Venkata Sai Sameer Gurujala
Hyderabad
Summary
Seasoned Scrum Master, SAFe 6.0 and CSM certified with 8+ years of experience leading high-performing teams to exceed objectives and enhance product development efficiency. Proficient in instilling Agile principles, creating effective communication channels, and removing impediments for team members. Proven track record of guiding teams towards operational excellence and increased productivity.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Ivy
Hyderabad
03.2022 - Current
- Coached and mentored Agile teams on Agile principles, values, and practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration, which led to a 20% increase in project completion rate.
- Identified and mitigated project risks and issues, proactively resolving obstacles to project success, decreasing the sprint cycle by 15%.
- Set up regular cadences to monitor contingency capacity being used productively, which resulted in an increase of 20% more bugs resolved each quarter (prod, regression, defects).
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives, ensuring adherence to Agile principles and practices.
- Acted as a servant leader, removing impediments, resolving conflicts, and empowering teams to self-organize and deliver high-quality products, which led to an increase in team velocity by 20%.
- Implemented SAFe framework, providing guidance on program increment planning, coordinating cross-team dependencies, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Collaborated closely with Product Owners to prioritize and groom the product backlog, ensuring clear understanding and alignment of product vision, helping them deliver MVPs.
- Utilized Agile metrics and tools to track team progress, identify bottlenecks, and drive data-driven decision making.
- Fostered a culture of transparency and trust by effectively communicating project status, risks, and dependencies to stakeholders at all levels.
- Led Agile transformation initiatives, driving adoption of Agile best practices and principles across the organization.
- Trained multiple new Scrum Masters on Agile and SAFe methodologies in the organization.
- Provided multiple improvement suggestions to the Agile Center of Excellence on improving agile processes and practices.
- Provide support with release management and release management activities.
- Created dashboards using various tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Trello, to track project progress and milestones.
SCRUM Master /Lead Analyst
GEOGAMING INDIA PVT LTD
Hyderabad
01.2019 - 03.2022
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement.
- Experienced in conducting Agile ceremonies: Release Planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint backlog, Sprint Planning, Program Increment planning, Daily Stand Ups, Retrospective, PI Planning.
- Coached and guided the teams on the values and practices of Agile and Scrum.
- Setting clear and attainable sprint goals to ensure the team has a clear idea of the sprint.
- Led and facilitated team meetings and teamwork to continual improvement of team.
- Successfully involved in transitioning the Organizational Structure and Business Processes from traditional Waterfall to Agile.
- Helping the team for estimating the user stories, tasks, sub-tasks, and following up with the team for providing updates in JIRA.
- Created JIRA boards, dashboards, and Forecasts for the scrum teams.
- Maintained smooth process remotely during the lockdown years.
- Initiated various interactive events during lockdown to maintain the same trust and transparency in the team during remote working.
- Good knowledge in tracking and managing product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down.
- Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment, and able to balance workload and prioritize effectively.
- Collaborated closely with product owners on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing
Education
B.E in information technology -
Geethanjali College of Engg and Technology
01.2014
Skills
- SCRUM Framework
- Kanban
- SAFe Framework
- Lean-Agile Methodologies
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Testrail
- Feedback & Retrospectives
- Metrics & Reporting
- Project management
- Servant Leadership
- Continuous Improvement
- Conflict Resolution
- Excellent communication skills
- Workflow Analysis
- Backlog management
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Software process management
- Agile Best Practices
- Risk Identification
- Software Development Lifecycle
Languages
English
First Language
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Telugu
Proficient (C2)
C2
STRENGTH
- LEADERSHIP: Coached and mentored Agile teams on Agile principles, values, and practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration which lead to 20% increase in project completion rate
- CONFLICT RESOLUTION: · Identified and mitigated project risks and issues, proactively resolving obstacles to project success decreasing the sprint cycle by 15%
- AGILE METHODOLOGY:· Implemented SAFe / Scrum framework, providing guidance on program increment planning, coordinating cross-team dependencies, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master- CSM® : Completed an intense course from Scrum Alliance focused on Scrum Framework and Agile Methodologies
- SAFe 6.0 Scrum Master - SSM : Finished an Advanced Certification on SAFe 6.0 phenomenal values and applications to a dynamic corporate structure
Timeline
Scrum Master
Ivy
03.2022 - Current
SCRUM Master /Lead Analyst
GEOGAMING INDIA PVT LTD
01.2019 - 03.2022
- Certified Scrum Master- CSM® : Completed an intense course from Scrum Alliance focused on Scrum Framework and Agile Methodologies
- SAFe 6.0 Scrum Master - SSM : Finished an Advanced Certification on SAFe 6.0 phenomenal values and applications to a dynamic corporate structure
B.E in information technology -
Geethanjali College of Engg and Technology
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