About

Girish Manjunath is a Program Manager and Release Train Engineer at Philips Innovation & Strategy Team. He is currently leading three Programs/Services Teams in HealthSuite Digital Platform. With over 11 years of relevant experience, Girish is an expert in product management, agile methodology, and people and process management. Girish's product management capabilities include Lean Startup, Design thinking, Problem Solving & Ideation, User Experience design, Requirement analysis and user interactions, Product Release & Iteration/Sprint planning, Epics, Features and User stories development, Feature prioritization, Kano Analysis for MVP, Product Demo to stakeholders, and training to customers. He has extensive experience in Agile methodology, including Program Management, Release Train Engineer, SAFe PO/PM Certified, SAFe Agilist, Sr. Scrum Master & Certified Agile coach, Agile Transformation, Agile implementation and migration, Agile-Scrum trainings & Workshops, Building Agile teams, Building and managing Agile- Community of Practice, People management, and Process management. Currently, Girish works as a Program Manager and Release Train engineer for Health Suite Digital Platform at Philips Innovation & Strategy, where he leads three Program Teams building API services for Internal and External customers. He is responsible for Program Dashboard monitoring, tracking and Controlling, and making sure the Programs adhere to Healthcare Regulatory Compliance and Quality Management Processes. Prior to joining Philips, Girish worked as an Agile Program Manager at Allstate, where he managed and led Data Privacy Program for PaaS and Large Complex Agent facing Program having 12 Kanban teams and 8 Scrum teams. He also worked in the Agency solution department running on SAFe methodology and facilitated and conducted Ideation, Discovery, Scoping, and Framing sessions. Girish has also worked as a Project Lead & Agile Coach at Evry India, where he was responsible for Sr. Scrum Master, Agile Product and Project Management, Agile teams handling, Quality management, Release & Iteration planning, Epics, Features and User stories development, User story mapping, Feature prioritization, Agile ceremonies, Customer management, and Product delivery management. Girish holds an Executive MBA in Product Leadership from the Institute of Product Leadership, an MBA in Management Information Systems from Sikkim Manipal University, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunications Engineering from Bangalore Institute of Technology. He is skilled in Product Management and has a strong understanding of Agile methodologies.