Iteration Manager at Mahindra Satyam
Bangalore, Karnataka 560100
India

November 2012-Present

Role: Iteration Manager – Agile Coach. • Release Planning. Scope & Schedule planning. MOSCOW Model • Facilitating IPM - Iteration Planning Meeting & Facilitating Pre- IPM in distributed team. • Jira Tool Administration. Agile Wall monitoring and Task movement. • Iteration Backlog Creation & Monitoring. Scope Adjustment • Risk Register & Mitigation meetings/ Action Items. • Facilitating Retro Meeting using Ideaboardz and Video Conferencing. • Kanban Board / Physical Agile wall maintenance & Visualization on task progress. • 8. Facilitating effective use of Kanban Board for both Onshore & Offshore team. • 9. Story estimation using Planning Poker - Fibonacci series. • Retro using 3 point Voting System. • Metric Preparation. • Facilitating & participating Story Elaboration Session with business team & SMEs. • Facilitating VC, Lync & Skype communication with Onshore & Offshore. • Participate in defining Test Strategy. • Involved in defining Acceptance Criteria & Business description for each Story Level. • Revisiting Project Artifacts and Revisit Action items on Retro points. • Capacity Planning. • Project Charter Preparation. • Account Level Agile Coaching • Conducting Workshops, Seminars & Agile Training. • Support Presales. • Prepare RFI – Agile Response. • Mentoring and coaching team on Scrum, XP. • Customer collaboration through VC, Skype, VOIP call. • Product Life Cycle management activities. • He has worked with setting up the AGILE eco-system right from process definition, installation of appropriate tools, metrics collection & tracking progress. • He is involved as a SPOC for setting up Agile Experience Center to serve as one stop shop for customer to demonstrate agile execution capabilities. • Active participant on Governance & Strategic Meetings.

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Project Lead Scrum Master at Ness Technology
BANGALORE, Karnataka 5600100
India

April 2008-April 2010

XP Coach • He is a consultant working with multiple accounts on agile knowhow/implementation with coaching cross-functional teams on Agile & Lean practices. • As a member of Agile COE & Lean Practices, he identifies potential Scrum masters in the organization and provides them hands-on training to be Scrum-ready. • He is actively working with customers across verticals (BFSI, Infrastructure etc.) in identifying agile bottlenecks & aiding adoption under various pricing models like T&M (Time & material) and FB (Fixed Bid) projects, Incremental delivery etc. • He has been involved in pre-sales activities responding to RFP’s for customers across BFSI & Information systems like domains. • Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Retro. • RALLY Tool Administration. Agile Kanban Board and Task movement. • Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog Monitoring. • Risk Register & Mitigation planning. • XP Artifacts & Practices: Pair Programming, Refactoring, TDD, ATDD, Continuous Integration CI • Work with users and Business Analysts team members to define requirements, priorities, delivery time requirements and acceptance criteria.

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