Anand Kumar Kedia
Bengaluru
Summary
Results-focused Scrum Master proficient in task prioritization, risk mitigation, and workflow optimization. Seasoned agile expert with a strong track record in Stakeholder Management, delivering successful projects, and cultivating high-performing teams. Collaborative professional adept at maintaining composure in any scenario.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Airbus
Bengaluru
04.2023 - Current
- Coached and mentored 2 teams on Agile and Scrum concepts, values, principles, and practices.
- Facilitated scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, and demos.
- Identified and removed impediments to the team's progress through effective facilitation of problem-solving sessions and Scrum of Scrums (identify potential risks, issues, and dependencies that could impede progress). Later, following and tracking them to closure.
- Provided guidance to product owners on grooming user stories for development teams. Developed strategies for continuous improvement of the software development process.
- Promoted lean and automation best practices. Templatized Defect and Feature creation using Agility tool. Helped define and continuously enhance the team's Ways of Working, and govern the adherence to Definition of Done and Quality Strategy for better delivery output.
- Tracked and reported on project progress using various metrics like Predictability, Velocity trend, Scope Variance, Defect Leakage, Team Mood, etc.
- Continuous collaboration with stakeholders from different departments to ensure successful delivery of projects.
- Promoted cross-functional collaboration among all my different team members in India and in Toulouse.
- Timesheet tracking, onboarding, and offboarding of resources, monthly connects with individual team members, contributing towards workstream initiatives, and maintaining high team morale are some of the other key additional responsibilities.
- Also played interim Scrum Master role in parallel for a train team for 2 PIs in 2023.
- Supported hiring drives and also conducted Agile Bootcamp and Advanced sessions for the department.
Senior Scrum Master, Account Lead
Morgan Stanley (via Accolite Digital)
Bengaluru
03.2017 - 03.2023
Agile Coach
Infosys
Bengaluru
09.2016 - 02.2017
Program Manager
HSBC (via Capco)
Bengaluru
12.2015 - 08.2016
Scrum Master
Capco
Bengaluru
03.2012 - 09.2015
Senior Test Engineer
Bank of America (via Infosys)
Bengaluru
09.2008 - 02.2012
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
PESIT
Bengaluru06-2008
High School Diploma -
The Oxford Senior Secondary School
Bengaluru03-2004
Skills
- Team facilitation
- Stakeholder Management
- Resource Management
- Project Management
- Agile Best Practices
- Reporting
Affiliations
- Agile Mentor consecutively for 2 years (2018 & 2019) at TAFAC (Theme and Framework Agnostic Agile Conference) held in Bangalore, organized by AgileVisa.
- Founder of Agile Community at Capco and part of the Digital research group in 2015.
- Sports lover, I recently represented the Digital services Cricket team in Airbus Cricket league.
Languages
English
First Language
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Kannada
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
German
Beginner
A1
Accomplishments
- Received appreciations from the Morgan Stanley client and internally at Accolite (including the CEO) for valuable contributions to the organization.
- Voted Best Trainer in AU-2018 & AU-2020 (Accolite University) – the most premium and strategic training program for new hires @Accolite.
- Wrote an article on CI/CD that got Published on Scrum Alliance community website: https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/member-articles/1655
- Was awarded Player of the Series (Football) at Accolite Olympics Sports meet held at Hyderabad – 2018.
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
- Kanban Management Professional - 1 (KMP1)
- Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC)
- SAFe Agilist (SAFe 5)
- SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)
- SAFe 6 Release Train Engineer (RTE)
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Scrum Master
Airbus
04.2023 - Current
Senior Scrum Master, Account Lead
Morgan Stanley (via Accolite Digital)
03.2017 - 03.2023
Agile Coach
Infosys
09.2016 - 02.2017
Program Manager
HSBC (via Capco)
12.2015 - 08.2016
Scrum Master
Capco
03.2012 - 09.2015
Senior Test Engineer
Bank of America (via Infosys)
09.2008 - 02.2012
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
- Kanban Management Professional - 1 (KMP1)
- Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC)
- SAFe Agilist (SAFe 5)
- SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)
- SAFe 6 Release Train Engineer (RTE)
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
PESIT
High School Diploma -
The Oxford Senior Secondary School
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