I’m a Dallas-based digital transformation and Agile coach. For 15 years I’ve helped organizations, from a national telecom ministry to US healthcare and banking, modernize how they plan, build and deliver. Now that includes AI.
Blanche Kalala is a digital transformation and Agile coach and Senior Scrum Master based in Dallas, Texas. She has about 15 years of digital experience, beginning at the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and New ICT and continuing through healthcare, banking, consulting and higher education in the United States.
Today she leads AI teams and the AI development lifecycle (AIDLC) as a Senior Scrum Master at Aya Healthcare, program-manages a talent marketplace, and mentors Scrum Masters. She also founded DigiAfri, a digital consultancy offering Agile coaching and AI governance.
Digital transformation fails when new tools sit on top of old ways of working. I change both together: the operating model, the delivery practices and the technology, starting with how your teams work today.
Moving organizations from Waterfall projects to product-minded Agile delivery, and from manual processes to digital ones, without losing control of scope, budget or quality.
Bringing AI teams into a delivery rhythm: an AI development lifecycle (AIDLC), clear guardrails, and review points that keep models and people accountable.
Hands-on mentoring for new and growing Scrum Masters: facilitation, stakeholder management, and running retrospectives people actually look forward to.
Coordinating multi-team programs from roadmap to release, with planning built on real capacity and quality built in from the start.
Start small with a call or a health check. Scale up to ongoing coaching once we both see the fit.
I work in short cycles, the same way I ask your teams to. You see progress every release and can change direction at any review.
Sit in on ceremonies, map the flow of work, and talk to the people doing it.
Set a baseline for commitment accuracy, cycle time and escaped defects.
Try one improvement per release, inspect it at the retro, and keep what works.
Coach internal Scrum Masters so the practices outlast the engagement.
Selected programs across government, healthcare, banking, consulting and higher education. Each one changed how an organization delivers.
Context. A healthcare staffing company building AI capabilities alongside its product teams.
What I did. Pioneered the AI teams’ delivery model and an AI development lifecycle (AIDLC), and program-managed a talent marketplace product.
Context. A Big Four firm’s GenAI program needing a steady delivery rhythm.
What I did. Agile coach for the program, aligning teams on cadence, planning and review.
Context. A large public university moving project teams toward Agile.
What I did. Agile coach and Scrum Master; managed a group of Scrum Masters and coached teams through the shift.
Context. Infrastructure, Security and Identity & Access Management teams at a health company.
What I did. Scrum Master bringing release planning and visible flow to operational, interrupt-driven work.
Context. The DRC Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and New ICT.
What I did. Began my digital career on national telecom and ICT programs, where I first saw how much delivery discipline matters at scale.
Context. 10+ engagements across healthcare, education, e-commerce, technology and sports.
What I did. Founded DigiAfri to deliver Agile coaching, AI governance and digital projects.
Practical tools I built in the field and refine with every team.
A planning tool that accounts for time off, ceremonies and support load before the team commits. Release commitments became more accurate, and teams stopped over-promising.
Testing moves into refinement and design, not the end of the release. The result was fewer defects and shorter cycle times.
Structured retrospective formats that look at the system rather than blame people, and build the psychological safety teams need to say what is really happening.
Eight yes-or-no questions about your team. Answer honestly and you’ll see where to focus first. Nothing you click leaves this page.
A strategy only counts once it reaches a customer. My job is to make that happen every release.Blanche Kalala
Straight answers about Agile coaching, AIDLC and how working together starts.
A digital transformation coach helps an organization change how it works, not only which tools it uses. I connect the strategy to day-to-day delivery: a roadmap, an operating model built on Agile teams, modern practices such as capacity-based planning and shift-left quality, and, where it fits, AI introduced through a governed lifecycle.
An Agile coach helps teams and leaders adopt Agile ways of working such as Scrum and Kanban. I observe how work actually flows, set a baseline for delivery metrics, coach one improvement at a time, and train internal Scrum Masters so the practices last after I leave.
A Scrum Master serves one or a few Scrum teams day to day. An Agile coach works across teams and with leadership to change how the whole organization plans and delivers. I have worked in both roles and mentor Scrum Masters.
AIDLC stands for AI development lifecycle: a defined process for scoping, building, testing, releasing and monitoring AI features, with governance checkpoints for data, model behavior and human review. I lead AI teams and AIDLC adoption.
Yes. I’m based in Dallas, Texas, serve the Dallas–Fort Worth area including McKinney, Plano and Frisco, and work remotely with teams across the United States. Coaching is available in English and French.
Healthcare, banking and financial services, consulting, higher education, government, e-commerce, technology and sports.
Yes. I have helped teams transition from Waterfall to Agile while keeping control of scope, budget and quality, starting with one team and expanding once the practices work.
With a free 30-minute discovery call. If there is a fit, the next step is usually a delivery health check that sets a baseline and a prioritized plan.
Tell me where delivery feels stuck. I’ll reply within two business days with a few questions and a time for a 30-minute discovery call.