Mohammed Khaleeq Uddin

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SCRUM MASTER/ Product Owner /Business Analyst

Professional Profile:

Over 9 years of IT experience as a Scrum Master and Business Analyst in various Modules.

Multiple years of experience facilitating sprint-planning meetings, daily stand up meetings, sprint review, Refinement and sprint retrospective meetings acting as a servant-leader for the scrum teams.

Strongly serving and supporting the Product Owner and Development Team in their quest to do everything possible to achieve team success.

Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog and Prioritization of the User Stories.

Creating User Stories and Acceptance Criteria of elicited requirements and perform the requirements walkthrough with business users for review and approval.

Helping the business users to prioritize and organize the functional requirements in "Must-to-have" and "Nice-to-have" features.

Strong knowledge of Scrum, SAFe and Kanban frameworks.

Experienced in the transition of companies from Waterfall to Agile Methodologies.

Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively lead multiple teams, through sprint cycles.

Experience working with Agile project management tools like JIRA, Version one, Azure VSTS and TFS

Strong experience in Driving the User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Highly results oriented and self-motivated team player with excellent Interpersonal and Customer Relational Skills, Proven Communication, Organizational, Analytical, Presentation Skills, and Leadership Qualities.

Certifications:

Certified Scrum MASTER - (PSM1)

technical SKILLS:

Business Skills: Data Analytics, Business Process Analysis, Requirement Gathering, Use Case Model, JAD/JRP

Sessions, Gap Analysis & Impact Analysis, User Stories, scrum meetings, Retrospective Sessions.

Methodology: Agile (Scrum), Waterfall and SAFe

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10

Browsers: Internet Explorer 10 and 11. Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome and Firefox

Visual Modeling IBM RequisitePro, Clear Quest, Clear Case and MS Visio.

Database: Oracle Database. DB2, MS SQL. Cosmos DB

Management Tools: HP ALM, Jira, MTM, TFS, VSTS and Version One, Clarity

Other Tools: RapidMiner, Tableau, Power BI, Adobe Analytics

EXPERIENCE

Novartis, Chicago, IL Aug 2018 - Till Date

Scrum Master

Organize and facilitate OTT sessions, daily stand-up meetings, Sprint planning, Sprint review, Weekly Scrum of Scrum, retrospectives, backlog grooming and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.

Tracking Performance using Azure DevOps dashboard not limited to Velocity, Burndown charts, Release progress, etc.

Assisted Development team and Product owner with User Stories generation and managing their progress.

Assisted teams with Impediments and Roadblocks removal, Risks and Backlog grooming.

Worked collaboratively with Product Owners and cross-functional development teams on their Agile journey to support development and software delivery onshore and Off-shore

Deeply involved in continuous delivery of the shippable product by ensuring that the requirements are met as per the acceptance criteria and the use case scenarios laid out in the user stories.

Enabled learning and conversations around KPI metrics so that programs are able to find improvement opportunities, track delivery progress and make data-driven decisions.

Facilitates and assists with product backlog prioritization using the MOSCOW technique.

Monitored the project and sprint progress by using various reports in VSTS and reporting it to the leadership

Collaborated closely with the business owners/stakeholders and technical teams to identify and document detailed requirements and process flows, including budget and headcount.

Responsible for identifying and communicating project risks to the project team, leaders, stakeholders, and proactively anticipating issues/risks that may compromise project goals in RAID calls

Provided leadership to corporate-wide teams ensuring all groups are aligned on goals, direction, processes, ownership and schedules.

Kept a track of all UAT bugs/defects and helped the testers to resolve the issues and made a report of all the defects which were resolved.

Simbient, Sydney, Australia Aug 2016 –Jun 2018

Scrum Master

Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies).

Facilitates scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective and other agile activities, backlog refinement, release planning, story writing workshop, project kickoff meeting.

Led all Release planning efforts and ensured all stakeholders had a clear understanding of the product roadmaps.

Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority.

Facilitated teams on product backlog grooming, prioritizing backlogs and estimating stories by using agile estimation techniques.

Worked closely with Product Owners on product backlog grooming and helped the Scrum Team understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items.

Coordinated activities, resolving issues and proactively managing the risks and opportunities.

Helped the Product Owner to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize business value.

Ensured that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team.

Helped Scrum teams to create work break down structure, user stories and corresponding activities, tasks.

Helped teams to determine capacity, velocity from historical data.

Facilitated in removing impediments to the development team's progress.

Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments, Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.

Ensured that all teams are practicing core agile principles.

Collaborated within and across the Agile Release Trains (ART) to effectively manage risks and dependencies.

Broadspectrum, Sydney, Australia December 2014 –July 2016

Project Coordinator, Scrum Master

Developed artifacts including charter, integrated plan, resource plan and other related project management artifacts.

Performed various project administration tasks, including coordinating meetings, taking meeting minutes, forwarding communication releases, and performing maintenance of project tracking logs.

Provided regular project updates and managed project schedules, documents, and prepared presentations to the top management about the project health..

Managed assigned aspects of various project lifecycle.

Consulted with the RTEs and Product Managers on effective ways to utilize agile techniques.

Facilitated scrum ceremonies like: daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective and backlog grooming.

Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data.

Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).

Facilitated discussions across cross functional teams on request prioritization and product roadmap.

Medibank, Brisbane, Australia June 13 – November 14

Business Analyst

Analyzed existing reports and defined business requirements and business process flows.

Utilized corporation developed Agile SDLC methodology.

Conducted JAD sessions for communicating with Stakeholders and Project directors.

Identified gaps and performed gap analysis with respect to CMS requirements.

Working with clients to better understand their needs and present solutions using structured SCRUM approach.

Analyzed, reviewed, and interpreted system documentation to ensure quality testing.

Worked with Delivery Lead/Project Manager to maintain and coordinate communication with the customer/client throughout each project.

Provided delivery lead with reports that demonstrate project progress per sprint using burn-down charts.

Carefully documented the “As Is” and “To be” business process for the retail team.

Education:

Bachelor of Commerce - Osmania University

Masters of Business – Victoria University- Australia

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