Organizations · People · Products

I build companies that build great products.

Great products come from great companies. I help design your organization, coach your people, and build products your customers love.

Alex Karasyov, Senior Product & Engineering Consultant

Process

How I Work

01

Find what's breaking

I shadow your leadership team and follow how decisions actually get made. You see exactly where execution breaks and why.

Deliverable Diagnostic report with prioritized gaps

02

Design how your company runs

We define who owns what, how planning works, and who makes which decisions. It fits your stage, not a framework off the shelf.

Deliverable Operating model playbook

03

Install it with your team

We run the new planning rhythm and ownership structure together until it holds under real work.

Deliverable Running systems

04

Coach your leaders

I coach each leader on running their part until the system is theirs.

Deliverable Leaders who own the system

Outcome An execution system your team runs

Track Record

What leaders I've worked with say

“Alex was a major factor in helping us move to a more true form of agile and work in shorter release cycles. He is a clear and direct communicator who gets deep into problems and seeks to understand and move things forwards. He's able to work effectively with different personalities and get things done – quickly. He's able to tap into a wealth of knowledge and best practices on SCRUM + Agile and share the reasoning behind his recommendations with the rest of the team.”

Shorter release cycles
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Katy Torgovnikov

Chief Growth Officer, ESHYFT

“Alex is the real deal. He's a talented and diligent Agile practitioner with strong practical skills to complement his excellent understanding and experience. I worked with Alex on a very ambitious and complex Agile transformation involving multiple teams and development centres spread across a very challenging range of time zones with differing team cultures and practices. Alex's deep understanding of Scrum@Scale was invaluable. He was able to implement change, coach and develop individuals and teams, and successfully manage a complex political landscape.”

Multi-team transformation
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Ian Bosley

Director of Enterprise Architecture, XE.com

“Alex has been an outstanding Agile coach for my Tech teams at Xe, working across Product and Engineering. He has helped me create an agile operational rhythm, and developing clarity on forward planning of the work pipeline, as well as delivery performance of the development work. He very effectively leads the team review and planning sessions and has developed key MI Artefacts that are now embedded in our processes.”

Delivery performance improved
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Domenic Girolamo

Chief Technology Officer, XE.com

“I had the pleasure of working with Alex as a Scrum Master in my team. Alex is very knowledgeable in agile and also technical, which helps with technology delivery teams that have many challenges to face in their delivery pipeline and integration (or dependencies) on other stakeholders teams. Alex was able to quickly orient himself to our culture and practices / processes which was super helpful as we supported various teams along their agile journey. Thank you Alex!”

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Danielle Whelan

Agile Tech Delivery Lead, Bank of Montreal (BMO)

“Alex is one of the strongest Lean-Agile consultants I have had the opportunity to work with. On many occasions as a Scrum Master with Rangle.io, Alex demonstrated what is possible with a healthy dose of drive and determination, backed up by a solid base of experience in Lean-Agile software delivery and hands-on development, all supported by a growth mindset. Alex demonstrated his consulting prowess routinely by skillfully changing his leadership stance with the teams and individuals he worked with depending on the needs of the situation, effortlessly moving from a coach, to mentor, to a teacher, to a trusted advisor, etc. and all the time a leader. The teams and clients he worked with continue to comment on Alex's strong ability to support their needs, all the time maintaining a relentless focus on successful outcomes, demonstrating a deep concern for the client and the teams in his care.”

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Dale Simpson

VP, Lean-Agile Methods & Practices, Rangle.io

“I had the good fortune of having Alex as the ScrumMaster on one of my most demanding and complex client projects. Alex exhibited all the qualities I value most in a ScrumMaster, he is truly able to coach every role on the scrum team (PO, Developer, QA, Design etc) to deliver value continuously. Alex's understanding of the complex tech stack was invaluable, that combined with his keen sense for the product and business goals made the product a very successful one and the client extremely happy.”

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Sheldon W. Foster

VP of Delivery, Rangle.io

“Alex is very personable and has a great approach to working with diverse teams. He approaches problems from different perspectives and finds the solution that work for each unique situation.”

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Ian Sweeney

Founder, Intersection X

“I had the pleasure of working with Alex when he consulted for us at Capio. Alex's work had a positive impact on the company's culture and productivity. He built structure around our product development process by helping us adopt the Scrum agile development methodology. I highly recommend Alex in the capacity of an Agile coach.”

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Yuri de Souza

Director of Engineering, Capio.ai (acquired by Twilio Inc.)

“I met Alex at an event for entrepreneurs and his energy and drive were apparent then. He's been part of several development projects with our company, over the years, and delivers each time. He's very effective in start-up culture because of his versatility but also his ability to deal with founders and other big egos, always with professionalism, and always from a principled stance.”

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Tom George

Founder, BitBlitz Apps Inc.

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