SUMMARY

**+ yrs of proven experience in Agile Methodologies and Agile Transformation in Scrum, XP, Lean & Kanban Techniques as per organization needs with excellent Interaction and Communication skills.

SKILLS/CERTS

- Certified SAFe 6 Agilist

- PMP – Project Management Professional Certified

- PMI™ ACP - Agile Certified Practitioner

- Professional Scrum Master I - Scrum.Org

- Professional Scrum Master II - Scrum.Org

- Professional Scrum with Kanban I - Scrum.Org

- Certified Scrum Master (CSM®) - Scrum Alliance

- TOGAF® 9.0 foundation – The Open Group

- ITIL v3.0 – APMG

- Six Sigma Yellow Belt – 6Sigmastudy

TOOLS

Rally, JIRA, POWER BI, EAZY BI, MPP, Confluence, Remedy, ServiceNow. Clarity, MS Project, GITHUB, MS Excel, Miro, Mural, Trello, Azure DevOps, Jenkins

MANISH MIDHA

AGILE EVANGELIST ad002n@r.postjobfree.com

913-***-**** 470-***-****

EXPERIENCE

LEAD SCRUM MASTER • APEX SYSTEMS/COX AUTOMOTIVE • AUGUST 2022 TO AUGUST 2023

Organize, facilitate, and mature program level communication and ceremonies, including PI planning events, Scrum of Scrums, Program/ART Synchs, and retrospective ceremonies.

Work closely with Product Owners/Program Managers to ensure alignment on the value of Epics and features, facilitate the intake of work, prioritize the program backlog, and distribute work to the teams within the Program/ART.

Keep stakeholders informed of the Program’s/ART’s progress utilizing program level metrics, reporting (Rally Dashboards/Reports), and Power BI integration reports/dashboards to ensure alignment with program objectives and overall vision of the organization.

Ensure successful delivery of value by enabling program level transparency, predictability, forecasting and coordinating release planning activities.

Manage risks, facilitate alignment, provide transparency, identify dependencies, and remove impediments within the Teams/Program/ART.

Transitioned 2 Acquisition teams from Scrum to Kanban – the working agreements were revisited, and proposal was made for transition. Throughput improved within 1 quarter and stakeholders/Kanban teams welcomed the change.

Lead and coach Scrum Masters within the ART.

Influence senior leaders and coach Scrum/Kanban teams to ensure use of Agile practices and principles.

Work with other Scrum Masters/RTEs across the organization to resolve process issues and optimize execution based on key metrics and performance indicators.

Participate and grow Agile Communities of Practice to foster continuous improvements to agile practices and delivery.

Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the M & A Integrations vision alignment with Organization.

Program level coordination

PI Planning/Big Room planning facilitation and execution.

Coordinate Quarterly Release Plan and facilitate Change Management for periodic releases.

Maintain M & A Integration standards, including timely implementation of internal and external integration processes/capabilities together with any issues raised by external stakeholders as applicable.

SR SCRUM MASTER • DELUXE CORP • SEPTEMBER 2021 TO AUGUST 2022

JIRA Administration – Dashboards, Integration, Automations, Workflows, Projects, Fields, Components, Permissions and Security.

Planview Lean kit integration with JIRA and administration

EazyBI integration with JIRA

Confluence Admin/Integration

Creating and maintaining various meaningful Metrices to showcase Teams/Leadership. (Sprint Review, Release, Bugs, Product Delivery, Capex etc)

Conducting Visual events/meetings to make it interesting and informative using tools/information radiators.

Prioritizing and building Product Backlog through continuous backlog refinements and discovery/brainstorming sessions.

Coordinate Quarterly Release Plan and facilitate Change Management for periodic releases.

Coordinate and facilitate PI/Big Room Plannings, preparations leading up to PI/Big Room planning events and post-PI events.

Driving scrum events & building agile scrum practices.

Work with teams for defining, executing & tracking Quarterly business Objectives.

Identifying dependencies, raising/managing Risks as required and following through to resolution.

Promoting culture of peer programming, XP practices, QA/test automations and CI/CD pipelines

Coordination with all stakeholders, facilitating discussion for impediment Resolution and communication management.

Expertise in different tools: Rally, Remedy, JIRA, confluence, Share Point, Service Now, Mural

Contributing actively to Solution and Ensuring the Feature Scope is Implemented., value is delivered.

PROJECT MANAGER/SCRUM MASTER • COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGIES • JUNE 2013 TO SEPTEMBER 2021

Leading 15 members distributed Scrum teams delivering shippable features approximately every 2 months.

Help team/PO prioritizing and build Product Backlog.

Preparing Release Plan and Initiate Change Management

Felicitating scrum ceremonies & building agile scrum practices.

Coaching Team on Scrum & Scaled Agile Framework principles and practices.

Work with teams for defining, executing & tracking PI Objectives.

Identifying internal and external Team Dependencies and mitigating risks

Capacity/Velocity Planning for Program Increments and sprints

Coordination with multiple stakeholders and Impediment Resolution

Part of Solution train for our business unit of approx. 100 members, 11 Agile release trains in Scaled Agile Delivery Framework

Expertise in different tools: Rally, Remedy, JIRA, confluence, Share Point.

Contributing to Solution and Ensuring the Feature Scope is Implemented.

Periodically building and presenting Organization Benefit Dashboards.

Driving DevOps culture in teams, leading from the front. Implement CI/CD processes, encouraging teams with Test/QA Automations, GITHUB, Jenkins and other relevant tools.

Coordinating with Infrastructure teams, Service Reliability Engineering teams for Servers/JVM’s and other Infra related needs for team. Working hand in hand with external teams for dependencies, coordinating the handovers and aligning milestones

Projects Delivered: – ‘Secure Remote Commerce’, ‘Apple Isolation Infra’, ‘Paypal Cash back bonus’ and ‘Apple Pay’

TECHNICAL LEAD • AFFILIATED COMPUTER SERVICES, A XEROX COMPANY • DECEMBER 2008 TO JUNE 2013

Performing Project Scoping & Estimations

Requirement Gathering and Analysis

COBOL, JCL, Omniplus Development & Production Support.

Technical Lead of Mainframe & Omniplus Team

Converting Functional Requirements to Technical Specification.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER • MAHINDRA SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES • MARCH 2008 TO DECEMBER 2008

Onsite coordinator of UK based Project & Software Developer of Banking & Insurance domain.

Gathering Requirements and preparing technical specifications

Cobol Development in IBM Mainframe Projects

SYSTEM ENGINEER • IBM INDIA PVT LTD • JULY 2007 TO MARCH 2008

Support Engineer of various modules in the Columbia Gas Distribution system (Cash, Credit & collections, Billing, Revenue, GAS, CSP/CRS, and Bill Formatting.

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING – COMPUTER SCIENCE• NOVEMBER 1996

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