Scrum of Scrum
Infonovum Software and Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Total years of experience :5 years, 11 Months
Implemented Agile Scrum Methodology throughout the organization to improve communications between Development teams
and Business; to provide more transparency across various teams and to obtain great business value with short turnarounds.
Achievements:
• Successfully transitioned four development teams from waterfall to Agile development.
• Empowered different teams to self-organise and grow cross-functionally across the organisation
• Led and coached Product Owners to improve story writing and requirement gathering process
• Maintained task board and produced daily burn-down charts to improve velocity of teams
• Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings for continuous improvements
Accountabilities:
• Ensure all four product teams follow Scrum principles; Scrum master for one of the teams
• Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among teams
• Remove team impediments for multiple cross functional teams on daily basis
• Protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demos
• Collaborate with Product, Business and Development Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs
• Coordinated weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• Monitor resource utilization post release; suggest better resource allocation for upcoming projects
International Workshop:
• Successfully conducted Scrum and Product Owners workshop in Zurich, Switzerland in June’2015
• Enabled Product Owners and Change Management Committee to have product vision and establish transparency
Spearheaded the Scrum teams as a Release Manager for 25 releases(major and emergency) in a span of 20 months resulting in 100% on time deliverables
Achievements:
• Ensured 99% system uptime in production for all releases
• Most sought after trouble shooter having handled over 20 emergency releases
• Implemented new artifiacts to ensure change management across the organisation
• Tracked software bug fixes to ensure no repeat issues occurred in future releases
Accountabilities:
• Oversee, support and guide product releases for clients
• Continuous monitoring and implementation of data refreshes
• Schedule, communicate and manage release train development delivery
• Ensure synchronisation across different products and overall release planning
• Coordinate with Product Owners and Account Managers to ensure on-timely delivery
• Monitor progress and escalate delivery issues to Change Management Committee
• Ensure CTO reviews and approves release schedule and estimated delivery timing
• Review completion of UAT and regression testing for final approval of release train
• Document all releases and create release notes for all Products
• Timely communication to all stakeholders before and after releases, including emergency patches
Products released:
• Co-investment, Carry Interest, Waterfall, Share plan and Total Rewards Portal
As part of a team, developed a robust, yet flexible, accounting framework to administer Carried Interest and Co-Investment Plans
with simple or complex legal entity structures
Accountabilities:
• Implemented modules to address requirements such as capital commitments, capital calls and distributions calculations
• Built application for administering Carry plans: point allocations, vesting rules, termination/forfeiture, and distributions
• Created reports for consolidation and verification of co-invest and carry plans
First Class