Praveen Balla
Hyderabad
Summary
Dynamic Senior Scrum Master with a proven track record at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, excelling in Agile coaching and stakeholder management. Spearheaded project delivery, enhancing team productivity and reducing time-to-market through effective backlog management. Adept at risk management, fostering collaboration, and mentoring junior Scrum Masters to promote best practices.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Scrum Master
COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA
Hyderabad
03.2021 - Current
- Streamlined project delivery through daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and review meetings for multiple projects.
- Collaborated with Product Owners to establish clear product roadmaps and ensure timely release of high-quality deliverables.
- Proactively resolved impediments by identifying issues and facilitating effective solutions.
- Implemented Agile methodologies to enhance team productivity and improve cross-functional communication.
- Developed relationships with key stakeholders to bolster collaboration on complex projects.
- Managed risks effectively through comprehensive assessments, mitigation strategies, and contingency plans.
- Reduced time-to-market with efficient backlog management and task prioritization aligned with business objectives.
- Mentored junior Scrum Masters in Agile principles, promoting best practices across the organization.
Scrum Master
Westpac Banking Corporation
Hyderabad
07.2013 - 02.2021
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data.
- Created a work breakdown structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).
- Managed the product backlog effectively, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion.
- Monitored the project progress and communicated the progress to stakeholders using Agile metrics such as Burndown Charts, Velocity, and Sprint Report.
- Worked with senior management, business, and release management to understand the vision of the product, prioritize, and develop software release planning.
- In-depth knowledge in Incident Management, Problem Management, and Change Management.
Technical Lead
IBM INDIA PVT LTD
Bangalore
03.2010 - 06.2013
- Leading development team, which is responsible in developing applications for IBM internal usage.
- Providing technical solutions to complex business requirements.
- Reviewing the code developed by developers and ensure coding standards are met.
- Providing regular updates to Project Manager.
- Highlight risks and issues to Project Manager and workout a mitigation plan.
Project Lead
INFOTECH GLOBAL INDIA
Bangalore
07.2008 - 03.2010
- Managed workload distribution among development team members.
- Provided regular feedback to team members for meeting common objectives as well as for individual’s development.
- Helped team in developing technical solutions to complex business problems.
- Guided team members in the analysis, development, testing and implementation.
- Provided regular updates to all stake holders about the development status.
- Reviewed all deliverables before publishing to stakeholders.
Tech Lead
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
Bangalore
07.2006 - 04.2008
- Assisted development managers with process related activities.
- Ensured effective collaboration with various teams involved in project development.
- Had frequent meetings with business unit managers to seek product feedback and identifying improvement areas in delivered product.
- Ensured that documents and other work products are prepared and stored correctly, and versions are managed accordingly.
- Managed Technical Issue resolutions through design/development engineer processes.
Developer
NETSPHERE PTE LTD.
Singapore
02.2003 - 06.2006
- Coding / Unit Testing / Debugging.
- Coordinate with the team lead on task allocation, completion and reporting the status.
- Ensuring that all production changes are processed according to Change Management policies and procedures.
- Completing development task within the given timelines.
- Support QA team on functional test cases preparation/review, functional/system testing and UAT testing.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
SIR M VISVESVARAYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
BangaloreSkills
- Scrum Framework Expertise
- Servant Leadership
- Release Planning
- Agile Coaching
- Retrospective Analysis
- Product Backlog Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Problem Management
- Incident Management
Certification
- Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)
- Certified SAFe Agilist
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- IBM Cloud Advocate V1
Awards
- Outstanding Delivery, 2024
- Westpac Super tech Game changer award, 2013, For providing best IT Services support for customers/business & operations team.
- IBM Managers Choice, 2015, For effectively managing service delivery.
- IBM Managers Choice, 2017, For proposing and implementing a workable dual shore solution for cards domain.
Timeline
Senior Scrum Master
COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA
03.2021 - Current
Scrum Master
Westpac Banking Corporation
07.2013 - 02.2021
Technical Lead
IBM INDIA PVT LTD
03.2010 - 06.2013
Project Lead
INFOTECH GLOBAL INDIA
07.2008 - 03.2010
Tech Lead
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
07.2006 - 04.2008
Developer
NETSPHERE PTE LTD.
02.2003 - 06.2006
Bachelor of Engineering -
SIR M VISVESVARAYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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