Manjeera Reddy

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SUMMARY

Highly motivated scrum master with over 6 years of experience and a passion for empowering teams and facilitating agile adoption to deliver quality software products.

Facilitating teams in implementing Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) from traditional Waterfall methodologies.

Helping Product Owners optimize the backlog to deliver business value by adopting Rolling Wave planning.

Communicating project progress to primary stakeholders and reporting managers by using various information radiators to enhance Transparency and Trust.

Encouraging teams to develop empirically and improve the value delivery through inspection and adapt sessions

Enhancing collaboration with cross-functional teams by proactively identifying bottlenecks and implementing various action items to mitigate the impediments.

Executing various forms of leadership during the various stages of team evolution (Forming Storming, Norming and Performing).

Championed organizational cultural change on strong ownership, one-team attitude, empowerment, and transparency by collaborating with other scrum masters, leaders, and IT managers.

Coaching the teams on the WHY of the scrum events to help them understand more about the outcomes than just the meeting outputs

Using empiricism by trying and practicing Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Acceptance Test Driven Development process (ATDD), Test Driven Development (TDD) cycle.

Continuously identify problems, impediments, and risks; prioritize and resolve in a timely manner; monitor and communicate the problem resolution status; and implement process improvements to prevent them from occurring again.

Working towards the goal of making the teams Self-Managed and Self – sufficient by identifying the gaps in skillset and evaluating the skill-set matrix

CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Scrum Master I

Professional Scrum Master II

SKILLS

Optimizing the flow of work items (WIP)

Creating psychological safety

Agile/Scrum/Kanban/SAFe

Value Driven Development/Delivery

Conflict resolution techniques

Scaling agile across enterprise

Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

Java, AWS Cloud, SQL. Angular JS.

DevOps, Jenkins, Docker, Postman JIRA, AzureDevOps, JIRA ALign

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead Scrum Master /Wells Fargo, Raleigh NC (Remote) 08/2020 – 05/2023

Enabled agile adoption and cross-functional approach to work. Focused on ensuring end-to-end agility of the process

Worked towards categorizing and prioritizing requirements into Epics. Ensured the team remained motivated to achieve their iteration goals.

Coaching and mentoring two different scrum teams which have transitioned from traditional methodologies to agile.

Educating Product owners and Product management on how to convert business roadmaps to Epics, Features and Stories.

Delivering valuable results by producing high-value increments for review, early and often, based on stakeholder priorities in the iteration review meetings.

Identify and engage all stakeholders (current and future) by promoting knowledge sharing early and throughout the project to ensure the unimpeded flow of information and value throughout the lifespan of the project.

Enhancing collaboration between the development team and product owner through constructive conversations in Product Backlog Refinement meetings.

Provide forecasts that balance the need for certainty and the benefits of adaptability to allow stakeholders to plan effectively.

Encourage team members to become generalizing specialists to reduce team size and bottlenecks and to create a high-performing cross-functional team through effective Retrospective Meetings.

Contribute to self-organizing the work by empowering others and encouraging emerging leadership to produce effective solutions and manage complexity

Plan at multiple levels (strategic, release, iteration, daily), creating appropriate detail by using rolling wave planning and progressive elaboration to balance the predictability of outcomes with ability to exploit opportunities

Create systemic improvements by disseminating knowledge and practices across projects and organizational boundaries to avoid re-occurrence of identified problems and improve the organization’s effectiveness.

Scrum Master / Equifax, Alpharetta, GA 08/2018 - 07/2020

Helping teams explore, embrace, and apply agile principles and mindset within the scrum team and organization context.

Facilitated the team in PI planning and helped the team coordinate and negotiate dependencies while using the

Helped the team build PI objectives and link stories to the features and align them to common goal

Facilitated ART sync meetings and effectively collaborated and communicated with the other scrum teams on the dependencies and PI progress using JIRA Align

Maintained and monitored Feature level Burndown charts and PI Burndown charts in the SAFe framework.

Helped the teams with Feature decomposition and PI planning readiness in the SAFe framework.

Delivering valuable results by producing high-value increments for review, early and often, based on stakeholder priorities in the Sprint review meetings in Confluence

Identify and engage all stakeholders (current and future) by promoting knowledge sharing early and throughout the project to ensure the unimpeded flow of information and value throughout the lifespan of the project.

Establish and maintain a shared understanding of success criteria, deliverables, and acceptable trade-offs by facilitating awareness among stakeholders and product owners in order to align expectations and build trust.

Ensuring Flow of value by enforcing Work in Process (WIP) Limits

Enhancing collaboration between the development team and product owner through constructive conversations in Product Backlog Refinement meetings in JIRA and JIRA Align

Provide forecasts at a level of detail that balances the need for certainty and the benefits of adaptability in order to allow stakeholders to plan effectively using JIRA and JIRA Align

Encourage team members to become generalizing specialists in order to reduce team size and bottlenecks, and to create a high-performing cross-functional team through effective Retrospective Meetings.

Contribute to self-organizing the work by empowering others and encouraging emerging leadership to produce effective solutions and manage complexity.

Facilitated cross-team collaboration, dependency negotiation during PI planning (In SAFe framework).

Conducted effective Inspect & Adapt session in the Innovation Planning sprint (In SAFe framework).

Maintained the information radiators like Sprint Burndown, Release Burndown and tracked PI level metrics like PI level burndown charts, Portfolio Roadmaps and Program Predictability Measure (In SAFe framework).

Ensured PI planning readiness by constantly following up with Product Owners on Features socialization, and by facilitating feature decomposition meetings (In SAFe framework).

Business Analyst / Michigan Dept of Health and Human - Lansing, MI 04/2017 - 07/2018

Ensured that Scrum Framework is adopted. Developed workflow patterns for establishing Agile practices.

Helped creating 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 resolving team and organizational level impediments.

At the end of each sprint conducted Sprint Retrospective meetings such as Circle.

Celebration, 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 MOSCOW.

Technique for developing Sprint tasks by taking suggestions from team.

Used collaborative tools for drafting user stories, creating tasks, backlog management, issue tracking, user story maps and generating reports.

Maintained the Task Board that was referred to during the daily stand-ups that helped the team track the stories

Education:

JNTU, Hyderabad India 2016

Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science

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