Sudhakara Shankara Shettara

• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
• Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
• Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
• Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
• Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
• Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
• Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods.
• Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.
• Created and implemented contingency plans to address potential risks.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Practitioner of the agile methodologies-Certified Scrum Master, SAFe for Scrum Master and SAFe Agilist
• Regularly communicated team goals and ensured team members clearly understand the plan for achieving them
• Built a team of motivated individuals, empowered them, and provided a supportive work environment
• Developed concrete plans to provide transparency into every individual’s work
• Understood the team effectiveness and guided the team on best ways to refine the backlog and create stories.
• Managed the conflicts in the team through Implementing simple adaptive methods like working agreements.
• This helped the team for effective planning \ backlog refinement\ team meetings
• Positive reinforcement of committing the iteration goals and worked closely with PO to ensure we have ready backlog for next iteration Reviewed the exit agreements at regular intervals which helped the team adjust as needed
• Much better understanding of team dynamics and how to contribute more effectively in the various stages of team development and worked on improving the teamwork skills and help achieve 90-100% in every PI
• Encouraged discussion on disagreements
• Facilitated effective retrospective meeting with quantitative and qualitative insights to achieve relentless improvement and take value out of retrospective ceremony by reviewing the action plan.
• Provided the team with the metrics update frequently which helped the team weigh and plan the work accordingly.
• Consistently monitored the defect backlog and guided the team to take appropriate action by adjusting the maintenance allocation during iteration planning
• Managed Risk\dependencies and highlighted in appropriate forums. Involved in the scrum meetings and tracking risks, Efforts, issues, open items, Estimation, and project schedule.