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Vennela Reddy Kunduru

Vennela Reddy Kunduru

Hyderabad

Summary

Seeking a challenging position in a reputable organization to expand my learnings, knowledge, skills and secure a responsible career to leverage my training and skills, to make significant contributions to the success of the company.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Scrum Master

Inspire brands
Hyderabad
09.2023 - Current
  • Established clear communication channels between all stakeholders involved in the project lifecycle.
  • Encouraged collaboration between teams by facilitating knowledge sharing sessions across multiple locations.
  • Evaluated existing processes and procedures within an organization to identify areas for improvement.
  • Managed stakeholder expectations throughout the entire project lifecycle ensuring timely delivery of agreed outcomes.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders from different departments to ensure successful delivery of projects.
  • Facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
  • Conducted risk analysis activities to identify potential issues that could impede progress.
  • Provided guidance to product owners on grooming user stories for development teams.
  • Promoted cross-functional collaboration among different teams working on related projects or initiatives.
  • Coached and mentored team members in Agile and Scrum concepts, values, principles, and practices.
  • Actively monitored performance of the scrum team against objectives set out at the start of each sprint cycle.
  • Assisted with developing and maintaining a product backlog according to business priorities.
  • Identified and removed impediments to the team's progress through effective facilitation of problem solving sessions.
  • Maintained up-to-date records of work completed during each sprint cycle including documentation related to any changes made.
  • Tracked and reported on project progress using burn down charts, velocity tracking and other metrics.
  • Created detailed reports outlining progress against key performance indicators set out at the beginning of each project phase.
  • Delegated tasks to each team member, regularly assessing workloads to complete tasks on time and within project parameters.
  • Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.
  • Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
  • Identified, addressed and either resolved or escalated project issues.
  • Maintained close connection with project personnel to quickly identify and resolve problems.

Scrum Master

Novartis
Hyderabad
08.2019 - 03.2023
  • Managed core Agile Ceremonies in team environments
  • Facilitating Sprint Planning, Daily stand up, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
  • Working with Product Owner on Artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burndown, and Release Burndown
  • Working with stakeholders/product owners to prioritize the requirements for the sprint
  • Keeping the team together and establishing effective communication with consistency across development, QA, UAT, and with business
  • Lead product prioritization meetings and ensure that deliverables are up to quality standards within the specified time, resolving conflicts, resolving impediments, and keeping the team focused
  • Facilitated creativity and empowerment for the Cross-functional team
  • Representing the team to report overall project status, upcoming risks and suggest solutions to it improved the team's engineering practices and tools as required
  • Creating and managing estimates, project plan, project schedule, resource allocation, and assignment of User Stories to ensure that targets are met
  • Conducted Planning meetings, and backlog grooming, and provided team's status to upper management
  • Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost efficiency and coordination
  • Coached and mentored agile team members and provided constructive performance feedback.

Project Coordinator

CDK Global
Hyderabad
08.2016 - 08.2019
  • Project Management, Tracking & Reporting, Stakeholders management, Risk Management - Preparing project plans, estimation, scheduling, scoping, strategy, Process Improvement - Product Support, Escalation Management
  • Spearheading cross-functional agile teams conducting all agile ceremonies and leading scrum implementations
  • Assisting the team in identifying obstacles and devising solutions, focusing on maximizing team's productivity
  • Ensuring Scrum artifacts are updated regularly for better visibility and transparency on the Product Burn up
  • Tracking team's Velocity, Sprint Burn down, and Product Burn up to communicate the Product's health to all stakeholders
  • Motivate and help the team to continuously improve the process to enable faster delivery
  • Encouraging the use of Agile engineering practices within the development team.

Process Associate

Genpact
Hyderabad
11.2014 - 08.2016

Education

Master of Business Administration -

Osmania University
12.2014

Bachelor of Commerce -

Osmania University
12.2012

Skills

  • Agile Project Management
  • Transitions
  • Certified Scrum
  • Scrum of Scrum Meetings
  • Sprint Ceremonies
  • Sprint Retro
  • Scrum Artifacts
  • Scrum Values
  • Agile Development
  • Agile Framework Scrum
  • Scrum Events
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Product Development
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Team Building & Leadership
  • MS PowerPoint
  • Excel
  • Word
  • SAP
  • Confluence
  • Tuleap
  • JIRA
  • Kendis

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Scrum Alliance
  • PM Pro - Internal certification of Agile by Novartis

Projects

Optimization, Account & Notification for Inspire brands, Supply Relationship Management, .Net, React JS, .Net, Angular JS, Novartis, Scrum Master Customer on boarding (Compass), .Net, React JS, Scrum Master Unify, Java Script, Html

Languages

English
First Language

Timeline

Senior Scrum Master

Inspire brands
09.2023 - Current

Scrum Master

Novartis
08.2019 - 03.2023

Project Coordinator

CDK Global
08.2016 - 08.2019

Process Associate

Genpact
11.2014 - 08.2016

Master of Business Administration -

Osmania University

Bachelor of Commerce -

Osmania University

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