Practical Software was the provider for a custom system for the internal elections for the leading workers union in Israel. The risk was high, and I was skeptical because of my experience with software products. But everything worked like a dream, and the support from Practical Software during elections day was beyond expectations. I’d love to work with them again as my supplier for software development.

I met Ilan from Practical Agile as a consultant working with a development group that I led in Cisco in 2016. We worked together for about 6 months, during which you taught me management models, approaches and terms related to Agile and in general. During this period I had a chance to observe and participate in various activities you ran with my group. During these months we worked together I implemented with your support management principles within the Cisco organizational constraints at the time, and we succeeded to bring meaningful changes in the group. Later on, when I moved to other organizations, in management roles, I frequently used the things I learned from you. I used the knowledge and models while implementing vision and strategy, when facing conflicts and when dealing with complex management decisions. I found myself frequently quoting you, and research you referred me to, in meetings and while working with my subordinates. I felt that your coaching had a meaningful and long term influence on me, long beyond the period we worked together. I want to thank you for the tools you provided me with, and the knowledge tips you generously gave even after our formal work together has ended. I hope we will have opportunities to work together in the future. I am sure you have a lot more to contribute to me! With appreciation, Efrat Belams

CyberArk R&D and me work with Lior from Practical Agile for already 2 years, and more ahead. For the past 2 years, Lior and his team guided us, and helped us to understand the importance of automation. But besides changing our mindset, Lior also helped us to guide and implement the ideas of automation, TDD, etc… in our development teams. Lior comes with an open mind, and sharp eyes. He learns really quickly, analyze the pains, and recommend. He has a high-level conceptual understanding of Agile, but he is also technically, and capable of bringing the technical aspects that serve the conceptual ideas. Lior and his team presented a very professional and open approach and managed to contribute and touch most of our teams. Lior grooms the long term relations, and push to understand where and how he can help us to be even better. I think, that if you look for someone that will help you to understand what to do, but later will also help you to implement – but – in open and sharp mind – Practical Agile and Lior are for you.

Ilan from Practical Agile has coached me for about a year and I highly recommend Ilan for those who are looking for continuous improvement. He always knows how to analyze a complicated situation wisely and brings smart insights and effective ways of solutions. Sometimes it is amazing to see how Ilan pays attention to the really effective things – The ones others just can’t see.

Lior from Practical Agile is a truly unique Agile coach. I had the pleasure of working with him on a most challenging mission, focusing on the Practical aspects of Agile Software development. This mission turned out most successful and made a big difference, mainly thanks to Lior’s exceptional skills, knowledge and experience. Lior also has vast knowledge in Agile methodologies and Software Development, which makes him a diverse and most valuable Agile coach.

Having been asked to assist World Bank/IMF in understanding/ redefining organization needs of the post-Communist Public Sector in health delivery and education systems, I am pleased for my productive contact with Mr. Kirschenbaum from Practical Agile. Our focus is on wedding IT capabilities with new, Integrated Social Systems which will draw need to draw on new software capabilities. His willingness to take the time to explain the complexities of agility, skills in active listening that clarify confusions, his choice of furthering his training from the area of Human Relations is telling, and correct. In face of the deepest concerns the present economic chaos has loosed, much hope for solutions rest with young people such as him who can harness dedication for repair with the highest human and technological know how.

I worked with Ilan from Practical Agile in four years. We were a pioneer in adopting Scrum methodology in R&D organization and a many people were passive in our success. Help Ilan change the way of thinking of many people at all levels: fresh and expert developers, development managers, product managers and more important he managed to change the organization state of mind. Based on Ilan’s coach we build dedicated, motivated and talent developers, committed to their commitment scrum teams and educated managers. I would like to recommend Ilan to every organization that looking to be innovated and succeeded.

Lior from Practical Agile provided game changing training, consulting and coaching on Unit Testing and Build Automation for GreenRoad. From start to finish he has delivered outstanding results and significantly improved our engineering skills enabling us to be a more productive and effcient R&D group. I highly recommend Lior.

Ilan from Practical Agile has been coaching me and my SCRUM team for more than half a year – I must say that the end results are impressive – our team have received a certificate for outstanding performance out more than 50 scrum teams, and Ilan had much to do with it. At first it was hard, I did not get the message Ilan was trying to pass to me – later I understood that Ilan want me to find the answer my self, so I will have the tools in order to find the answers myself in the future. Giving away an answer for the current issue would have helped me in the current situation, but what Ilan did gave me tools for life. Which tools did Ilan give me? • The ability to observe what is happening in the team from the soft perspective, and point out stuff we need to talk about. • The understanding that being more effective means having better Trust, communication, commitment in the team . • The ability to Motivate team members, build a responsible & accountable team. • Lots of SCRUM tools & techniques to improve these areas. Basically, when I met Ilan, I was a “Scrum dude”, Ilan helped me develop in to a “Scrum Mom”, and I hope that using the tools he gave me I would be my “True Scrum Master”.

We had the opportunity to have Ilan from Practical agile lead a workshop for team building for one of our project leadership teams. This was a great experience for us, and we learned a lot from it. First of all, Ilan invested a full day interviewing the people in the relevant teams, and created an holistic working document of the current state of the team. During the workshop itself, Ilan used various techniques and tools to assist people realize evaluate their teamwork. And what does it mean to be a team and how they can continuously improve their joint work. This workshop still resonates in the organization, not only with its deliverable, but mostly with the massages we got out of it. It was used as a reference for discussions on organizational structure concepts and added important parameters to our decision making