Agile Scaling Experts is an extraordinary team of dedicated professionals who are passionate about helping organizations and individuals establish and grow their adoption of Agile practices throughout the enterprise.

We are a preferred provider of SAFe® Certification classes which will give you the tools you need for successful Agile transformations. See our Founder Profiles for more background.

You can explore our class schedule here.

Our Mission

To unlock the intrinsic potential of groups of people to deliver value beyond their own expectations.

Through the adoption of Lean-Agile practices, and then Scaling these practices, we align enterprises along their Business Value Streams.

Founder Profiles

Asim Javed

M.Sc. (Oxon), SAFe SPC, RTE

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Arun Saraswat

SAFe SPC, SSM, SDP, RTE

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Rashid Smith

SAFe SPC, RTE, SDP

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Meet The Team

Eric Obrien

SPC5

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Abdul Rahman Kweider

Safe Agilist

Quality

We provide the very best educational experience you’ve ever had. Period. We guarantee it: If you don’t certify on your first attempt, we’ll pay the retest fee.

Integrity

We strive to master our knowledge areas, but we can’t know everything and are honest with ourselves and you about that. That’s why we bring in experts as required to illustrate industry best practices in our classes.

Continuous Learning

We embrace the fact that life is a journey of learning, and as Instructors we are both your teachers and students. Each class is an opportunity for all of us to learn, and the emphasis we put on this in the classroom is what sets us apart.

Asim has a proven track record of over 20 years in managing large complex software development projects in waterfall, agile and SAFe environments. He has extensive experience in a variety of industries such as healthcare, telecom, military, publishing, and utilities. Asim is a highly sought after Trainer with a penchant for providing the class with contextual examples to drive home key concepts. His classes are always entertaining and comfortable, which ultimately leads to greater learning outcomes. Asim specializes in and has a passion for Leadership Development, Mentoring, Team Coaching, and Organizational Change. Asim holds a graduate degree from the University of Oxford and is a Certified SAFe Program Consultant and Release Train Engineer.

Rashid has an incredible breadth and depth of experience in digital marketing Consulting. As an SPC, Rashid is in a unique position to transfer SAFe® knowledge and understanding at all levels to organizations and teams. With Strong presentation and training skills he provides feedback and advice to new agile teams, and also to teams who want to perform at a higher level. With a diverse background and unique talents Rashid helps clients deliver results against some of their most complex business and technology initiatives.

Arun has over two decades of technology experience, providing software architecture solutions to a wide variety of companies. More than just an expert in technology stacks, Arun has the unique ability to build consensus with all stakeholders when positioning technology solutions within a business context. This deep understanding of the interaction and relationship between technology and business solutions is what positions Arun as an expert in SAFe Consulting.

Eric has over 15 years of experience in Quality Management, Project/Program Management, and Agile Organizational Transformations in telecom, banking, and insurance industries. Known as Eric O-Tool, for his deep understanding of agile tools and utilizing them to generate pull with clients as well as having taught over 38 public/private Scaled Agile Inc. courses across the United States, 11 of them the Implementing SAFe course. Eric specializes in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum, and Kanban. Eric has a relentless passion of education and received his Master’s in Computer Science at Georgia Tech in Interactive Intelligence. In addition, he remains a Post Graduate Instructor Associate for Dr. Ada Gavrilovska and advisor for the Georgia Tech Online Master of Science Computer Science (OMSCS) program.