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Ashwani Kumar

Ashwani Kumar

Scrum Master, Agile Coach
Jaipur

Summary

Results-oriented achiever with proven ability to exceed targets and drive success in fast-paced environments. Combines strategic thinking with hands-on experience to deliver impactful solutions and enhance organizational performance.

Professional with deep expertise in Agile methodologies and team dynamics, prepared for this role. Strong focus on fostering team collaboration and delivering results in fast-paced environments. Skilled in Scrum, Kanban, and Lean practices, with knack for guiding teams through change. Reliable and adaptable, consistently driving performance and achieving project goals.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications

Work History

Scrum Master / Agile coach / RTE

Globant
08.2021 - Current
  • Enabled organization's new way of working through hands-on coaching of Pilot teams, including technology and business participants at all levels of the organization.
  • As an RTE, coached multiple Scrum Masters, Product Owners and teams through agile transitions by applying agile mindset, principles & practices to deliver business value.
  • Participates in the Agile Coach community groups to share best practices and ways of working and Collaborates with the Agile COE to recommend, test, and establish practices and principles for Agile at scale.
  • Upholds qualities like Active listening, empathy, consistency in decision making and behavior, positive motivation impact by leading by example, assertive communication.
  • Drives agile adoption across all levels in the organization, facilitates and is accountable for owning the agile / scaled agile ceremonies for the agile team(s).
  • Strong hands-on experience in scaled agile frameworks like Spotify, Scrum@Scale, Nexus and SAFe etc.
  • As an RTE, used extensive Scaled Agile experience to prepare SM's, POs, and other leadership for PI events.
  • As an RTE, Collaborated with other ART leaders and stakeholders to plan and coordinate the delivery of value across the program and portfolio.
  • Successfully implemented lean agile practices among Agile teams, POs, Tech Leads, and other stakeholders to maximize value for the end user/stakeholders.
  • Continuously evaluate and refine Agile practices for enhancements and driving adoption of best practices.
  • Established effective communication and collaboration across the program, keeping stakeholders informed with regular progress updates and status reports via Jira Dashboard.
  • Conducted internal & external SAFe training's like Leading SAFe, POPM, SM, SASM, SAFe for Teams, Management 3.0 Foundation etc

Scrum Master/ Agile Coach / RTE

Infosys Limited
06.2010 - 07.2021
  • Championed continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity.
  • Implemented GROW Model within the team for effective outcome.
  • Successfully Implemented Scaled Agile Framework in a few accounts and also educated others on how to conduct PI planning, Inspect & Adapt sessions etc.
  • Successfully handle an ART of 100+ members and help them to improve the flow of work.
  • Successfully implemented DevOps practices within ART and at the organization level.
  • Support the coordination of other Release Train Engineers (RTEs) from various business units.
  • Successfully organized the Scrum of Scrums (SOS) to align on impediments and enabled quick decision making.
  • Successfully organized the Product Owner (PO) Sync to align on adjustments in team backlogs to move the train, and identify dependencies at early stages.
  • Successfully organized the Inspect and Adapt (I&A) sessions to perform retrospectives and drive process adjustments at the train level.
  • Successfully implemented continuous improvement action plans, and follow-up their deployment to ensure the progress towards program goals.
  • Supporting and aligning key stakeholders for Pre-PIPE (Program Increment Planning Event) and PIPE, ensuring all necessary preparations are in place.
  • Review JIRA/backlog on a daily/weekly basis for updates on features, bugs, and tickets to ensure completeness and accuracy of milestones, teams, and other key attributes.
  • Timely identification of delays in dependencies and support resolution efforts to maintain program momentum.
  • Successfully led the transformation initiative of waterfall to Scaled agile for one of the top banks in the USA. In this journey we have followed a few key steps listed below.
  • Understanding the system, problems, Goals and why the SAFe only
  • Identify a portfolio or project for a pilot project, and key stakeholders of the initiative.
  • Planned a SAFe workshop for key stakeholders and then formed an Agile Centre of Excellence.
  • Started the journey with a single agile team of 10 members and paired this team with existing team as part of knowledge transition.
  • Come-up with a plan of adding a new team on 4th iteration and pairing it with existing team, and then on 7th iteration we added the 3rd team and aligned all of these teams on a single goal.
  • At the end of 12th iteration, there were in total 6 agile teams working on a single initiative.
  • One single ART was formed after the 12th iteration, and this art of 6 teams was working on single GOAL (PI objectives).
  • During this journey, we defined a few ground rules for each and every member of the team, focus on continuous improvement, Enable the trust, philosophy of one team - one Dream (Alignment to go beyond the expectations), Build the growth mindset to solve customer problems on time and with the quality, and finally take a step back to identify the delays and dependencies to improve further.
  • After the successful implementation of one ART, we finally launched 4-5 Arts and extended our journey to other portfolios. Key success factors were involvement of stakeholders on need basis and quick decision making for any kind of improvement(s).

Education

MCA MDU -

08.2001 - 05.2004

Skills

    Sprint planning

    Scrum framework expertise

    Project management

    Stakeholder management

    Agile coaching

    Agile metrics tracking

    Agile best practices

    Problem-solving

    Teamwork and collaboration

    Risk management

    Conflict resolution

    Active listening

Certification

SAFe® 6 Practice Consultant (SPC)

Timeline

Scrum Master / Agile coach / RTE

Globant
08.2021 - Current

Scrum Master/ Agile Coach / RTE

Infosys Limited
06.2010 - 07.2021

MCA MDU -

08.2001 - 05.2004

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