Chandrima Choudhury

• Responsible to develop strategy for large-scale agile transformations from pilot through full-scale implementation of a dept. of 100+ members. Work closely with the Technical Program Management Organization, coach teams to achieve business agility through agile transformation.
• Blended Agile goals with organization OKRs.
  
• Coach and mentor delivery teams across 3 product lines to adopt and grow agile mindsets, practices to deliver customer value.
• Worked collaboratively with R&D Products Leadership teams to accelerate Lean/Agile adoption by creating and implementing Transformation Roadmaps
  
• Develop content for 2 in-house agile training offerings of Siemens.
• Introduced agile metrics based on "measure what matters", enabling teams on data-driven decision-making.
• Transformed project delivery by coaching teams on Scrum, Kanban, and Lean principles.
• Driving Office of Agile Practices CoE that fosters culture of by agile adoption, assesses agile maturity, establishes a culture of continuous improvement in the organization.

• Experience with SAFe :Drive PI planning, focus to achieve committed Business Value (BV) & improved Predictability KPI
• Facilitate the coordinated preparation and execution of release planning for the ART
• Accountable for Lean Budget Guardrail
• Facilitate ART Sync - Scrum of Scrum Master forum
• Coaching Product Owner, creating awareness about BV, effective backlog refinements.

· Scrum master of 2 global teams with cross-functional ability

· Experience with SAFe :Drive PI planning, focus to achieve committed Business Value (BV) & improved Predictability KPI

· Facilitate pre-PI and PI events

· Built high performing teams who take ownership of 5 products.

· Ensure project goals are achieved with quality and on time in alignment with stakeholders' expectations.

· Promoter of “ relentless improvement ” through Inspect & Adapt, eye on removing waste.

· Built 2 teams as “ Learning Organization ” (Peter Senge)

· Promote best practices within and beyond teams – TDD, S/W craftsmanship, fun & learn, Practicing GEMBA

· Risk management/ impediment management

· Own scrum teams' “ Maturity Assessment ” & improvement.

· Serving organization by training, coaching scrum adoption, ensuring zero distance from customer, Coaching 2 budding scrum masters.

· Driving SM-Community of Practice

Owned transformation of a team from waterfall to agile, plan strategy and implement “Kotter's change management”

• Coached and supported scrum team to become “self-managed”
• Continuous improvement driven through DoR, DoD, scrum events, product backlog health, removing waste
• Partner with PO to ensure continuous refinement of backlog
• Risk and impediment management
• People Manager responsibilities including staffing and recruitment

· Spearheading projects across globe as Project Management Practice Lead

· Accountable for delivery of projects, leading multiple teams and coordinating task assignment, scheduling and estimating

· Led multiple teams, Managed projects from kick-off till closure.

· Created and baseline of project management and master test plan

· Addressed end customer expectation and ensured timely delivery.

· Detailed study of the software requirement specification documents

. Executed technical proficiency in coding on .NET framework

· Managed various testing phases and was engaged in planning and execution of software testing of project deliverables.