ANBARASI RAVI

Agile Program Manager

• Coached 5 SAFe Agile teams to higher maturity by reinforcing team norms and ensuring adherence to SAFe and Agile principles, resulting in improved velocity and sprint predictability.
• Guided 4 Product Owners through complex problem-solving techniques and solution strategies, enhancing their capability in backlog refinement and prioritization using Agile best practices.
• Identified and resolved 4–5 systemic impediments, enabling teams to meet sprint goals and improve delivery timelines.
• Delivered Product Operating Model coaching to Product Owners, aligning them with modern agile product development techniques.
• Defined and implemented a Program-Level Intake Process for a large-scale program of 6 Agile teams (approx. 50+ members), improving clarity, prioritization, and cross-team coordination.
• Streamlined release strategy, improving delivery predictability and reducing business disruptions through calendar-based planning and readiness checkpoints.
• Introduced and maintained a Continuous Improvement Backlog, identifying and addressing business, technical, and process-related challenges at the program level.
• Trained teams and stakeholders on Jira Align, improving transparency and alignment between strategy and execution.
• Conducted Product Operating Model workshops and training sessions, fostering product-centric thinking across Agile roles.
• Project: LillyViz, RegCor, Veeva one QMS
• Role: Senior SAFe Scrum Master, RTE/Agile Coach

• Facilitated key Agile ceremonies including PI Planning, Team Breakouts, PI Demos, and Release Management meetings, ensuring alignment and smooth program execution.
• Partnered with Product Owners to prioritize and refine backlogs, converting stakeholder needs into actionable user stories that maximized customer value.
• Coached teams and individuals to higher levels of Scrum maturity, improving agile discipline, team ownership, and delivery consistency.
• Streamlined sprint ceremonies and artifacts, reinforcing Agile practices that enabled teams to meet iteration goals and deliver high-quality increments.
• Promoted cross-functional collaboration between engineering, QA, and product teams, resulting in improved sprint predictability and successful release cycles.
• Led continuous improvement initiatives through focused retrospectives, driving measurable gains in team productivity and agile performance.
• Project: Intel Foundry Services, IP Management & Intel Tapeout Services
• Role: Scrum Master/Agile Coach

• As a Scrum Master for multiple cross-site teams, identified process changes required to accelerate development and remove major impediments.
• Facilitate Daily scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Sprint retro meetings for multiple teams.
• Coaching the team on Agile principles and processes.
• Track and remove internal and external impediments for the scrum team.
• Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self-management, empowerment and role training resulting in realized velocity improvement.
• Wrote Agile FAQs, articles and success stories which were distributed via newsletter and posted on a SharePoint site to improve the Agile maturity level.
• Coached teams, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Managers and Executives on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts.
• Project: NTS
• Role: Scrum Master

• Allocating daily jobs and workloads and Training new team members.
• Worked on orchestrations (convoys, debatching, dynamic ports), Exception handling inside orchestration using ESB and worked on DB2 adapters, tools like TFSTool, FileZilla.
• Team Lead at Infosys May’2015 – July’2017

• Developed interface for Orders, Shipment, Return processing using MSMQ, FTP, FILE, WMQ and SQL adapters.
• Worked on maps using database functoid, value mapping, table looping etc.
• Senior Consultant at HCL Aug’2014 – Apr’2015

• Senior Software Engineer at Igate June’2011 – Apr’2015.