Kaushik Saha

 

KAUSHIK SAHA

 

PROFILE SUMMARY

CSM, CSPO, CSP-SM, CSP-PO - Scrum Alliance

ICP-CAT, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF - ICAgile Consortium

TKP, KMP1, KMP2 - Lean Kanban University

Certified Disciplined Agile Practitioner  - Disciplined Agile Consortium

PSM I, PSM II, PSPO I, PSPO II, PSD I, PAL I, SPS - Scrum.org

SAFe 4 Agilist , SAFe 4.5 Product Owner / Product Manager - Scaled Agile Academy

• A dynamic professional with 14 years of national and international experience in Business Analysis, Agile Coach & Mentor/Scrum Master/Product Owner, Customer Relationship and Team Management.
• 4 years of experience in Agile Coaching, Mentoring, Training and Consulting
• 5.5 years of experience in Agile Project implementation
• Domain expertise includes Banking Mortgage, Education, Insurance, HealthCare, Travel & Tourism and Retail-based Software Products, Mobile Applications, Enterprise Resource Planning and Supply Chain Management System
• Executed Agile-Scrum based delivery for Scrum Teams  as a Business Analyst Lead
• Demonstrated success in end-to-end project management and ensuring effective management of various resources to meet project specifications
• Significant experience working with customers, project managers and technical teams for executing concurrent projects
• Proficient in end-to-end development of software products/projects from inception, requirement specification, planning, designing, implementation, configuration management, documentation and closure
• An effective communicator with expertise in communicating all levels of the organisation

 

SKILL SET

Waterfall Model: Requirement Development (Requirement Elicitation, Requirement Analyzing, Requirement Documentation (Functional Requirement Specifications and Requirement Review) and Requirement Management (Change Requirement Management and Requirement Traceability)

Agile Model: Create and Maintain Product Backlog for User Stories created with Confirmation Acceptance Criteria and prioritizes each story and communicates to Scrum Team with explanation and size for each story to fit into Sprint Backlog and also Play Scrum Master Role for tracking sprint progress, facilitating ceremonies and removing roadblocks.

 

MAJOR ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES IN AGILE-SCRUM METHODOLOGY IN CSS CORP PVT. LTD. (Client - Capita PLC)

Highlights :

Gathered and understood business requirements; prepared User Stories with   Mockup Design and Acceptance Criteria;

Maintained and prioritized user stories in the Product Backlog in an Agile   Environment (using JIRA and WIKI Tools)

Estimated User Stories in Story Sizing Meeting with Planning Poker

Present User Stories to Scrum Team at Sprint Planning Meeting

Clarifies and Answers Questions to Team during Sprint

Review Stories with Team and Stakeholders in Sprint Review Meeting

Work with Team at Product Refinement Meeting

Interfaced with the Scrum team (co-located in UK and Chennai)

Visited UK for 6 Weeks to meet the clients and requirement gathering

MAJOR ROLES/RESPOSIBILITIES IN AGILE-SCRUM METHODOLOGY for ISG Novasoft Technologies Ltd.

 Work as a Product Owner under Chief Product Owner 

 Expand Product Backlog with User Story.

Write each User Stories with Card, Conversation and  Confirmation Acceptance Criteria

Estimate each story in terms of effort, complexity, risks, etc.

Present stories to development team with explanation in terms of functionality.

 

MAJOR ROLES/RESPOSIBILITIES IN AGILE-SCRUM METHODOLOGY for NIIT Technologies Ltd.

 Play Scrum Master Role with Business Analyst in Scrum-based delivery

Track Project Progress with Sprint Burndown Chart and Velocity Chart and

Facilitate ceremonies and Remove impediments

 

MAJOR ROLES/RESPOSIBILITIES IN MPHASIS Ltd. (Client - JetPrivilege Pvt. Ltd)

 Play Product Owner Role as create, maintain, and estimate Product Backlog

 Participate actively in Release Planning Meeting

 Elaborate Product Backlog items by writing/reviewing user stories

 Play Agile Coach role by mentoring team on Agile - Scrum Execution Process