Gautam Bhatt

Core Competencies

• Conceptualized and Institutionalized - ACM de-facto Agile Scrum project delivery framework through Creation, Training and Adaption across the organization
• Emphasized culture of trust, customer collaboration, and continuous improvement through learning.
• Developed SharePoint based knowledge base for project practitioners with industry best practices with continuous revision as and when necessary.
• Lead the Community of Practice (CoP) for project practitioners to share best practices and lessons learned
• Coached and Mentored Executives, VPs, Directors, Managers and teams on topics of Agile Scrum, Scrum-ban, Kanban, Leadership and Product Management
• Coached & Transformed 18 Traditional Project teams to Agile and adopt good Project & Agile practices and guide them in following Agile Ceremonies including Backlog Refinement, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Capacity Planning, Daily Stand-up and Sprint Retrospective meetings and document lessons learnt
• Extremely good at building internal and external networks to facilitate smooth Program delivery and communicate the big picture effectively enabling team alignment towards Program success.
• Manage and Report – Enterprise level - Customer Satisfaction, Scope, Schedule, Risk, Quality and Cost using Project Management Tools like – JIRA/VSTS, Microsoft Projects, Time sheets and financial forecast sheets

Accomplishments

• Helped teams improve Acceleration (incremental Velocity) by 5% every 5-Sprints which translated into Aurigo realize 15% revenue earlier than projected so far in FY-2018
• - Better Release planning with Story Point estimation & increased Predictability to executive management, customers and finance on milestones
• - Instrumental in defining best practices for Presales and solutioning process to help define the Scope of Work, Project Estimation & Costing, defining project Payment Milestone, Resourcing and Schedule Management thereby reducing scope creep during project delivery