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Balachander S

Balachander S

Chennai

Summary

Generate Project requests for client based on services rendered and in coordination with the Project Managers n Establishing project plans including deadlines and priorities. Attending Project team meeting and collaboratively worked on sorting things in easy manner.

As a Scrum Master, My responsibilities include but are not limited to: Ensuring Agile and Scrum are understood and applied by the team, Facilitate the Scrum events as needed, influencing change when required, Helping in removing impediments, Helping product owners, Ensuring time boxing of scrum events, Helps in inter-team cooperation, Helps in organization agility, Consistently look for Opportunities to improve the team's effectiveness. 4 years Of Scrum Management and Agile Coaching experience ,Incident and Change Management experience for managing projects from inception to completion including defining and developing Statement of Work (SOW), Work Breakdown Structure n(WBS),Estimates to Complete (ETC) with required resources n,schedules and budgets ,identifying the risks and corrective action plans ,tracking and reporting to senior management on the status of project progress and solid understanding of the process to develop dashboards both at the overview and detailed level used for tracking and reporting the status of quantitative Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and qualitative initiatives ,Achievement Goals (AGs ) and major projects across multiple operating units and departments to senior management on monthly basis .Effective working alone with minimum direction and as cooperative team member .

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

TECH MAHINDRA
Bangalore
05.2022 - 06.2023
  • As a Scrum Master, I have coordinated different Scrum Ceremonies for teams including Sprint Planning, Daily StandUps, Sprint Demonstrations and Sprint Retrospections
  • Worked with program manager, different project managers, scrum masters and technical leads in order to synchronize the work so as to achieve the PI milestones
  • Handling the Product Backlog Management, Prioritization of blocker issues
  • Managed Scrum Boards, Sprint and Release Level Dashboards in Jira, Scrum Metrics (Burndown, Velocity) & Impediment Logs
  • Also scheduled and conducted with weekly status update meeting with management
  • Evaluated and analysed team risks, issues and activity progress
  • Preparation of Project reports, Head Count Reports, WSR
  • Developed all System Reports and interactive dashboards for all metrics
  • Managed departmental information Governance activities
  • Have also worked on Timesheet Defaulter, Timesheet Status on daily basis.

Executive-Scrum Master

Amazon Development centre
Chennai
03.2020 - 03.2022
  • Lead and facilitate various Scrum ceremonies, such as sprint closing and Planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog grooming, Sprint Review
  • Provide constructive feedback to team members to increase Agile maturity
  • Support the Product Owner maintain and refine the product backlog
  • Review and manage backlog items to ensure the latest work status is Captured and updated as appropriate
  • Ensure work is appropriately balanced across the team and that all work is Captured within the backlog
  • Provide support for Release Planning including helping to facilitate teams in Preparation and execution, along with preparation and delivery
  • Help teams navigate Agile tools and software, specifically Jira & Confluence
  • Coached teams, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Managers, and Executives on Agile values and principles to promote continuous Improvement in practices and artifacts
  • Developed and delivered team and organization workshops, building Knowledge and skills to facilitate the agile transformation.

Project Management Trainee

Devee Enterprises Pvt Ltd
Chennai
03.2019 - 02.2020
  • Elicit requirements and assist in defining objectives and making BRD (Business Requirement Documents)
  • Key working area includes requirement gathering, requirement analysis and document, client interaction, Gap Analysis, Stakeholder Interviews, Project coordination and management, project effort and estimations, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Project Status and Delivery Report
  • Experienced in conducting project meetings, reviews, walkthroughs, and customer interviews
  • Updating and maintaining project details by creating Employee allocations, Bill Rates, POB creations, Contract creations for individual projects
  • Expertise in writing Business Requirement Document (BRD), Solution Process Document (SPD)
  • Coordinate Effort estimation of Project requirements per business needs in collaboration with Project team and will be SPOC for BD team
  • Develop, configure, and document existing systems and new product offerings to meet client's needs
  • Work with quality assurance team to ensure understanding of business requirements and assist with testing as necessary.

Education

MBA - Project Management

Alagappa University
Chennai
06-2024

B.E - Mechanical Engineering

Prathyusha Engineering College
Chennai
03-2019

Skills

  • PSM
  • Agile Methodology
  • Agile Delivery
  • Scrum processes
  • Leading scrum meetings
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Project Management
  • Customer requirements analysis
  • JIRA
  • Delivery Management
  • Service Now
  • Functional Testing
  • BRD
  • Documentation
  • Sprint Planning
  • Software Development Lifecycle
  • Workflow Analysis

Languages

  • English
  • Tamil

Hobbies and Interests

  • Bike Riding
  • Gym
  • Books
  • Music

Certification

  • Professional Scrum Master - Scrum.org

Languages

Tamil
First Language
English
Advanced (C1)
C1

Timeline

Scrum Master

TECH MAHINDRA
05.2022 - 06.2023

Executive-Scrum Master

Amazon Development centre
03.2020 - 03.2022

Project Management Trainee

Devee Enterprises Pvt Ltd
03.2019 - 02.2020

MBA - Project Management

Alagappa University

B.E - Mechanical Engineering

Prathyusha Engineering College
Balachander S