Gajanan Govindwar
Richmond, VA, USA
My credentials
Certified ScrumMaster®
About
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Title: Agile/Scrum Coach
- Over 18+ Years of experience in IT with CMMI-5 organizations like Wipro Technologies and clients like UBS, Capital One Bank, Credit Suisse, General Motors, Deutsche Bank, Close Brothers
- ICP ACC certified Agile coach and SAFe SASM, PMI-ACP, CSM certified lean-agile practitioner, experience in driving Scrum, Kanban, and XP practices in various roles including Agile Coach in various scaling frameworks including SAFe and Spotify
- Experience in conducting an assessment of the current state of teams and programs and setting up a coaching plan for agile transformation in collaboration with Business and release management
- Collaborate with business, Technical leadership, RTE, and teams to provide coaching on PI planning, Release train activities, mid-PI correction, Inspect and Adapt, and other pre and post-ceremony activities
- Created and conducted customized training courses for Scrum Master, Product Owner, Architects, and Agile Team for various clients, to overcome the challenges faced by the program
- Nurturing the cultural shift by coaching various roles on ‘Healthy communication’, ‘empathy’, ‘Trust’, ‘psychological safety
- Foreign Onsite Experience- Worked with top clients like Capital One Bank, Credit Suisse, General Motors in the USA for 6 years on H1B
- Experience in providing Agile Coaching to various types of teams including feature teams, prod support in robotic process automation, Digital Transformation, cloud migration, AI-ML, SAP teams
- Mentoring and providing directions to teams on agile ceremonies and helping to manage cross-team dependencies, resolving impediments, identifying suitable Metrics
- Knowledge to coach teams on JIRA workflows and Dashboard for Scrum /Kanban
- Knowledge of various CICD tools/applications including Github, Jenkins, Cucumber
- Experience with alternative scaling agile frameworks/models based on Spotify way of working and OKR
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2007-01-01 - present - Wipro Ltd (Agile Coach)