About Me
Summary:
➢ 17+ years of IT experience (Banking & Insurance, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, Telecom & Media, Data migration, DevOps, Logistics/Shipping) comprising of 10+ years working as the Senior Scrum Master and Agile Coach for software development and services organization teams
➢ 14+ years of experience working in Agile, Spotify and SAFe (Scaled Agile) Environments; enabling organizations and teams to cultivate Agile mindset, culture and practices.
➢ Coached 20+ teams in supporting Agile Transformations, engagement & adoption of Agility and cultural mindset change to achieve self-organization & collaboration through empowerment. Coaching team members on Agile values & principles in order to focus on collaboration, communication and Customer value based outcomes.
➢ Coaching and mentoring development teams, Product owners & Scrum masters on User story writing, story splitting and INVEST, estimations, DOD(Definition of Done), DOR(Definition of Ready), User Story Mapping, Product backlog management & prioritization, backlog refinement. Regular 1:1 with members, POs for individual coaching and mentorship.
➢ Proactively assess, plan and monitor teams Agile Maturity, health metrics and product/project needs. Well versed with training & coaching Agility and Agile frameworks Scrum, Kanban, XP, BDD, DDD.
➢ Fostering, motivating and supporting teams as a motivator and servant-leader to self-organize, to transition from being good teams to excellent teams, to become result driven and delivery oriented.
➢ Partner with Engineering and Product leaders to remove roadblocks and align on their expectations in achieving desired outcomes, results and deliverables. Built relationship with Product owner and other stakeholders to facilitate team’s interaction with them
➢ Hands on experience in XP practices and coaching teams on CI/CD, TDD, BDD, ATDD & Pair programming.
➢ Involved in software design & development at a great extent to achieve commendable results. Extensive experience in applying design patterns for application development.
➢ Well versed with Agile Project Management and tools like JIRA, Rally, ADO(Azure Devops), ServiceNow, Leankit, Trello, Confluence etc. JIRA administrator to customized workflows, boards, Dashboards, Themes, permissions, schemes, plugins, Jira cloud migrations, Jira cloud automations.
➢ Coaching, guiding PMs & team members along with Group coach & chapter members on managing SAF OKRs using JIRA roadmaps to create more alignment & transparency for the teams as well as across the Group.
