DAYANANDA PANDURANGAN
Bangalore
Summary
Team-driven scrum master knowledgeable in task prioritization, risk management and workflow optimization. Committed agile expert with several years of expertise in presenting information clearly and developing high performing teams. Collaborative individual remains poised in all types of situations.
- A result oriented Certified CSM® & DASSM® working professional with 10.5 years of total IT experience in improving processes & complex product deliveries by implementing a scaled Agile environment.
- Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
- Ensure the scrum teams are adhering to the DOD criteria.
- Scheduling and facilitating scrum events like Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Review meetings, PI Planning and decision-making processes.
- Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices. ▪ Constantly keeps track of burn down chart and informing the PO if there are any risks involved in the current sprint.
- Tracking project processes and deliverables.
- Interacts with the team to identify blockers / impediments and help them to unblock the same.
- Demonstrated success at tracking project progress and development against plan to ensure successful implementation and delivery while providing inputs to product improvements.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
IBM India Private Limited
Bangalore
12.2021 - Current
- Led a Scrum team of 10 engineers in an Agile environment (SAFe) to successfully deliver projects on time.
- Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the delivery or release for each Program Increment.
- Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes, and operational specifications.
- Improve team velocity by 20% incrementally by facilitating the adoption of agile practices.
- Reduced the number of blockers by 30% and increased the team's ability by encouraging the team to do offline refinement of each ticket.
Scrum Master
Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd
Bangalore
04.2021 - 12.2021
- Guided software development teams with agile principles.
- Coached two cross-functional teams on Scrum, leading to increase in average velocity per sprint.
- Ensured coordination between Product Owner, Tech Lead, Developers, and Testers occurred early and often, and removed barriers and blockers for the team.
- Assisted with internal and external communication to improve transparency.
Scrum Master /QA Test Lead
UpGrad (Formerly KnowledgeHut Pvt Ltd)
Bangalore
03.2014 - 04.2021
- Implemented Scrum principles in a team of 12, resulting in improved team performance.
- Facilitated distributed project team and all aspects of Agile/Scrum development, including daily stand-ups, iteration and release planning, retrospectives, demos, and daily work.
- Created and tracked product backlog using Jira, and responsible for capacity and velocity-driven planning.
Education
Bachelor of Electronics & Communication Engineering -
ANNA UNIVERSITY
CHENNAI06-2009
Skills
- Scrum,
- Kanban,
- Scaled Agile Framework,
- PI Planning,
- JIRA & Confluence
- Servant Leadership,
- PI Planning,
- Sprint Planning,
- Sprint Retrospective,
- Sprint Review,
- Agile Metrics: Reporting and Audits
- SharePoint,
- Risk Management,
- Release Management,
- Conflict Resolution,
- Cross-Functional Team Collaboration,
- Stakeholder Management,
- Capacity and resource planning,
- ServiceNow and Incident Management,
- Technical understanding,
- Presentation Skills
Affiliations
- 1H Standing Ovation Awards 2024
- 'Best of Blues' awardees for the Client COO Stars awards recognition.
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
- Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) Certification, PMI
Timeline
Scrum Master
IBM India Private Limited
12.2021 - Current
Scrum Master
Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd
04.2021 - 12.2021
Scrum Master /QA Test Lead
UpGrad (Formerly KnowledgeHut Pvt Ltd)
03.2014 - 04.2021
Bachelor of Electronics & Communication Engineering -
ANNA UNIVERSITY
Similar Profiles
Virender ThakurVirender Thakur
Operations Manager at IBM India Private Limited/ Kyndryl Solutions Private LimitedOperations Manager at IBM India Private Limited/ Kyndryl Solutions Private Limited
Sowmya V BalasubramaniamSowmya V Balasubramaniam
Recruitment Manager at IBM India Private LimitedRecruitment Manager at IBM India Private Limited
Gayathri GavaraGayathri Gavara
Associate System Engineer at IBM India Private LimitedAssociate System Engineer at IBM India Private Limited
ABIMANYU GABIMANYU G
Senior Analyst at IBM India Private LimitedSenior Analyst at IBM India Private Limited
Muskan JainMuskan Jain
Associate – Bid Management at Subex Ltd.Associate – Bid Management at Subex Ltd.