Sajeeth Kesavan

o Providing consulting to an American Manufacturing giant on improving Business and Technical Agility
o Assisting a major US Retailer in setting up Agile PMO and governance mechanism.
o Coaching an American fast casual restaurant chain to improve their ways of working.
o Provided consultation to setup Governance mechanisms under the Agile Transformation Office for a German multinational automotive maker.
o Coached Wealth & Private Banking professionals of a major British multinational investment bank and financial services holding company using Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework.
o Co-hosted 2 Day SAFe Agilist training for few batches of Mindtree resources at Mindtrees Learning Center in Bhubhaneshwar.
o Coach senior management in Lean Portfolio Management to ensure adoption of best practices from top-down
o As a member of Mindtree Agile Center of Practice, work with peer Agile coaches in establishing leadership for agile teams and overseeing successful adoption of the agile methodologies using Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework within Mindtree and its clients.
o Partnered with CIO areas, provided Agile coaching support to SVS leadership, guided and upskilled them to mobilise and govern their SVS.
o Helped drive momentum of Tech Transformation by providing team/SVS level of communication of overall transformation change, purpose and vision.
o Fostered an Agile Scrum Master/SVS Tech lead Community of Excellence, establishing and sharing best practices across CIO areas, purpose and vision.
o Offer individualized support for people or organizations looking to solve specific agile-related problems.
o Partnered with Pre-Sales team for RFPs and provided ideas for Next State of Agile.
o Provided guidance for Agile transformation in industry groups at Mindtree
o Defined end-state, deliverables, Pilot & Rollout plans for coaching engagements.
o Contributed to advancement of Agile knowledge, tools and processes with Coaching community
o Demonstrated commitment to achieving Agile Center of Practice team goals by engaging in healthy conflict and holding other coaches accountable.
o Provided Agile leadership coaching and training to Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Delivery Managers and members of Quality Function .
o Guided Product Owners in improving user story grooming and understanding Product Metrics and Business Agility.
o Delivered Scrum Fundamentals coaching to teams new to Agile, Advanced team coaching for mature teams and 1x1 Scrum Coaching for Scrum Masters.
o Coached Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile Leads and members of the leadership team on best practices in Agile.
o Establish standards and help teams navigate relevant agile tools and software.
Author coursework and lead agile workshops for both development and functional teams, as well as key stakeholders.
o Promote and advocate a culture of continuous improvement, setting goals and milestones and being accountable for them
o Drive cultural change by championing an agile mindset and ensure the organization is at the forefront of industry best practices.
o Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures across teams.
Respond and Work on Requests for Proposals (RFPs) requiring inputs from Mindtree Agile Center of Practice.
o Guiding Senior Scrum Masters to become Agile coaches through an Agile Guild within Mindtree.
o Coaching agile teams and program level roles at varying levels of maturity (DevOps, Scrum and Kanban teams) to ensure they are following agile best practices and continually improving.

o Helped Personal Investing(PI) business unit to undergo Agile transformation (v1.0 & 2.0) adopting SCRUM, SPOTIFY & SCALED AGILE model.
o Hands on experience in transition of Wealth Management Tribe from Dalian (China) to Bangalore, hiring new resources, onboarding, ramping upto 48 resources across 6 squads within 12 months.
o Coached SIX squads’ and POs to transition to Agile over 18 months.
o Contributed to yearly planning exercise and quarterly portfolio prioritization of key business initiatives.
o Hand hold squads and IT partners in Change management initiatives to help change mindsets and behaviours to squads involved in Project delivery.
o Served as Scrum Master for 3 geographically distributed teams.
o Periodically conducted Scrum Maturity Assessments to measure and improve upon progress of squads Agile Transformation.
o Adept at facilitating scrum rituals, measurement and analysis of agile metrics.
o Active participant in Agile Centre of Excellence community to upskill knowledge on best practices in Agile and learn from peer coaches and scrum masters.
o Cultivated strong working relationship with partner teams & Stakeholders across the organization to identify dependencies and align work priorities.
o Helped squads embrace Fidelity culture, Agile leadership behaviors and principles
o Defined strategies to drive change using Kotter’s model
o Conducted workshops and continuous coaching on Agile, Mindset Change, Problem Solving, TDD, BDD, Design Thinking and Agile ceremonies to squads, POs and Chapter leaders.
o Worked with squad leads, squad members and Scrum Masters to navigate through various stages described by Tuckman (Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing)
o Prioritize & write stories using INVEST & Definition of Ready
o Define and refine Definition of Ready and Done for user stories, formulating teams working agreements
o Solving problems through efficient framework of patterns and practices.
o Protected squads from outside distractions, impediments, team conflicts & maintain focus on product backlog & squads goals.
o Resolved interpersonal problems between squad members by asking powerful questions, empowered squads to be assertive and demonstrate empathy.
o Educated and reinforced scrum framework and agile methodology to squads, POs and multiple key stakeholders.
o Experimented with various Estimation & Retrospective techniques.
o Provided constructive feedback to squad members to help drive up agile maturity.
o Introduced various Team building and Ice-breaker exercises to create bonding between team members.
o Identified, escalated & mitigated various Risks and Challenges faced during the execution of the project.
o Trained Product owners on backlog management, prioritization and value driven metrics.
o Upskilled my knowledge on Google Analytics, Test Automation with Behaviour Driven Development using Cucumber and Protractor, MonoRepos, Azure Cloud, DevOps and CI/CD practices.
o Facilitated Ideate & Hackathon session for Engineering teams.
o Received appreciations for driving agile process improvements, mentoring other squads and pursuing continuous improvements to reduce wastages and maximise squads performance.

o Collaborated in solving problems with peer team Scrum Masters and development teams.

o Identified and addressed knowledge gaps through trainings and workshops for scrum teams and management on the agile principles and values.

o Improved product quality and squads’ productivity by enacting change and continuous improvement.

o Participated in release planning meetings and Scrum of Scrums to ensure incremental releases of product features.

o Worked closely with product owner on maintaining a healthy backlog.

o Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment and role training resulting in noticeable improvement in velocity.

o Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.

o Created templates for standard BAU changes that does not require management intervention thus reduced time taken to implement ad-hoc low priority changes into production.

o Setup an IT Project Management Office and steer individuals towards monitoring of schedule, cost, time and quality of project deliverables, establish financial and systems controls including budgeting and auditing of project expenditure worth $46 mn.
o Facilitated setup of contracts and their administration, assisted Programme Manager in planning and monitoring progress of a strategic IT Supply Chain Management solution.

o As Porfolio Manager for PwC (UK), directed several projects under Knowledge & Markets (K & M) portfolio for UK region with annual budget of £ 1.5M, comprising a number of high profile, complex new products and upgrades. As Project Manager, directly supervised 3 offshore project managers and approximately 30 team members(offshore + onshore) in delivering approximately 27 development projects using agile.
o As Project Manager for The Home Depot (USA), built, lead and managed a 14 member offshore team from scratch, performed due diligence on legacy store applications and transitioned them to offshore team. As Lead, Developed, enhanced and maintained Payment Card Industry (PCI), Store Systems Integration (SSI), Asset Protection, Tool Rental and e-Commerce testing.
o As Solution Architect for British Telecom (UK), identified a replacement for a configuration management tool by name Synergy. Evaluated and proposed Borland “Star Team” as a platform for co-coordinating and managing the entire software delivery process across distributed teams.Automated build management with Star team and ANT scripts using Borland APIs.
o As Developer for Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore), supported Single Customer Identifier (SCI), a Wholesale Banking application and “ATLAS Global Markets” . Worked as a developer to re-architect an application (SCI 2.0) to conform to Basel Capital Adequacy Accord.