DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization.

Xellentro: Xellentro Consulting Services LLP is an emerging global provider of project, program and portfolio management, IT service management consulting and training services. Established in 2012, with headquarters in Bangalore, India, Xellentro works closely with its clients in tackling their most difficult organizational development challenges. Xellentro is a specialist organization that works with its clients to identify improvement areas and uses experienced consultants to enhance their business and development processes.

While the realm of management consulting is vast and a number of firms provide a range of advisory services—starting from niche areas to general management domains—what differentiates us is our practitioner’s approach where we don’t limit ourselves only to advisory and rather prefer to stay on till envisaged benefits are realized and final outcomes are delivered. We bring in huge experience across industry verticals.

DOI: What other topics do you teach or consult on?

Xellentro: ITIL Foundation, Intermediate, Practitioner, Expert, Scrum Master and Product Owner, PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, MSP, MoP, PMP, Lean Six Sigma

DOI: What type of interest in DevOps are you seeing in your region?

Xellentro: There is interest mainly from corporates.

DOI: How do you think that DevOps contributes to the business’s value stream?

Xellentro: This will be a good extension to the ITSM and with Agile being used everywhere, DevOps will have a great value.

DOI: What topic area in DevOps excites you the most?

Xellentro: The concept of having both Development and Operations working together is very important to finally deliver value to business.

DOI: Why should enterprises and individuals consider formal DevOps training?

Xellentro: To really understand the culture change and not focus on only the tools/automation part of it.