Manoj Upadhyay

• With over 16 years of experience in the software industry, my focus has consistently been on client engagement, project management, and people management.
• Successfully delivering projects using Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies, collaboration with onshore and offshore teams.
• Expertise includes requirement management, risk management, effort estimation, capacity utilization, task alignment, team management, and creating/updating comprehensive project management plans.
• Strong foundation in software delivery best practices and process implementation. Skilled in mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building.

• Experienced in managing cross-functional teams and optimizing resource capacity for efficient time and work management. Well-established expertise in establishing, developing, and driving Agile best practices
• Familiarity with Agile Project Management tools like JIRA, TFS, and ADO (Azure). Analytical, planning, and organizational skills to effectively manage competing demands.
• Excellent in test consulting and developing strategies for various types of testing, including mobile, manual, and performance testing.

• PMP(Project Management Institute)
• CSM (Certified Scrum master)
• SAFe 5.1 Certified
• Nagarro Certified Scrum Master
• Nagarro Certified PO
• Nagarro Certified Advanced Scrum Master

Abu Dhabi Securities exchange 

ADX is a market for trading securities; including shares issued by public joint stock companies, bonds issued by governments or corporations, exchange traded funds, and any other financial instruments approved by the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA).

ADX is the second largest market in the Arab region and its strategy of providing stable financial performance

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Define and manage a well-defined project management process and process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management
• Deliver the project or solution as per the baseline scope, cost & schedule
• Maintain high team & customer satisfaction levels
• Ensure high quality delivery and Manages project interdependencies, critical path, milestones, and deliverables to ensure successful implementation and rollout
• Reports on program level status for the program team and delivery status to Executive stakeholders
• Identifies scope change and leads efforts to develop, estimate, and communicate budget and schedule impacts
• Track, manage, and report program financials – Identify risk to project budget and work with in scrum teams to remediate
• Maintain Readiness through different training programs & certifications for team
• Status reporting & Managed project and practice health metrics
• Facilitating all scrum events like Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective
• Collaboration and helping Product Owner to ensure Product Backlog Refinement and sprint backlog readiness
• Helping product owner to improve the transparency and effectiveness of the product backlog
• Drive and motivate for continuous improvement by coaching scrum teams members in Agile methodologies to maximize efficiency and self-improvement
• Helping team in self-management and cross functionality
• Tracing impediments to their root cause and help team to continuously improve.
• Used Strong knowledge and implementation of metrics with the ability to help teams make better decisions using data.
• Generating different Metrics to control project delivery
• Leading QA and Dev squads

Agile project Manager