Anil Akkanapragada

With a Master’s degree in computer science and several years of experience leading high-profile, high-pressure software releases, I have the experience, skills, and results-driven attitude to succeed.

Throughout my career, I believe in building relations, building trust and in the process motivating teams and find ways to deliver results.

As a Certified Scrum Master and a Project Manager, I have…

• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline. 
• Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
• Planned and monitored project budget/spending.
• Guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant to scope commitment. 
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down.
• Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning.