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Work History
Education
Skills
Websites
Certification
Accomplishments
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Akanksha Kashyap

Hyderabad
Akanksha Kashyap

Summary

Agile Program Manager, Scrum Master, and Agile Coach with 7+ years of experience. Specialize in delivering complex projects through Agile methodologies. Proficient in Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe. Lead multiple Agile projects across diverse industries, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery. Coach teams and stakeholders on Agile principles, fostering understanding and adoption. Excel in leadership, communication, and collaboration to inspire teams and align with organizational goals. Passionate about promoting Agile principles and driving innovation in the Program Management process.

Overview

8
years of professional experience
3
Certification

Work History

Kohler

Lead Scrum Master
10.2022 - Current

Job overview

  • Accountable for the preparation and execution of Program Increment (PI) planning, ensuring readiness and driving PI planning meetings to successful outcomes
  • Led Kitchen and Bath International teams- Web Commerce and Salesforce platform agile product teams
  • Provided mentorship and coaching to 3 Agile teams, conducted quarterly Agile assessments, and developed coaching plans to enhance team performance
  • Led Agile activation and refresher training sessions for business stakeholders and teams to bolster Agile adoption and understanding
  • Conducted interviews for Agile Coach and Scrum Master positions, ensuring the selection of highly qualified candidates
  • Led timely delivery and quality assurance of Agile Release Train (ART) deliverables, supporting product managers and product owners in managing the program board for each PI
  • Identified and tracked dependencies, risks, and issues, ensuring timely escalation and resolution
  • Monitored action items for timely completion and produced key progress reports to track savings, benefit realization, and KPI data
  • Developed and facilitated strategic initiatives and process optimization using Lean Six Sigma methodologies, focusing on milestone planning, critical path management, and resource planning
  • Acted as the primary point of contact for escalations, providing ongoing status updates to management and stakeholders, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within teams
  • Managed and supervised product teams, ensuring compliance with corporate standards and governance in collaboration with business teams and PMO
  • Partnered with key stakeholders to identify, scope, execute, and sustain strategically aligned initiatives, driving cross-functional process optimization across the program
  • Ensured regular impact reporting across ongoing and implemented initiatives, driving follow-up and corrective actions, and supporting change management implementation
  • Maintained and led process optimization strategies for product and program, facilitating workshops and ensuring delivery of initiatives on time and within budget
  • Analyzed process data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement, suggested improvements based on feedback from team retrospectives, and recommended process enhancements through automation and workflow streamlining
  • Coached and mentored Scrum Masters and team members, improving team efficiency, fostering Agile and Scrum benefits, and ensuring continuous improvement and productivity
  • Collaborated with cross-functional leaders to prioritize and plan software releases, tracked metrics related to sprint performance, and identified areas for future improvement
  • Prepared and presented materials for internal meetings, managed communication between internal stakeholders, and supported the planning and coordination of change management, training, process, and system communications
  • Efficiently handled Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Demos, Retrospectives, and other Agile activities like product backlog grooming, ensuring successful outcomes throughout the development process

Accenture

Senior Scrum Master
07.2021 - 10.2022

Job overview

  • Responsible for planning and leading scrum ceremonies, release planning, and brown box coaching sessions
  • Assisted the team in making appropriate commitments by selecting stories, estimating tasks, and establishing team standards and best practices
  • Collaborated with the product owner to define a set of stories for better estimation and development
  • Managed a project through all phases, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closing
  • Developed a project plan baseline by analyzing current documents and setting up benchmarks for deliverables, milestones, budget control, production timetables, status reporting, client/team coordination, risk analysis, and quality assurance
  • Led Scrum of Scrum and Delivery Internal (DiN) calls
  • Partnered with Agile Audit Team for cross-team peer review
  • Introduced various Retrospective models within Teams and coached multiple teams through the 'Agile Do You Know?' initiative
  • Prepared Dashboards in Azure DevOps for Product Teams and Delivery unit

Blue Yonder

Scrum Master | Senior Software Engineer
01.2017 - 07.2021

Job overview

  • Full-stack developer, focusing on product enhancements and resolving customer issues
  • Migrating the database from Oracle 19c to Microsoft SQL Server 2017
  • Transitioning the product from on-premise to the Microsoft Azure environment
  • Conducting product security reviews and overseeing Checkmarx scans and architectural reviews for new releases
  • Facilitating Scrum events and addressing impediments to improve transparency and decision-making
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Security, Product, and ITG, to resolve issues
  • Guided in reducing technical debt and implementing program-wide JIRA reports and dashboards to decrease carryover by 10%
  • Worked closely with the Product Owner on backlog grooming to ensure the product backlog is relevant and prioritized with agreed-upon acceptance criteria
  • Collaborating with the development team on UI/UX changes to meet service-level agreements

Education

Thapar University
Punjab

Master of Computer Applications
07.2017

University Overview

Chitkara University
Punjab

Bachelor of Computer Applications
07.2014

University Overview

Skills

  • Program management
  • Agile Project Management
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Customer Experience
  • Change Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Team Effectiveness
  • Leadership
  • Lean SixSigma
  • Strategy Planning and Initiative Development
  • Incident Management
  • Business Consulting
  • Enterprise Transformations
  • Workflow Analysis
  • Risk Identification

Websites

Certification

  • ICP- Agile Coaching Certification, ICAgile, 10/01/23
  • SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, Scaled Agile, 12/01/22
  • Professional Scrum Master -1, Scrum.Org, 05/01/20

Accomplishments

Accomplishments
  • Women People Leader 2024 - Kohler

Timeline

Lead Scrum Master
Kohler
10.2022 - Current
Senior Scrum Master
Accenture
07.2021 - 10.2022
Scrum Master | Senior Software Engineer
Blue Yonder
01.2017 - 07.2021
Thapar University
Master of Computer Applications
Chitkara University
Bachelor of Computer Applications

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