ANIKA RAO / PRODUCT · SCRUM · RELEASE TRAINS

Make work move without making people smaller.

Product leader, Scrum Master and RTE aligning strategy, delivery and the conversations between them.
18
Teams aligned
Across four value streams
31%
Lead time reduced
Without a quality trade-off
94%
Release confidence
Quarterly business outcomes

The operating system, made visible.

  1. 01

    Frame the outcome

    Translate strategy into a measurable product bet.

  2. 02

    Expose the system

    Map dependencies, queues and decisions before they become delay.

  3. 03

    Run the train

    Create a cadence teams can trust and leaders can understand.

  4. 04

    Inspect and adapt

    Use evidence from customers and delivery to change the plan.

Outcomes over ceremony.

Facilitation is useful only when it changes a decision, removes a constraint or helps a team learn sooner.

Portfolio flow

Reframed 46 initiatives into nine outcome-led bets with explicit stop conditions.

Dependency design

Cut cross-team hand-offs by pairing platform and product planning.

Healthy challenge

Coached leaders and teams to disagree clearly and commit honestly.

A career in useful change

  1. 2023—Now

    Release Train Engineer · NovaWorks

    Aligned 18 teams around one quarterly outcome system.

  2. 2020—2023

    Group Product Manager · FieldOS

    Led discovery and delivery for a multi-market operations platform.

  3. 2017—2020

    Senior Scrum Master · Common Thread

    Coached five teams through a product operating-model shift.

What changed around the work

Anika gave eighteen teams one language without flattening how they worked.
Maya ChenVP Product · NovaWorks
The roadmap became a decision tool instead of a promise archive.
Dev MalikChief Operating Officer

Product Strategy

SAFe Release Train Engineer

Active certification

Certified Scrum Professional

Scrum Alliance

Product Strategy

Evidence-led portfolio practice

Have a system problem disguised as a meeting problem?

Share the outcome, the constraints and where decisions currently stall.