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Manish Kumar

Agile Coach / Scrum Master
Pune,MH

Summary

Certified Scrum Master with 11 years of IT experience. An Agile enthusiast helping teams organization on their journey towards Agile transformation with an Agile mindset, framework, and techniques.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
9
9
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Agile Coach/Senior Scrum Master

Accenture
Pune
06.2021 - Current
  • Assessed Scrum maturity of team and coached them to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for them.
  • Engaged with other Scrum Masters across Community of Practices (COP) to increase effectiveness of Scrum in organization
  • Coached Product Owners in skills of ordering backlog, and importance of balance between business features and technical debt so that team can improvise and innovate
  • Developed trust and psychological safe environment where problem can be raised without fear of retribution or being judged with emphasis of problem solving
  • Enabled team to measure outcome based metrics and not output based so that prime focus is on delivering value.
  • Reduced cycle time by 10% by promoting Lean and Agile practices.
  • Enrolled myself as co-trainer for applicable Scaled Agile courses so that agility can be driven across organization.

Scrum Master

Accenture
Pune
04.2017 - 05.2021
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog management, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives to promote full team engagement.
  • Managed cross-functional globally distributed agile teams.
  • Reported various metrics like burndown chart, velocity, lead time , Cumulative Flow Diagram along with their purpose to team to motivate them and progress on the way to self management.
  • Embraced culture of inspect and adapt in every Scrum ceremony so that customer centric approach is followed throughout the lifecycle of product.
  • Removed impediments to product success, leveraging cross-functional Scrum team talent to provide targeted solutions to unprecedented program errors.
  • Collaborated with product owners, developers and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
  • Organized and participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships and collaboration.
  • Worked in Scaled Agile framework and played crucial role in defining PI goals, PI commitment and Program board.
  • Increased Productivity of team by promoting Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development BDD practices.
  • Identified innovative and automated approaches to routine tasks, making suggestions that were widely received.

Senior Business Analyst

Bachelor of Technology, Amity University
06.2011 - 03.2017
  • Elicited business and design requirements across multiple application development and enhancements projects in Commercial Insurance (Property & Casualty) segment
  • Analyzed as-is and to-be processes to define technology requirements and bridged gap between technology and business
  • Performed root cause analysis and report periodic dashboard data for system availability, production issues, resolution, and SLA adherence
  • Managed Requirements Traceability to ensure coverage completeness and capture impact to other components due to any functional changes.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Amity University
Noida
05.2007 - 05.2011

Skills

    Facilitating Events

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Certification

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Timeline

Agile Coach/Senior Scrum Master

Accenture
06.2021 - Current

Scrum Master

Accenture
04.2017 - 05.2021

Senior Business Analyst

Bachelor of Technology, Amity University
06.2011 - 03.2017

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Amity University
05.2007 - 05.2011

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