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Prakhar Pandey

Prakhar Pandey

Lean Agile Coach / Sr. Project Manager / Scrum Specialist
Bengaluru

Summary

A tenacious & passionate Agile Coach offering 13+ years of Project / Product management and marketing expertise. Well-versed in Product delivery, improvising Lean startup cycle , Agile transformation strategies and stakeholder engagement techniques .

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
7
7
Certifications
3
3

Successful Agile transformations ( Org Level )

Work History

Agile Coach/ Sr. Project Manager/ Product Owner

Unisys Corporation
07.2020 - Current

Agile Coach & Senior Project Manager :

  • Agile Project Governance : Promoting Business Agility from the inception ( Project Definition ) of , to an incubation within the strategic Business context ( Requirement Elicitation ) for a value driven Program Increment
  • Strategizing the Product Management ( Product Lifecycle Management ), to promote Business Agility
  • Agile Transformation & Adoption
  • Championing Business Agility across verticals ( Agile Maturity Index )
  • Leveraging KANBAN as process diagnostic , over SCRUM as Value optimization framework
  • Part of Lean - Agile CoE , building Tribes across verticals ( Chapter Shuffling )
  • Establishing an Agile Governance Guild , for L&D and promoting a culture of Agility
  • Coaching Teams for an increased Agility & Product delivery across the Portfolio and supporting practitioners with adoption and embedding plans that are co-created
  • Establishing a cadence & driving Releases for a valued Program Increment
  • Identifying potential areas of focus to address delivery problems / team dynamics, systemic issues & recommending strategies for improvement
  • Tailoring & driving Agile Ceremonies ( PI Planning , Retrospectives / Reviews , Sprint Planning , Scaling Agile ( Scrum of SCRUMs))
  • Maintaining Agile artifacts & Backlogs ( Program / Portfolio , Requirement , Sprint )
  • Enabling Enterprise Agility as a Change Agent ( delivering Training & Curriculum Solns ) , to support Org changes & Transformations ( Scaled Agile Delivery Models )

Product Owner :

  • Owning the Product Vision & Roadmap ( Quarterly )
  • Leveraging Initiatives ( Focus Area ) to build powerful MVPs , activated within a strategic business context
  • Estimating the Cost of Delay ( prioritization through WSJF )
  • Program / Product Increment Planning ( resolving interdependencies through PI Board )
  • Leveraging KANBAN as process diagnostic , over SCRUM as Value optimization framework
  • Opportunities Review Meeting ( Initial Backlog Definition ) propelled through the FUNNEL ( Goal Attainment / Value / Effort )
  • Understanding & leveraging Product Adoption Curve , whilst building Epics ( MVPs )
  • Understanding Time Criticality of the Capability
  • Maintaining the Product Ecosystem ( Initiatives à Themes à Epics à Features )
  • Driving Iterations to produce valuable Increments , to promote Business Agility

Agile Project Manager/ Agile Transformation Coach

Fidelity International
06.2019 - 07.2020
  • Agile transformation- SAFe adoption
  • SCRUM-KANBAN ( SCRUMBAN ) specialist for multiple AGILE teams
  • Organizing & facilitating AGILE rituals
  • Owning Agile artifacts & Backlogs ( Release / Requirement / Sprint )
  • Managing Release Cadence for the portfolio
  • Develop hands-on workshops and brown-bags for Agile topics ( Learning & Development )
  • Worked with Agile Programs ( CoE ) to identify gaps in Agile delivery, and facilitate improvement
  • Served as an agent of change and as a leader that models and reinforces agile values and continuously build team capabilities
  • Managing phases of Agile Project Management , for a value driven Product Increment

Agile Coach / SAFe Sr. SCRUM Master

GE HealthCare (On-Site Deputation Through TCS)
05.2015 - 06.2019
  • Assessing AGILE maturity at a portfolio level
  • Adoption of AGILE values and model ( Enterprise level )
  • Creating Scaled AGILE delivery models
  • Streamlining Delivery & Value Stream ( Process Governance )

SCRUM Master / Process Champion

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
03.2011 - 05.2015
  • LEAN – AGILE Facilitator / SCRUM Master
  • HealthCare Business Solns Development (Pilot phase)
  • Implementation of HealthCare Solns ( Inception - Go-Live )
  • Post PROD Support & Coaching

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering

U.P.T.U
07.2006 - 07.2010

Skills

    Coaching Agile Transformations

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Domain

  • Cloud Automation
  • Banking & Finance
  • Pensions & Products (Workplace Investing)
  • HealthCare Products & Platforms
  • Global Healthcare Implementation


Certification

ICP-CAT , ICAgile

Timeline

Agile Coach/ Sr. Project Manager/ Product Owner

Unisys Corporation
07.2020 - Current

Agile Project Manager/ Agile Transformation Coach

Fidelity International
06.2019 - 07.2020

Agile Coach / SAFe Sr. SCRUM Master

GE HealthCare (On-Site Deputation Through TCS)
05.2015 - 06.2019

SCRUM Master / Process Champion

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
03.2011 - 05.2015

B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering

U.P.T.U
07.2006 - 07.2010
Prakhar PandeyLean Agile Coach / Sr. Project Manager / Scrum Specialist