Himabindu Saminani

10+ years of experience in Agile project management with responsibilities encompassing various roles as Agile Implementation Lead, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Agile Business Analyst, Agile software developer performing various duties as required starting from development till project management, collaborating teams, facilitating teams, coaching teams about Agile Principles in wide range of Project Domains including Finance, Order Management, Order fulfillment, Demand forecasting, and Marketing & Sales. Highly accomplished, innovative, results-oriented capabilities as a Scrum Master (Servant leader of the Scrum Team) since past 4 years while facilitating and coaching scrum teams to make large scaled software/Web development projects on time delivery and success. Expertise on SCRUM Framework, Agile Estimation/Agile Tools (VersionOne/IBM Rally).Worked on senior executive presentations along with Product Owner to make them aware of how Agile approaches will bring organization to fast turnaround features to market fulfilling competitive requirements of market. Coached the scrum teams about the importance of 5 scrum values, Educated scrum teams as needed with agile training sessions with materials provided (PPT). Ensured scrum teams understanding on Agile Manifesto as well as Business customer satisfaction has been given highest priority by scrum teams.

Always protected teams from outsiders, managed backlogs, tracked/communicated scrum team burn down chart to one level up management. Facilitated daily scrum- time boxed event same time/place for the scrum team. Made team focus on providing answers to the main three questions during daily scrum (What I have accomplished since past 24 hours? What am I planning to accomplish within next 24 hours and any roadblocks?). Actively resolved issues within 24 hours. As required created process flows/workflows to show scrum teams how Scrum Framework works, How Agile Approach will remove impediments upfront and makes project success from cost and time standpoint which are two big aspects of project. Provided sprint burn down part of release planning. Facilitated release planning with Product Owner. Facilitate Sprint Planning sessions, always provided guidance how team should focus on sprint goals, prioritizing features/Discussion around it with Product Owner. Facilitated Product Backlog refinement sessions. Educated High level management about Product Owner roles and responsibilities.

Coached team on writing a good user story with acceptance criteria. Provided guidance on writing Definition of Done. Also well-educated the difference between Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done.

Coached team about agile Estimation and various estimation techniques (planning poker, t-shirt sizing).

Helped scrum team to understand about estimation of user story should be done based on relative sizing which should focus on complexity/effort/uncertainty or doubt. Facilitated Planning poker game with scrum team, while enjoying game team members understand the essence of the game and how it helps to come up with tasks once user story estimation done. It also helps team members to provide their opinion why he/she voted highest point vs lowest point and come to a consensus. Tracked historical velocity by average out sprint user story points completed and accepted by product owner. Shared Velocity trend to team and high level management, Product Owner, Business Customers. Facilitated Sprint Review session with Product Owner, Business Stakeholders and internal team. Provided guidance how to make sprint review success, help team to prepare and get ready for Sprint review. Facilitated sprint retrospective meeting within scrum team and make team members to understand the five scrum value and speak. Excellent Enthusiastic Team player with positive attitude, strong communication skills and maintains collaborative relationships with peers.