Reena Peddamudium
Hyderabad
Summary
Dynamic Senior Agile Coach with proven success in driving Agile transformations. Expertise in Scrum, Kanban, and stakeholder engagement, delivering projects ahead of schedule while optimizing workflows and enhancing team performance.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Agile Coach & Consultant
EBSCO Information Services
Hyderabad
04.2021 - Current
- Spearheaded Agile-driven initiatives aligned with strategic business goals, managing over 1,200 magazine ingestion workflows within SAFe and Kanban frameworks to streamline content integration across EBSCO databases.
- Built stakeholder trust and alignment through continuous communication, fostering transparency across internal and external teams.
- Designed and implemented Agile performance dashboards and KPI reports, enabling product/channel owners to optimize tactics and improve forecasting accuracy—contributing to a 98% content completeness rate.
- Developed and executed plans for automated systems using Agile planning techniques, from backlog refinement through iterative delivery.
- Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives across 5+ Scrum teams, removing impediments and boosting team velocity by 20%.
- Tracked team velocity, WIP limits, and resource utilization using Kanban boards and Agile metrics to ensure optimal flow and delivery cadence.
- Provided coaching and mentorship to business delivery teams, enhancing Agile maturity and supporting scaled delivery through SAFe practices.
- Key Achievements: Transitioned vendor-managed workstreams into internal Agile operations, resulting in $2M cost savings.
- Delivered Agile projects two months ahead of schedule and under budget, demonstrating strong prioritization, planning, and execution within a scaled Agile framework.
Agile Project Manager
EBSCO Information Services
Hyderabad
04.2016 - 03.2021
- Collaborated with 5+ cross-functional ingestion teams using Scrum ceremonies and Kanban boards to manage the integration of over 1,200 magazine titles into EBSCO databases, improving ingestion cycle time by 30%.
- Engaged with 100+ publishers to acquire licensed content, resolve metadata gaps, and validate missing database information, resulting in a 98% content completeness rate.
- Downloaded and processed 350+ open access titles quarterly, contributing to a 15% increase in database coverage and accessibility.
- Conducted backlog refinement and sprint planning to break down epics into actionable stories, reducing story lead time by 25%.
- Facilitated daily stand-ups and bi-weekly retrospectives to monitor progress and remove blockers, improving team velocity by 20% over three Program Increments.
- Participated in SAFe PI planning across multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs), aligning ingestion and metadata enrichment efforts with enterprise goals.
- Tracked and reported Agile metrics including cycle time, throughput, and WIP limits, enabling data-driven decisions and improving delivery predictability by 40%.
- Coached business delivery teams and stakeholders, increasing Agile maturity scores from Level 2.5 to 4.0 within two quarters.
- Key Achievement: Transitioned vendor-managed ingestion streams to internal Agile teams, saving the organization $2 million annually.
- Delivered content ingestion projects 2 months ahead of schedule and 15% under budget, while maintaining high data quality standards.
Service Delivery Lead / Project Lead
DXC Technology
Hyderabad
08.2004 - 07.2013
- Heading end to end project management of large multi-location projects in the 24x7x365 environment including architecture design, operations, solution management, implementation, and commissioning.
- Responsible for Overall managing and supervising the daily operations Data centre and Resource Management Technical Support Centre in support of approximately 15000 + users in multiple locations which includes (India, United Kingdom, North America, and Australia).
- Responsible for managing the ongoing IT operations, Enterprise Systems services, application development, compliance, business solutions and support functions for EMEA and Asia-Pac region.
- Implemented and monitored software updates and installations via RRS and SCCM.
- Lead weekly status meetings with individual department Information Technology directors.
- Driving the projects end to end from planning to delivery (SOW, Packaging, Testing, User Acceptance, Deployment and Publishing).
- Managed company-wide upgrade to MS SharePoint 2010, MS Lynch, Adobe Flash Player, and migration to MS hosted environment.
- Managed client wide deployment of MS Online Communications Server, office suite, Visio Viewer and SAP Based installations.
Education
MTech - Computer Science
MBA - Human Resources
MCA - Computer Applications
Skills
- Agile Methodologies: Scrum
- Agile Methodologies: Kanban
- Agile Methodologies: XP
- Agile Methodologies: SAFe
- Agile Methodologies: LeSS
- Project Management: Sprint Planning
- Project Management: Backlog Grooming
- Project Management: Release Management
- Project Management: Risk Mitigation
- Consulting & Coaching: Executive Workshops
- Consulting & Coaching: Agile Training
- Consulting & Coaching: Organizational Design
Certification
- ITIL V3 Foundation in IT Service Management, AXELOS / PeopleCert
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), Scrum.org
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (PMI)
- SAFe 6.0 Scrum Master (SSM), Scaled Agile, Inc.
- Kanban Practitioner Certification, Kanban University
- PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner, AXELOS / PeopleCert
Skills And Tools
Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, LeSS, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Release Management, Risk Mitigation, Executive Workshops, Agile Training, Organizational Design, JIRA, Confluence, Rally, Azure DevOps, NetSuite, Trello, DDR+, Miro, Mural, Lucid chart, Power BI, Tableau, MS Project, Smartsheet, Slack, Zoom, MS Teams
Timeline
Senior Agile Coach & Consultant
EBSCO Information Services
04.2021 - Current
Agile Project Manager
EBSCO Information Services
04.2016 - 03.2021
Service Delivery Lead / Project Lead
DXC Technology
08.2004 - 07.2013
MTech - Computer Science
MBA - Human Resources
MCA - Computer Applications
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