My Journey
Exploration......
Chandan Lal Patary, lives in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, with his wife and two kids.
He had commenced his career as an apprentice engineer in an Electrical Machine repairing company. He had 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 the 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 working as an Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach and Change Agent.
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
- Consumer Electronics,
- Oil and Gas,
- Banking software,
- Healthcare,
- Aerospace,
- Building automation,
- Power automation,
- Industrial Automation,
- and Retail Fast Fashion
under real-time mission-critical product development to large-scale application development.
He has worked with start-ups and large companies like
- GE Medical Systems(2000-2004),
- Honeywell Aerospace(2004-2007) & Honeywell Building Automation(2007-2009)
- ABB Power Automation(2009-2013) & ABB industrial Automation(2013-2015),
- Société Générale(2025-2018),
- Royal Dutch Shell(2018-2020),
- Samsung(2020-2021),
- and H&M(2021- Work In progress).
He has worked with team members of the USA, Germany, Sweden, China, Australia, Finland, Switzerland, France, and Poland, London, Korea, and the Netherlands, which has shaped his knowledge, personality, and skills.
He is a certified PMP since 2008 and Green Belt certified holder since 2005. He is an agile practitioner, a Certified Scrum Master since 2011, and SAFe Agilist since 2017.
He has completed a Bachelor of Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (National Institute of Technology–Agartala, Tripura, India) in Electrical Engineering-1998.
He completed a one-year Executive General Management Program from the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B), Karnataka, India, in 2007.
He is the author of the best-selling books,
- The Agilist Guidebook – A Reference for Organizational Agile Transformation (2018),
- The Scrum Master Guidebook – A Reference for Obtaining Mastery (2019),
- We Can Lead – A Guidebook of Personal Leadership and Self-Coaching (2020) ,
- A Guidebook of Coaching High-performance team (2021) ,
- The Product Owner Guidebook (2022),
- 101 Enterprise Business Transformation Case Studies(2023).
- Business Metamorphosis: 50 Tools to Coach Your Way to Success(2024)
- and The Innovation Blueprint(2024)
His new book is coming soon....named "Psychology and Personal Leadership(2024)"
He has composed seven different free e-books available for download at SlideShare.
He has written 950+ blogs on LinkedIn. He has presented 20+ seminars as a speaker at numerous conferences.
He has uploaded 30+ presentations at SlideShare on diverse topics. He has written 50+ technical papers in various national and foreign journals.
He has written 21 Dzone papers.
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”.
His Free e-books,
1. “Coaching Sutra for Agile coaches”, has got 5000+ views, 192+ downloads, from SlideShare
2. “Leadership skills for Scaling Agile”, has got 4000+ views, 109+ downloads from SlideShare
3. “ The Complete Reference book for Motivating self “, 1528 views, 47 downloads, SlideShare
4. “The Agile Transformation Case Studies”, has got 3000+ views, 592 downloads
All the 20+ years he has worked on 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 worked for 3+ years with this product to build a system for monitoring the patient’s vital signs under critical conditions. He has acquired awesome learning experience in Software architecture and real-time system development.
His next splendid experience accumulated from the Honeywell Aerospace system, where he served as a software developer with Honeywell’s 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 the Honeywell office. He worked with many aerospace systems engineers and great software architects for this mission-critical product development. He has flown with the Honeywell plane for flight testing at the Seattle Honeywell facility. It was a great experience for him! He had worked for 3+ years on this product.
His next world-class exposure was in the ABB Power automation division with the Sweden-based team. He also visited Sweden, Vasteras’s office, and worked with the team members who had built this system many years back. An outstanding team, they have 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 for 3+ years on this product.
He has many tales about these product developments. These 3 products where he was involved in hands-on development changed his life.
Other than these projects, he had many engagements as a manager, which had a different exposure to building a better team for software product development. He has worked with the Honeywell HVAC system, worked with ABB Industrial Automation control system products, Société Générale (SG) banking system products, Oil and Gas products in Shell, Consumer Electronic & Mobile Products in Samsung, and Retail Omni channel products in H&M.
He became a coach by accident! During his assignment as a global program manager for one of the Industrial Automation projects, the 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 began.
He was born to be a Transformation Change Agent. And he is enjoying the role.
