Manikandan Raman

1. Total work experience of 13 years in Software Development, Software Maintenance, Quality Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Quality Assurance and Project Management
2. Vast experience in Requirements management, Business Analysis, Solution Architecture and Project Management
3. Strong experience in managing Waterfall and Agile projects in line with CMMi L5 and Scrum alliance standards respectively
4. Excellent analytical and logical skills to provide and manage elegant, flexible and maintainable solutions for complex business problems
5. Good written and verbal communication, presentation skills with focused result oriented approach
6. Experience in Scrum, Kanban and SAFe methodologies

Worked as Scrum Master in Mainframe environment and following are the roles and responsibilities:

• Guiding the development team into self-organised effective team through servant leadership and mentoring
• Guides product owner in developing, maintaining and grooming product backlog
• Facilitates Sprint Planning, Release Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospectives
• Removes impediments to keep teams productive
• Implement Scrum practices to implement projects in Mainframe environment
• Opportunities to automate testing in Mainframe environment

Currently working as Agile Coach/Scrum Master with following roles and responsibilites:

• Coaching Scrum and Kanban teams across distributed locations
• Interaction with Scrum Masters and providing feedback on how Agile process and ceremonies can be conducted.
• Helping the business Analyst to write better user stories