Deepali Nagrani
Scrum Master | Agile Consultant
Bengaluru
Summary
An enthusiastic Agile Practitioner and Scrum Master with extensive experience in the implementation of Agile Principles, Practices, and Frameworks. Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM-II), Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I) from Scrum .org, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance, and Project Management Professional (PMP-PMI) with over 7 years of I.T. experience as a Scrum Master, Business Analyst, and Project Coordinator. Expert at driving the Agile Transformation, Scrum Adaption, and committed to creating high-quality,user-centric products.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Scrum Master | Sr. Associate Consultant
Northern Trust
Bangalore
07.2021 - Current
- Leading a Scrum Team for planning, developing, testing, and integrating on a set Release, which is a part of the broader Program for the team, right from initiation and Team Formation
- Collaborating Closely with Product Owner for effective Backlog refinement/management and continuous delivery of features, goals, and milestones
- Educating and reinforcing scrum values to team members and ensure they understand the concepts of DOR, DOD, Increment, Story Analysis, Estimation/Sizing
- Facilitating Scrum Ceremonies: Daily Stand Up, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews,Retrospectives
- Additionally, the Big Room Planning Meeting for long and short-term Planning and aligning Business, Product, and Technology Teams
- Protecting the team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, that hinder agility within the team
- Conducting the Twelve Agile Principles Assessment to assess Overall AgilityView, and identify the key strengths and opportunities which indicate the team's Agile Maturity
- Managing ongoing communication with stakeholders to ensure their expectations are aligned regarding the development, delivery, and timely completion
- Identifying and removing the impediments for the Scrum team and leading the team's efforts toward continuous improvement
- Developing a successful flow with the scrum team that helps promote collaboration, shorter feedback loop, minimize dependencies, improve completion ratio, customer satisfaction, and team dynamic
- Overseeing all the Scrum processes, and making sure that every Sprint is followed with a Deployment that is complemented with a run book, with minimal technical debt, while maintaining the highest quality of performance
Scrum Master
Wells Fargo
Bengaluru
01.2017 - 06.2021
- Successfully guided the Engineering and Development team through the transition from Waterfall to Agile and formed a new Scrum Team
- Managed Agile Transformation Program for the Endpoint Security
- Established Scrum as defined in the Scrum Guide, by advocating Scrum Values and helping everyone understand both Scrum theory and practice
- Delivered several presentations on ‘Need for Change’ and the reasons for Agile Adoption
- Coached the Solutions Engineering Team on the Agile Principles and Agile Manifesto and thereby enabled the formation of the Scrum Team
- Educated and reinforced Scrum Values and Agile Principles to team members and key stakeholders and at various forum s thus, advocating Agile across the team, teams, and the organization
- Helped the Scrum Team focus on creating High-Value Increments that meet the Definition of Done
- Ensured that all Scrum Events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox
- Removed Scrum Team Roadblocks and Impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the Sprint goals and deliverables seamlessly
- Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum s, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospective Meetings and engaged in all the Product Backlog Refinement Activity
- Extensively led the Backlog Grooming and Refinement activity in close coordination with Product Owners and Stakeholders to help prioritize the highest-value work items and validate business requirements to make sure that the higher-order items are what's keeping the team's most invested backlog remains relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and the stories are ready for sizing
- Determined the team capacity and velocity from historical data, which in turn improved team velocity by incorporating Capacity Planning into Sprint Planning sessions
- Leveraged various Scrum and Collaborative tools effectively (Jira, Confluence, SharePoint)
- Maintained JIRA Story Board for User Story creation in the form of Task, Bug, Improvement, or Epic and workflow Customization
- Updated Agile Tracking Systems to provide transparency, which enables inspection and adaptation
- Collected, reported, and refined Agile Metrics to quantify and communicate team performance, create KPIs and derive insightful conclusions
- Developed a successful workflow with the scrum team that promoted collaboration, shorter feedback loop, minimized dependencies, improved completion ratio, stakeholder satisfaction, and team dynamics
- Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure the team identifies and mitigates risks and impediments (Blocking Issues & Critical Defects) daily
- Catalyzed Continuous Improvement of process and practice through collaboration with the team to identify and implement improvements
- Conducted 1:1 discussion to help identify and understand ways to continually improve the process, infrastructure, and tools
- Collaborated with other Scrum Masters for larger Scrum-of-Scrum programs s Ensured that the team is effectively executing against the highest value priorities to develop, test, troubleshoot, and perform debugging of the infra, versions upgrades, organic growth, etc.
Business Resiliency Coordinator (Business Continuity Administrator)
Wells Fargo
Bengaluru
10.2017 - 06.2021
- Coordinated Business Continuity Planning /Information Technology Disaster Recovery testing program as a Business Resiliency Coordinator
- Ran Business Impact Analysis and Business Recovery plans across all three lines of products to respond to any business, technology disruption
- Maintained existing business continuity plans, and DR plans on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis to ensure the plans are up-to-date with clear risk and response strategies in place
- Conducted exercises for Record Verification, Plan Walkthrough, Ro le s and Responsibilities,
- Risk Assessment, and Technology Planned Simulation for all the Data Centers
- Ensured documentation of all potential business risk factors are considered (loss of technology, human capital, facility)
- Assisted in the documentation of the content of BCM plans and of core operational areas which include, business resumption, recovery, restoration, and disaster recovery plans that allow for -Production Readiness and Business Continuation in the event of disruptions or disasters
- Assisted in the communication of the BCM plans to all relevant stakeholders for review and signoff
- Participated in the education and awareness of all individuals as to the importance of effective business continuity plans and their role in the event of a disruption to business operations
- Provided operational support in the event of business disruption to manage the response coordination and communications
- Documented any issues experienced and lessons learned in a business disruption/test and track the progress to resolve open issues
- Coordinated and participated in the end-to-end business continuity and Disaster Recovery Enterprise-wide management exercise
Business Systems Senior Analyst (Formerly Business Systems Consultant)
Wells Fargo
01.2017 - 06.2021
- Acted as a liaison between business and Technology while as s es sing the process and documenting the requirements
- Executed Controls and conducted daily, and weekly peer reviews for the Control Run under the Compliance Program
- Led Sunset Process for various Endpoint Security Applications approaching End Of Life and were retired from the infrastructure
- Reconciled info from multiple data sources, resolved inconsistency and transformed high level into detailed tech specification doc
- Helped dwindle the Team Internal Wiki pages for the migration from SharePoint to Confluence
- Designed training material which included exercises for hands-on training and questionnaires
- Conducted requirements elicitation through document analysis, brainstorming, storyboarding, and workflow diagrams and worked with the stakeholders to ensure the right solution
- Documented stakeholder concerns and communicated to project management teams
- Created a Document Depot for migration of internal team documents to a centralized location for uniformity and ease of access
- Defined and documented clear and complete detailed business requirements and functional specifications using the SDLC methodology from the Business team and documented using, Office suite and Visio
- Ensured proper Incident Management, Problem Management, and Change Management well per the ITIL concepts
- Facilitated meetings with several sectors of the bank to demonstrate the proposed state of security solutions across different Lines of Business
- Conceptualized and conducted Conferences and Knowledge transfer sessions for team members and business users
Business Analyst
HSBC
08.2014 - 12.2016
- As a Business Analyst for the Business Intelligence Unit for the UK region with an emphasis on the Data warehouse architecture
- Transformed business needs into requirements and ensured that the the solution carries out its intended purpose to satisfy the explicitly stated business needs
- Gathered and documented business requirements from stakeholders, working with cross-functional teams like data management, BI team s by translating them into technical requirements
- Refined the existing master mapping style sheet-for inbound and outbound mapping
- Prepared documentation for the Data Mapping and transformation from the Source System to the Target tables
- Overseen and actively participated in all aspects of Project Phases and maintained momentum throughout
- Created relationships in Requirements Traceability Matrix linking
- Business Requirements to Functional requirements and Functional
- Requirements to Systems Requirements
- Interacted with users for verifying user requirements and managing Change Control Process
- Conducted Conferences and Knowledge transfer sessions for the team members and business users
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science Engineering
Amity University
XII - undefined
City Montessori School
ISC
ICSE - undefined
Skills
Project Management Professional-PMP(2022)
Professional Scrum Master-II (2021)
Professional Scrum Master-I (2021)
SAFe Scrum Master (2021)
SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (2021)
SAFe 5 Agile Product Manager (2021)
SAFe 5 Agilist (2021)
SAFe Product Owner (2021)
Business Resiliency Coordinator (Wells Fargo – 2021)
Certified Risk Manager (2019)
Certified Scrum Master (2018)
ITIL Foundation (2017)
Accomplishments
Wells Fargo Champions Award (Q1 2021)
Wells Fargo Champions Award (Q2 2020)
Hosted ICS All Hands Meet with the CISO (Q3 2018, Q1 2019,
Q3 2019)
Hosted the All Hands Meet (Q1 2019) for the Technology
Organization
IELTS score – 8 overall (2021)
Hosted the launch of the Women in Technology (WIT) Platform
Hosted the Women's Day Celebration (March 2018)
Hosted the Launch of the WISE Forum (Women in Info Security) Presented several topics in the Agile Community of Practice as a speaker
Citation: Excellence in Knowledge Creation Award (Amity University,2014)
Hosted the launch/inaugural ceremony of the Cloud Café
Hosted the Cloud Café: Leadership Speaker Series
Hosted the Employee Engagement Fun Event across
APAC Business Unit
Hosted the Team Fun Event (APAC, EMEA, NA)
Hosted several Monthly Connects with the Leadership Team
Timeline
Scrum Master | Sr. Associate Consultant
Northern Trust
07.2021 - Current
Business Resiliency Coordinator (Business Continuity Administrator)
Wells Fargo
10.2017 - 06.2021
Scrum Master
Wells Fargo
01.2017 - 06.2021
Business Systems Senior Analyst (Formerly Business Systems Consultant)
Wells Fargo
01.2017 - 06.2021
Business Analyst
HSBC
08.2014 - 12.2016
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science Engineering
Amity University
XII - undefined
City Montessori School
ISC