Venkata Tummala
Enterprise Agile Coach
Kukatpalli,TG
Summary
Venkata Tummala has around 20 years of experience in Manufacturing Engineering with increasing responsibilities as Project Engineer, Program Manager, On-Site Coordinator, SME, Enterprise Agile Coach and Unit Agile Leader
Dr. Tummala is a passionate Agile enthusiast, people-centric coach, effective servant leader, and facilitator with excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills who believes in empowering teams and leading from the front. Expertise in providing guidance, mentoring, teaching, coaching at all levels (teams, enterprise, leadership) and transforming of Agile Teams on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and ensuring teams are practising the core agile values and principles
Dr.Tummala can provide Agile transformation guidance and coaching at the program level for scaling agile including Scrum of Scrums and Product Scrum , epic and release planning, and program, product, epic and release management including prioritization, synchronization and alignment between team, program, and portfolio levels,
Dr. Tummala is a Certified SAFe5 Program Consultant, Certified Professional Scrum Master I and II, Certified Professional Agile Leader and AS9100 Auditor for Aerospace and Defense Engineering projects.
Prior to joining TCS, Dr. Tummala worked with Global Aerospace OEMs in USA as Senior Technical Leader in Aircraft product development
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Enterprise Agile Coach
Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad
03.2020 - Current
- Involved in Agile transformation of projects across various programs
- Led Agile maturity assessment, identified gaps in the implementation of Agile practices, and implemented a remedial action plan.
- Guided scrum teams to effectively follow scrum processes
- Supported projects towards their Agile Transformation journey
- Coached and led one-on-one sessions, provided on-the-spot coaching, and identified areas for improvement through interviews.
- Facilitating teams towards achieving program goals and avoiding the impediments
- Facilitating communication between Program/Project and stakeholders to improve Agile Adoption
- Agile Metric Framework Implementation at Strategic/Operational level
Agile Coach
Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad
02.2018 - 03.2020
- Coached Leaders and teams for Agile Values and Principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts
- Championed culture change and collaborated with other stakeholders to promote Agile mindset
- Involved in scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
- Mentored Agile Teams in location independent Agile project environment
- Facilitated Kanban projects and mentored Project Service Delivery Manager
- Coached/trained team in Agile best practices, understanding and improving team dynamics and culture
- Mentored team in splitting features and writing user stories
Program Manager/Domain Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad
02.2012 - 02.2018
- Defined scope, planned resources, monitored execution, quality and delivery
- Oversaw three separate work streams to achieve compliance with regulatory requirements and quality standards
- Coordinated between Customer and Project delivery team in understanding requirements and developing solution techniques
- Established new process for design and Analysis of various systems.
- Supported Technical deliveries by reviewing Engineering System Designs
- Coordinated with Design and Product teams for component feature release based on manufacturing commitments.
Education
MBA - Strategy And Operations
Indian Institute of Management
Kozhikode 05.2012 - 05.2014
Ph.D. - Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur 06.1992 - 06.1997
Skills
Strong understanding of Scrum and KanbanImplementation of SAFe Practices, Experience as a Scrum master or with the agile methodology Knowledge of agile software development Strong communication and problem-solving skills Interpersonal skills and patience
undefinedAccomplishments
- SAFe 5 Program Consultant
- Professional Agile Leader (PAL) I
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM) I&II
- Enterprise Level Agile Business Management (Udemy)
- Enterprise Level Agile Project Management (Udemy)
- Agile at Work_ Driving Productive Agile Meetings (PMI/Linked in)
- Agile at Work_ Planning with Agile User Stories (PMI/Linked in)
- Agile at Work_ Reporting with Agile Charts and Boards (PMI/Linked in)
- Agile Development Practices (PMI/Linked in)
- Agile at Work_ Getting Better with Agile Retrospectives(PMI/Linked in)
- DevOps Foundations (PMI/Linked in)
- DevOps Foundations_ Lean and Agile (PMI/Linked in)
Timeline
Enterprise Agile Coach
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2020 - Current
Agile Coach
Tata Consultancy Services
02.2018 - 03.2020
MBA - Strategy And Operations
Indian Institute of Management
05.2012 - 05.2014
Program Manager/Domain Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services
02.2012 - 02.2018
Ph.D. - Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
06.1992 - 06.1997
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