Swati Surjuse

• Facilitates Scrum ceremonies, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Retrospectives and Reviews.
• Assists with release planning and coordinated efforts between multiple teams working on related projects.
• Coached stakeholders on their roles in the Scrum process and how to best support the team's success.
• Tracking teams’ performance through Azure DevOps and keeping it the source of truth for all work items. Maintained close connection with project personnel to quickly identify and resolve problems.
• Presenting the status and teams performance in every SOS meeting for a larger audience.
• Removed impediments for the scrum development team. Handled internal and external conflicts across teams.
• Gathering and updating project materials, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents.
• Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance
• Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, and so on to help the team become a high-performance team.
• Perform revised capacity planned after change in scope/priority so that the team will have minimum impact on the deliverables.
• Analyze client’s business requirements and processes through document analysis, interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis.
• Delivered results using strong understanding of project management methodology and PMO standards.
• Created dashboards using various tools such as JIRA to track project progress and milestones.
• Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
• Supported the development team in understanding user stories, acceptance criteria and definition of done.
• Maintained product backlogs, ensuring that items are well defined and prioritized based on business value.
• Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.
• Completed thorough risk assessments and deployed management and response strategies to prevent roadblocks.
• Communicate client’s business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data.

Coordinated all Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, and Release Planning.

Executed a comprehensive release management strategy for 10+ applications, integrating automated testing to ensure quality assurance, and reduced deployment-related errors by 40%, leading to a faster time-to-market for new features.

Championed a culture of ongoing enhancements by facilitating bi-weekly retrospectives, and directly drove actionable insights leading to an average reduction in sprint cycle times.

Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, and so on, to help the team become a high-performance team.

Empowered the team to make system and process improvements, captured in sprint retrospective meetings.

Analyze the client's business requirements and processes through document analysis, interviews, workshops, and workflow analysis.

Liaise between business and developers to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications.

Coordinating with cross-functional teams, ensuring adherence to strict deadlines, and ensuring the timely delivery of proposals.

Develop Terraform modules for 10 or more infrastructure setups, and complete the cloud migration.

Conducted various deployments and release management activities for multiple applications in production and non-production environments.