Sai Charan Pasumarthi

• Responsible to integrate the Agile transformation process with the organization's core business which enables Business Agility.
• Responsible for organization to design and implement an effective transformation roadmap.
• Helped in DevOps practices/tools in areas such as continuous integration, continuous delivery-deployment, environment automation, release automation, metrics tracking Ability to implement Agile methodologies and work on an Agile-DevOps platform.
• Drove key success factors such as cost analysis, delivery management, scaling and reliability vetting, product user-friendliness and infrastructure design to help build a best-in-class enterprise DevOps pipeline
• Applied system thinking to surface the bottlenecks and dysfunctions.
• Advised process and structural changes at the organization level.
• Mentoring and Coaching teams, leadership and organization in leading community of practice.
• Provided Periodic training on Agile and worked with teams to assist them in implementing and improving their Agile practices and assessed the Agile maturity of the team(s) and coached them to higher levels of maturity.
• Facilitated workshops on Agile frameworks, competencies, and methodologies
• Responsible for enforcing agile-lean principle of value, respect for people, continuous learning, and maintaining flow in our client, expert, around solution delivery.
• Guide and serve teams that deliver technology solutions, through effective application of the Lean/Agile principles and frameworks including Scrum, Kanban method and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Challenge and enable the team to continuously improve through intentional Lean and data driven inspect and adapt cycles.
• Championed cultural change and collaborated with other Coaches on plans and techniques for accelerating and advancing the organization's transformation. One of the successful programs initiated by me was the Agile Connections – Lean agile program, this weekly cadence helped in bringing speakers, talk about some common issues and problems amongst the other scrum master/project manager/program managers and how to resolve and learn from them.
• A champion of the enterprise Agile transformation and the DevOps initiative. Facilitated and helped solve organizational complex problems and support large SAFe scaled Agile programs. Help advance the Agile transformation through servant leadership, consult on strategic roadmaps, execution, and drive adoption. Provide thought-leadership to incite an Agile, Lean and DevOps mindset and culture.
• Established and coached a DevOps dojo for strategizing long-term program goals, improving execution across the group, assessing, and introducing best practices, DevOps outlook for future-state governance, Agile fluency maturity and solutioning at all levels infusing oxygen into the organization's culture for DevOps.
• Improve the flow of value through value streams by improving and assessing the DevOps and Release on Demand competency
• Have also initiated another program recently called Virtual PI Planning office hours, with the current situation its very important that the RTE’s understand and have all the tools to run a successful PI for their groups.
• Coaching Teams - Supported continuous improvement on Agile teams through medium-term engagements. Provided short-term support to Agile Teams on request. Facilitated retrospectives with Agile teams and other groups to drive meaningful change. Ensured to plan and facilitate the launch of new Agile teams. Coached existing teams through significant process problems, conflict, or other challenges. Coached teams on how to remove complex roadblocks and impediments to change and delivery
• Mentoring - Mentored on-team Agile partners one-on-one and through guilds. Facilitated interactive workshops to teach concepts and develop skills. Managed other Agile Coaches.
• Supporting the Organization - Helped people throughout the organization understand Agile, Scrum, and Kanban, as well as related concepts like Lean, Lean Startup, OKRs, Design Thinking, etc. Helped lead departments to nurture a company culture/environment that fosters high-performing, collaborative teams, and individuals. Modeled supportive leadership that includes, among other things: empathy, listening, keen awareness, commitment to the growth of others, valuing individual strengths, and a reliance on persuasion rather than positional power. Worked with engineering and product leadership to help guide how we work as an Agile organization.
• Coaching Individuals - Provided on-demand coaching to help individuals find their way toward new potential solutions.

Agile Maturity Assessment and SAFe Implementation

• Coached and supported multiple teams in the adoption of Agile mindset by introducing team activities that reinforce the Agile principles & values. Mentored leaders, managers and SMs in servant leadership principles and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with Product Managers and Product Owners to align on the vision, program backlog, and roadmap.
• Used SAFe experience and expertise to prepare RTEs, SMs, POs and other leadership for PI events, PI planning readiness, program backlog refinement, OKRs, etc.
• Established Agile Maturity Assessment model for the team and conducted quarterly assessments to track transformation progress.
• Facilitated workshop training on Agile frameworks, competencies, and methodologies.
• Helped the teams, business owners, stake holders and leadership understand the SAFe framework, Lean concepts, Scrum and Kanban practices, etc by conducting various workshops based on design thinking and system thinking.
• Tracked, analyzed and reported the agreed Agile metrics for the delivery teams.
• Responsible for designing and implementing an effective agile transformation roadmap.
• Established and led Community of Practice (CoP) within the organization, and contributed in preparing an Agile Community website (Center for Excellence) and Agile -SAFe playbook.
• Provided thought-leadership for developing and driving adoption strategies for Agile transformation, newly implemented standardized platforms, DevOps processes and automation across the enterprise group
• Established and facilitated Scrum of Scrums allowing the DevOps program to scale while identifying and mitigating team and program dependencies following SAFe Agile methodology

Portfolio & Program Transformation:-

• Leading Agile Transformation by structuring & guiding Portfolios to achieve high visibility, transparency, and in-build Quality compliance.
• Experience of working with technology leadership and business stakeholders. Coached, educated, trained, and implemented Agile/Scrum strategies, sprint schedules and Agile presentations to Business and Technology Leadership, portfolio/program management teams to drive and maximize Agile adoption.
• Strong Experience to manage all aspects of a portfolio domain - strategic planning, execution, operations. Lead Steering meetings, Governance presentations, and overall Executive communications.
• Program/Portfolio Status Reporting through customized dashboard, Cross-functional (different vertical lines of technology and/or business) Stakeholder management, Driving Program steering committee meetings, Requirement Gathering and Analysis, Business Case Development.
• Develop and implement SAFe agile practice at portfolio and program level including processes, procedures and performance metrics used for sourcing, negotiating and managing outside vendors for managing the family or series of projects associated with a specific business strategy obtaining benefits and controls while ensuring program/project-related risks relevant to the Project Management Policy, project staff, required onboarding training and performance evaluations , while acting in the agile mindset.
• Monitoring, business metrics development and tracking of KPIs at the projects, program and portfolio level.
• Helped Organization in how to effectively track Enterprise level Portfolio starting from Idea to Conception, Conception to planning and then planning to execution/tracking using Jira/Confluence tool.
• Provided JIRA Training to 100 + resources on how to manage Portfolio Items, Features, Stories, task, and Releases within JIRA.
• Lead and execute several projects within the IT User Experience portfolio. Including collaborating with project governance committees and maintaining productive and positive relationships with stakeholders throughout the duration of the project.
• Oversee planning and execution of a large, complex projects and associated child projects in their Business Unit's DC group/functional portfolio to deliver on intended outcomes while collaborating on evolving ideas and discovery of new requirements to maximize return on investments.
• Responsible for leading & managing the program/portfolio initiative projects & for providing an oversight, coordination, and manage dependencies of initiatives and features within the program.
• Concurrently Led and managed a portfolio of 3 projects (5M+) with conflicting priorities and deadlines along with delivery for new strategic digital platforms to provide solution for new business initiatives.

• Manage and optimize the flow of value through the program using various tools, such as the Program Kanbans and information radiators.
• Establish and communicate the annual calendars for Iterations and Program Increments (PI).
• Aggregate Team PI Objectives into Program PI Objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency.
• Work with the teams in the ART to prioritize features to be considered in a given PI planning cycle. Organizing and driving SAFe events like meeting between teams to collectively plan the short-term development cycles, ART sync at every stage, Demos, workshops, and Backlog Refinement.
• Collaborate with the Product Owners and Product Managers to ensure that the program has a healthy Product Backlog.
• Provide guidance in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe and leads Agile delivery teams consisting of a mix of organization and possibly contractor/ vendor staff

• Facilitating and Leading the Backlog grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective and Scrum of Scrum meetings.
• Removing impediments & Technical Support to the team.
• Keep track of Burn-down charts and guide the team to take corrective actions to meet the sprint goals.
• Keep track of Sprints and guide the team to ensure the Velocity is consistent throughout the product development.
• Helping the product owner on creating and prioritizing the user stories to maximize the ROI .
• Generate reports using various metrics such as Velocity, Team Capacity, Story Points, Impediments, Defect Count, ROI, Earned Value Metrics and etc. and discuss with stakeholders to take corrective actions to meet the Product and Organizational goals.

• Problem solver with a passion for quality and process ; skilled in grasping the big picture, conceptualizing, developing, implementing solutions & partnering closely with business leaders & stakeholders and ensuring Service Delivery to manage customer approved SLAs.
• Experienced in formulating IT strategies to improve competitive positions & business performance and achieve better business results by developing a vision and executable roadmaps that aligns technology and business.
• Mastered Delivery Excellence by leading project of 40+ associates; ensured 100% SLA/KPI compliance and quality standards as per CMMI and client specific audits. Streamlined RCA for driving continuous service improvement plans.
• Resourceful in gathering and understanding requirements of clients & other multiple stakeholders, followed by translation into functional specifications as well as provisioning of suitable software solutions; maintaining & prioritizing Product Backlog Items (PBI) and helping team member to understand the same.
• A keen strategist, planner and implementer with expertise in devising strategies aimed at enhancing overall organizational growth, sustained profitability and operational efficiency.