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Nageshbabu Kommana

Agile Project Manager Scrum Master
Hyderabad
Nageshbabu Kommana

Summary

Accomplished and versatile professional with overall 8+ years of Experienced Agile Project Manager & Scrum Master with expertise in conflict resolution, project planning, coaching, stakeholder management, Client relationship management, project management, and product management. Successfully implemented agile methodologies(Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) to enhance efficiency and product delivery. Skilled in leading cross-functional teams, driving process improvements, and delivering projects on time and within budget. Adept at applying agile and waterfall methodologies to software development life cycles. Passionate about leveraging agile frameworks and design thinking to foster innovation and customer satisfaction. Agile Team coach with a strong commitment to continuous learning and professional growth. Proficient in project estimation, deployment planning, and promoting DevOps principles.

Overview

9
years of professional experience
2
years of post-secondary education
5
Certificates

Work History

Expeditors International
Chennai

Project Manager II, Scrum Master
06.2020 - Current

Job overview

Projects:

  • AFT,PRICING TOOL,HSR, DESKTOP QUOTING,TWMS
  • Tools :Azure Devops, Jira
  • Environment: Java, PostgreSQL ,Angular

Key Responsibilities Areas:

  • Led and coached cross-functional teams in Scrum and SAFe methodologies, fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Facilitated sprint planning sessions, backlog refinement, and daily stand-ups, ensuring alignment and commitment to sprint goals.
  • Actively participated in SAFe events, including PI planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Inspect and Adapt sessions, to synchronize efforts across multiple teams.
  • Identified and resolved impediments, mitigated risks, and escalated issues when necessary to maintain project momentum and delivery timelines.
  • Coached team members and Scrum Masters,on Agile practices, including Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, and DevOps principles, driving a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
  • Collaborated with product owners to prioritize backlog items and ensure their alignment with business objectives and customer needs.
  • Coaching team on story point estimation for backlog refinement and efficiency improvement.
  • Updating team metrics regularly, tracking key performance indicators and progress towards goals.
  • Communicate with Release Train Engineer (RTE) on regular basis, providing updates on team performance, challenges, and achievements.
  • Share progress updates in Scrum of Scrums (SOS) meetings, ensuring alignment and visibility across multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Lead regular retrospectives to identify areas for improvement and implement actionable solutions. Encourage team to experiment, adapt, and iterate on processes to enhance efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction.
  • Communicated project progress, risks, and dependencies to stakeholders and senior management, promoting transparency and facilitating decision-making.
  • Oversaw end-to-end production deployments, collaborating closely with development, operations, and release management teams to ensure successful and smooth releases.
  • Raising change orders for current iteration deployments, ensuring necessary updates or modifications are properly documented and managed.
  • Coordinate with other Scrum Masters and Product Owners to verify and coordinate their team's deployments, ensuring smooth integration and alignment of release activities.
  • Communicate with team members to obtain QA sign-off for current iteration release, ensuring that all necessary testing and quality assurance activities are completed.
  • Prepare and send deployment notes to Agile Release Train (ART) for current iteration release, providing relevant information and instructions for successful deployment.
  • Organizing problem-solving workshop at end of Program Increment (PI) to address challenges, identify solutions, and foster continuous improvement.
  • Before PI Planning, perform team capacity calculations to determine available resources and capacity for upcoming Program Increment .
  • Scheduling pre-PI backlog refinement call to facilitate discussion and prioritization of backlog items with team.
  • Utilize Azure Board to project adraft plan, ensuring visibility and alignment of tasks, timelines, and dependencies for effective planning and execution.

Derivatives Connect Private Limited
Hyderabad

Project Manager / Scrum Master
04.2017 - 05.2020

Job overview

Projects:

  • IHealthPharm,Client:Docpharm
  • TAG(Teams Analysis Global),Client:Giantpeachgroup
  • Talent Zing(Internal)
  • Tools :Jira,Confluence,Clockify
  • Environment: Java,Angular, MySQL,AWS

Key Responsibilities Areas:

  • Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
  • Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies – sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • As Scrum Master for two separate teams, identified process changes required to accelerate development and remove major impediments.
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset toward Agile methodologies.
  • Protected team from over-commitment, managed backlog, and prioritized resolution of defects/bugs.
  • Ensure Velocity is achieved for each sprint and plan it efficiently.
  • Worked closely with product owner to make product backlogs relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and stakeholders to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Focus on end-to-end project delivery using Scrum Framework and identifying and adopting best practices.
  • Tracked work by using corresponding metrics: burn down, burn up, velocity charts, etc.
  • Adhering to timing of all meetings and making team feel that are working in agile way.
  • Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
  • Monitoring change management activities and ensuring that projects are running without issues.
  • Coach, Mentor and foster culture of transparency, continual improvement, Self-organized, and collaboration within teams
  • Build Trust and create positive environment through empowerment, facilitation discussions, decision-making, and conflict resolution with emphasis on problem-solving.
  • Ensure that acceptance criteria and DoD is properly defined for all stories and releases.
  • Tracked improvements as part of retrospectives for better releases.
  • Ensure healthy discussion and get maximum out of team interactions towards meeting sprint goals and team internal conflict.
  • Maintaining harmonious relationships among team members.
  • Facilitated use of other Agile practices such as XP and Kanban to make effective use of simple design, refactoring, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-driven development (BDD), Pair programming, Collective code ownership, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and WIP limit.
  • Implemented and maintained monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers such as EC2 and storage such as S3 buckets using AWS Cloud Watch.
  • Reduced costs by driving competitive subcontractor bids and effective contract execution.
  • Managed hiring for certain roles and actively coordinated with talent management.
  • Organizing meetings with customer to update project progress on weekly basis and share weekly status reports with customer.
  • Developed long-term business strategy by using customer feedback to identify necessary process improvements.

Tata Consultancy Services(Contract)
Hyderabad

Software Engineer
11.2016 - 02.2017

Job overview

Project:ENM5G Client: Ericsson

Environment :Java,Oracle,HTML5,Java Script

Key Responsibilities Areas:

  • Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional development team members to analyze potential system solutions based on evolving client requirements.
  • Monitored debugging process results and investigated causes of non-conforming software.
  • Improved system performance by making proactive adjustments and resolving bugs.
  • Adjusted software parameters to boost performance and incorporate new features.

Prowess Publishing Software Solutions
Hyderabad

Software Trainee
06.2014 - 05.2016

Job overview

Projects: BPM,RAMP

Environment: Java,Mysql,Html,Javascript

Key Responsibilities Areas:

  • Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs.
  • Tested troubleshooting methods, devised innovative solutions, and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.
  • Worked closely with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
  • Involved in integration testing and deployment of module as part of overall application.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional development team members to analyze potential system solutions based on evolving client requirements.

Education

Gitams University(Distance)
Visakhapatnam, AP

MBA from Operations Management/System Management
12.2018 - 05.2021

JNTUK
Kakinada, AP

Bachelor of Technology from Computer Science Engineering
06.2010 - 2014.05

Skills

    Agile Project Management

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Certification

SSM-Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master From Scaled Agile

Software

Programming Languages:Java/J2EE

WebTechnologies:Html,Css,Java Script

Databases:Mysql,Oracle,PostgreSQ

ALM Tools: Azure Devops, Jira,Clockify,Confluence

Version Contol Systems:GitHub,Bitbucket,Gitlab

Operating Systems:Windows, Linux

CI/CD & Build Tools: Gitlab-CI,Jenkins,Maven

Accomplishments

  • Received the Excellence Award for outstanding contributions to team performance and project success.
  • I proactively introduced Agile methodologies within the portfolios and conducted training sessions for all Scrum masters and team members, demonstrating my leadership and commitment.
  • Implemented best practices for enhancing the performance of the team and maintaining pace with the current technological change and development.
  • Act as the key point of contact and primary liaison between onsite clients, stakeholders, and the ART teams, ensuring effective coordination and communication.


Timeline

POPM-Certified SAFe® 5 Product Owner/Product Manager

07-2021

Certified-Scrum Associate Accredited Certification™-International Scrum Institute™

03-2021

Certified-Scrum Foundation Professional Certificate - SFPC™

08-2020

Project Manager II, Scrum Master

Expeditors International
06.2020 - Current

SSM-Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master From Scaled Agile

03-2020

Gitams University(Distance)

MBA from Operations Management/System Management
12.2018 - 05.2021

CSM-Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance

10-2017

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Derivatives Connect Private Limited
04.2017 - 05.2020

Software Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services(Contract)
11.2016 - 02.2017

Software Trainee

Prowess Publishing Software Solutions
06.2014 - 05.2016

JNTUK

Bachelor of Technology from Computer Science Engineering
06.2010 - 2014.05
Nageshbabu KommanaAgile Project Manager Scrum Master