John Okoro

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John is based in Singapore - the founder / creator of Auspicious Agile, and Head of Agile Practice for Orbium. John has founded Agile services practices for Rally Software in Asia and for Point B, a mid-sized US management consultancy. John is also a contributor to InfoQ on Agile & DevOps, and an author of the ebook “ A Guide to Distributed Agile Framework”. John has two decades of leadership and process improvement knowledge in technology related projects, and over ten years of experience with Agile methods and coaching. John has led corporate Agile training, executive education, & Agile certification sessions publicly and privately in the US & Asia. & John is a frequent speaker at Agile and industry conferences. He has also taught several university courses in the business and technology space (including Enterprise Agile Scaling at National University of Singapore, and for the Singapore Skills Future government initiative). John has proven success in numerous roles as an Agile leader. He has worked in the telecommunications, entertainment, real estate, information services, financial services and professional services industries with numerous Fortune 500 & Global 1000 companies including Disney, JP Morgan, Allianz, Toyota, and Accenture. John has experience with start-up and entrepreneurial ventures and working with government clients. John specialises in applying Agile and DevOps at scale in the enterprise. John is also experienced in guiding C-Suite executives on Agile Leadership and Agile organization principles. His largest Agile scaling implementation with Disney had a $1 billion USD budget, with 500+ team members that spanned three continents. John also focuses on using enterprise Agile and DevOps together to deliver the highest value, as quickly as possible. John has a passion for using Agile, Lean principles, and DevOps to create business value and competitive advantage for companies. However, his greatest excitement is through the coaching and development of team members on their Agile journey, enabling them to initiate and sustain their own improvements and culture change. John has a Bachelor of Science degree (University of California Irvine), a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree (UCLA), and a Juris Doctorate (JD) degree (Southwestern Law School). John is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), SAFe Agilist (SA), Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant (SPC4), and Certified Trainer for the IC Agile Management Track (ICA-APM), and the IC Agile DevOps track (IC Agile DevOps Foundations).