Manish Gandhi

Manish Gandhi has twenty (20+) years’ experience in Software Engineering, Technology, Product Development, and Information Technology. Last 8 years have been devoted to Agile adoption and transformations. Results driven with a solid understanding of the challenges associated with globally distributed teams in Scrum environment. Successfully worked at large strategic Agile projects/programmes for Fortune 500 organizations (Citibank, Travelers, Schneider Electric, Disney, First Data) as an Agile Consultant, Scrum Master, Agile Project and Program Manager and Agile Coach.

High points :  

• Offered industry best practices and processeson Scrum and Agile.Partnered with leadership to initiate Scrum Suitability/Readiness assessment to make sure that Scrum is a good fit. Worked with leadership team to determine training plan and coaching need
• Provided the team with necessary advice when it’s needed. Followed the agile and lean rules himself during daily work. Helped team to improve their performances. Helped team to instill self-awareness, and the necessary skills to identify and remove impediments as well as be in control of their own destiny
• Completed assessments of the current state of Scrum implementation within the teams and provided coaching plan to address the areas of opportunity found during the assessment
• Presented Agile and Scrum topics in the organization wide speaker series to socialize scrum values and principles
• Involved in rollout of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) 
• Launched and contributed to Scrum Master Communities of Practice (SM CoP) and Product Owner Communities of Practice (PO CoP)since last 6+ years
• Drive “Scrum of Scrum” adoption (primarily Program and Team-level) 
• Training  and Coaching :
  • Leading and mentoring teams during iterative development cycles while delivering committed results
  • Facilitated and educated the teams to enhance Scrum and agile skills. Conducted Agile virtual boot camp and agile overview, Leadership, Product Owner and Scrum Master training.
  • Coached Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Development teams in the use of Agile practices
  • Guide teams in setting up development environments that enable test-driven development (TDD), automated builds and automated acceptance testing
  • Developed Executive-level briefings on Agile activities and presented to Senior Leadership in Agile Transformation  reviews
  • Focused on training the teams to write good user stories, prioritize the work based on business value and handling of the tasks by the team. Conducted user stories writing workshop for the BAs and product owners to share, learn and develop user story writing skills. Worked with the product owners and teams on product planning and backlog refinement to maximize value to the business stakeholders

• Supported projects by implementing Agile Life Cycle Management Tool – “Rally” to manage backlog and also helped to generate and analyze business metrics to be reported
• Ensured improvement areas, lessons learned and best practices are documented, maintained and implemented to support on-going business process improvement initiatives.