Venkateswarlu Sivanadham
Chennai
Summary
Having Total of 12 Years of Experience in IT Field in Which More than 7 years of experience as Scrum Master with a proven history of understanding and building complex systems, focusing on removing impediments and delivering customer-centric products and features .Expert in leading teams in tailoring and adopting Agile principles and frameworks with excellent facilitation, Coaching and conflict resolution skills. Experienced in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and excellent knowledge of several Agile frameworks
like SAFe,Scrum,Kanban
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
SAFe Scrum Master
Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
03.2022 - Current
- Having Backlog Refinement Sessions scheduled upfront before PI Planning
- Facilitating team in creating a draft and Final PI plan for PI's iterations, writing draft and Final PI Objectives, and identifying program risks and issues.
- Coordinating with Other teams in ART to foresee or address Dependencies upfront
- Ensuring PI objectives are SMART(Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-bound) and are written in a way everyone can understand
- Facilitating Iteration Planning, Daily Stand Up, Iteration Review, Iteration Retrospective
- CoIlaborating with Product Owner and applying the tools and techniques for customer- centricity to build the right thing at the right time.
- Improving the Flow Using Kanban systems to visualize the work and enhance flow
- Being Integral Part of the team making sure team getting 1OO % Program Predictability Measure
- Coaching the team by asking powerful questions instead of giving them answers which makes them to think out of box
- Resolving the Team Conflicts and also help the team in acquiring T Shaped skills
- lmproving Program Performance by Facilitating Cross-Team Collaboration
- Helping the team Inspect and Adapt and Ensure the team is prepared for the l&A event, including the PI System Demo, quantitative and qualitative measurement, and the retrospective and problem-solving workshop
- Making sure Team is working on Innovation is IP Sprints rather than Business Stories
- Maintaining and publishing Agile metrics, regularly reporting to business leadership
- Providing recommendations to Agile Center of Excellence on improving agile processes and practices at Cognizant and Comcast
- Providing support with risk management, release management, and facilitate release planning activities
- Coaching and mentoring team members, stakeholders, and leadership on benefits of Agile and SAFe
- Support product owners with backlog creation and refinement.
- Participate proactively in developing and maintaining standards, tools and best practices.
- Reduced technical debt by actively identifying areas requiring refactoring or architectural improvements during sprint planning sessions.
Scrum Master
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2017 - 02.2022
- Guided and coached the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to satisfy customer expectations.
- Collaborated with Product Owner on daily stand-up, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospective meetings.
- Facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
- Scheduled Retrospective meetings at the end of sprints and documenting action items to help improve the team.
- Worked with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burn down.
- Developed custom Scrum boards for better task tracking and transparency within the team.
- Resolved conflicts and facilitated open communication among team members, promoting a healthy work environment.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2012 - 02.2017
- Contributed innovative ideas during brainstorming sessions, driving project success through creative problemsolving.
- Debugged complex software issues, leading to a more stable product release.
- Implemented rigorous testing procedures to identify and resolve potential bugs before deployment.
- Mentored junior developers, fostering a collaborative learning environment and supporting professional growth.
- Worked closely with clients to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications for implementation.
- Conducted data modeling, performance and integration testing.
- Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.
- Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
- Create Cubes in Microstrategy and Publish them for Reporting
- Dealt with Parquet files in AWS while Migrating data from Netezza Database to Cloud
- Writing SQL Queries to fetch needed data from data Base Tables as well as Cloud
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical And Electronic Science
Sri Venkateswara University
Tirupati, India06.2011
Skills
- SAFe,Scrum
- Agile coaching & leadership
- Backlog Refinement
- Risk management
- Customer Interaction
- DevOps, SDLC
- Conflict Resolution
- Team Leadership
- TEAM BUILDING
- MIRO
- OCTANE
- JIRA / ATLASSIAN
- CONFLUENCE
- RALLY
- Risk Identification
- Agile Metrics Tracking
- Retrospective Analysis
- Team Collaboration
- Coaching and Mentoring
- AWS
- Microstrategy
- SQL
- Java
- Testing
Certification
SAFe RTE (SAFe Release Train Engineer)
SASM (SAFe Advanced Scrum Master)
PSM 2 (Professional Scrum Master 2)
Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
Timeline
SAFe Scrum Master
Cognizant Technology Solutions, CTS
03.2022 - Current
Scrum Master
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2017 - 02.2022
Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2012 - 02.2017
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical And Electronic Science
Sri Venkateswara University
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