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Venkata Subbarao Badeti

Venkata Subbarao Badeti

Hyderabad

Summary

IT leader with 25 years of experience in software development and program management across multiple industries including healthcare and banking. Proven track record in implementing Agile methodologies such as SAFe and Scrum, resulting in high-performing teams and significant business outcomes. Expertise in Agile Coaching, Program Management, and GenAI adoption, with a focus on driving enterprise-level transformations and stakeholder engagement.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Agile Transformation Lead | Agile Program Manager

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
Hyderabad
05.2023 - 08.2025
  • Spearheaded Agile transformation for 20 teams across Home & Community Business.
  • Worked with individual project managers to establish release plans and goals for each project and monitored and reported progress to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Aligned Agile teams on SAFe, Agile, Lean values and principles and ensured to focus on improvements.
  • Conducted Agile assessments, implemented OKRs/KPIs alignment and achieved 95%+ velocity adherence across Business areas.
  • Conducting approximately 30+ agile workshops based on roles and enabling them as cross-functional & high-performing teams.
  • Configured & tracked Performance dashboards in Rally, JIRA and ADO tools to ensure that teams are aligned with the defined KPIs by the Clients.
  • Improved sprint predictability by 30% and reduced release cycle time by 25%.
  • Increased customer satisfaction scores to 9/10 through delivery of high-quality healthcare solutions.
  • Achieved 20% productivity improvement through Gen AI adoption and cross-functional training.
  • Established governance model, reducing escalations by 40% and aligning delivery with SLAs.
  • Maintained strong relationships with stakeholders and clients, ensuring that their needs are met and that the delivered product or service aligns with their expectations and organizational goals.
  • DevOps & CI/CD pipelines implementation and leading to 20% deployment efficiency improvements.
  • Executed project planning, scoping, estimation, tracking and implementation within stipulated budgets and deadlines.
  • Managed and responsible for overall all project deliveries in the account as per the contractual obligations.
  • Collaborate with business and functional partners and technology leadership in specifying requirements.
  • Drive technology discussion and strategy in line with business needs.
  • Define execution plan and approach based on project scope, expected timeline and available budget/resources.
  • Facilitate convergence of functional and technical knowledge.
  • Work with technical team often comprising of members of separate organizations to coordinate day-to-day execution as per outlined plan.
  • Track project outcomes realization and customer satisfaction levels through established metrics against service level. Ensure lessons learned are collected.
  • Executed and Managed .NET, SQL Server, C#, Java, Sprint Boot, Angular.JS projects.

Release Train Engineer | Agile Coach

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
Hyderabad
08.2020 - 04.2023
  • Facilitated and leaded all ART events like PI Planning, Scrum of Scrum or Coach Sync, PO Sync, ART Backlog grooming, I&A Demos and knowledge sessions and ensure that team is aware of each event’s objective and delivered the committed PI objectives.
  • Directed ART execution roadmap for 12 teams, defined Agile Play book and delivered digital retail solutions.
  • Organized ART level retrospective event to receive feedback from ART level stakeholders and put an action for continuous improvements.
  • Aligned Agile teams on SAFe, Agile, Lean values and principles and ensured to focus on improvements.
  • Facilitated Weekly Risks / dependencies event with the client by following ROAM technique to capture all Risks within or across release trains.
  • Organized Daily sync-up session with Scrum masters to review the ART and Iteration boards and resolved the identified risks and dependencies to meet the PI objectives.
  • Conducted Pre PI planning with Product Management and Business Owners to ensure that they are ready with the next PI backlogs which can discussed during PI Planning.
  • Prepared ART PI agenda, PI Backlog readiness for the next PI Planning and ensured that all ART stakeholders are aligned to product vision and PI objectives.
  • Conducted 2 days PI planning and ensured that Agile teams prepared of their iteration plans and reviewed with Business teams.
  • Conducted SAFe Competency assessments, implemented OKRs/KPIs alignment (PI ART Predictability, Feature Cycle Time, Customer Reported Defects, ART Burnup Charts, Code Quality, Test Execution Results) and achieved 95%+ velocity adherence across Business areas.
  • Delivered 95% of PI Objectives on-time by streamlining backlog readiness and PI Planning.
  • Improved development efficiency by 24% via Copilot-driven automation and test optimization.
  • Coached and mentored, the teams, helped them remove their impediments, continually enhanced cross-team collaboration, reducing dependencies by 30% and accelerating feature delivery.
  • Worked closely with the Delivery/Programme Managers and ART stakeholders to ensure visibility and resolution of technical and business challenges.
  • Lead and evolve the product release strategy, with a focus on automation, predictability, and scalability.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, QA, MLOps) to align release planning with product goals.
  • Maintain a centralized release calendar, including planning, coordination, and execution of releases.
  • Executed and Managed .NET, Oracle Server, C#, Java, Sprint Boot, Angular.JS projects.

Agile Coach | Agile Transformation Lead

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
Hyderabad
11.2018 - 07.2020
  • Developed Agile transformation roadmap, aligned with Business Owners for facilities management programs.
  • Established agile way of working guidelines, process practices and engineering practices to build high-performing teams and attain objectives.
  • Built 10 cross-functional, high-performing teams achieving 95%+ commitment reliability.
  • Improved delivery cycle time by 20% through DevOps enablement.
  • Conducted 15+ agile workshops, trained 300+ participants with 95% certification success rate.
  • DevOps & CI/CD pipelines implementation and leading to 20% deployment efficiency improvements.
  • Configured & tracked transformation boards in JIRA to ensure that teams are aligned with the defined KPIs by the Clients.
  • Coaching & Mentoring Project Managers and Scrum Masters to ensure that they follow the agile values and principles.
  • Conducted 10+ agile assessments to discover ‘as is’ and enabled the continuous improvements. achieved 15% defects deduction and 20% productivity improvements.
  • Executed and Managed .NET, SQL Server, C#, Java, Sprint Boot, Angular.JS projects.

Release Train Engineer | Agile Program Manager

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
Hyderabad
06.2016 - 10.2018
  • Led 15 teams in agile transformation, aligning delivery with global logistics operations.
  • Facilitated and leaded all ART events like PI Planning, Scrum of Scrum or Coach Sync, PO Sync, ART Backlog grooming, I&A Demos and knowledge sessions and ensure that team is aware of each event’s objective and delivered the committed PI objectives.
  • Conducted Pre PI planning with Product Management and Business Owners to ensure that they are ready with the next PI backlogs which can discussed during PI Planning.
  • Prepared ART PI agenda, PI Backlog readiness for the next PI Planning and ensured that all ART stakeholders are aligned to product vision and PI objectives.
  • Conducted 2 days PI planning and ensured that Agile teams prepared of their iteration plans and reviewed with Business teams.
  • DevOps & CI/CD pipelines implementation and leading to 20% deployment efficiency improvements.
  • Conducted SAFe Competency assessments, implemented OKRs/KPIs alignment and achieved 95%+ velocity adherence across Business areas.
  • Improved SLA adherence by 20% and reduced escalations by 35%.
  • Executed and Managed .NET, SQL Server, C#, Java, Sprint Boot, Angular.JS projects.

Project Manager | Senior Scrum Master

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
Hyderabad
07.2013 - 05.2016
  • Managed large-scale mobility application delivery across 90-member global team.
  • Part of discovery activities to understand the product roadmap, defined agile practices, trained agile teams, agreed on sprint cadence, availability of backlogs for the next 4 sprints and ensured that environment readiness for the first sprint execution.
  • Facilitate and lead Scrum ceremonies for 2 teams including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring they are effective, focused, and lead to actionable outcomes and drive towards business value in every sprint. Achieved 95% above velocity for the all-leaded scrum teams.
  • Act as a servant leader, guiding and coaching the Scrum team on Agile principles and practices to ensure the successful adoption and execution of the Scrum framework.
  • Manage and maintain the Scrum process, including the sprint backlog, sprint planning, task estimation, and sprint progress tracking using tools like JIRA and Confluence.
  • Create and maintain detailed and complex dashboards for burndown charts, velocity trends, capacity planning, and issue tracking to enable informed decision-making and effective sprint execution.
  • Identify and remove impediments or blockers hindering the team's progress, facilitating resolution, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Foster a collaborative and communicative environment within the team, encouraging transparency, trust, and open dialogue among all members.
  • Collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to prioritize and groom the product backlog, ensuring that it is refined manageable, and aligned with project goals.
  • Helped agile teams to resolve impediments in sprint planning, daily scrum and protect them from outside interruptions and distractions. Reduced production incidents by 22% and improved release on-time delivery by 15%.
  • Conducted Sprint Demos to receive PO and Users feedback to ensure that teams are aligned with release goals.
  • Conducted Retrospective sessions and track the top 2 actions to show improvements continuously.

Project Manager

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
Hyderabad
07.2010 - 06.2013
  • Managed 70-member team delivering customer service applications for UK’s largest utilities company.
  • Definition of programme / project scope and goals.
  • Planning support which will cover approach definition, work breakdown, sequencing and milestone definition.
  • Estimation of resource effort and cost budgets.
  • Resource planning.
  • Identification of project risks and issues.
  • Tracking mitigating actions in relation to programme / project risks and issues.
  • Identification of dependencies internal to the programme / project and externally to other projects and business areas.
  • Support all essential governance activities including working group & steering committee through documentation including meeting minutes and recording of agreed actions.
  • Task allocation across teams and team members.
  • Tracking against activity or milestone completion and escalate variance to CLIENT programme / project plan (in accordance with CLIENT's agreed escalation process).
  • Project status reporting (where required).
  • Support readiness decisions and follow up actions from programme / project tollgate.
  • Implemented cost optimization initiatives reducing delivery costs by 18%.
  • Improved customer satisfaction by delivering projects 95% on time.

Project Development Manager | Project Lead

Agility E Services
Hyderabad
01.2010 - 07.2010
  • Led 20-member development team building SharePoint-based portal solution.
  • Defined architecture and BizTalk deployment processes.
  • Delivered portal solution within budget, achieving 100% client acceptance.

Development Lead | Project Manager

Oakton Global Technology Services
Hyderabad
08.2009 - 10.2009
  • Led 30-member development team building Web portal solution.
  • Directed design and delivery of web development initiatives.
  • Enabled successful project handover to client with zero defects.

Project Lead | Project Manager

Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
Hyderabad
10.2008 - 08.2009
  • Led 30-member development team building Web portal solution.
  • Designed and delivered enterprise portfolio management solutions.
  • Improved delivery efficiency by 15% through agile practices.

Developer | Tech Lead | Project Manager

Keane India Ltd.
Hyderabad
08.2000 - 10.2008
  • Led 40-member development team building Web portal solution.
  • Managed multi-client insurance, utilities, and transportation projects.
  • Led distributed teams of 30+ delivering enterprise-grade applications.
  • Improved defect detection rates by 20% through structured QA practices.

Education

MCA -

Madhuri Kamaraj University
06-2004

B. Com - Math as elective subject

Andhra University

Skills

  • Agile transformation leadership
  • Agile coaching and team enablement
  • Maturity assessments and program management
  • Waterfall and SAFe methodologies
  • Scrum, Kanban, and LeSS frameworks
  • Release Train Engineer (RTE) expertise
  • PI planning and ART governance
  • Delivery and stakeholder management
  • SLA adherence and risk handling
  • Escalation management strategies
  • JIRA, Rally, ADO, and VersionOne proficiency
  • Confluence and GitHub collaboration
  • Jenkins and SonarCube integration
  • VB, ASP, NET, and C# development
  • SharePoint Portal management
  • Core Java programming
  • SQL Server and Oracle database management
  • Cloud technologies and GenAI applications
  • DevOps practices with AWS implementation

Websites

Accomplishments

  • Led an ART as an RTE for FedEx, Telefonica, MITIE driving 20–25% productivity improvement.
  • Led Agile transformation as an UHG, Telefonica, FedEx, MITIE and improved 15% Developer Efficiency
  • Implemented SAFe Agile across 20+ teams, enabling 15–20% faster time-to-market and 30% defect reduction.
  • Introduced DevOps & CI/CD pipelines leading to 20% deployment efficiency improvements.
  • Delivered multiple enterprise programs worth $10M+ with 95% on-time delivery and 90%+ customer satisfaction.
  • Trained & coached 1000+ professionals on SAFe, Scrum, and Agile practices achieving 95% certification success rate.
  • Achieved 95%+ PI Objectives adherence across multiple ARTs.
  • Improved productivity by 20% through Gen AI adoption and skill-building workshops.
  • Achieved 9/10 customer satisfaction scores across multiple engagement

Awards

  • Best Project & People Manager and Best Transformation Lead (Wipro, 2000–2018)
  • Best Performer Award (Hanover, 2006)
  • Best Employee Award (Keane India, 2005)
  • Conducted 20+ SAFe trainings with 95%+ certification success rate
  • Led multiple SAFe Agile transformations for Fortune 500 clients (FedEx and Telefonica)

Certifications And Education

  • PMP – Project Management Professional (PMI)
  • SAFe SPC, SAFe SA and CSM – Certified Scrum Master
  • MCA – Madhuri Kamaraj University, 2004
  • B. Com with Math as elective subject– Andhra University

Timeline

Agile Transformation Lead | Agile Program Manager

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
05.2023 - 08.2025

Release Train Engineer | Agile Coach

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
08.2020 - 04.2023

Agile Coach | Agile Transformation Lead

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
11.2018 - 07.2020

Release Train Engineer | Agile Program Manager

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
06.2016 - 10.2018

Project Manager | Senior Scrum Master

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
07.2013 - 05.2016

Project Manager

Wipro Technologies Ltd.
07.2010 - 06.2013

Project Development Manager | Project Lead

Agility E Services
01.2010 - 07.2010

Development Lead | Project Manager

Oakton Global Technology Services
08.2009 - 10.2009

Project Lead | Project Manager

Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
10.2008 - 08.2009

Developer | Tech Lead | Project Manager

Keane India Ltd.
08.2000 - 10.2008

MCA -

Madhuri Kamaraj University

B. Com - Math as elective subject

Andhra University

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