Vaibbhav Bbhagat
Pune
Summary
Results-driven and certified Scrum Master with over 18 years of Industry experience including over 8 years’ experience in agile project management and team leadership. Proven track record of facilitating cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products while adhering to Agile principles. Adept at coaching teams in Scrum practices, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Skilled in removing impediments, managing stakeholder relationships, and enhancing team performance through effective metrics and feedback loops. Strong communicator and problem solver with a passion for driving innovation and achieving project goals in fast-paced environments.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Specialist Scrum Master
Accelya India Services Pvt Ltd
07.2023 - 01.2024
- Established a safe and supportive atmosphere for distributed cross-functional teams removing barriers to teamwork and encouraging openness, accountability, communication, transparency, and trust.
- Coached and mentored new joiners, project teams, product owners, and key stakeholders to embrace Agile principles, manifesto, Scrum principles and values to change their mindset to adopt agile way of working throughout the organization.
- Managed and tracked multiple scrum teams, it's progress, outstanding issues, ensuring the quality & end to end delivery as per timelines. Served as the main POC for clients, project teams, and stakeholders to ensure consistent communication.
- Managed client expectations and adjust project plans as needed to meet changing requirements. Built strong, trust-based relationships with clients to foster future collaborations.
- Identified, managed and resolved internal and external dependencies, remove impediments, facilitating problem-solving, decision-making processes, and innovation.
- Proficiently facilitated and coordinated scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospective to enhance team communication, collaboration and productivity.
- Supported and worked closely with different product owners to get the backlog ready by facilitating product backlog refinement to ensured stories are relevant, prioritized and readied, ensured teams understand backlog health, refine stories, scope, priorities, timelines and aligned with the product vision.
- Assisted teams in focusing on meeting daily and iteration targets while maintaining a focus on producing incremental value for every iteration within the framework of the program/project objectives.
- Encouraged team to reduce waste, increase productivity, and enhance team performance by utilizing data-driven techniques and empirical process control.
- Raised the performance levels of teams inside programs/project by identifying areas for growth and strength and using the right coaching and development strategies. Optimized team resources and skills to meet project needs.
- Promoted continuous improvement by encouraging teams to share lessons learned, assess processes, leveraging empirical data to evaluate scrum maturity, identify areas for optimization and quality enhancement, and implement changes that lead to better outcomes.
- Empowered cross-functional scrum teams to become self-managing and high-performing, serving as a true servant leadership and helping them to stay focused and motivated while guiding them to meet quality standards and deliverables.
- Facilitated technical discussion with technical lead and scrum teams to address, manage and resolve technical issues, defects, spike and technical debt by escalating to concern stakeholders.
- Led weekly projects review calls with internal and external stakeholders to make sure that schedules, goals, and business needs are met. Ensured all deliverables met quality standards through thorough reviews and testing.
- Proactively handled risks and issues in projects with a standard level of complexity, utilizing technical expertise of technical architect or lead to assess risks, carry out qualitative analyses, develop plans for risk management, set up procedures, and collaborate with leaders and cross-functional teams to reduce impact of the risks that were identified.
- Proactively managed Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID Log) and RACI Matrix and ensure effective communication and resolution.
- Encouraged growth and learning by providing one-on-one and group coaching. Ensured proactive and seamless communication, with project teams, all relevant parties and key stakeholders.
- Tracked sprint progress, release progress using relevant agile metrics and maintained agile project management tools Microsoft Azure DevOps Board, Jira, Confluence and processes.
- Monitored and communicated projects health, status, updates, and milestones to all stakeholders and senior leadership for strategic decision making and ensured alignment with organizational goals.
Senior Manager
Profinch Solutions Pvt. Ltd
09.2021 - 07.2023
Scrum Master
Mastek Ltd
08.2017 - 09.2021
Quality Assurance Lead
Planit Testing India Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 02.2017
Test Team Lead
Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd
01.2010 - 01.2016
Associate Consultant
Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd
08.2007 - 01.2010
Software Test Engineer
Nelito Systems Ltd
05.2006 - 08.2007
Technical Support Engineer
Anmol Computech Pvt. Ltd
08.2004 - 05.2006
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Computer Engineering
North Maharashtra University
Jalgaon, Maharashtra2004
Skills
- Agile Project Management
- Scrum Framework & Agile Transformation
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Analytical Thinking & Continuous Improvement
- Communication & Adaptability
- Cross- functional Collaboration
- Team Building & Servant Leadership
- Conflict Resolution & Removing Impediments
- Shielding Team Members & Team Facilitation
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Product Owner/Manager Collaboration
- Performance Improvement & Problem Solving
- Risk Management & Release Planning
- Emotional Intelligence & Team Dynamics
Accomplishments
- Built High-Performing Teams: Successfully transitioned a team from low productivity to a high-performing Agile team through continuous coaching and mentorship.
- Optimized Sprint Planning: Reduced sprint planning time by 20% through effective backlog refinement and streamlined processes.
- Fostered Collaboration: Improved team collaboration by implementing structured team-building exercises like Chai Pe Charcha, team lunch/dinner etc and establishing effective communication channels.
- Reduced Defects: Decreased post-production defects by 15% by introducing 3 Amigos session for Product Owner, Dev and QA.
- Automated Metrics: Developed JIRA dashboards to provide real-time Agile metrics, improving stakeholder visibility.
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- SAFe Agilist
- ICP-ACC (Agile Certified Coach)
- Prince 2
Timeline
Specialist Scrum Master
Accelya India Services Pvt Ltd
07.2023 - 01.2024
Senior Manager
Profinch Solutions Pvt. Ltd
09.2021 - 07.2023
Scrum Master
Mastek Ltd
08.2017 - 09.2021
Quality Assurance Lead
Planit Testing India Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 02.2017
Test Team Lead
Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd
01.2010 - 01.2016
Associate Consultant
Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd
08.2007 - 01.2010
Software Test Engineer
Nelito Systems Ltd
05.2006 - 08.2007
Technical Support Engineer
Anmol Computech Pvt. Ltd
08.2004 - 05.2006
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- SAFe Agilist
- ICP-ACC (Agile Certified Coach)
- Prince 2
Bachelor's Degree - Computer Engineering
North Maharashtra University
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