Mangesh Dighade

• Responsible and accountable for managing projects directed toward the strategic goal and organizational objectives.
• Making sure teams and aligned on roadmap , educating them about the outcome and keeping track of milestones
• Cross Team Coordination and Risk & Dependencies Management
• Defining Agile Release Trains (Program Teams)
• Release (PI) Planning & Execution
• Program & Project Governance and reporting to Stakeholders
• Program Performance Assessment & Business development support
• Forecasting and managing program/project budget with engineering teams
• Becomes a change agent- Participating in process changes and socializing the change with teams.
• Publish daily status, burn down/burn Up reports, and issues summary to the client and required stakeholders.
• Facilitate Sprint Retrospective and implement various retrospective methods to make it more effective
• Produce various matrices to gauge scrum team maturity and produce a plan to improve the agile maturity.
• Handled production releases, create release playbooks, and work with DevOps and CloudOps team.
• Manage all the project-level documents generated as per audit compliance and handle project closeout activities.
• Lead org-level initiatives – Agile TAPA and Agile CoP.
• Train new joiners in Agile workshops.

• Introduction and adoption of Agile way of working- Scrum Model, SAFe 5.0 (Stand-up, Planning, Retro, Sprint Demo, PBR)
• Facilitates Scrum Events, PI Planning, PI Retrospectives, Scrum of Scrums, Stakeholder communication & reporting
• Making sure team and stakeholders and aligned on program goals
• Cross Team Coordination and Risk & Dependencies Management
• Risk & Dependencies Management right from identification at PI Planning
• Release Management (Planning & Execution)
• Facilitates processes and program execution, remove impediments, manages risk, captures recurring metrics, drives program-level continuous improvement
• Ensures agile practices are as per standards, coached and practiced across the ART
• Contribute to Value Stream Status report by PI/Release for Executive and Release Management
• Restructuring of the waterfall teams to cross functional scrum teams
• Enabling reporting using PowerBI, JIRA & Confluence to the stakeholders of Scrum Teams on the progress of PI features, Velocity, Sprint Commitment Reliability (Say-Do Ratio%), Release Burndown
• Played a significant role in agile transformation at Portfolio & Organization level by providing Agile role-based trainings to scrum teams (development team, PO and Leadership)
• Conducting Agile Maturity Assessments for all the Scrum teams under Portfolio
• Part of recruitment panel for hiring Scrum Master & take off program(TOP)

• Worked as the lead for Enterprise reporting module, handled 3 teams as lead project/program Manager
• Project Lifecycle Management
• Stakeholder communication (different LOBs for Onboarding)
• Coaching team on Agile and Scrum Practices
• Work with product to create healthy backlog
• Release Planning & Delivery Management
• Risk & Dependencies Management
• Worked on establishing different metrics to track and report progress
• Process improvement to reduce turnaround time for LOB onboarding

· Managed Large and Mid-level project for AT&T

· Responsible for E2E project management (Requirements gathering, design, development, testing and deployment)

· Work on Microsoft project plan, PPM, Prism, and project workbook to track project progress

· Manage scope, cost, schedule, and quality of projects

· Conduct checkpoints and evaluated critical path variances

· Release Planning & Delivery Management

· Project and Program level Risk & Dependencies Management

· Manage and analyze the project’s financial reports and weekly time charged on the project.

· Worked on establishing different metrics to track and report progress

· Process improvement to reduce turnaround time for LOB onboarding