GURPREET SINGH

E-Mail: acothq@r.postjobfree.com

Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SAFe Agilist)

Skype: acothq@r.postjobfree.com

Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)

Contact: +54-911-****-****

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Linkedin : http://lnkd.in/deRY9R8

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

CAREER ABSTRACT

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8+ years of Enterprise Lean Agile Coaching (Organization Change Agent,

Product Owner, Scrum Master, etc). Led successful Lean Agile

transformations at multiple Organizations with diverse Products and

Geographies.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY[pic]

. Delivering Strategy Alignment Workshops to manage the Products at the

Strategy / Portfolio Layer

. Establishing Organization Cadence within the given set of Organization

Constraints and Trade-Offs

. Facilitated the creation of the Portfolio & Team Level Metrics

. Working as a Change Agent to bring Organization Level Transformation

. Assisting Scrum Masters to remove the Impediments at the Teams' level

(Scrum of Scrum Meetings)

. Working with Heads of Product to create Program / Portfolio backlog

(Program Planning)

. Helping the Product Owners to Groom the Product Backlog regularly

. Identifying the gap in the requirements and doing the GAP analysis at

Program Planning level

. Formulating core project deliverables including: User Stories, Acceptance

Criteria, Release Plans, Sprint Results, and more.

. Alignment of business priorities with Agile(SAFe, Scrum, Lean and XP)

& PMI methodologies

. Passionate to use latest tools to enhance Productivity and Motivation:

Team Barometer, Agile Radar, JIRA, MPP, TFS, Mingle, Visio, etc

. Diversified Industry experience, including Marketing, Management

Consulting, Mobile Apps, US Health Care and Market Research

. Expertise in working with People (& Clients) belonging to Different

Cultures (Asians, North Americans, Argentines, South Africans, Europeans,

etc)

. Exceptional Servant Leadership skills, adept at recruiting, training,

motivating, inspiring and leading teams

Key skills entail:

Software Development Life Cycle Stakeholders Management

Budgeting / Cost Control

Release Planning Requirements Gathering Product

Management

Documentation & Reporting Risk Mitigation Team

Building

OCCUPATIONAL CONTOUR

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Since Mar'14 with OLX, Buenos Aires, Argentina

. Enterprise Agile Coach for the Company

. Working with the Senior Leadership for implementing the Organization

Changes in the 3 domains:

People, Process & Product

. Removing Impediments across Teams at the Program/Portfolio Levels

. Proven ability to reduce costs during the Software Development phase

. Propelled the culture of XP practices like TDD, Pair programming, etc

. Delivering the Trainings &Workshops on Team Empowerment, Open

Communication, etc

. Assisted the Director of Product to maintain the Program Backlog and

split the same into Team Backlogs

. Created the Bug Management Flow to increase the Quality of Product and

decrease the Turn-around time

. Implemented Scaled Agile Framework after analyzing the Trade-offs between

Constraints and the Success Criteria

. Envisioned/Supervised the Architecture Ramp up project to fill-in the

Architecture gap between the Mobile & Web teams

May'13 - Dec'13 with Accretive Health Services Private Limited, Noida

. Acting as an Agile Coach to assist teams to transition to Agile/Scrum

Methodology

. Responsible for requirement gathering and further break into stories or

task for team to make them clear with Acceptance Criteria

. Work closely with User Experience and technology to define

detailed product requirement.

. Partner closely with the engineering team to help determine the best

technical implementation methods as well as execution schedule.

. Responsible for identifying opportunities, build business cases, and

define product vision and strategy

. Define Specifications for Development and launch new releases of our

enterprise product line

. Responsible for managing product backlogs & prioritize while looking at

business impact

. Analyze business needs and drive the product development

. Defining the product requirements, user experience, beta programs and

launch requirements

. Defining and analyzing success metrics to ensure product acceptance and

quality.

Aug'08 - Apr'13 with McKinsey & Company, Gurgaon

. Product Owner/ Scrum Master for Application Development Teams

. Identification of "as-is" state vs. "to-be" state using a variety of

applicable tools and techniques

. Conducting sprint meetings viz. day planning, reviews, retrospectives,

etc. and releasing it on-time by managing risk and planning the product

construction, sprint by sprint.

. Involvement in Projects right from the Conception phase to the Closure.

. Articulating the product vision and business strategy to the team and

defining goals that realize the product vision.

. Overseeing end-to-end projects, taking complete ownership of the project

through planning, execution and controlling throughout the lifecycle of

the project.

. Transitioned the team to Agile mindset, improving speed of delivery by

10% at the same time reducing defects by 20% over a period of 6 months.

. Envisioned the set up of an Offshore team and it increased the Client

Satisfaction by 20% and decreased the turn around time by 30%.

Oct'06 - Aug'08 with Dell International Services, Mohali

. Product Owner/ Technical Support Expert for Internal Tools Development

Team

. Performing the product discovery sessions to build a product backlog,

envisioning, estimating the product, and planning incremental releases.

. Collecting customer feedback and transforming it into new features or

enhancements.

. Providing feedback and makes decisions that steer the team based on

what's delivered every iteration/sprint.

. Created the wireframes of the complex applications.

. Coordinated with the other Information Technologists to produce high-

quality, IT-enabled applications, products and services.

. Sustaining a keen focus on maximizing business value and minimizing time

to market and prioritizing (the 80/20 rule) and work break-down (divide

and conquer rule)

. Overhauled existing business processes and reduced operations expenses by

20% - digitizing all products

PUBLICATIONS

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Scrum Alliance - Stumbling Blocks - Agile Adoption

http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/440-stumbling-blocks-

What happens when we introduce Agile (Scrum) to a Waterfall team? We face

numerous challenges in adoption the true spirit of Agile. This publication

is all about the challenges faced while adopting Agile and the methods used

to overcome these challenges

Scrum Alliance - Agile Golden Triangle - Agile Mindset & Roles

http://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2014/may/the-agile-golden-

triangle

Agile transformations can be achieved successfully if the Product Owner,

Scrum Master and the Team works as a single entity towards the common goal

of Product's Success.

What happens when we introduce Agile (Scrum) to a Waterfall team? We face

numerous challenges in adoption the true spirit of Agile. This publication

is all about the challenges faced while adopting Agile and the methods used

to overcome these challenges

Slideshare - Realizing the value of Agile in an Offshore PMO

http://www.slideshare.net/gurpreetsinghchadha/realizing-the-value-of-agile-

in-an-offshore-pmo-setup

Agile and PMI methodologies sometimes cross each other paths. What are the

challenges which we would face to use Scrum in a PMI's brainchild like PMO.

This presentation contained the prerequisites to achieve this.

PROJECTS

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Organization Health Index (OHI)

Scope: Organization Health Index is a prestigious benchmark of data. The

Organizational Health Index (OHI) measures and tracks the organizational

elements which drive the financial performance. The application is set up

by creating the front end of questions with the backend of responses and

mapping the responses with the benchmarks present in the database.

Moreover, it also gives the output of the rigorous analysis of this project

in PowerPoint, Excel format, SPSS, etc. This tool is used in almost all

Fortune 500 companies and it is an indicator of Organization Health.

Team Size: 6 Technology: Java, SQL

Staffing Tool

Scope: This application determined the current and future trends of

staffing requirements. It showed the detailed graphical and data-centric

views covering parameters like Projects in pipeline, booked capacities,

available capacities, Budgeting per project, etc. Additionally, the

application facilitated the application of filters like "Individuals",

"Teams", "Lanes", etc.

Team Size: 5 Technology: .NET, DB2

ADDITIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

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. Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SAFe Agilist) from Scaled Agile Academy

(the 1st one in Argentina & 3rd in South America)

. 2 of my blogs were selected & recognized for Scrum Alliance's

Prestigious Newsletter

http://www.scrumalliance.org/CMSModules/Newsletters/CMSPages/GetNewsletter

Issue.aspx?issueId=73#Articles

http://www.scrumalliance.org/CMSModules/Newsletters/CMSPages/GetNewsletter

Issue.aspx?issueId=115#Tips

. Awarded the Most Valuable Blogger

. Recognized as the "Be the Reason"

. Organized Fun@Work

. Conducted many open house sessions on SCRUM, Lean, KANBAN, SAFe, Scrum-

Ban,

WORKSHOPS / TRAININGS Delivered

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. Product Owners Guild

Increasing the Role of Product Owners to improve the quality of the

Product without hurting the Team spirit,

http://www.meetup.com/agiles-bsas/photos/22192522/

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. Qcon International Software Conference

The Smell of Agile Culture:

Culture is the most widely talked in societies, religion, race, region

and workplaces as well. Organizations are the Second Homes as people

spend their better half of their time in their offices. Hence, Culture is

an integral part (good or bad) for driving the happiness of clients and

the colleagues, and success for the products/projects and growing /

sustaining business. Agile Implementation is highly dependent upon the

Culture of the Organization.

In this talk, I discussed a few real-life experiences to tackle these

cultural issues and the actual/suggestive steps taken to improve the

culture of organizations.

http://qconrio.com/presentation/smell-agile-culture

. Agile Noida Conference

Wet Scrum:

Many companies tag themselves "Agile. What happens when companies want to

adopt Agile (Scrum) to suit their needs, which are confined within their

environmental constraints (EEF/OPA, or enterprise environmental

factors/organizational process assets). It distorts the implementation of

Scrum.

A) How does Team feel about Scrum Implementation?

B) Are we using the word 'Agile' to make it 'Fragile'?

This workshop answered the above mentioned similar questions.

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TECHNICAL EXPOSURE

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Configuration Platform : Ruby on Rails, Java, ASP.Net, PHP, Drupal,

Sitecore

Project Management : Mingle, MS Project, MS Visio

Defect Reduction : JIRA, Github, TFS

Repository : SVN, Nomadesk

SCHOLASTICS

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. Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SAFe Agilist) from Scaled Agile Academy

. Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) from Scrum Alliance

. Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance

. Lean Six Sigma Green Belt from KPMG

. M.Sc. (IT) from Punjab Technical University

. B.Sc. from Punjab University

PERSONAL DETAILS

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Address : #2, Floor 28th, #5009, Avenue Santa Fe, Buenos Aires,

Argentina.

Date of Birth : 19th May, 1984

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