Sagar Mehta
Hinjewadi, Pune
About
Title: Agile Coach
- ICP – ACC certified Agile Coaching professional with dynamic experience of working across cross functional team in various domains
- Certified Professional Agile Leadership (PAL I) with experience on managing board members
- Certified Product Owner (PSPO II & PSPO I) with enriching experience on managing stakeholder requirement
- Certified Scrum Master (PSM II, PSM I & CSM) with experience on enacting as Servant Leader / Change Agent for team enabling Agile transformations
- Certified SAFe 5 Agilist with experience on implementing Scaled Agile and ART
- Onsite experience of 15+ Months with multinational clients like P&G Client - location Costa Rica & Volkswagen Client – location Germany performing roles of Agile Coach / Product Owner / Scrum Master for offshore/onsite team
- Have worked across scrum teams / product owner to ensure product backlogs are prepared, refined, scoped and appropriately prioritized
- Extensive experience of Agile Scrum framework. Co-ordinating and facilitating Scrum ceremonies - Daily standups, retrospectives, Sprint reviews/sprint planning sessions, user stories, Burn down charts with strong emphasis on agile disciplines
- Possess deep knowledge of Agile principles and practices and the ability to transfer that understanding at all levels of the organization
- Have conducted Agile classroom trainings (Basic and Advanced) for various Scrum projects and portfolio teams across various companies
- Servant Leadership and facilitation skills in leading technical teams in the adoption and improvement of Agile methodologies
- While driving successful delivery by outlining expectations and structure for the scrum team, also have focused on ability to empower and motivate team during each iteration
- Have helped the project Scrum teams with best practices to conduct Sprint review/demo and Sprint retrospection meeting
- In multiple capacity, have shielded team from external interferences and ensured that team lives by the values and principles of Agile/Scrum
- In capacity of Agile Coach have successful track record of implementing Agile principles and have provided updates / best practices in market to team on Agile/Scrum
- Have monitored various agile metrics, and diligently shared it with the leadership teams
- Possess strong ability to deal with Senior leadership team and educate them to bring awareness of Enterprise Agility
- Has ability to provide objective guidance, without personal or political consideration
- Proven multitasking skills across various accounts/domains in software services business
- Expertise in problem solving and conflict resolution
- Good understanding of various reports/metrics and hand-on experience with JIRA tool
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2017-10-23 - present - Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited (Agile Coach)
- 2007-12-27 - 2014-08-14 - Cognizant Technology Solutions India Private Limited
- 2014-08-26 - 2016-04-05 - Volkswagen India Private Limited
- 2016-04-06 - 2016-10-14 - Edgeverve Systems Limited (Subsidiary of Infosys) (Scrum Master)
- 2016-11-03 - 2017-10-13 - Capgemini India Private Limited (Scrum Master)