About Us

Help build winning teams and products the right way!
We at Great Lakes Agile Consulting help businesses in achieving their true potential by analyzing and training the team to attain an agile environment.

Whether the business is small scale or a large corporation, we can guide you in assessing the Agile Health and plan out the future steps.

Our team of experts can prepare you for Safe training and Agile Essentials certification courses. We walk through the entire course content and teach you how to execute it in real-time.

With our Agile Coaches, you and your team can learn the mechanics of an agile environment. You will have a mentor who assists you in making the decisions that improve the workplace ecosystem of the company.
We respect your current state and together help the organization embrace change required to maximize the outcomes.

Project History

At Great Lakes Agile Consulting, we assist you in acquiring Agile Training and Coaching through rigorous techniques specially designed by our team of experts. With the 25+ years of combined experience, we guide you in identifying problems and incorporate agile into the business to improve your customer value. Our expertise enables us to evaluate the company critically and provide promising solutions that can be executed.

Our motto is not only to train you the agility course content but be your partner in this entire journey. We have directed top 100 fortune companies, who deal with the automotive, financial, telecommunications, and travel industries, to implement our teachings into their work and receive immediate results. We are the nudge that motivates you to bring the change you need in your company.

Agile is not a one-time process that can be achieved by following a few steps. It is a mindset which one attains by changing the direction of the company. The business is not determined by the tools you have, but it is through instilling beliefs, values, and principles that benefit the organization.

Through our agility health assessments, we do a thorough check of our client’s companies before providing them with possible solutions to clear out the obstacles from their path to success. We have helped our clients formulating a system where they can produce optimum results with a minimum amount of work. By infusing these strategies in the organization, customer service has improved as the delivery process becomes faster than the competitors.

Praveen Bachu

Enterprise Agile Delivery Leader | Certified SAFe Trainer & Consultant
Empowering Teams and Organizations to Thrive with Agile Excellence
Praveen Bachu is an accomplished Agile consultant and certified SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) with extensive experience helping organizations achieve enterprise agility. With a focus on delivering tailored Agile coaching and SAFe training, Praveen works with teams, leaders, and executives to align strategy with execution and accelerate value delivery.
Whether you’re looking to adopt SAFe for the first time or optimize your existing Agile practices, Praveen provides actionable guidance, proven frameworks, and hands-on coaching to ensure measurable success.
Why Work with Praveen?
• Tailored Agile Coaching: Praveen develops customized coaching programs to meet your organization’s unique challenges and goals. He specializes in helping teams adopt Agile practices, improve collaboration, and achieve sustainable transformations.
• Certified SAFe Training: As a seasoned SAFe instructor, Praveen delivers engaging, real-world training sessions for teams and individuals. Participants consistently report improved confidence in applying SAFe practices to solve real business problems.
• Proven Results: With over 50+ successful Agile and SAFe transformations, Praveen has helped organizations achieve a 30% improvement in delivery timelines and a 25% reduction in project bottlenecks.
What Clients Can Expect
• Agile Coaching for Teams and Leaders: Transform your teams with coaching focused on Scrum, Kanban, and Lean-Agile best practices.
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Implementation: Learn how to align teams, manage dependencies, and drive value with SAFe principles.
• Hands-On SAFe Training: From SAFe for Teams to Leading SAFe, Praveen offers certified courses designed to equip participants with the tools and knowledge to excel in Agile environments.
• Lean Portfolio Management: Align your portfolio strategy with execution to maximize value delivery and drive business results.
Key Achievements
• Successfully trained over 2,500 technical managers in SAFe practices, creating long-lasting organizational impact.
• Spearheaded Agile transformations for Fortune 500 companies, resulting in improved team efficiency and faster delivery cycles.
• Designed Lean-Agile Centers of Excellence (LACE) to sustain long-term Agile maturity and cultural change.

Our Story

At Great Lakes Agile, we believe agility is more than just a process—it’s a mindset that unlocks innovation, collaboration, and growth. But we didn’t always see things this way.

Our journey started with a frustration that many of you might relate to. Praveen Bachu, who spent over 15 years guiding complex projects, often found organizations and teams stuck in the same cycle: rigid timelines, misaligned teams, and results that didn’t quite match the vision. They knew there had to be a better way.

The turning point came at a startup with small budget and had everything invested in it, during this journey is  where a chance to introduce Agile principles sparked something profound. Praveen  recalls:

“For the first time, I saw a team come together with clarity, purpose, and energy. They weren’t just delivering—they were thriving. That moment changed everything for me.”

What began as an experiment with Agile frameworks quickly turned into a passion for helping others experience the same transformation. With a mix of curiosity, determination, learning from others and plenty of late nights, Praveen dove deeper into Agile practices, becoming a certified coach and consultant.

In 2019, Praveen Bachu founded Great Lakes Agile Consulting with a clear mission: to help businesses of all sizes embrace agility, build stronger teams, and deliver exceptional results.

Our first client was a small startup struggling to scale their operations. With personalized guidance and hands-on workshops, we helped them turn things around. Seeing their success only fueled our passion further. Since then, we’ve had the privilege of partnering with startups, established enterprises, and everything in between.

“It’s not just about frameworks or tools—it’s about empowering people to work smarter, collaborate better, and adapt to change with confidence,” Praveen  often says.

Today, we’re proud to have built a team of passionate Agile experts who share this vision. Whether you’re starting your Agile journey or looking to refine your processes, we’re here to guide you every step of the way.

Because at Great Lakes Agile, your success is our story.