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Nagendra Babu Akula

Product Owner
Hyderabad

Summary

Summary

Goal-oriented Product Owner offering 10+ years IT industry experience and top-notch abilities in organizing workshops, facilitating scrum ceremonies, solving complex problems and making accurate decisions based on analytical strengths. Adept at deconstructing and planning stories in order to promote improvements to product design and implementation. Excellent relationship-building, organizational and project management skills with a focus on overcoming technical challenges and implementing successful resolutions.

Overview

11
11

Years of professional experience

8
8

Years of product development experience

6
6
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Product Owner

Incepteo
Hyderabad
03.2019 - Current
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog.
  • Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
  • Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
  • Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.
  • Documented each step in product's design process for use in manuals.

Associate Product Owner

Incepteo
Hyderabad
02.2016 - 02.2019
  • Define product strategy (Vision, Target Audience, Product Positioning and Competitive Analysis) that states the unique value of the product in coordination with Business Owners and Product Owners.
  • Define Big Bold Product Goals and define initiatives to achieve them.
  • Creating a product roadmap with a clearly defined action plan, defining the responsibilities and the timeline.
  • Facilitate Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives for multiple projects with varying team size of 10-15 members.
  • Lead a cross-functional product team and coordinate product creation from strategy to execution.
  • Defining and analyzing product metrics and analytics

Senior Business Analyst

Incepteo
Hyderabad
02.2014 - 02.2016
  • Perform requirement elicitation techniques by organizing workshops inorder to discover user, organizational and functional requirements during Discovery/Ideation Phase.
  • Work with Project Managers in creating Scope Document, BRS and Functional Specs.
  • Create user stories or backlogs using BDD/TDD approach.
  • Work with designers to get User Personas and User Flows based on the scope document.
  • Design Low Fidelity and Middle fidelity prototypes using UX pin and Balsamic prototyping tools.
  • Effectively communicating insights and plans to Project Managers and Scrum Masters.
  • Evaluate test cases in coordination with QA team by creating RTM's.
  • Perform User Acceptance Testing and ensure critical and major User Stories are met before live release.

Developer Associate, Business Analyst

Hidden Brains Info Tech
Ahmedabad
02.2012 - 02.2014
  • Built hybrid mobile apps using Phone Gap Technology.
  • Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.

Education

B.tech in Computer Science -

Nova College Of Engineering
01.2008 - 01.2012

Skills

User Stories

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Software

UX Pin prototyping

Gliffy for Flow charts

Microsoft Visio for Flow charts

Mind maple to create mind maps

App flow to create site maps

MS planner for Task Management

Azure Dev apps for sprint planning

Jira for Project Management

Miro for everything

Accomplishments

  • Conducting requirement workshops with Business Teams & Business Owners.
  • Inclusive into documentation work.
  • Client ownership management.
  • Pixel Prototyping.
  • Liaison & Coordination.
  • Drive complete ‘’Quality Assurance’’.
  • Nurturing start-up Ideas and effectively launch them into Global Market.

Interests

Collude - Social networking platform

Vision Engineering - Ecommerce platform

Nuro Access Hub - Healthcare

Art Hub – Social networking platform

Viewing Hub – Real estate domain

Gazt Zatka for Dubai Government - Income tax portal

Affiliations

  • Knowledge on BASIC C & OOPS concepts in Java.
  • Working experience in web technologies covering JavaScript, JQuery, HTML 5, CSS 2.0 +.
  • Developed Hybrid Applications using Phone Gap and JQuery Mobile technologies.
  • Hands on with Notepad 2.0 IDE

Certification

Certified Business Analyst Practitioner (CBAP)

Additional Information

  • Awarded Best Team of the Quarter II during the year 2019 on successful delivery of In-House Collude Product which is a private networking platform.
  • Awarded Best Employee for the year 2017 on successful execution and delivery of In-House Product Keyura which is a Collaboration and Project Planning tool.
  • Best team of the Quarter III in the year 2016 for successful delivery of Route Aware project which Provides Safe Routes to end users on Google Maps.
  • Best team player of the Quarter I during the year 2015 on successful delivery of My Vaidya Product in Incepteo.
  • Awarded Emerging Trainee of the season during the year 2012 in Hidden Brains InfoTech.

Work Availability

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Timeline

Currently pursuing PMP certification

02-2020

Certified Agile Scrum Master

01-2020

Achieved & adhered to ISO 27001:2013 Information security management

09-2019

Azure Dev Ops Practitioner

08-2019
Product Owner - Incepteo
03.2019 - Current

Achieved & adhered to ISO 9001-2015 Quality Management System

04-2018
Associate Product Owner - Incepteo
02.2016 - 02.2019
Senior Business Analyst - Incepteo
02.2014 - 02.2016

Certified Business Analyst Practitioner (CBAP)

01-2014
Developer Associate, Business Analyst - Hidden Brains Info Tech
02.2012 - 02.2014
Nova College Of Engineering - B.tech in Computer Science,
01.2008 - 01.2012
Nagendra Babu AkulaProduct Owner