Ramadevi Lakshmanan

Over 20 years of IT experience as an Agile consultant, Agile coach, Senior scrum master, Agile project manager, Support consultant, Techno-functional lead and hard core developer.

• Over 9 years as ‘Agile Consultant’, ’Agile Coach’ and ‘Senior Scrum Master/Agile Program Manager’ for a major Health care customer, a Telecom engagement and a large Banking client.

o Coaching the Spotify Squads under the Tribes on major Organisation level Transformation and Coaching the respective Agile Coaches through ‘Coaches Development’ framework which we developed internally to grow our own Agile coaches.

o Designed ‘Agile Mindset Ladder’ as a Team Centric approach to cultivate the Agile Mindset across the Organisation to bring the sustainable Agility.

o Support client visits in India and abroad by showcasing various agile methods implementa- tion and recommending the appropriate agile practices to the customer business.

o Instrumental for a major ‘Agile transformation’ exercise from water falls into ‘Distributed Agile Development’ and coach the teams on advanced agile practices and SCRUM based agile deliveries from requirements to deployment.

o Enabled DevOps practices and tools to accelerate the agile delivery and formed the Agile DevOps team to ensure the availability and stability of the environments.

o Managed Delivery in Agile and Waterfalls across Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, US and Melbourne locations and established good collaboration practices.

o Enabled Joint Release/Sprint Planning and reported metrics successfully in the multi-vendor integration platform project for a Banking customer.

o Established ‘Scrum of Scrums’ best practices by playing the senior scrum master role in the large health care engagement.

o Conducted agile, project management and estimation trainings with high trainer feedback score and developed many trainers.

o Produced many innovative assets/artifacts/articles and written Blogs on Agile, Scrum, SAFe and Design Thinking and actively participating knowledge exchange forums.

o Published POVs on ‘Fixed price contracting for Agile’, ’Agile and DevOps’ and ’Agile Delivery Enablement’.

• Over 5 years of Client delivery management and project management experience in Manufacturing and Retail domains on multiple technologies including Oracle Applications ERP, Client/Server etc.

o Managed and supported global engagements successfully at customer locations in North America (Minneapolis and Boston) and Singapore for 2 years.

o Managed service delivery across locations (Nearshore, Onshore and Offshore) and delivered ZERO defects consistently.

o Received good customer satisfaction score for all the customer projects worked with.
• Over 6 years of software development and techno-functional consultant experience in JAVA, Oracle

Developer, PL/SQL and Oracle Apps Technical.
o Developed and delivered many client server projects successfully using JAVA and Oracle.o Worked on many enhancements and upgrade projects in Oracle Applications ERP.