Scrum Master A Dedicated
Resume:
Vimal Saxena
Driving organizational excellence through servant leadership, team empowerment, relationship building, and strong business acumen.
I am a dedicated, adaptive, professional Agile Practitioner and Scrum Master, passionate about company culture and employee engagement. I am a collaborator who listens intently to business requests and then works with cross-functional Scrum teams by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative, digitally enabled business solutions. I tailor the Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe) to help organizations succeed in delivering value early and often.
Team Coach & Mentor
Process, Product, People Improvement
Program Increments
Value Stream Optimization
Risk-Adjusted Backlog
Agile Maturity Metrics
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Systems Thinking.
Value Driven- Adaptive Planning
SAFe, Kanban, Scrum. XP
Inspect & Adapt Workshops
Application programming interface.
Applied Data-driven agility analytics to enhance team performance and organization’s agility
Successfully transformed five teams to agile (Scrum and Kanban) on an Agile Release Train from traditional SDLC methodology
Coached and motivated senior leadership, Stakeholders, and Product Management in adopting best agile practices
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Fidelity Investment Feb 2022 to present
SCRUM MASTER AGILE PRACTITIONER
Reduced release cycles from Quarterly to fortnight releases hence improving the deployments rates.
Improved the Program Predictability Metric by focusing on clarity than certainty in PI Plannings in the SAFe framework
Improved the engagement of teams in ART events like PI Planning, ART Sync, System Demos, and Inspect and adapt Sessions
Empowered teams to be self-sufficient and created psychological safety hence improving team member retention by 40%
Coached and trained the scrum teams on the WHY of the events when the team was focusing on the WHAT and How
As a servant leader, coached, motivated, and improved transparency and trust for two geographically distributed scrum teams to improve teams’ performance.
Focused more on early socialization of the features to decompose and estimate the stories in Pre-Pi Planning sessions in SAFe environment
Coached product owner in writing good user stories (INVEST principle) to enhance the clarity of business need
Motivated teams to engage in product backlog refinement sessions to gain consensus on user story estimations After establishing a common shared understanding of the business need
Conducted effective sprint planning sessions by improving the shared commitment of the team towards the sprint goals.
Using several metrics like sprint-burndown, burn-up chart, velocity trend, defect density, cycle time, and program predictability metrics to evaluate teams’ progress and identify the opportunities for improvement
Facilitated time-boxed Daily Scrums; collaborative self-managed, inspect and adapt sessions, TDD and Agile Game
Improved the stakeholder, LOBs engagement in the Sprint reviews by making it more of a working session than just a demo
Created big visible information radiators to surface the upstream and downstream dependencies throughout the SDLC.
Managed and guided the teams working through different scripts including java, shell scripting etc..
Collaborating with other scrum masters in Scrum Of Scrums (SOS; S2 meetings) to share the impediments and facilitate the impediment resolution, and determine the progress towards the PI Objectives in SAFe framework
American Century Investments • NYC, NY • Sep 2019 to Jan 2022
SCRUM MASTER
Guiding the team through servant leadership to the transformation from waterfall to product-oriented delivery.
Ensure strong communication, coordination, and collaboration of the team members all through the Forming-Storming-Norming and Performing stages
Facilitating team and program events, guiding the team step-by-step through each of the Pre-PI and PI planning activities in alignment with the SAFe best practices in insurance, MF and ETF products.
Forming a strong partnership with the Product Owner and coaching PO to prepare, maintain and refine the Product Backlog to support Program Increment (PI) and Iteration Planning
Coaching the team to effectively refine the backlog and develop smaller stories to deliver early within the sprint and focus on committed PI Objectives in SAFe Scrum
Coaching the team and supporting the removal of impediments to its progress, whether internal or external to the team, working in partnership with the Release Train Engineer in SAFe scrum
Ensuring regular progress updates are tracked and communicated appropriately, working in partnership with the Release Train Engineer and LACE
Participating in training events and facilitating breakout sessions during SAFe PI Planning event
Keeping technical debt in check by balancing capacity allocation for teams and ensure are building using modern practices and tools.
Encouraging the team to leverage Inspect and Adapt ceremonies to continuously improve team performance and act on the improvement items
Working collaboratively with other SAFe Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of Agile practices and SAFe implementation and adoption through SM Community of Practice (CoPs)
Facilitating all the scrum events like Sprint Planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective, daily scrum calls and product backlog refinement meeting
Thomson Reuters • New York • Sep 2015 to July 2019
SCRUM MASTER
Facilitated and time-boxed Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospective meetings.
Helped negotiate commitments and assured parallel understanding of requirements and deliverables amongst all stakeholders in Sprint Planning Meetings.
Created User Stories and led the Planning Poker game to estimate them in Sprint Planning and Backlog Grooming meetings.
Reviewed Sprint Burn down and Release Burn down Charts to maintain team’s velocity.
Timely assured development team had necessary resources to perform up to potential, tracked and removed impediments.
Worked with the Product Owner during the Sprint Review Meeting for the Potential Shippable Product Increment (PSPI) and help decide which features met the definition of Done (DoD) using the acceptance criteria.
Helped resolve team and organizational level impediments.
At the end of each sprint, conducted Sprint Retrospective meetings such as Circle Celebration and Sad Mad Glad techniques so each stakeholder can freely express their opinions and suggest improvement measures.
Helped the Product Owner to Prioritize the Product Backlog items using the MOSCOW technique for developing Sprint tasks by taking suggestions from the team.
HSBC Bank • Pune, India • Aug 2010 to Mar 2015
SR BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYST AUG 2010- MAR 2015
Provided highly skilled technical support in operations environment. Partnered with global operations and managed hundreds of databases on an Enterprise scale.
Fostered continuous improvement strategies to streamline data operations and improve quality and performance. Led business initiatives to decrease incident rate and improve service delivery.
Ensured compliance with operational standards and procedures. Led several Enterprise scale projects for database migrations and upgrades in the process of the merger of Thomson Financial and Reuters. Was considered an expert on successful and quick turnarounds in incident and change management.
CERTIFICATIONS
Professional Scrum Master (PSM II), SAFe Scrum Master (SSM 6.0), Certified Life Coach - Emotional Intelligence, Instructional Design for Corporate Learning and Development, Business Intelligence Analyst, Industrial Training in AWS
TECH SKILLS
Agile Project Management tools like JIRA, JIRA Align, VersionOne, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Confluence, Ab initio, Miro CRM, Salesforce, Database (SQL, Oracle, Sybase) Management and Administration, AWS Cloud, Data Lakes, DevOps tools, Generative AI
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration, Pune University, India
PGDCP, Computer Programming, Specific Applications, DR. B.R.A.University, India
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