Siddharth Shukla

Siddharth Shukla is an agile enthusiast, a servant leader and a self-motivated result orientated professional with 14 years of experience. He started his career as a developer and is currently working as a successful Scrum Master. He has rich experience in development (exposure to .Net technology), system analysis and project management. He has good international experience including handling assignments in United Kingdom. He has successfully managed and lead cross-functional scrum teams to higher performance by using scrum and agile practices. He works consistently towards improvement of processes and quality of team’s work. He is known for ability to produce high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets. He has been the follower of scrum rules and challenged team(s) to improve their processes and team culture. He encourages open and transparent communication to deal with any kind of impediments. He is passionate towards leadership and strongly believes in leading by example.

Some of his noticeable key points are:

• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.

• Helping teams in resolving their impediments and protecting them from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.

• Supporting product owner in exercises such as story writing workshops, user story mapping and estimation.

• Mentoring and teaching agile methodologies to team members and product owners.

• Promoting empowerment of the team and ensuring that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution.

• Helping agile team(s) in maintaining burn down chart.

• Coaching team on managing product quality and delivering as per sprint commitments and deadline.

• Encouraging collaboration between the development team and product owner.