Shruti Varghese
Pune
Summary
Experienced as Agile Project Manager with overall 13.6 years of successful experience in promoting the implementation of Agile within several teams and various technologies. Prior experience in Banking , Cards ,Payments and Insurance domain. Strength in Project & Team management. Successfully delivered complex & large scale projects withing the agreed timeline. Experience of working with Agile methodologies with diverse teams including DevOps . Pivoted teams towards an agile development model from waterfall following SAFE/Scrum methodology.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agile Project Manager
Accenture Sol Pvt Ltd
06.2021 - Current
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Act as a client facing servant leader to ensure innovative products are delivered in a predictive manner throughout the project lifecycle.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Managed stakeholder expectations by informing senior leadership about the project progress.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Championed Agile working aimed at optimizing value created in the least amount of time to iteratively deliver project at pace.
- Communicate clearly with business users and project manager.
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
Agile Scrum Master
Allianz Technology SE
03.2018 - 05.2021
- Facilitated and coached an Agile transformation project within a span of 6 months
- Played the role of Scrum Master for 3 different new teams and coached them on Agile best practicies.
- Improved customer satisfaction by 27%.
- Tracks the sprint backlog using metrics to monitor sprint velocity and other metrics for successful project delivery.
- Coached and lead the scrum teams from project initiation through to the delivery of a “done” product.
- Resolved impediments and technical challenges and helped the multiple scrum teams to ensure smooth delivery
- Played the role of project coordinator in between Product Owner, Business team, DevOps and other stakeholders for end-to-end delivery of the project.
Safe Scrum Master
Master Card
05.2016 - 03.2018
- Acted as Servant leader for scrum agile teams
- Facilitated team events and processes, and supports teams and ARTs in delivering value
- Supported and educated the product owner and product manager on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
- Communicate with management and stakeholders on the progress of team development by providing transparency.
- Assist in the estimation and planning of the work for the team based on the team’s past performance.
- Keep the team focused on the goals of the iteration by shielding the team from outside distractions and interferences.
- Encourage the team to self-organize and be accountable for their decisions.
- Monitors team velocity and capacity per iteration.
- Improved team dynamics and performance and ensure in building self-organised teams.
Release Manager
Syntel
09.2015 - 03.2016
- Analyze system operations to detect users’ errors or inappropriate use of systems.
- Developed best practices and procedures to be used by the entire team which spanned various internal Developed best practices and procedures to be used by the entire team which spanned various internal projects
- Responsible for creating detailed project plans and work breakdown structure plans to illustrate resource allocation and scheduling tasks using MS Project
- Managed complex analysis, designing and programming to meet business requirements.
Software Engineer
HSBC Pvt Sol
06.2008 - 07.2014
- Conducted regression testing and submitted observations to development team.
- Partnered with development team on product development and application support plans.
- Collaborated with clients to define solution requirements.
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
Education
Bachelor's of Engineering - Information Technology
Bhilai Institute of Technology
Bhilai06.2008
Skills
- Jira / Confluence
- Scrum , Kanban
- Agile methodologies & practices
- Risk identification/management
- Agile Project Management
- DevOps/ Salesforce and others
- Planning and Coordination
- Delivered Complex and large scale projects
- Release Management
- Stakeholder management
Accomplishments
- Handled critical major annual upgrade in a given span of 1 month and delivered it without any failures and during its production roll-out at Munich.
- Smooth transition of project from Munich ( Germany) to India with result orientated outcomes where agile teams were productive in a significant less expected time than estimated.
- Played the roles of first Product Owner from India team and achieved successful delivery of product . Was recognized and rewarded by the CEO of the company.
Certification
- Certified Project Manger ( PMP)
- Certified Product Owner (PSPO I)
- Certified Agile Coach ( ICP-ACC)
- Certified Scrum Master ( Safe 4.0)
- ITIL V4
Timeline
Agile Project Manager
Accenture Sol Pvt Ltd
06.2021 - Current
Agile Scrum Master
Allianz Technology SE
03.2018 - 05.2021
Safe Scrum Master
Master Card
05.2016 - 03.2018
Release Manager
Syntel
09.2015 - 03.2016
Software Engineer
HSBC Pvt Sol
06.2008 - 07.2014
Bachelor's of Engineering - Information Technology
Bhilai Institute of Technology
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