Khurram Bhatti
Khurram Bhatti
Khurram Bhatti is a catalyst for organizational transformation who helps teams become thinking organizations and learning environments. With over 17 years in the software industry, Khurram specializes in helping individuals, teams, and organizations reach their goals by adapting new ways of thinking. His mission is to develop healthy, collaborative cultures where experimentation is encouraged, high focus is valued, and psychological safety enables people to thrive.
As an Agile Coach at Cytiva (formerly with PayPal, DPOrganizer, Snow Software, and Ericsson), Khurram works across Sweden and Pakistan with startups, SMEs, and enterprises in industries spanning Telecom, Software Asset Management, Data Privacy, and Financial Services. He excels at building both distributed and co-located agile teams, having pioneered approaches that decrease psychological distance in remote settings. Khurram co-trains with renowned experts like Tobias Mayer and serves on the Program Advisory Team for Global Scrum Gathering events, where he collaborates with Scrum Alliance staff to design international conference agendas.
Beyond his coaching work, Khurram is Co-Founder of PASE (Pakistan Agile Software Excellence), a platform dedicated to spreading agile awareness across Pakistan. Through his blog "Towards Agility" (khurrambhatti.com), he shares practical tools and frameworks including his Next-Step Canvas for reflection, the PIOSEE team coaching framework inspired by aviation crisis management, and methods for co-creating team cultures. His articles on distributed teams, facilitation, and psychological safety reflect years of hands-on experience making agile work in complex, cross-cultural contexts. He holds extensive certifications including ORSC-trained coach (ICF-ACTP), ICAgile Authorized Instructor for Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) and Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC), ScrumAlliance Certified Team Coach (CTC), Certified Agile Leadership (CAL I), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM), and Training from the Back of the Room practitioner certification.
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It is the Psychological, not the Physical Distance – Working with Distributed Agile Teams
Article exploring how to build effective distributed agile teams, focusing on fostering psychological safety and creating team cohesion across remote locations. Discusses the importance of building people into teams rather than just managing physical distance.
Read more →How do you want to spend 35-40% of your day at work?" – Co-creating a Team Culture
Blog post on creating psychological safety and designing team alliances by discussing team values. Explores how to create growth environments where people learn, experiment, and have fun.
Read more →PIOSEE for Team Coaching
Article introducing the PIOSEE framework for team coaching, drawing inspiration from aviation crisis management procedures and applying them to agile team coaching contexts.
Read more →Next-Step Canvas
Created a facilitation tool with four simple reflection questions to help individuals, teams, or organizations take their next step forward. Includes a complete facilitation guide.
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