Agile Coach

Ambalal Sonawane – Agile Coach

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Contact No.: +1-470-***-****

Experience Summary

Overall 17+ years of IT industry experience in Agile Methodologies, Agile Transformation & Optimization, DevOps, Client Project Management, Offshoring and Stakeholder Management

8+ years of experience Agile Coach / Lead Scrum Master / Agile trainer

Transform large enterprise portfolio using Agile and Lean concepts, SAFe, Spotify, Scrum and Kanban

Guide, train and mentor multiple teams in the consistent practice of Agile/SAFe concepts, including roles and responsibilities, ceremonies, processes, compliance and tool usage

Coach teams transformation from waterfall model to Agile/DevOps/DevSecOps

Promote metrics-led, continuous improvement of the Agile delivery processes and propose adaptations of the methodology

Facilitate value stream identification, PI planning, release and sprint planning

Coach teams on Scrum, Kanban, ScrumBan and following XP engineering practices like ATDD, TDD, BDD, pair programming and DevOps practices like Continuous Integration, continuous delivery/deployment

Conduct Agile maturity assessments, identify improvement path and induced relentless improvements

Improve value flow through value streams with DevOps practices and release on demand in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

Azure DevOps and Jira administrator – setup and institutionalized processes, metrics and user accesses

Conducted Training of 100+ members for various SAFe certifications Professional Certification

SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 5)

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

ICC-ACC (ICAgile Certified Agile Coaching), ICC-ENT (Enterprise Agile Coaching)

Certified DevOps Project Manager (DevOps-certification.org)

Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Team Kanban Practitioner, PSM-II

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Tools

Agile ALM - Azure DevOps, Jira, Jira Align, Aha

Trello, Miro, Agile Craft, Mural, Story Mapping, Empathy Mapping, Design Thinking Professional Experience

Duration Organization

May 2022- Till Date McKinsey and Company

Apr 2014 – Apr 2022 Cognizant Technology Solutions Oct 2011 – Apr 2014 Infosys Limited

May 2005 – Oct 2011 L&T Infotech

McKinsey and Company Agile Coach 05/2022 - Till Date Agile expert in transiting for Squad teams to Agile using Spotify model.

Train and coach senior product owners, teams and management in Spotify model, Agile values and principles

Transitioned teams to Agile with Spotify and conceptualized various large scale agile concepts such as Release planning, Retro of retros, OKR to Epic to Stories mappings, JIra road map and Jira Align reporting

Work on forming Agile CoE and create Agile training material for the tribe

Setup Jira and Jira Align, created dashboard to depict teams and portfolio release, and tribe progress

Facilitated Events: Release planning, sync events, Tribe solution demos, sprint review, retro of retros, Inspect and Adopt event and product backlog refinement sessions EY- Canvas Agile Coach 10/2021 - 04/2022

Agile Coach for the Canvas Portfolio using Scrum, Agile, Kanban, and SAFe. Acted as Agile expert in transition teams.

Train and coach business analysts, product owners, teams and management in SAFe and Agile values and principles

Setup new portfolio with Essential SAFe and conceptualized PI planning using Azure DevOps

Formed Agile CoE, created Agile training material, trained new scrum masters and teams for Agile transition

Setup Azure DevOps, created dashboard to depict teams and portfolio release, and PI progress

Facilitated Events: PI planning, ART sync events, system and solution demos, sprint review, retro of retros, Inspect and Adopt event and product backlog refinement sessions 1

Trained team members in SAFe and conducted Leading SAFe, SAFe POPM and SAFe Scrum Master

Coached diverse teams through integration of agile mindsets, best practices and frameworks like Scrum, Lean, Kanban and XP, DevOps and CI CD Pipelines.

Created definition of ready (DoR), definition of done (DoD), ART and sprint goals definition, leading indicator metric ( MVP feature tracking, stories groomed and estimated)

Facilitated release planning, release progress tracking, maintained program dashboards and dependency tracking

Trained product owners on maintaining backlog and user stories using Azure DevOps. Created and enhanced workflows resulting in less handoffs and quick value delivery

Updated Azure DevOps to include definition of ready (DoR) and definition of done (DoD) in the feature, user story flow

Fiserv – PLP Portfolio Agile Coach 11/02020 – 10/2021 Agile Coach for the PLP Portfolio using Scrum, Agile, Kanban, and SAFe. Acted as the expert in transition teams.

Support customer in establishing vision, set direction and align resources and leadership towards strategic project execution in collaboration

Coach managers, scrum master and team members to phase out command-and-control and be a more effective Agile portfolio, resulting in shorter time-to-market and quality deliverables

Created Scrum Board for teams and configured / enhanced boards to meet the team’s needs

Facilitate the Scrum/SAFe Events: PI Planning, ART sync events, system and solution demos, sprint review, retro of retros, Inspect and Adopt event and product backlog refinement sessions

Conduct one-on-one coaching sessions with all the scrum masters, team members and management

Facilitate value stream mapping, identify delays/gaps and create improvement plan

Work with the management and RTE to ensure that the releases stayed on schedule with PI goal and roadmap

Establish meaningful metrics to monitor and track progress at various levels and stages of product development phases.

Conducted Agile Workshops on topics - Agile essentials, Kanban, writing effective user stories, story mapping definition of done (DoD) and definition of ready (DoR)

Coach diverse teams through integration of agile mindsets, best practices and frameworks like Scrum, Lean, Kanban and XP, DevOps and CI CD Pipelines.

Used JIRA and taught the team members on how to maintain backlog and refine user stories. Created and enhanced workflows resulting in less handoffs and quick value delivery

Trained team members in SAFe and conducted Leading SAFe, SAFe Scrum Master and SAFe POPM certifications

EY- ATF Agile Coach / Lead Scrum Master 04/2014 to 10/2020 Key Responsibilities:

Directed team to become truly cross-functional, self-organized teams, Team of trust, respect, and focus & openness

Guide teams, product owner for planning sprints and releases

Facilitate PI Planning event, created and published ART goals for visibility and transparency

Induce continuous improvements using Inspect and Adopt workshops and innovation cycle

Enhance DevOps / Platform engineering capabilities within teams

Train, Guide & Mentor scrum teams on Agile Values and Principles

Facilitate scrum ceremonies, initiate and participate in Scrum of Scrums

Facilitate technical debt analysis and bridge gaps with workable solutions

Initiated Continuous Integration/Deployment on Azure using ARM templates

Implemented TDD to improvise on Code Quality/ Coverage

Fostered selective automation – ATDD approach to avoid unit centric TDD approach

Implemented Kanban, DiakiboTM – Cognizant’s Distributed Agile Framework

Foreseeing risk and formulating Mitigation plan during Scrum Ceremonies

Encourage innovative Ideas for Team and Customer

Stakeholder & Client Management ensuring customer satisfaction

Conducted various SAFe training/certifications

Setup and institutionalized Agile processes in Azure DevOps ALM Platform: .NET core, ASP.Net MVC 4, Web API, OData 4, Windows Service Bus 2.1, Entity Framework 5, React.js, Azure SQL, Azure DevOps, VSTS

Telstra- Remote Diagnosis Application Scrum Master 04/2013 to 04/2014 Platform: c#.net, .net 4.0, MVC 3, LINQ, JQuery, Entity framework, SQL Server 2008, TFS 2010, Microsoft Test Manager 2010, VSTS 2010, Mingle

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Scope: Remote Diagnosis application aims at helping support team members by fetching required logs, database backups and other information without any intervention. It helps support team members in quick identification and resolution of production issues.

Role - Scrum Master

ToolKit Technology Lead 10/2011 to 04/2013

Platform: c#.net, .net 2.0/3.5, LINQ, WCF, SQL Server 2005, Rational clear case, VSTS 2010, TFS 2010, Microsoft Test Manager 2010, Mingle

Scope: Toolkit application is ticket workforce management application developed for field workers of Telecom industry. It is a thick client base distributed windows application, which interacts with other upstream systems and displays required information to technicians. It allows technicians to work on assigned tickets and process them offline. Role - Scrum Master / Technology Lead

Inland Quote Facility Technology Lead 10/2008 to 10/2011 Platform: Asp.net, Vb.net, .net 2.0, .net 3.5, WCF, LINQ, Asp.net, Web service, AJAX toolkit, AJAX, SQL server 2005, JavaScript, Infragistics Controls, Filenet, Skywire, VSS, SVN Scope: Inline Proposal facility system provides integrated solution for answering coverage related questions and generating final proposals by end users. IPF Application designed using dynamic user interface framework. Framework renders the entire page including controls, events based on metadata. Role - Project Leader / Onsite coordinator

Inland Marine Express Sr. Software Engineer 05/2007 to 10/2008 Platform: Asp.net, Vb.net, .net 1.1, .net 3.5, WCF, LINQ, Asp.net, Web service, AJAX toolkit, AJAX, SQL server 2005, JavaScript, Infragistics Controls, Filenet, Skywire, VSS, SVN Scope: Inland Marine Express is web-based application which allows users to rate and bind quotes. The IMX application provides functionality of capturing coverage information, Account information, location information, rating, bind, issue and generate final proposal.

Role - Project Leader / Onsite coordinator

OCP Software Engineer 05/2006 to 05/2007

Platform: Asp.net, Vb.net, .net 1.1 Asp.net Web service, SQL server 2000, JavaScript, Infragistics Controls, Filenet, Skywire, VSS

Scope: Construction OCP eQuote system is designed to ensure that Agent/Contractor should get fast and accurate OCP quotes. This is a role-based application, Underwriter and Agents are the two roles, they use this application to create new policies and to keep track of existing policies. Role – Senior Software Engineer

Intech Software Engineer 08/2005 to 05/2006

Platform: Ingres, SQL server 2000, VSS

Scope: Moved total database from Ingres to SQL Server 2000. This includes data, stored procedures, views and triggers

Role - Software Engineer

Personal Information:

Visa Status: Green Card

Location: Alpharetta, GA

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