Sivakanth Badigenchala

Sivakanth Badigenchala is an enthusiastic, hardworking, determined engineer with over 14 years of experience in the Software Quality Assurance and a passionate Agile professional with over 7 years of enriched Agile experience as a Scrum Master, a Mentor, a Coach and a Change Agent in driving the teams towards being Agile by principle and along the way, applying, enhancing his skills and knowledge and to involve, invent and grow along with the teams that he helps transform to be Agile. Been a core member of Agile Center of Excellence Focus group at the Organizational level. Expertise in Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and TDD methodologies. Possess good communication and presentation skills with strong academic orientation and unparallel team management capability. Very well organized and well planned professional and this has always been a key reason for timely and successful closure of all the projects/assignments. Flexible to adapt any work environment and teams and always been an active team player supporting team and project commitments. Strong interpersonal skills resulting in exceptional rapport with people. Organizing Scrum events including Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, Daily Scrum meetings, and Sprint reviews to PO and stakeholders as well as Product Backlog refinement sessions. Coaching and mentoring new team members in Scrum values and encouraging full participation from every team member. Be a servant Leader by helping the team in case of any impediments to achieve sprint commitments and foster the team to be self-organizing, Monitoring the agile metrics like Velocity, Burn Down chart etc., using Agile tools such as Rally and reporting them to the stake holders, Represent the team in Scrum of Scrums meeting and try to resolve any inter-team dependencies Protect the team from any out side distractions and motivating them to complete the sprint commitments on time Responsible for the quality of the sprint deliverables.