A natural story-teller, Hiren is the founder and CEO of Practice Agile Solutions, a company with a mission to help organizations embrace agility. He has a distinguished 23-years career in leading the full life cycle software development and has been practicing Agile for over 15 years.Hiren had a rare and unique chance of learning Scrum and Scrum@Scale in-person through Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland respectively.

He is author of the book “Scrum Insights for Practitioners, The Scrum Guide Companion” that helps the practitioners master the Scrum framework by gaining in-depth practical insights and addresses myths, mysteries, and misconceptions of Scrum. This book is recommended by Scrum.org to all aspiring Scrum enthusiasts.

Hiren has trained over three thousand students and more than thirty organizations in the use of Scrum. He is certified to offer all Scrum.org workshops and SAFe workshops.

He has served as an Agile transformation change agent and leader for many organizations, including Sabre Travels (GDS), Bank of America (BFSI), BookMyShow (eTicketing), Dream11, Tesco (retail), DELL EMC (Data storage), Morpho, Oracle, Continuum Managed Solutions, LULU, Germin8, and Aveksa.

Hiren received his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Pune and his master’s degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts. He is an organizer of the Meetup group “Practice Agile Community” that meets every month in Powai, Mumbai.

Hiren lives in Mumbai (India) with his wife, Swati, and two daughters, Aditi and Ashwini.