO IT

The Agility Quadrant

Last evening, I had a lively discussion with my friend Paul on the state of agility in his organization, a midsize company of about 6000 employees. He mentioned that agile is the flavor of the year in his organization and that their executive Samuel had set a goal “We shall be agile by the end of th…

July 30, 2019

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INSIDE CISCO IT

The Law of Conservation of Agility

Remember the law of conservation of energy which is one of the basic laws of physics and therefore governs the microscopic motion of individual atoms in a chemical reaction? This law states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one f…