Girish Babar's Linkedin Analytics

Customer-centric, value-driven team member with 18 years of experience in IT and digital product management. Specialized in Product Management, Agile transformations and UX. Proven track record of leading large-scale transformation initiatives, OKRs implementation and driving innovation to deliver high-impact customer-centric solutions that meet business objectives. Product Strategy: Guided development of product canvas, product strategy, annual goals, roadmaps, quarterly prioritization, backlog refinements and release planning. Product Innovation: Led development of automation, GenAI solutions, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and operational efficiency. Stakeholder Engagement: Worked closely with business stakeholders, vendors, and leaders to set vision, roadmaps and priorities with an average NPS of 75. User and Market Research: Partnered with UX researchers to conduct user and market research for multiple products. Customer Centricity: Introduced design thinking and UX principles to multiple products, improving user and employee experience across products. Product Coaching: Led a team of 5 Product and UX coaches to elevate product practices across the organization of 60+ product managers and 12+ coaches. OKR Implementation: Championed Objectives and Key Result adoption across 250+ products, and 2000+ colleagues to improve alignment and strategic outcomes. Frameworks and Tools: Scrum, Kanban, ScrumBan, Scrum@Scale, SAFe, Waterfall, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, Rally, Quantive, SharePoint, AppTio. Agile Coaching: Provided agile training, mentoring, consulting, and coaching to 800+ folks, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and iterative development. Transformation Leadership: Led large-scale transformation program for a team of 600+ to enrich processes, collaboration, and improve overall business agility. Team Management: Led 8 teams (100+ people) in various roles such as Tech Lead, Team Lead, Scrum Master, and Delivery Manager, ensuring high-quality software solutions and user experiences. Application Development: Developed and maintained IBM Mainframe solutions ensuring system reliability, quality, performance and support. Community Engagement: Participated in 5+ panel discussions. Contributions towards CSR, ProductTank, Agile Network India Communities of Practice. Blogs and Articles: Published more than 10 articles on LinkedIn and 7+ internally on topics related to agile, product discovery, volunteering and self-development. Published the discovery framework for digital products.