Sijo Jose Chalakkal

• Provide an environment that enables feature teams to collaborate, learn and move towards achieving the iteration goals and Program increment objective by application of Scrum with in a SaFe framework
• Facilitated Iteration planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, reviews and retrospectives.
• Coaching team on Lean adaption and reducing waste there by delivering value to business much faster and cost effectively
• Facilitated removing impediments to team progress
• Guided and assisted feature teams in constantly improving the quality of the deliverables and meeting the Definition of Done (DoD).
• Shielded feature team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Worked effectively with multiple Feature teams both internally and off-shore.
• Identified innovative and automated approaches to routine tasks, making suggestions that were widely received.
• Assisted with internal and external communication resulting in improved transparency.
• Guided and coached Feature team and organized Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment.
• Help the RTE to Facilitate the PI Planning and Inspect and Adapt sessions

• Regular interactions with business stakeholders to build a Product backlog with sizable amount of stories
• Prioritize the stories with higher business value or ROI to be considered for the sprint.
• Product backlog refinement by adding finer details to the identified user stories, ensuring that the Dev teams have complete understanding of the stories and the work / efforts required to complete it.
• Conduct Sprint planning meeting and collaborate to define the sprint goal.
• Participate in daily Scrum meeting to understand the activities undertaken by the development team.
• Track the Sprint performance with the team
• Conduct Sprint review meetings to assess the incremental value delivered during the sprint.
• Conduct Sprint retrospection meeting to review on what went well and actions required for the next iteration.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and decide on the features that need to be released to Production
• Single point of contact for the customer and delivery team
• Coordinate with GTP to release the feature to Production

• Handle the complete CTB portfolio for APAC and IRT comprising of 80+ Applications.
• Preparation / review of project initiation, Project Scope, Estimates and contractual agreements, High Level Design, migration strategy document, Code walk-through, delivery notes and Project plan document.
• Management of project profitability, rolling projection forecasts and implementation of productivity improvement measures; setting up goals and performance appraisal of teams, monitoring and mentoring.
• Ensure strict compliance to SLA, Quality and delivery parameters with the aim of maximizing client satisfaction; User testing coordination and Quality assurance of final software deliverables through iterative evaluations; assessment of risks and preparation of mitigation plans with focus on exigencies.
• Established and maintained close working relationship with Key project stakeholders and management.
• Periodic Project status reporting to senior management and stakeholders using Clarity Tool
• Resource Management - Recruitment, Mentoring and Training

• Managed Service delivery and 24/7 Service operations teams of 20-30 members with annual budget of up to € 1M, SLA Compliance, application and resource availability.
• Handled a Portfolio of 20+ Applications across multiple domain and technologies - Review of Project Scope, Estimates and contractual agreements
• Ensured Applications meet Audit, Assessment & Regulatory requirements in-line with banks IT policies
• Managed Transition of applications, defining Scope of work and Requirements elicitation
• Established and maintained close working relationship with Key project stakeholders and management.
• Infrastructure Capacity planning and analysis; Liaison with infra support groups within the bank to resolve hardware, software, access and other technical issues.
• Periodic Project status reporting to management and business stakeholders using Clarity Tool

• Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and testers to deliver high availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
• Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications for project plans.
• Documented software design work, including detected faults, project planning discrepancies and other vital data.
• Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
• Met with project manager and team members to provide detailed project reports and milestone updates.
• Developed and maintained web applications following specifications provided.
• Collaborated on all stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.

I worked with Iris Digital Technologies Ltd as Senior System Analyst, this was my second company after NIIT, I was involved in support and implementation of Enterprise Information Portal for a leading manufacture for air conditioners in KSA, Also involved in System Analysis and preparation of technical RFP for Zamil group. I gained experience in working with different clients and processes as part of my association with IRIS

I started my career in I.T. with NIIT LTD, Worked as Faculty and corporate trainer .My Experiences in NIIT helped me in learning the processes required for application development, and also helped me improve my Technical and soft skills.