Shiva Farzanehpour
Founder and CEO
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Email: shiva.farzanehpour@agilhus.comShiva is the founder of AgilHus.
With over two decades in IT and Telecom industry, Shiva has worked in different roles: software engineer, IT instructor, mentor, Product and Customer Experience lead, and Agile project lead across a wide range of products and multi-national organizations.
Her passion lies in one central challenge: How can we deliver the most valuable products faster to the right customers, and adapt when changes are necessary?
This is a real struggle for many organizations. Through AgilHus, she coaches and supports IT professionals and companies on how to work smarter, adapt quicker, and build products that truly matter, with agile principle and mindset at the core.
HOW I WORK WITH A PRODUCT TEAM
01- ORIENT
Customer first and the people who build for them
Every decision I make traces back to two groups: the people who use the product and the people who build it. It is why I start with observation and interviews rather than roadmaps, and why team satisfaction, “hearing” and “recognizing” them is my priority , not as a nice-to-have, but as a leading indicator.
03 - TRANSLATE
Make complexity buildable
I use Jobs to Be Done and Opportunity Solution Trees to uncover what matters, Cynefin to choose how to respond, and WSJF or RICE to prioritize what comes first. The result is focused, testable direction that aligns customer needs, business value and delivery constraints.
02- DIAGNOSE
Measuring and understanding cultural DNA before changing anything
Before initiating any changes, I use qualitative and quantitative data to understand pain points, team dynamics, and the values embedded in the organization or the product. This establishes both what should change and what must remain because cultural DNA is central to organizational identity and understanding what to change and what not to is critical in any transformation.
I approach transformation as an evidence-led cycle of act small, observe, measure, iterate or pivot.
02- GOVERN
Protect focus, publish the trade-off
Most delivery problems start with teams being too optimistic during planing and taking on too much work.
I make unplanned work a visible decision rather than an invisible tax, and I absorb the stakeholder pressure instead of passing it down as urgency.
PROFESIONAL CERTIFICAES
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PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Professional certification from the Project Management Institute. It Demonstrates professional and deep knowledge and skills in agile practices, tools and techniques that are applicable across virtually any industry:
Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and Extreme Programming
Adaptive planning and iterative delivery
Product prioritization and value delivery
Team collaboration and servant leadership
Stakeholder engagement
Continuous improvement and problem resolution.
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King's College London, AI Product Management
King’s College London Product Management Career Accelerator, an 8 month online program developing practical expertise across product strategy, user research, Agile delivery, roadmapping, data-informed decision-making, go-to-market planning, stakeholder management, and AI-enabled workflows with 6 week Employer project with Raspberry Pi Foundation.
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Adaptive leadership: Practical Strategies for Change
The Adaptive Leadership approach was pioneered over the course of more than 40 years by Harvard Kennedy School Faculty Ronald Heifetz, is a practical framework to navigate complex challenges and drive change without relying solely on formal authority.
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Certified in Agile Product Ownership
The Agile Product Ownership certification validates the learner’s knowledge of understanding customer needs and effectively delivering valuable products and services through key agile practices such as adaptive prioritization and planning.
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Certified in Enterprise Agile Coaching
Enterprise Agile Coaching is one of ICAgile’s most advanced knowledge-based certifications. The certification validates an understanding of enterprise agile coaching skills needed to enable organizational structure and process improvements in support of achieving business agility.
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Coaching Agile Transformations
As one of ICAgile’s most advanced knowledge-based certifications, the ICP-CAT Coaching Agile Transformations certification validates knowledge of how to coach leaders and align agile teams to achieve successful transformations.
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IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
The Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner course has helped thousands of teams across industries adopt a more aligned, human-centered approach to operations and innovation.
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IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator
As a Co-Creator, the badge earner is an active contributor on Enterprise Design Thinking engagements. They help bring real-world user outcomes to life by growing collaboration skills and finding opportunities to step up and lead.
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IBM Enterprise Design Thinking - Team Essentials for AI
This badge earner has demonstrated proficiency in using Enterprise Design Thinking concepts and activities to design responsible artificial intelligence systems with intention and a focus on people.