Himanshu Shukla
Scrum Master
Pune,MH
Summary
Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary facilitation, team management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
Work History
Scrum Master
John Deere
Pune, Maharashtra
09.2020 - Current
- Facilitated sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies
- Coached Product owner, Product manager in effective backlog creation and value definition.
- Provided platform to raise and escalate impediments. Involving leaders in escalated impediment resolution.
- Build psychological safe environment for teams where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with emphasis on problem solving.
- Forecast sprints with Product Owner and concerned business partners to better understand dependencies between tasks and teams.
- Facilitate discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution between sprint team members and Product Owners.
- Achieved 37 incident free days for scrum teams by implementing Agile and engineering practices.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process
Scrum Master Coach
John Deere
Pune, Maharashtra
12.2017 - 08.2020
- Served team of 8 member by facilitating Scrum events - Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Review and Backlog refinements.
- Drove execution of Agile Operating Model for John Deere India. Involved establishing of Agile foundry, training leaders and teams on Agile Principles and practices.
- Delivered Agile Overview to over 100 participants at John Deere Parts, US.
- Established productivity gains for Agile teams proving realized savings ($20000).
- Coached and trained 20+ teams to effectively implement Agile practices.
- Ran 6+ book clubs for IT teams on Agile and DevOps practices.
- Proactively resolved impediments in way of team.
- Trained and mentored 8 new personnel hired to fulfill various roles.
- Developed and implemented Agile training programs for 200 employees.
- Advised executives on best practices for employee growth and productivity goals.
Process Lead
John Deere
Pune, Maharashtra
05.2015 - 12.2017
System Analyst
John Deere
Pune, Maharashtra
04.2014 - 04.2015
IT Analyst
Deere & Company - Moline (US)
Moline, Illinois
03.2013 - 03.2014
System Analyst
John Deere
Pune, Maharashtra
10.2010 - 02.2013
Software Engineer
John Deere
Pune, Maharashtra
09.2007 - 09.2010
Education
Diploma of Management - Business Management
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management
Pune 04.2010 - 03.2012
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical
Kavikulguru Institute of Technology & Science
Nagpur 05.2002 - 03.2006
Skills
Facilitation
Team Management
Agile Frameworks - Scrum, Kanban, SAFe etc
Metrics and Reporting
Software Development Methodologies
Lean Tools
Programming
DevOps Tools
Project Management
Organization and Time Management
Conflict Resolution
Risk identification
Certification
Agile Certified Professional - PMI ACP
Work Availability
monday
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wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Quote
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
Timeline
Inspiring & Motivating Individuals
02-2021
Giving Helpful Feedback
10-2020
Scrum Master
John Deere
09.2020 - Current
Continuous Delivery & DevOps
08-2020
Managing an Agile Team
05-2020
Scrum Master Coach
John Deere
12.2017 - 08.2020
Agile Certified Professional - PMI ACP
05-2017
Process Lead
John Deere
05.2015 - 12.2017
System Analyst
John Deere
04.2014 - 04.2015
Certified Scrum Master
02-2014
IT Analyst
Deere & Company - Moline (US)
03.2013 - 03.2014
System Analyst
John Deere
10.2010 - 02.2013
Base Certified SAS Programmer
06-2010
Diploma of Management - Business Management
Symbiosis Institute of Business Management
04.2010 - 03.2012
Software Engineer
John Deere
09.2007 - 09.2010
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical
Kavikulguru Institute of Technology & Science
05.2002 - 03.2006