Tech MahindraSenior Project Manager and Agile Scrum Master
Jun. 2013 - Jun. 2015Pune, Maharashtra, India- Actively drove and implemented enterprise agile transition as member of the global tactical team. Lead multiple teams as Scrum Master - manage and facilitate daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, retrospective meetings and proactively resolve blocking issues. - Facilitated release backlog grooming. Prepared and published the project charter, defined project milestones, schedules, resource allocation, dependencies. Tracked & reported project/program progress, identified and resolved issues within established timelines. - In conjunction with the product owner, proactively manage the backlog of stories, tasks, and defects. - Train and educate teams on Agile methodologies and foundational values and principles. - Established working partnerships between the team, business stakeholders and dependency teams (DevOps, ASG, micro-services, Release-train management, PMO) to create an enterprise culture of trust and transparency. - Coached and oversaw implementation of engineering practices like test-driven development, pair programming, test automation and continuous integration. Coached teams on scrum, fostered scrum masters and product owners and empowered teams to self-organize. Spearheaded process change to enable faster defect closure rate with 60% improvement per sprint. - Resolved conflicts, addressed team issues by gathering information, listening, empathizing and negotiating respectfully.