Manohar Dondlapally
San Jose, CA/USA
My certifications
Certified Scrum Professional® - Developer
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster
Advanced Certified Scrum Developer℠
Certified Scrum Developer®
Certified ScrumMaster®
About
- Over 17 years of IT experience in Team Management and Software Product Development with Waterfall and Agile models.
- Over 10 years of experience as Agile Coach/Scrum Master in delivering multiple initiatives.
- Over 11 years of experience using Agile methodologies and techniques.
- Responsible for instilling Agile principles in a global IT organization through training, facilitation, process awareness, and coordination.
- Developed and deployed a robust, multi-segmented training curriculum to introduce Agile principles and Scrum to distributed project teams.
- Mentored Scrum Masters in Test Driven Development (TDD), release and iteration planning, Reviews and Retrospectives.
- Implemented Agile (SAFe/Scrum/Kanban) at Portfolio, Program and Team levels.
- Assisted Scrum Masters and Product Owners in facilitation techniques for all Scrum events.
- Motivated team members on Agile leading practices by consulting and educating them.
- Recommended and used various Agile tools.
- Provided one-on-one support to specific Agile roles.
- Enabled multiple development teams to implement techniques learned through training.
- Assisted teams and team leaders by solving issues, risks and blockers and made them self-organized.
- During the Agile transformation, worked with Agile Transformation Committee and other Scrum Teams to guide and lead through the transformation effort.
- Handling multiple scrum teams (up to 4 teams) simultaneously which are geographically distributed
- Organizing the release planning sessions with all the X-Verticals
- Ensuring iteration-based meetings are effectively facilitated, the outcomes are achieved and their cadence is maintained
- Leading the Scrum of Scrums
- Assisting the teams with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and tasking
- Proactively identifying and removing blockers, limit work in progress and prevent distractions
- Improving the product by continuously getting the feedback during reviews
- Collaborating with project leads to aggressively address issues, risks and mitigation plans
- Partnering with project leads to ensure the team is producing a solution that meets established standards, procedures and practices
- Facilitating retrospectives, sharing metrics to identify and implement improvements
- Assisting with internal and external communication by transparently radiating information, especially relative to historical team metrics, progress towards iteration and release goals, and team capacity
- Structured the teams of the complete PayPal Check Out group (17 teams) towards Agile transformation
- Playing a critical role in agile transformation by constantly monitoring the process and getting the feedback from the fellow scrum masters.
- Effective and high usage of Rally for Agile process management.
- Customized Rally at the enterprise level (RPM) during Agile transformation.
- Managing integration, interdependencies, and alignment of projects and/or tracks of work within and across functions as required.
- Done Program level coaching by training different teams, in Agile.
- Creating a project delivery schedule that includes resource and material requirements
- Leading Kanban teams as needed, for production support.
- Superior problem management and troubleshooting skills in high-pressure situations.
- Full system life cycle experience: analysis, designing, coding, testing, performance tuning, installing, documenting, maintaining.
- Possesses excellent analytical, problem-solving and learning skills as well as a keen interest in emerging technologies.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2012-08-13 - present - PayPal Thru' Avenues Intl Inc (Scrum Master/Agile Coach)
- 2007-08-02 - 2009-07-24 - ESRG, LLC thru' Eureka Technocrats Inc (Scrum Master)
- 2009-07-06 - 2012-07-31 - HBO Thru' Avenues Intl Inc (Scrum Master/Project Manager)