KARUPPIAH CHIDAMBARAM

Karuppiah Chidambaram is a professional, versatile and enthusiastic Agile Coach with over 17 years of collective experience in varied IT projects and roles. He specializes in using Agile and Lean principles and techniques to help technology teams and senior leaders envision, build, and manage profitable technology products and projects. He has the ability to develop, drive and deliver an IT vision and strategy aligned with business goals. As a serious Agile Practitioner, who loves to help individuals, teams, as well as organizations, outperform their expectations by coaching them in techniques that capture business value and customer delight more rapidly. His background and interest span the following areas: Project and Program Management, SDLC, Agile development, Scrum, Enterprise Scrum, Software Quality Management, Process development and Control, Process management, General Management, Kanban, Product development, and management. Karuppiah is a consultant and a trainer, who helps the organizations through their Agile transitions. Karuppiah helps organizations adapt Scrum and other Agile processes in the right way by teaching the fundamentals to all levels in the organizations, coaching teams and designing the overall organizational principles-practices-tools for enterprise Agility. He has Contributed to many software and organizational Agile transformation projects in small to large scale enterprises, Karuppiah's expertise on management and framework design directed him to create high-quality solutions and best practices within the fundamental principles of Agile processes. He has been coaching and consulting companies with a combination of extensive know-how and experience of both the process and practices side of Agile. Karuppiah has worked in various roles in IT Industries, such as Project Management, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Development, Software Quality Assurance, Process definition for ISO-9001: 2008, SEI CMMI, ITIL framework and TL 9000. Karuppiah believes Agile is a mindset more than a framework. He enjoys interacting and coaching scrum practices to project teams and anyone interested in agile. Karuppiah believes in keep learning!  As Onsite Process Consultant, worked in Teradyne, a Semiconductor Division in California Straddled various roles like Project Manager, Delivery Assurance Manager, Process Improvement Champion and Scrum Master for various projects on Retail and Insurance Domains.  Preparation of detailed technical specifications for products and services, performance-based documents depending on the needs of the client Karuppiah Chidambaram has been Graduated as  MBA from Annamalai University (India)  MCA from Madras University (India)  BSc from Madras University (India) And Karuppiah Chidambaram has acquired few Certifications like  Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance  Certified SAFe Agilist from Scaled Agile Academy  Certified Agile Coach from ICAgile Coaching  Kanban Management Profession (KMP) 1 & 2 from Lean Kanban University  Six Sigma Black Belt  Official SEI Training for Introduction to CMMI V1.3 conducted by Ralph Williams.  Certified Software Quality Analyst  Certified Lead Auditor for ISO 9001:2008  Certified Internal Quality Auditor for TL 9000R5  Certified ITIL V3  Certified Sun Java Professional  MCSD Activities/Tasks Performed  Helping business groom/refine Product backlog and establish release Goals.  Developed the Roadmap for all teams to evolve toward predictive velocities  Conduct Sprint Retrospective with Scrum team at the end of each sprint and implement identified improvements  Facilitated Scrum of Scrum calls for different applications following Agile Process  Conducted daily stand-ups in two-week Iterations, facilitated sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning.  Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.  Helped team understand various Agile Metrics, Effective use of Burn-up and Burn-Down Chart, Cumulative flow and other Agile Metrics that help team / PO improve every Sprint / Release.  Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability etc.,  Removed any impediments faced by the teams while making sure the teams are focusing on the right priorities.  Manage the offshore and onshore support model.  Reviewed all the Audit Reports, Conducted Audits,  Provided Process Training to the Account Team  Baselined the Audit Schedule plan, Assigned Auditors for support group and Critical Audits  Provided Weekly Status Report to Corporate and Senior Management.  Tailor / Define Process for Project Specific instances.  Facilitate Non-compliance Defects Closure.  Preparation of Monthly / weekly Quality Assurance Report & reporting to Senior Management