Meghana Niranjan Parwate

Meghana Parwate:

ENTERPRISE AGILE COACH | Product Manager | Program Manager I PMO | Management 3.0 | Speaker

• Seasoned IT Professional with rich experience in multiple on-shore / off-shore diverse global teams and roles in PMO.
• Strong experience in agile transformation in large, matrix, geographically dispersed and virtual teams.
• Leading several strategic transformation initiatives for Allstate worldwide. Playing an integral role in internalizing Agile Coaching and formulating a standard assessment to ascertain Agile Process Maturity.

• Leading DevSecOps optimization and Lean Portfolio Implementations as Product Owner for Enterprise Agile Coaching. Involved in new process formulation as well as process redesign.

• As a program manager, successfully led a 150+ people strong program team (agile release train) to deliver the next generation advanced visualization software with SAFe methodology with consistent 85%+ predictability every program increment.
• Successfully delivered projects/programs of variable team sizes with Agile-Scrums, Scrums-of-Scrums and SAFe methodologies ranging from 1 to 20 scrum teams augmented with a blend of TDD and Continuous Integration techniques.
• High focus on technical project management with significant emphasis on NFRs together with functional project delivery.

• Well versed in modern software development practices (Agile Software Engineering, XP, TDD, CI/CD, Domain-Driven Design).
• Successful lead two ALM migrations to TFS. Source code version control system migration from SVN to TFS completed within schedule with a downtime of only 2 working days.
• Profound knowledge of regulatory standards – US-FDA and EU-MDR. Successfully led three pre-market intimations (510K fillings) – all of which are cleared by US-FDA and one clearance in record time of 56 days.

• Authored articles and presentations on Agile-Scrums and LEAN in high profile conferences and events.
• Recipient of several accolades – including management excellence award for managing high-business impacting global project delivery.
• Coached, mentored and trained several team members on Agile-Scrums, SAFe, LEAN, C# and soft skills.
• Proficient in a wide variety of Program/Project Management and Collaboration tools like VersionOne, Atlassian Suite(Jira, Confluence), Mural and MS Teams.