Scrum Master at iGATE
Airoli, Maharashtra 400708
India

May 2011-September 2012

Health Care Project @ UK scope included development, testing (Manual & automation) of enhancements in Agile Scrum Methodology. Customer had to scale up the teams to meet the delivery timelines. During customer visit, I demonstrated iGATE capabilities with respective distributed agile deliveries. I traveled at customer location to understand their agile practice and bridge gaps that would help establish ground rules for distributed agile execution in a multi-vendor scenario. Started with 1 offshore team which scaled further to meet product scope and delivery timelines with quality and customer satisfaction as key success indicators. As a Scrum Master, facilitated both the Product Owner and the team. Below here are basic responsibilities: • Remove impediments/ obstacles that are preventing the team from accomplishing its sprint goals. • Radiate information so to ensure that a team’s progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself • Support the Product Owner various activities like communicating updates and impediments as well as assisting with backlog and release plan maintenance • Facilitate creativity and empowerment for the development team • Improve the team’s engineering practices and tools as needed; to fully facilitate productivity • Act as a hub for all communications i.e ensure that everyone—the Product Owner, the team, and various other stakeholders—are always up-to-speed. • Manage project development from the beginning putting forward agile principles with above Scrum Master Roles and Responsibilities. • Management of projects activities in PeopleSoft 9 which includes (HRMS, Finance & PMS) • Facilitate team to arrive at commitment on sprint scope, goals and deliverable's that support business goals in collaboration with PO, senior management and stakeholders. • Develop full-scale agile release and sprint plans and associated communications documents for scrum ceremonies. Revisit the same regularly. • Effectively communicate project objective to team members and stakeholders in a timely manner. • Proactively facilitate changes in project scope, identify potential risks, and devise contingency / mitigation plans. • Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work. • Conduct project assessment and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements. • Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.

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Scrum Master at iGATE
Airoli, Maharashtra 400708
India

November 2010-April 2011

Trading Project scope included enhancement of existing Web Application in Agile Scrum Methodology. This also had to port functionality from existing Desktop application to the Web Application. Defining distributed agile development model and implemented the same. In no time, customer confidence of executing agile projects in distributed environment was reinstated. I was able to establish this putting forward the best practices and principles of agile development methodology. This brought immense value to customers business and ongoing engagement. At start of the engagement, I traveled to customer location and put together the product backlog for the release, Sprints were planned, ground rules were discussed considering distributed and multi-vendor scenario. While at onsite executed a set-up sprint and initiated development & Testing sprint which continued from offshore location. As Scrum Master, facilitated both the Product Owner and the team. Below here are basic responsibilities: • Remove impediments/ obstacles that are preventing the team from accomplishing its sprint goals. • Radiate information so to ensure that a team’s progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself • Support the Product Owner various activities like communicating updates and impediments as well as assisting with backlog and release plan maintenance • Facilitate creativity and empowerment for the development team • Improve the team’s engineering practices and tools as needed; to fully facilitate productivity • Act as a hub for all communications i.e ensure that everyone—the Product Owner, the team, and various other stakeholders—are always up-to-speed. • Be a team player to receive as much satisfaction from facilitating others’ success as their own.

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