As an Agile & Engineering Consultant

·        Setup new Scrum teams, process and engineering practices for various clients.

·        Help teams to understand the values and principles behind the Lean Agile mindset.

·        Conduct Lean workshops to align Scrum teams and Stakeholders to the product vision and drive MVP.

·        Coaching Scrum Master on how they can best facilitate their teams to keep them at their highest level of productivity and identify any dysfunctions in the team and help them to deal with.

·        Facilitating various guild programs in the organization to build capabilities and CoPs.

·        Work closely with new teams to help them to be self-organize, follow process correctly and adhere to XP practices to ensure quality deliverables.

·        In line with Spotify engineering model for team maturity.

·        Collaborate with and within the teams to understand challenges at team(s) and organization level and work with delivery and leadership team to resolve them.

·        Work with POs and stakeholders to coach them effective release planning help then to create and manage project release plans.

·        Being an Agile Coach, work very closely with Scrum Teams and business and help transform them to be responsive to the market changes.

·        Key owner for the ProSeed program, to train and educate new joiners on Scrum framework (PSM – Scrum.org) and company culture and values

·        Accountable for the Agile Maturity Assessment (AMC) for the Scrum teams and work with team(s) to create committed and actionable items backlog and provide variety of governance packs to higher management and stakeholders

As an Engineering Manager

• Manages scrum team(s) and accountable for delivery of products or services from quality, schedule & process perspective to meet DDR cell requirements around design, development, testing, deployment and support
• Understanding client requirements and helping them to achieve their goals by defining needs, develop plans, coordinate resources and implement action plans.
• Excellent knowledge on development methodologies (Agile) and ability to manage multiple projects/Scrum teams to meet deadlines.
• Have strong interpersonal, collaboration and influential ability to gain results from cross-functional teams.
• Manage resource assignment, project schedules, and monitor project work to ensure progress alignment with expected deliverables, timeline, and budget
• Governing project progress/status and updating customers and management
• Responsible for ensuring the deliveries follows defined program level processed like TDD, ATDD, BDD, Continuous Delivery & Integration, code Unit Test cases, test automation, integration testing etc
• Managing project related issues, changes, contingencies during project phases and communicating with stakeholders
• Collaborate with other teams and other project IT needs
• Actively involved in ensuring agile practices are followed across the release including Sprint Planning & grooming, release planning etc.
• Create accountability & ownership within the scrum team to deliver within the Agile lifecycle
• Ensuring information is flowing appropriately, analyzed and consumed by the team and used to improve software delivery practices
• Manage release level risks/issues/dependencies from delivery activities and escalate to higher governance structure like scrum of scrums
• People Management bring right talent at right place to ensure deliveries

Frameworks & Models

Scrum, KANBAN, XP, Spotify

GTHA – Global Team Health Assessment Framework

Technology

Microsoft Stack (.NET 4.0)

Interpersonal Skills

Listening, verbal and non-verbal communication, assertiveness, Self-management, Problem Solving and Accountability

Coaching & Consulting

Transformation, Facilitations, Collaboration, Conflict Navigator, Courage, Mentoring & Teaching and Enabler

Engineering Management

Release planning, DevOps, CI/CD, Risk Management

Tools (ALM)

JIRA, VersionOne, AgileCockpit and TFS