Abhilash Paradeshi

• Collaborating closely with project managers to refine the backlog and prioritize high-value tasks.
• Applied Agile and Scrum strategies that enabled 95% of participants to improve agility practices within three months
• Helping teams define and prioritize sprint deliverables to ensure focused and efficient execution.
• Maintained product backlogs, ensuring that items are well defined and prioritized based on business value.
• Facilitated key Scrum ceremonies—including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives—for three cross-functional teams
• Updated project plans based on changing objectives, specifications, and staff availability.
• Worked closely with sales teams to ensure client satisfaction from acquisition to proposal phases.
• Tracked metrics related to sprint performance and identified areas of improvement for future sprints.
• Identified, addressed and either resolved or escalated project issues.
• Tracking velocity, sprint goals, and KPIs using Salesforce.

Description:

Project 1 - Atlice Europe

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Planned and managed Scrum implementations within the organization.
• Assessed 100% of the current organization and delivery environment, recommending optimal Agile practices, and increasing organizational delivery by over 60%.
• Coordinated and collaborated with other product teams related to project dependencies and relationships.
• Managed and reported on 100% of the tasks and activities assigned to the Scrum teams.
• Helped navigate Scrum events, including the Sprint Review for a personal team.
• Supported and educated product owners with respect to grooming and maintaining product backlogs.
• Ensured that 100% of inter-team risks, impediments, and blockers were identified, communicated, and resolved.
• Led Agile Scrum teams dedicated to developing the digital and technology roadmap.
• Managed core Agile ceremonies in team environments: Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Doubled team velocity, throughput, burndown, and cumulative flow of one cross-functional team.
• Managed 100% of the Scrum process, from initiation to management, to delivery.
• Guided Agile principles and facilitation skills to ensure teams were working in an Agile mindset and utilizing Scrum practices.
• Acted as a servant leader and coach for Agile Scrum teams, ensuring the effective use and practice.
• Communicated with external stakeholders to gather requirements on directing client interaction to increase communication and accuracy with processes, transactions, and file requests.
• Facilitated meetings with both internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements for stories.
• Provided accurate and clear acceptance criteria to dev teams for DoD (Definition of Done), resulting in more stories being accepted after demos.
• Led a user story analysis session to create and elaborate on user stories in JIRA.

Project #2: Tesco PLC

Roles and Responsibilities.

• Educated and reinforced Scrum methodology and Agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility; ensured consistent application of Scrum methodologies across the enterprise.
• Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Helped team members, stakeholders and customers understand the agile values, principles and practices.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Facilitated sprint planning, Daily scrum calls, sprint review(Demos) and retrospectives, product backlog grooming & refinement, Release Planning
• Facilitate Sprint Planning meetings, which include reviewing the Product Backlog and collaborating with the Product Owner and the Core Team.
• Daily Scrum Ensure the team abides by the SCRUM rules and guidelines.
• Facilitate the Daily SCRUM meetings to allow the Scrum Team to synchronize their work and communicate issues and roadblocks to the Product Owner Help remove impediments and roadblocks to progress.
• Facilitate Sprint Review Meetings to review the scope and functionality delivered successfully in the completed Sprint

· Acted as the primary liaison between internal stakeholders and the external software development team

· Collected, documented, and prioritized business requirements from department heads

· Coordinated dashboard system implementation with real-time reporting and ERP integration

· Managed project dependencies, risks, and timelines to ensure successful delivery

· Conducted regular progress meetings and status updates with stakeholders

Facilitated testing, user feedback, and iteration cycles.

· Maintained documentation on specifications, workflows, and updates

· Provided ongoing support post-launch including troubleshooting, training, and change handling