Agile Coach Scrum Master

Ronak Sanghavi SPC, ICP-ACC, CBAP page *

Ronak Kandarp Sanghavi - Agile Coach - SPC, ICP-ACC

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SUMMARY

Seasoned Agile Coach and Trainer on a mission to improve business outcomes through effective implementation of Agile values and best practices in real world situations. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Senior Agile Coach with over 10 years of experience in Agile methodologies, coaching, leadership, and transformation.

• Coached global leaders and 60+ Agile teams from diverse cultures to drive successful Agile adoption.

• Skilled in driving organizational change through continuous improvement, Lean principles, and Agile frameworks.

• Expert in Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and other Agile frameworks.

• Passionate about coaching teams, leaders, and stakeholders to achieve their full potential and deliver high-quality products and services.

• 28 years of total experience in IT-enabled business solutions, including SDLC, business analysis, project/program management, delivery management, practice management, hiring, resource management, programming, system administration, coaching, mentoring, and training. PROBLEMS I TYPICALLY SOLVE

• Team members work in a silo

• Vanity metrics are measured and managed

• Insufficient role clarity, especially for Product Owner, Scrum Master, Resource Managers

• Teams practice in Ritualistic/Waterfall Agile

• Managers and leaders impede agility by

practicing command-and-control leadership

• Lack of 'Continuous Improvement' mindset

and practices

• Ineffective stakeholder engagement, especially

with business stakeholders

• Not all of the work team performs is made

visible, i.e. hidden factory

• High work-in-progress, i.e. high cycle-time

• Agile ceremonies are skipped or executed

“namesake”

• Dominating Product Owner or Scrum Master

• Poor quality of requirements

EXPERTISE

• Standing up SCRUM and Kanban Agile teams and Coaching them to become high performing teams.

• Coaching Agile leaders to become role models of Agile values, behaviors and practices.

• Coaching Product owners and other business stakeholders including operations and product management.

• Designing and facilitating Agile awareness, skill building and certifications training.

• Configuring and using Jira to facilitate efficient communication and collaboration within and across teams. SKILLS

Agile Coaching • Agile Training • Agile Project Management • Agile Methodologies • Scrum • Kanban • Azure Dev Ops • Agile Leadership • Scaled Agile Framework • Business Analysis • Requirements Analysis • Business Process Improvement

CERTFICATIONS

• SAFe 5 Practitioner Certification from Scaled Agile Inc

• ICAgile Certified Professional Agile Coaching from ICAgile

• Certified Business Analysis Professional from IIBA Ronak Sanghavi SPC, ICP-ACC, CBAP page 2

EXPERIENCE

Senior Agile Coach FM Sep 2023 - Present

• Coached Scrum Masters and 5 teams resulting in average 25% increase in throughput.

• Trained Product Owners resulting in reduced scope volatility 60% and cycle time by 25%.

• Facilitated initial Product Discovery sessions to seed product backlog.

• Facilitated creation of Delivery Roadmaps and instituted process to leverage them on an ongoing basis.

• Conducted agility maturity assessments to seed continuous improvement backlog.

• Updated Agile COE playbook resulting in a 25% increase in adherence to Agile practices. Senior Agile Coach Valuebase Apr 2023 – Sep 2023

• Developed and delivered training curriculum that improved Agile maturity by 30%

• Established and led multiple SCRUM and Kanban teams, facilitating Sprint 0 and increasing productivity by 30%.

• Provided ongoing guidance and support to Agile teams, resulting in a 20% increase in team satisfaction.

• Coached leaders on Agile values and portfolio planning; improved culture and 30% reduction in planning time.

• Established and baselined metrics to track team performance. Fleet Agile Coach Morgan Stanley May 2021 - Mar 2023

• Coached and trained 20+ teams to adopt Spotify scaled agile framework: improved velocity 30-50%.

• Conducted agility maturity assessments: identified improvement areas boosting performance by 20%.

• Built Fleet Agile metrics dashboards: increased transparency enabling 15-20% faster decision-making.

• Led Agile Coaching team and standardized practices across 50+ teams.

• Provided ongoing coaching to agile teams to enhance Agile maturity by 2 levels. Enterprise Agile Coach Vanguard Charitable May 2019 - Apr 2021

• Implemented SAFe framework. Facilitated transition from Waterfall. Reduced time to market by 25% within 1 year.

• Increased strategy alignment by facilitating workshops to develop identify Value Streams.

• Implemented Agile maturity assessment framework which boosted continuous improvement by 35%.

• Drove Jira Portfolio implementation resulting in 90% of initiatives aligned to strategy within 2 sprints.

• Coached business teams including Marketing, Finance, and Customer Service for agility.

• Socialized “Personal Agility Manifesto” to cultivate agile mindset across the organization. Agile Coach BCBS, Cotiviti, Other Healthcare Clients Dec 2015 - Apr 2019

• Facilitated design and implementation of Agile Transformation initiatives across multiple org areas.

• Trained 25+ teams on Scrum and Kanban frameworks, increasing throughput by 80%.

• Facilitated just-in-time improvement of team members’ collaboration, communication and other skills. Business Analyst Coach, Trainer & Consultant ValueBASE Aug 12 - Dec 15

• Managed company's Corporate Business Analysis division. Increased revenue by 300%. Senior Director, Business Analysis Practice NTT DATA Nov 2009 - Aug 2012

• Managed 100+ global Business Analysis Practice. Increased utilization to 90%, employee satisfaction to 96%. Software Developer, DBA, Business Analyst Jun 1996 - Jul 2009 EDUCATION

MBA Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business

• Managing in Technology Intensive Environment

• Co-Director of Graduate Technology Group

Bachelor of Engineering Thadomal Shahani Engg College

• Computer Science

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