Agile Project Management
Kiranmai Srinija
Scrum Master I PSM I CSM I SAFe 5 RTE
Visakhapatnam
Summary
Certified (PSM I) Professional Scrum Master I, (CSM) Certified Scrum Master, Certified SAFe 5 Release Train Engineer.Experienced Scrum Master with over 7 years of leadership in Agile environments. Skilled in empowering teams to achieve impactful outcomes while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and self-organization. Proficient in release management, scaled agile practices, and utilizing JIRA and Confluence. Experienced in leading technical staff and managing commercial/enterprise software teams with integrity and authenticity.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Scrum Master
HCL Technologies
Hyderabad
9 2021 - Current
- Facilitated Program Increment (PI) planning in a SAFe environment, fostering collaboration, alignment, and impediment resolution for coordinated team delivery.
- Applied Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, to shorten cycle times and achieve target margins, enhancing the delivery of high-quality products.
- Managed the product backlog and facilitated monthly sprint releases, ensuring alignment with business priorities and stakeholder expectations.
- Facilitated and participated in Scrum of Scrums meetings to coordinate and align the work of multiple Agile teams.
- Established and monitored key Agile metrics to track team performance, project progress, and quality. Generated reports and dashboards in JIRA, providing stakeholders and leadership with transparent, real-time visibility into project status, risks, and impediments.
- Conducted regular status updates, stakeholder demos, and progress reports to provide visibility into project milestones, risks, and achievements, fostering trust and transparency within the organization.
- Promoted a customer-centric approach by incorporating user feedback into product development processes, ensuring end-user satisfaction and enhancing the overall product experience.
- Improved overall project efficiency through effective coordination between development, testing, deployment, and support teams during release cycles, ensuring timely and successful product launches.
Scrum Master
DATRI Blood Stem Cell Donor Registry
Chennai
06.2019 - 09.2022
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Worked with Product Owner on breaking the Epics, Features into the User Stories and loaded them into the sprints.
- Worked on ranking/prioritizing the backlog user stories for PI planning and also for sprint planning.
- Helped the senior scrum master/RTE to facilitate the scrum of scrums and program increment meetings.
- Reviewed the user stories with the scrum team to identify the gaps in the acceptance criteria and update them as required.
- Suggested few changes in communication process data exchange between off shore and on shore which reduced the dependency or wait time between the teams.
Business Analyst & Scrum Master
HSBC
Visakhapatnam
06.2017 - 06.2019
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
- Worked with the business and functional users to analyze clients requirements. Identified challenges within projects and devised software solutions in conjunction with technical staff
- Worked in fast paced Agile development Environment to quickly analyze, develop and test potential use cases for business.
- Effectively executed all the Scrum events daily standup's, sprint planning and retrospective meetings.
- Helped the team in Removing blockers, tracking and closing dependencies and implementing retrospective items.
- Implemented lean thinking techniques for overall TAT improvement.
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution between as well as within teams.
- Recognized as a top performer for two consecutive years.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology, English Literature, Office Management
St Josephs College For Women
Visakhapatnam 06.2014 - 2017.03
Skills
Communication
Collaboration
Conflict Resolution
Adaptability
Facilitation and Coaching
Leadership
Stakeholder Management
Software
Agile Methodologies
User Stories
Servant Leader
Jira
Confluence
Clarity
MS Excel (macros, pivot tables, data visualization)
Languages
English
Advanced
Hindi
Upper intermediate
Telugu
Advanced
Certification
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I).
Additional Activities and Societal Achievements
- Felicitated by various clubs / communities recognizing the service towards the society.
- Felicitated by The Mahatma Gandhi Cancer Hospital and DATRI Blood Stem Cell Donors Registry for the contribution made towards the life saving cause.
Timeline
Scrum Master
DATRI Blood Stem Cell Donor Registry
06.2019 - 09.2022
Business Analyst & Scrum Master
HSBC
06.2017 - 06.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology, English Literature, Office Management
St Josephs College For Women
06.2014 - 2017.03
Scrum Master
HCL Technologies
9 2021 - Current
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