Saidavali Shaik

• Advise client on creating function of the future, covering end to end spectrum on advisory, intelligent workflows and technology solutions
• Leading cross functional transformation programs - defining opportunities, evaluating data, requirements, designing and implementing end-to-end optimal and sustainable solutions
• Coordinating with cross functional team members to track project requirements, deliverables and timelines.
• Resource allocation, project planning and budget estimations
• Preparing status reports by gathering, analyzing and summarizing relevant information
• Scheduling and hosting Steering committee, Stakeholders, cross functional, daily stand-up meetings
• Defining problem and solution statement by identifying root cause analysis, impact and gap analysis, requirement re-engineering
• Building stakeholder analysis, plan and facilitate workshops and build communication plans and ensuring all stakeholders are informed
• Working and communicating with business and client leadership teams and clearly communicate the project progress, status, deliverables and way forward
• Identify and present business value of the project to all stakeholders.

• Proficiently organized and facilitated daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint & release planning
• Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized
• Effectively tracked team’s progress, including burn-down, velocity and release forecasting
• Worked with cross functional Scrum Masters to prepare for and facilitate potentially useful increment planning sessions
• Expertly promoted continuous improvement and helped teams increase productivity and foster innovation

Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations

• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline
• Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features
• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders
• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product
• Interface with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met
• Emphasis on continuous learning of Agile/Scrum techniques and sharing the findings with the team
• Negotiate with Scrum team and Product Owner for delivery of Minimum Viable Product
• Track and communicate team velocity and Sprint/release progress to all affected teams and stakeholders
• Backup Project Manager

• Plan and monitor project budget/spending
• Guide projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget
• Manage project scope to ensure delivery was compliant with scope commitment
• Track and manage product backlog, velocity, and task breakdown
• Address problems through risk management and contingency planning

• Leading a team of 6 Business Analysts (On Rolls) and 16 FTE’s team of Application Vendors
• Oversee multiple projects across all phases of SDLC
• Work as part of Interdisciplinary team to achieve project milestones
• Make vital decisions and drive decision making across projects
• Coordination with Department Heads and Internal Stakeholders to gather requirements and manage expectation
• Collaborate with development teams to plan project sprints
• Manage resource and capacity planning for projects
• Prepare project documentation, deliverables, finances, resource allocations, and status
• Responsible for budgeting and forecasting, expense reporting, risk management, status reporting, and execution
• Accountable for complete life cycle from inception to closure

• Responsible for Requirement Management: Eliciting, Analyzing, Documenting, tracing, translating and validating requirements throughout the project life cycle
• Prepare business process modeling – (AS-IS and TO-BE Mapping) and Business Process Re engineering wherever required
• Performed Fit gap analysis, Impact analysis, Root causes Analysis and other business analysis
• Developing Requirement documentation including - Functional Requirement Document and User Interface Designs/UML using MS Visio/ Mock Flow for application development
• Managed change requests by analyzing the business need driving the change and perform gap analysis
• Effort estimation for change impacts, creating & monitoring project plan, Project Management Reports.
• Monitoring / tracking projects with respect to deadlines to ensure timely execution of projects with quality

• Worked closely with product owners and stakeholders for requirement gathering, elicitation
• Preparation of required project documentation BRD, FSD, Test Cases and Project Plan
• Facilitated requirement gathering sessions, root cause analysis and other requirement workshops with stakeholders
• Monitor the full software life-cycle implementation, upgrades, production support, roll out & enhancements, data migrations and go-live assistance till post implementation support
• Preparing the RFP and Lead the vendor evaluation process, negotiations
• Mentoring Junior Business Analysts thus promoting a string culture of standard Business Analysis processes
• Single point of contact between Management and IT groups from solution planning, sizing to fulfillment
• Negotiate and liaise between business teams, technology teams, and support teams
• Identify root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long-term business goals
• Manage project through status meetings, weekly reports, identifying risks, and tracking issues