Rohan Bhokardankar

• A technology driven Agile Coach with 21 years of experience in IT Project Management, People Management and Development. Championed cultural change leading to adoption of True Agile Methodologies.
• Experience of working in a global environment, was onsite in Australia, UK, US, Singapore and Thailand.
• Coaching more than 1500+ members in Agile and enabling organizations transition to Agile from 2010. Travelled to Japan, Germany and Switzerland to deliver Certification courses for clients as well as Wipro teams. Helping to create a strong COP with Digital-Agile-Devops competency for the company.
• Passionate to stay abreast of the latest Agile-Scrum-SAFe, DevOps, Lean and Management trends. Speaker in Agile conferences: APGI, Pune Agile - Unconference, Agile-Gurugram
• Understanding Product and Solution management and stakeholders needs, thus ensuring strategy and execution alignment, by leading agile adoption initiatives. Have developed key agile Analysis and Governance practices & Metrics, which are essential for agile to be accepted by management and successfully adopted at the account / programme level.
• Guided (Hands on) approach to ensure, agile processes of Sprint Planning, PI planning, Agile Release Train processes, Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review and Retrospection are followed, and impediments do not affect the Sprint / PI cycle.
• Guiding and Coordinating activities on the Agile Release train, automating the Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Helping product owners release business value faster and iterate to a releasable solution.
• Help the team retrospect, to the find the symptoms / root cause and use their expertise and buy-in to find permanent solutions. Maintaining strong relations with the client throughout the program lifecycle.
• Special Attributes include:

• Motivator and team builder strong interpersonal skills & determined to excel without compromising with quality. Determined to keep “Team first” attitude.
• Highly positive attitude, adaptable to demanding situations, update regularly with emerging trends and technology especially in areas of expertise; constantly in pursuit of knowledge
• Sniff problems quickly and after analyzing, able to give context sensitive advice.

Functional Skills

• Formulation of Agile policies and processes, building a receptive environment for self-organizing teams for healthy growth.
• Creating high level Plans, RFP’s for scheduling (Offshore-Onsite) delivery management for deliverables of projects.
• Facilitating the PI planning event by fostering Continuous exploration, Refining Product Backlogs and ensuring the readiness for the event.
• Setting up Test Driven Development using Red >Green > Clean Test Code >> Refactor.
• Preparing Transformational roadmap and helping organizations to doing, thinking and being Agile.
• Mapping requirements & providing them best solutions involving evaluation & definition of scope of project and finalisation of project requirements, creating specifications and getting their acceptance from all stakeholders.
• Managing Risks by monitoring and preparing risk mitigation as well as contingency plans, to minimise their impact, throughout the project.
• Responsible for on-going client satisfaction, manage peer-level client relationships (expectations, communications, negotiations, escalation, feedback).
• Customising product backlog accordingly and consulting with technical team to provide solutions.
• Coordinating projects on global delivery model which involves teams sitting in different geographical locations with communication barriers; acting as escalation point to resolve issues for all support issues; driving resolution of customer's technical support issues.