Project Manager Scrum

MANISHA SHARMA

C: 508-***-**** ac8ziw@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Agile and Software delivery expert with 20 years' experience in coaching, training and implementation of agile process. Instrumental in establishing growing continuously improving, agile foundational training, process and metrics at organizational level to team level. Proven ability of developing and executing leading practices with Agile. Experienced of working in US, UK, Botswana.

Skills

Agile Process & Delivery Vendor Management

Solution Architecture Automation Innovation

Budgeting & Forecasting Insurance P&C

T&M, MSA, FPP Models Negotiation & Adaptability

ODC Setup ADT, BAAT, BPT

Experience

RTE / Scrum Master III May 2018 to Current

Capital One US

Coached teams and programs on SAFe, Kanban and Scrum. Co-organized and coordinated an

Agile Release Train (ART).

Coached and trained Product owner to write user stories to support Behavioral driven development (BDD)

Coached teams, Managers and Executives on Agile values and

principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts.

Manage major collective activities, issues, and risks across agile teams in support of the program.

Ensure regular, active communication with adjacent programs and stakeholders. Removed impediments for the teams within the program as needed.

Observed rituals / scrum and SAFe ceremonies daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, Retrospectives, and release planning to provide feedback to scrum masters, team leaders and other stakeholders regarding facilitation strategies

Facilitate appropriate Scrum of Scrums sessions across agile teams to establish

interdependencies and eliminate significant roadblocks.

Agile Coach Mar 2016 to April 2018

Barclaycard US

Manage major collective activities, issues, and risks across agile teams in support of the program.

Ensure regular, active communication with adjacent programs and stakeholders. Removed impediments for the teams within the program as needed.

Observed rituals / scrum ceremonies daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, Retrospectives, and release planning to provide feedback to scrum masters, team leaders and other stakeholders regarding facilitation strategies

Facilitate appropriate Scrum of Scrums sessions across agile teams to establish

interdependencies and eliminate significant roadblocks.

Assist an organization in learning the agile process and implementing agile within software environment.

Helped team understand various Agile Metrics, Effective use of Burn-up and Burn-Down Chart, Cumulative flow and other Agile Metrics that help team / PO improve every Sprint / Release.

Established environment to use best practices by implementing ATDD Acceptance Test driven development.

Agile Coach Aug 2015 to Mar 2016

Comcast

Championed cultural change and collaborated with other Coaches on plans and techniques for

accelerating and advancing the organization's transformation.

Developed delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building

knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation.

Building Strategic Relationships across all Levels within an Organization to Positively Influence

Change.

Coached teams, Business Analysts, Managers and Executives on Agile values and

principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts.

Coached and trained Product owner and Business Analysts to write user stories to support Behavioral driven development (BDD)

Agile Coach / Release Train Engineer Aug 2014 to July 2015

Capital One

Coached teams and programs on SAFe, Kanban and Scrum. Co-organized and coordinated an

Agile Release Train (ART).

Coached Business Analyst and Product owner to write user stories to support Acceptance test driven development (ATDD)

Supported communities of practices to promote organizational understanding of Agile roles and

to help individuals develop into them.

Facilitate and standardize agile ceremonies process with distributed teams.

Wrote Agile FAQ, articles and which were distributed via newsletter and posted on a SharePoint

site to improve the Agile maturity level.

Driving Teams in Improving and Standardizing Agile Processes, Coached team to implement best practices by establishing practice of test driven development (TDD) and Behavioral Driven Development (BDD).

Project Manager / Scrum Master Nov 2006 to July 2014

Synechron, Inc. UK, US, India

As Scrum Master

Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.

Facilitate Agile Adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance.

Removed impediments for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution. Customer provided positive feedback.

Coached/ trained new SM and trained global teams, which resulted in early delivery of project and reduced process waste caused by lack of common understanding.

As Project Manager

Successfully implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment reduced deployment time 30% faster.

Selected Project team and created roles and responsibilities.

Implemented QA activities, conducted project progress meetings, Implemented corrective and

preventive actions. Coordinated with Onsite and Offshore team leads and ensured on time

delivery with quality.

Reported the project performance against baselines. Obtained formal acceptance for the

deliverables and Sign-off.

Leveraging Agile Best Practices to Deliver Critical Projects, implanted TDD to ensure better quality and reducing testing time.

Implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment (CI/ CD) using FinalBuilder.

Sr. System Analyst /Technical Project Lead / Business System Analyst Jul 1997 to Nov 2006

Zenith Infotech / NIIT / Syntel

Designed and developed the Palm OS application for client I –Comp (London)

Responsible for developing conduits for integration with the desktop application and Palm OS

application.

Designed and developed WAP application.

Responsible for developing middle-tier wrapper WAP for the application to connect with full

framework.

Developed and design Pocket PC application.

Worked on Y2k Project for the Government of Botswana with PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Responsible for creating wireframes and screen mockups.

Involved in developing customized control for full framework.

Created unit test cases using Visual Studio 2005 to support TDD development.

Education and Training

Master of Commerce, (With Management) University of Mumbai, MH

Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering (ADSE), Aptech, Mumbai, MH

Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance

Certified Scrum Professional, Scrum Alliance

ITIL Foundation Certification.

Awards

Received Surpass Award by Synechron in year 2011.

Community Service

Led the team for collecting donations in Barclays for REDCROSS in 2016.

Organized an event for collecting donation for YellowCap Endomist society.

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