Mallesh Kumar Patnala

● Act as a servant leader, guiding and coaching the Scrum team on

Agile principles and practices to ensure the successful adoption and execution of the Scrum framework.

● Facilitate and lead Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring they are effective, focused, and lead to actionable outcomes.

● Manage and maintain the Scrum process, including the sprint

backlog, sprint planning, task estimation, and sprint progress tracking using tools like JIRA and Confluence.

● Collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to prioritize and groom the product backlog, ensuring that it is refined, manageable, and aligned with project goals.

● Create and maintain detailed and complex dashboards for

burndown charts, velocity trends, capacity planning, and issue

tracking to enable informed decision-making and effective sprint

execution.

● Identify and remove impediments or blockers hindering the team's progress, facilitating resolution, and promoting a culture of

continuous improvement.

● Foster a collaborative and communicative environment within the

team, encouraging transparency, trust, and open dialogue among

all members.

● Encourage and facilitate cross-functional collaboration and

self-organization within the team to drive high-quality, on-time

deliverables.

Additional Responsibilities:

● Coach and mentor, the Scrum Team, and stakeholders on Agile practices, empowering them to self-organize and continuously improve.

● Utilize Agile Metrics Reporting to provide insights into team performance, aiding decision-making and fostering accountability. ● Support team dynamics, mediating conflicts, resolving disagreements, and fostering a culture of respect and collaboration.

● Act as a servant leader, guiding and coaching the Scrum team on

Agile principles and practices to ensure the successful adoption and execution of the Scrum framework.

● Facilitate and lead Agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring they are effective, focused, and lead to actionable outcomes.

● Manage and maintain the Scrum process, including the sprint

backlog, sprint planning, task estimation, and sprint progress tracking using tools like JIRA and Confluence.

● Collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to prioritize and groom the product backlog, ensuring that it is refined, manageable, and aligned with project goals.

● Create and maintain detailed and complex dashboards for

burndown charts, velocity trends, capacity planning, and issue

tracking to enable informed decision-making and effective sprint

execution.

● Identify and remove impediments or blockers hindering the team's progress, facilitating resolution, and promoting a culture of

continuous improvement.

● Foster a collaborative and communicative environment within the

team, encouraging transparency, trust, and open dialogue among

all members.

● Encourage and facilitate cross-functional collaboration and

self-organization within the team to drive high-quality, on-time

deliverables.

● Facilitate scrum ceremonies, ensure that all the team members

participate in scrum ceremonies and adhere to following scrum values and principles.

● Assist Product Owners and Scrum teams in story writing, backlog

refinement, prioritization and planning.

● Assist the team as servant leader, representing the team to senior

management, stakeholders and sponsors.

● Effectively use metrics and data visualization to report progress.

● Hands-on experience in using JIRA for managing the sprint backlog, sprints for multiple teams, burn down chart generation and sharing with management.

● Responsible for maintaining the velocity for each team & sprint release.

● Responsible for the team to have clear understanding on the tasks they take up, work with them on a daily basis to resolve the dependencies, roadblocks and make sure that they get completed in the given time.

● Worked with the product team effectively in having healthy product backlog and Sprint Backlog.

● Help teams and individuals clarify goals in achieving their goals.

● Shield the team from outside distractions, track and remove the

impediments.

● Point of contact for complete ownership of stakeholder interaction on the product feedback, issues and bugs.

● Worked with Engineering manager, Product manager, and Business analyst on a regular basis for feature releases as planned.

● Track team velocity and sprint release progress.

● Having good knowledge on User Story writing, preparing reports and metrics.