Aparna Renganathan

Agile Coach, Consultant and Trainer

Email : adcqh5@r.postjobfree.com and M : 682-***-**** Summary:

Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT), Kanban Coaching Professional (KCP), Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe Program Consultant(SPC4), SAFe RTE (Release Train Engineer) Certified Scrum Professional (CSP- SM; CSP-PO), Project Management Professional

(PMP), ICAgile – Certified Agile Coach. I have experience with both Large Managed Changes using Scrum and SAFe as well as Evolutionary Changes during periods of equilibrium with Kaizen and Kanban. I bring in skills as a trainer, coach, facilitator and consultant with extensive understanding of Actionable Agile Metrics that truly support decision making.

Experience:

Agile Coach and Trainer / Release Train Engineer/Program Manager - VCIT Solutions, Inc Dec 2014 till Date

Client : Southwest Airlines July 2019 – Present

Release Train Engineer, Agile Transformation Team Member

• Currently an Agile Coach/Release Train Engineer at Southwest Airlines for Dash (Service Management) Agile Release Train

• Recently facilitated the PI2 - Inspect and Adapt Workshop as well as their PI3 Planning

• Supporting the Decision Making with Actionable Analytics based on the Lead Time Distribution and Flow Efficiencies

• Facilitating an Outcome Driven transformation by mapping the current capability against the impact of the outcomes expected from the Team and Program Level Events.

• Analyzing the Capability vs Demand as well as the Sources of Dissatisfaction so that we can help Shape the Demand and Improve the System Capability.

• Part of the Agile Transformation Team who designed the Agile Adoption based on the Maturity Model and we have progressed from Consistency of Processes to Consistency of Outcomes and are achieving Predictability.

Client: Agile Big Picture, SAFe Kanban Solutions, Inc Feb 2019 – Present SAFe Consultant and Trainer (part-time)

• Provided training on SAFe courses and consulting for Agile Big Picture.

• Provided training on Kanban Management Professional Courses for SAFe Kanban Solutions, Inc

Client : BNSF Railway October 2016 – July 2019

Release Train Engineer

• Was the Agile Coach/Release Train Engineer for the client, BNSF Railway for their Customer Program Agile Release Train

• Supported the expansion of Customer Program Agile Release train which originally had 4 teams to the 11 teams it supports currently as their RTE.

• Facilitated all the Program level events like Program Increment Planning (PIP), Scrum of Scrums (SoS), PO Sync, Inspect and Adapt Workshops (I&A) for over 2.5 years and helped the ART evolve to successfully support the biweekly release cadence on Demand.

• Made available Big Visible Information Radiators of our teams’ progress towards the commitments and also our reliability metrics for building Stakeholder Engagement and Confidence

• As a SAFe Program Consultant, supported my client BNSF Railway with their Scaled Agile Framework Implementation for their other release trains as well helped launch the EHS

(Environment Health and Safety) Agile Release Train.

• Depending on the Agile Maturity of the team, provided Kanban/ SAFe Role based training as part of the SAFe Implementation Roadmap and organized the User Story Workshops, Product Owner Summits, Kanban Pizza Games, Scrum Workshops etc.,

• Planned and managed Budgeting along with communication of the Program’s progress and impediments.

• Helped in the facilitation of prioritizing the Program Feature Backlog based on the Cost of Delay.

• Facilitated the Celebration Demos (our Inspect and Adapt workshop) and the Innovation- Planning Sprint Team Building Activities including Trackathons to keep the teams motivated and planning ahead.

• Apart from these, helped facilitate the Agile at Scale CoP along with my colleagues at BNSF and participated at the Scrum Masters’ CoP as well.

• Supported the Customer Program leaders with the teams’ Estimation, Budgeting, Agile Governance for Projects over 2 million dollars.

Client: The I4 Group December 2016 – Jan 2019

SAFe Consultant and Trainer (part-time)

• Helped launch the very first Agile Release Train at Neiman Marcus Group and successfully helped the adoption of Agile and transition from their traditional Project Management to SAFe which included training the leaders and teams on SAFe.

• Facilitated the first PI Planning for Neiman Marcus and am coached them subsequently in their PI execution at the moment.

• Taught Leading SAFe at AT&T for their Compliance division and consulted with their SAFe adoption.

• I have taught over 24 SAFe courses classes with The I4 Group as a Trainer including the SAFe Scrum Master(SSM)/Advanced Scrum Master(SASM), SAFe Product Owner-Product manager (POPM), Leading SAFe(SA) and was also the co-trainer for one SAFe Program Consultant(SPC 4.6) course

• Represented the I4 Group as a Sponsor in the Agile 2018 Conference in Austin, TX

• Coached the clients choose the right certification and help them continue to make progress in their Agile Transformation after their SAFe certification as well. Client: Dex Media March 2015 – Oct 2016

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager /Enterprise Change Management Team Member

• Scrum Master for the team Client Portal which aimed at integrating the Former Dex One and Supermedia into an integrated and consolidated Client Portal.

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies and coached the team to be true to the Agile Values.

• Was the RTE proxy at the DFW location and facilitated their Big Room Planning events in our Dallas Location.

• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally and reduce the diffusion of responsibility.

• As Part of Dex Enterprise Change Management(ECM) Team, helped the organization in standardizing our Value Stream delivery process and metrics.

• As part of the ECM team, helped Coach the adoption of Kanban for their Order to Cash(O2C) team and facilitated their Kaizen process.

• Also, as part of the ECM team, helped coach other Scrum Teams such as their Proposal Builder team and the BPMS team on the adoption of the Agile Values and Processes. Highlights:

• Certificate of Appreciation from our CEO, Mr. Joe Walsh, on the completion of the V2K Project.

Client : Devon Energy December 2014 – March 2015

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager

Role & Responsibilities:

• Scrum/Kanban Master for the project IRC/IRO which aimed at providing a one-stop solution for their Integrated Reservoir Characterization and EHS – Environment Health and Safety Projects at Devon Energy.

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies and coached the team to be true to the Agile Values.

• Protected the team from over-commitment, managed backlogs, prioritized resolution of defects/bugs.

• Acted as an Agile Coach as the organization was in transition from traditional waterfall into being Agile.

• Transitioned the team to Kanban as the team size was too large and there were too many time sliced resources in the team.

• Conducted User Story Workshops, Kanban Pizza Games etc., to teach them the rituals involved in the Kanban.

• Communicated with the top management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.

• Tracked and communicated the team velocity and sprint/release progress using JIRA.

• Helped facilitate three Agile CoP sessions as well as collaborated on creating the Agile Wiki guide.

HDFC Bank Ltd June 2010 – January 2013

Investment and Relationship Banking HNI Clients of HDFC Bank in Chennai, India. Highlights:

• Within a year of joining, I impressed my superiors and was given additional responsibility. In this context participated in the Training program chaired by the Group Head – Mr Abhay Aima in ITC Grand Maratha, Mumbai.

• Won the Think Tank Award – 3rd

Place for making suggestions regarding the HDFC Bank Website.

My other work experiences include being an Assistant Manager at Citibank NA in Bangalore, India and prior to which I was the Head of Passenger Division for Tamil Nadu state for the Automobile Manufacturer (Eicher-Volvo) in India. Apart from these, I am a Bharatnatyam dancer amd was the recipient of the National Scholarship for over 10 years and won the Bharat Nrithya Award.

Academic Credentials

DEGREE COLLEGE /

SCHOOL

SPECIALIZATION

/ BOARD

YEAR OF

COMPLETIO

N

PERCENTAGE

/ OGPA / CGPA

MBA

Bharathidasan

Institute of

Management,

Tiruchirapalli, India

Marketing / Finance April 2007 3.56/4

B.E. Anna University,

Chennai, India

Electrical and

Electronics

Engineering

May 2005 74.50%

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