Ali Hajou

Ali is Partner at Avant Edge, and is (since 2022, to date) the world’s youngest SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT)* and an experienced trainer in various other Agile frameworks. 

For over a decade Ali has been involved in finding Agile ways of working for environments that do not directly jump to mind when talking about Agile. Agile working has proven to be beneficial and is seeping into non-software environments.

Starting with applying Agile in the pharmaceutical industry Ali has proven to be strong in contextualizing the principles of short cycled development, early risk reduction, and building quality in for a more predictable delivery of value. With that, the last years Ali supported (hardware) engineering companies in finding their own (scaled) agile way of working.

Ali is an excellent trainer that connects the context of its participants with the principles of the (scaled) Agile Way of Working.

By providing training, understanding and tweaking development processes, and coaching people from different backgrounds, Ali has been successful in even the toughest environments. His work has resulted in cultural change, new practices, more effective teams, and happier stakeholders.

For many clients Ali continues to be a trusted partner in the search, implementation, evaluation, and adjustment of ways of working.

* His SPCT title grants him the ability to provide certain trainings, done exclusively for/via Gladwell Academy.