mitulkumar1502

Responsibilities: • Oversaw the leadership of sprint planning, sprint reviews, and the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) for all teams within the domain. • Trained tech teams to be self-organizing and made sure they adhered to all Scrum principles and procedures. • Developed automated metrics for Agile/Scrum for the Executive Leadership team. Assisted projects by using the Agile Life Cycle Management Tool, "Rally," to manage the backlog and assisted in the generation and analysis of business metrics that would be reported. • Agile Coaching: Planning and Tracking for Release and Iteration. Led the daily standup, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meetings in addition to doing scrum training. • Worked with the business owner to gather requirements, then turned those needs into use cases. • Performed surveys, interviews, and JAD sessions to gather the necessary data. • Scrum Master for creating a web-based application that will let clients, both internal and external, configure, input, process, and produce tax forms all from one location. • Scrum Master for the Organization Chart team, responsible for creating charts that illustrate customers' IT organization structures and the connections between Partnerships, Partners, Investments, and Investors on a national and worldwide scale. • In charge of team building, resource planning, roadmap planning, release planning, product backlog refinement, and standard Scrum rituals. • Removed obstacles to the completion of the work. • Carried out and observed the assigned tasks. • Provided regular updates on the project's progress to tech stakeholders and product owners. • Keep an eye out for areas that could use development to boost team velocity. • The introduction of new features by sprint planning agreements. • Maintaining constant teamwork within the KPI to guarantee successful sprints. • Constructed sprint backlogs by release cycles and user story estimates, examined the burn down chart to determine the target delivery dates for each sprint, and led daily stand-up meetings. Drew strategy for release plans for product backlogs. • Facilitated organizational transformation and the adoption of Agile concepts, which increased software quality, productivity, and release schedule predictability; this helped to ensure the successful release. Served as an Agile Coach, Scrum Trainer, and initially as a Scrum Master. • Created project-specific themes and epics. • Maintained process documentation and made that the development teams were adhering to the fundamental agile values of transparency, accountability, cooperation, and prioritizing. • Provided support to the Product Owner as needed for maintaining the backlog, communicating with both internal and external parties, increasing openness, and sharing information.

Responsibilities: • Facilitated Agile Ceremonies including Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospectives. • Presently managing two teams’ deliverables. Established the scrum process in the second team, educated the team on the agile process, and help them to understand and follow the scum cadences. • Validate the data in different hops from source to target using SQL queries. (Like count validation, data grain validation, etc.) • Build data profiling and quality reports in PBI using backend SQL queries. • Validate the source data for Quality, Completeness, and Compliance. • Execute the query in AWS Athena to identify business insights of data based on requirements. • Build ad-hoc simple PBI reports for quick business insights. • Track down key personnel at Legal and General America, meet with them directly, and follow up with necessary stakeholders. • Report the status of the projects to RTE in Scrum of Scrum calls and also support the training sessions • Work towards the quarterly capacity of the team to be presented in the PI Planning and presenting the status of the projects to be delivered accordingly committing the size of the project can be committed for the delivery • Assist in overseeing the project's scope, budget, and timeline for specified deliverables. • Verify that the project or projects are finished on schedule and budget. • Maintains awareness of industry and IT trends and applies knowledge of important business unit processes, systems, and initiatives. Participate in the creation of a strategy. • Promote the collaboration of release management tasks across departments. • Manage expectations and scope with stakeholders; encourage interaction with business partners and other stakeholders. • To sustain cloud service operations, identify, assess, and report resource limits inside the cloud environment utilizing data gathered from several sources. • Provided direction and coaching to the multiple Scrum Teams on how to apply Lean and Agile techniques and principles to provide customers with high-quality goods and services. • Closely collaborated with the release train engineer to manage the deliverables, modifications to priorities, risks, and obstacles encountered when carrying out a program increment. • Led the group in developing SMART goals for PI Planning. • Implemented agile processes, adopted and applied agile principles, and assisted a team from across a value stream in embracing agile core values. • Worked with Power BI to update stakeholders on KPIs and report progress. • I worked on the metrics for burn down and burnup and informed the stakeholders of my progress. • Developed SQL queries or verified project data to support the development team. • Managing deployments both automatically (CICD) and manually (notifying the release manager of impending releases, generating change requests, and obtaining approval in CAB meetings). • Closely collaborating with the product owner to establish the priorities for pipeline initiatives. • Developing the release plan to ensure that projects are delivered on time, identifying dependencies, assessing team capability, and maintaining a contingency to notify businesses of the release date. • Tracking the project from conception to delivery, starting with ideation and ending with technical design approval, readiness for sprint, building, testing, and delivery, all of which aid in estimating the project's size from the start to the end. • Coordinating code migrations from non-prod to UAT and from UAT to prod environments with the DevOps and Operations teams. • Work together with the DevOps team to map the QA and development environments and assign release branches so that the team can begin building and testing in a prepared environment. • Arranging feature flag-off testing for lower environments and production when release is postponed. • Developed the team's key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the team's velocity, capacity utilization, rework, effort efficiency, production support, and training, scheduled versus unplanned, bug, backlog, and other costs. • Get the Portfolio Planning deck and Portfolio Retro deck ready for high-level visibility among the business team and leadership. • Holding BAT, DEMO, HOTO, and QA Approach Review meetings for the business team and leadership. • Led biweekly backlog grooming to enable tales to reach a ready-to-sprint maturity level. • Develop bug stories for any errors and user stories for all business requirements. • Determining the resource's need through backlog and capacity planning. • Supported the team in overcoming obstacles. Prevented the team from encountering obstacles during the iteration and eliminated those that had an impact on the team. • Setting up knowledge transfer sessions for new hires and cross-training for resources to improve their skills • Providing updates at Scrum of Scrum meetings, emphasizing the interdependencies and risks across the various teams.

Responsibilities: • Performed daily scrum, sprint planning, estimations, and demos. Tracked the development of the team. • Managed the day-to-day tasks of a scrum master, including organizing stand-up meetings and facilitating communication between the product owner and the development team. Monitored team capacity, reporting velocity, and sprint progress. • Create the data validation report in PBI and utilize ad hoc SQL queries to perform data validation between ERP and data warehouse. • Provide a communication interface to the customer to communicate project status, schedule, requirements, etc. • Manage the project and the project team while contributing to the project scope and objectives as well as ensuring that all steps are completed. • Organize and lead technical teams at various locations while carrying out product development projects • Arrange and oversee internal team meetings to discuss essential tasks and maintain project timeliness. • Oversee internal and external suppliers to ensure timely action completion • Promptly notify management of resource requirements to maintain project timelines • Specify product requirements and project scope to guarantee alignment with market and customer needs and ensure the development of the product/process accordingly. • Verify that all projects, including the formulation, evaluation, and submission of capital requests, the review and submission of product costing data, and the control of project scope creep, are in line with the financial objectives. • Make choices that will expedite the process and guarantee the optimal window of opportunity for volume, profitability, and time to market. • During Product Backlog Refinement (PBR) sessions, I ensured that Design for Manufacturability (DFM) concepts were applied. Additionally, I assisted the team in comprehending requirements. • Helped the product owner organize and prepare the product backlogs for the upcoming sprint. • Managed the wiki, boards, backlogs, sprints, and delivery plans using every facet of Jira, KANBAN, Confluence, and Azure DevOps (ADO) to streamline my team's everyday operations. • Switched to ADO (Azure DevOps) dashboards, used Jira, and other tools to organize the agile ceremonies. • Supported the Product Owner in creating the Product Backlog on JIRA and assigning priorities using Affinity Analysis and MOSCOW prioritization methodologies. Scrum process management using an agile approach. • Effectively facilitated change management by keeping track of changes to business requirements, analyzing their effects, obtaining the required permissions, and managing the backlog of requirements. • Worked together with cross-functional groups to determine and address dependencies. • Helped the team make use of Confluence and JIRA, two project-tracking systems. Assessed and reduced the dangers to the team. • Trained and reinforced stakeholders and team members in the use of the agile framework and scrum methodology. • Focused on streamlining communication, getting rid of obstacles and ensuring the project goes successfully. • Kept an eye on the velocity and burn down charts to see which story points were committed vs finished.

Responsibilities: • Servant Leader and Facilitator for the designated Agile Scrum team daily identified and reduced team risks and obstacles (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) • Searched for strategies to strengthen the team's bonds and foster growth by building trust. • Took responsibility for the team's workflow and established harmony between the Release Train Engineer and the Product Owner • Teams that worked together to implement Agile "Best Practices" such as burn down and up charts, story points, user stories, and backlog grooming. • Using recently implemented techniques to take part in the interview process for all Scrum Master Candidates. • Helped/coached in-house Scrum Masters on applying Scrum and Agile practices. • Conducted reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings in addition to daily stand-up meetings. • Made sure the group is adhering to the fundamental agile concepts of transparency, accountability, teamwork, and prioritizing. • Oversaw the sprint ceremonies, clarified and produced the sprint artifacts, and indicated the speed and performance for each sprint and phase. • To guarantee the efficacy and efficiency of the sprint, artifacts were created, managed, and displayed. • Development-related obstacles have been removed, and there has been good communication with all parties involved. • Gave guidance and instruction on how to use Jira from the standpoint of a super user. • Actively and resolutely backed all initiatives aimed at streamlining and improving the client experience • Helped stakeholders to guarantee that our customers would receive the best products possible. • Observed cumulative flow, burn down, team velocity, and throughput, and worked with teams and release train engineers to make changes. • Owned and fixed team bottlenecks concerning program increments and sprints • Accountable for managing and organizing in-sprint stories, communicating actions to fulfill team commitments, and maintaining the burn down chart. • Worked together with an agile team to make sure that the work that was prioritized was properly planned, groomed, and carried out. • Ensured dependencies were aligned by collaborating with release train engineers, project managers, and other scrum masters. • During sprint review sessions, I collaborated with product owners to ensure that all stories satisfied the Definition of Done and were approved for inclusion.

Responsibilities: • Engaged with stakeholders in the business to collect and refine the business requirements. • Closely communicated with software engineers and designers to learn about end-user sentiment and to comprehend program functioning and navigational flow. In charge of writing tasks, user stories, epics, and bugs. • Use SQL queries to run business rules on the source data set, do data profiling on the source data, and check many data elements, including non-null, data type validation, date formats, and several business-specific rules. • Set up scrum retrospectives and daily stand-up meetings; scheduled demos, meetings, and decision-making procedures to guarantee a prompt inspection and appropriate application of the adaption process. • Converted business features and scope items into epics and user stories by understanding them. • Oversaw the agile methodology's scrum process while coordinating with the scrum team. • Completely agile project execution was carried out using Confluence, JIRA, and other tools. • Helped the Product Owner reduce product backlogs and discover dependencies. • On-time project performance and health dashboards were sent to upper management for oversight. • Determining the significance, ranking, and identification of all project-related risks and problems. • A SQL query that runs to validate the data set and provide an export of the data to meet the ad hoc needs of business customers. • Took part in a high-level analysis of data between the staging layer and ERP tables. • Walkthroughs with the stakeholders were conducted using PowerPoint slides. • Created and examined the Sprint and Product Burn down Chart in order to determine the team's speed.