PAOLO SAMMICHELI
BUSINESS COACH - SCRUM TRAINER
AGILE BUSINESS COACH
I'm a Business Coach, specialized in Scrum, Scrum@Scale, Kanban, Design Thinking, and Lean Startup, helping international companies to uncover better ways of building products. Scrum Trainer by Scrum Inc, Certified Scrum@Scale Trainer, Lean-Agile Procurement Trainer, and Management 3.0 Facilitator.
I am passioned about Technology, Innovation, Mobile, Online Communities, Free Software, Events, Communication, Design, Marketing, Startups and Entrepreneurship.My first book: "SCRUM FOR HARDWARE"
I'm the author of Scrum for Hardware, the world's first significant publication of the topic.
It contains the stories of the pioneers of SCRUM for HARDWARE: from Wikispeed to the first "Global Scrum for Hardware Gathering," and the "Agile Product Charter." It's divided into three parts: the first one contains the stories, the second one presents the method, with many practical examples, and the third one contains case studies implemented by the author.The book, released under the creative commons license BY-SA, is sold worldwide on Leanpub and Amazon and includes the foreword by Joe Justice, founder of Wikispeed, inventor of eXtreme Manufacturing. It's being endorsed twice on Twitter by Jeff Sutherland, co-author of Scrum.
By buying this book, you'll support WIKISPEED: 50% of the fees go to the project.
My second book: "SCRUM IN AI"
Artificial Intelligence Agile Development with Scrum and MLOps
Discover how to develop an Artificial Intelligence based application with Agile and Scrum. The book comprises Agility's foundations, a detailed description of the methods, the engineering practices, and case studies with real examples and suggestions on how to implement them in your company. Foreword by Jeff Sutherland, co-author of Scrum.
The book is released with the Creative Commons License BY-SA so that you can freely distribute and reuse it.
My third book: "SCRUM for Hardware Explained"
Achieving Industrial Agility
"Scrum for Hardware Explained - Achieving Industrial Agility" is your ultimate guide to Agile and Scrum, specially tailored for the manufacturing industry. This comprehensive guide takes you from the basics of Agile and Scrum through detailed Scrum patterns to practical applications for your industry. Whether starting your transformation journey, managing multiple teams, or preparing for production, this book equips you with the knowledge and tools to navigate confidently. Foreword by Henrik Kniberg, author of the Spotify Model, Product Owner in a Nutshell, and many other publications.
As an "Ultimate Edition," your purchase is not just a book but a lifetime of learning; with this special edition, you'll receive all future updates and free access to "Scrum for Hardware," the first significant publication in the world on the topic. Twice the reading at half the price!
Agile Education
powered by Scrum Inc.
Developed by Dr. Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum, the Agile Education Program includes real examples and techniques to reduce waste and continuously improve across all industries. Learners walk away knowing how to immediately improve performance. Available on multiple continents and testing in different languages, the Scrum Inc Training Program aims to improve work around the world. Our trainer community has a proven record of improving team and organization performance. Their continued learning requirement allows each trainer to understand the latest insights and share back to the learners.
SCRUM@SCALE TRAININGS
From Fortune 100 companies to start-ups, Scrum@Scale transforms enterprises into Agile Organizations. The Scrum@Scale framework is the brainchild of Dr. Jeff Sutherland, the co-creator of Scrum. Scrum@Scale naturally extends the core Scrum framework to deliver hyper-productive results across industries and disciplines, including software, IoT, hardware, manufacturing, services, finance, operations, R&D, etc. In my 2-day Scrum@Scale® course, you will gain knowledge and skills to transform your organization into an Agile enterprise. Learn how to apply fundamental Scrum and Lean product development skills to scale Scrum across multiple teams.
Skills
Things I've picked up over the years
AGILE for SOFTWARE
Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, DevOps, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development.
TANGIBLE PRODUCTS
Scrum for Hardware, Extreme Manufacturing, Lean, Industrial Agility.
BUSINESS AGILITY
Scrum@Scale, LeSS - Large Scale Scrum, Agile Organization, Lean Startup, Lean Change Management, Popcorn Flow, Management 3.0.
COACHING
NLP, Business Coaching, Executive Coaching, Team Building, Experiential Learning, Kinesthetic Coaching, LEGO® Serious Play®.
PRODUCT DESIGN
Product Envisioning, User Experience Design, Design Thinking, User Centered Design, Interaction Design, Usability Testing.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Service Bus, Security, Digital Signature, Encryption, Unix, Linux, Ubuntu, Android.
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Augusto Pucci
Product Owner
Online Banking SpecialistPaolo is definitely a natural born coach, a professional able to bridge the gap between business and technical domain. Paolo enjoys a deep knowledge of agile methodologies and the ability to easily communicate their core principles and help organizations in figuring out how to apply agile to their business, maximizing value.
Anna Russo
Transition Owner
Program ManagerPaolo as Agile Coach has given an important contribution to our Organization during the Lean and Agile transformation. I appreciated a lot his smartness, commitment, passion, support. His various professional experiences, his wide specialties and interests, his kind approach with people, made Paolo a valuable person to work with.
Marcio Lima
Product Owner
Business Operation Manager BrazilPaolo is a great person and coach with deep knowledge of Agile and Lean methodologies that brilliantly supported us during our company Lean-Agile transition. Being always committed, available, direct and valuable, without any doubt, Paolo is the right professional to coach your team!
Pietro Tricarico
CTO
Paolo is firstly a great person. As Agile Coach during our company Lean-Agile transition, I have always appreciated his approach: always available, direct and valuable.
Luigino Ianni
Product Owner
Paolo has deep knowledge of the agile methodologies. In addition to this he has important soft and analytical skills that help him to accurately manage the change. Being always updated on any new organizational and tech trend he is able also to introduce important process innovation.
Massimiliano Gaudenzi
Technical Director
Paolo is a passionate teacher and a great coach! I met him at a course on Agile software development and Lean Management. It was very interesting and definitely a mind-opening experience. Paolo teaches by example and games, so learning is very fun and easy. Moreover he is a technology enthusiast, he cultivates different interests with an entrepreneurial spirit and he is involved in different initiatives.
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