Amitabh Sinha Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, Us

As a key contributor at Trissential Consulting, I lead the transformation of Scrum and Kanban teams within MCBC's Data Analytics Agile Release Train (DAA ART). I empower Scrum Masters, guide teams, and ensure their success in all Scrum events.Through personalized coaching, I work closely with Scrum Masters, conducting regular 1:1 sessions to enhance their skills and effectiveness. Together, we identify areas of improvement, implementing strategies to drive positive change.I also play a pivotal role in PI Planning, helping teams make the process less stressful. By focusing on organic refinement, we ensure 2-3 Sprints of work are continuously refined and ready at any given time. This approach enables a head start in the upcoming PI, with concrete stories in the first 2-3 Sprints and placeholders for Sprints 4 and 5, all aligned towards the same objective.Collaborating with Product Owners, I facilitate journey mapping exercises and enable meaningful work refinement. I emphasize the importance of clear and crisp Features, Stories, and Acceptance Criteria, empowering teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.Through interactive sessions and tools like Miro, I foster collaboration, establish working agreements, and enhance estimation skills using planning poker.Working closely with peer coaches and Scrum Masters, I address significant impediments faced by the teams, driving their resolution with leadership help and fostering a productive working environment.In about 9 months, I have witnessed remarkable progress in the 4-5 teams I've worked with. Siloed working has given way to open conversations, resulting in improved burndown charts, higher predictability, and a stable velocity range. PI Planning is stronger. By leveraging digital collaboration tools, I enhance engagement, facilitate impactful sessions on roles and responsibilities, and promote Agile excellence within MCBC's DAA ART.

Palo Alto, California, Us

We provide end-end Agile Transformation and also a wide range of training (private, customized, onsite, offsite, public and online) to address the different needs(Teams, Executives, Managers, Leaders) of your organization. Every training is interactive and filled with improv games to engage the audience and keep it fun>>>>> Testimonials on our Training and Coaching - www.agilonomics.com/testimonials <<<<<<

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Google Cloud leadership wanted to bring agility to their teams which have bright and motivated people working in silos. Work visibility was low, commitment as a team was missing. Lack of business / product interaction with development teams results in misalignment on work prioritization. Individuals meet once a week to provide status update with commitments often changing• Onboarded to assess current situation and provide plan with strategy• Took charge. Observed 3-4 teams - interactions and behaviors. Interviewed executives, leaders, management, and team members• Understood their challenges, pain points and outcomes desired• Devised a plan and strategy and presented to executive leadership team• Led the transformation working alongside Executives, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Team Management and Development Teams and relevant stakeholders• Provided weekly updates on progress through health check dashboardOutcomes:1. In a short time of 7 months, transformed the 50 people department, with positive change and Agile done wisely (mindset, skills, behaviors and culture).2. All 3 teams achieved high predictability (>75-85% work done/sprint), reasonable stable velocity range (velocity and Avg. velocity measured over past 5 sprints compare)3. Team members swarm and perform together - measured by healthy Scrum meetings - Collaborative standups; planning to capacity; engaging reviews with stakeholders result in most valued work items pushed to the top of backlog; retros leading to team candidly collaborating to identify top impediment items4. Leadership team established alignment via user story mapping the enterprise product that helped them visualize and align on the next strategic move to capture bigger market in the cloud space5. Backlog health improved - measured by functional/valued stories as opposed to technical tasks, Dashboards show meaningful metrics

Santa Clara, California, Us

I helped the WildFire Department with Agility. My work outlined below:1. Onboarded to PANW and observed a few teams2. Provided detailed observations with suggestions on how to help teams become effective. The suggestions included step by step details on how to bring initial teams to be effective with Agile, setting up the Agile events, understanding the deeper values and Principles, helping roles be effective, coaching both teams and leadership to play their parts effectively3. Kick off - conducted a 2 day Intensive Agile and Scrum Training for SMs, POs, Executive/Senior Management and PMO. This training helped bring alignment for the Agile torch bearers in the department4. Worked with SMs to setup just in time trainings for teams. The topics included Agile Basics, Agile Events and Ceremonies, Agile Roles and Responsibilities, Agile Estimation and Planning, Managing the Product Backlog, User Story Maps5. Coached the SMs, POs and teams - Helped SMs setup and facilitate Agile Scrum events - Sprint Planning, Standups, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement (Grooming) with the right understanding and in an effective way6. Worked with the POs and SMEs to help create Product Vision, Personas, user goals and user story/journey maps that reflected the end user and customer usability. This brought out the bigger picture and helped create alignment, visibility and development strategy based on desired outcomes7. The journey maps were then used to create the Product Backlog Items. The backlog looked healthy and contextual rather than a mere collection of unrelated stories8. Helped 3 teams start their new Sprints and am working closely with SMs - observing each ceremony and providing feedback to teams, POs and SMs to help optimize these Agile meetings 9. On going Coaching SMs in Servant leadership skills to help with impediments, interactions & behaviors, conflicts. Helping them understand the value of soft skills and how to use them to effectively

Oakland, California, Us

Enterprise & Transformational Agile Coach, Agilonomics, LLC - www.agilonomics.comConsulting with Cognizant and serving Blue Shields of California.Highlights of ongoing work September 2020 - Present-- Enterprise Coach helping lead the strategy for Agile Transformation for the largest Portfolio - IT Operations, under which : [ ] Provided detailed Strategy for launching the Product Discovery and Solutions - Portfolio level team [ ] Provided detailed strategy and roadmap for launching the 13 Scrum teams in the Portfolio [ ] Partnered with leadership for launching each team [ ] Coaching the Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Dev Teams, Management - helping them come up to speed [ ] Providing training to each team on various aspects - Jira tooling, creating dashboards, Roles & Responsibilities, Scrum Events and Artifacts [ ] Provided Agile Foundations Training to 150 people in the Portfolio. Kept the training highly interactive and people thoroughly engaged throughout [ ] Setting up process for data points to track the health check of the launch and report progress to leadership [ ] Continuously participating in all relevant meetings to guide the Portfolio and Organization towards higher agility [ ] Creating strategy for implementing an impediment escalation board - to resolve the high ROI impediments that are outside the influence of the teams [ ] Creating Agile Playbook for entire organization to help Coaches and Scrum MastersApril 2020 - September 2020Responsible for bringing multiple teams to higher agility. Coaching, training, mentoring, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, TeamsChange agent to bring Agile behaviors and practices at enterprise level Brought a new team to high performance in a very short time - Reviewed training with other enterprise coaches to make them more effective

San Mateo, California, Us

Senior Agile Coach and Scrum Trainer, working with software teams throughout SIE (Sony Interactive Entertainment), including locations in SF, San Diego, LA, Madison, Waterloo & Tokyo Coached several teams under the 'Scrum Commando' Intensive operation -- Observed team meetings, ceremonies and interactions -- Coached Scrum Masters on how to lead effective Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Planning, Pre- Grooming, PBI Team Grooming, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, PSI Planning(SAFe) sessions -- Coached entire teams on why each ceremony is important and how to participate effectively -- Coached teams to have an Agile mindset. Helped them understand the difference between ‘Doing Agile’ vs. ‘Being Agile’ -- Helped with role play and training as needed to help demonstrate the efficacy of various Agile Scrum ceremonies -- Helped teams understand the importance of ‘Scaling Agile’ in an Enterprise. Helped them understand the difference between SAFe and basic Agile principles -- Helped co-located teams understand how a wall task board can bring high degree of efficacy in being Agile. Built custom wall task board for several teams and showed them how to use them effectively -- Showed teams how to use RALLY effectively. Helped them understand the SAFe metrics that tracks the progress and how to align with them -- Prepared very clear and concise presentations for management (PMO/SAFe) and teams with observations and suggestions -- All the teams have made good – great progress in just a few sprints following the suggestions which resulted in higher team happiness & better burn down metrics (quality burn down in a timely fashion), increased velocity, lower defects etc. Worked on creating a process for Agile Coaches at Sony PlayStation Regular presenter at ACE (Agile Center for Excellence, PlayStation) forum Successfully launched the ScrumMaster - Community Of Practice(COP) for SMs at SF, SD & LA sites

Hillsboro, Oregon, Us

Senior Scrum Master for the website redesign team at first tech federal credit union.Agile Coach for 2 other teams (different departments)-- Coached the Website Redesign team with Agile scrum processes and Agile principles-- Helped bring the team up as a solid powerful unit. A solid Agile team is building up nicely. Empowered, self organized and multi-talented-- Helped deliver several new website features over a short period of time-- Final website released in March 2016. Check out https://www.firsttechfed.com-- Introduced all scrum steps to the team, clearly manifesting the Agile principles among team members-- Led effective 'daily standups'. sprint planning, review and retrospectives-- Worked solid relationships with all different stakeholders and sponsors-- Diffused several potential conflicting situations by taking appropriate steps in a timely manner-- Closely worked with the Product Owner to help groom and support prioritizing user stories.-- User stories well groomed. Perfect burn down charts show solid team progress during sprints.-- Introduced the definition of done to the team. Designed and led the process and brought out powerful definitions for 'stories', 'deployment', 'sprint' and 'QA'Coached 2 different teams that were slowly transitioning from waterfall into Agile-- Coached the teams on roles & responsibilities, various ceremonies, grooming sessions etc.-- Closely worked with the Scrum Masters to help answer their questions and coach them on various scenarios (example: coaching and educating the upper management, dealing with difficult team members, facilitating ceremonies etc.)Success and failure is first and foremost about people. No processes and tools can ever take precedence over our ability to understand and respond to our own and other's humanity! Any team that will understand and follow the Agile principles will be a solid team!

Fremont, California, Us

Agile Coach - Client Projects-- Client in hospitality business-- Client had compliance audits-- Private and financial data of thousands of customers at high risk of being hacked or manipulated-- Customer data record & storage applications need serious updatesInitial work in identifying issues, providing proposals and creating the teamsUnderstood pain points of customer and user, created journey maps, roadmaps, release plans and executed timely delivery working closely with Scrum Teams-- 3 PSPIs released over a short period of 4 months (One after each sprint cycle)Few non compliant issues already resolved PCI compliant issues such as ‘protection of cardholder data’ and ‘encrypted transmission of cardholder data over public networks’ already resolved in just 4 months.Client got to see the application and appreciated the incremental value of Agile scrumIncreasing compliance of important security features provides client thousands of returning customers amounting to over several millions

Cambridge, Cambs, Gb

ARM Inc, San Jose, CA (Senior Scrum Master) 2009−2013 Senior Scrum Master - Design/Development/Testing/Automation/Support: 2011 - 2013High level development & support /quality/validation for standard cell library development flow. Co-Designed the entire software flow for supporting std. cell library developmentPlayed the Scrum Master role for my team and Coached other teams to start using Agile & Scrum effectively. Multiple projects were done in this capacity. Use of Agile & Scrum helped bring more trust with the stakeholders as we had regular sprint reviews and showed features developed incrementally.Facilitated Sprint retrospectives and daily Scrum to inspect & adapt.Sprint planning helped a lot to understand our capacity so we could commit to reasonable amount of work Scrum Master - NAHPC Server Testing: 2013 Helped bring a new high speed server up to speed so the costly rental server can be replaced.Saved thousands of dollars to ARM. Used Agile flow to develop code with my DA team. Used Agile Principles in dealing with IT, engineering & other stakeholders (VP, directors and vendors).Ran all the Scrum Ceremonies with the team. Encouraged collaboration & visibility Effectively managed diverse groups involved in the same project spread across the globe.  Recruited & mentored over 50 engineers, brought them to speed and guided them on Agile principles, Scrum ceremonies and on the Agile Roles & Responsibilities

Cambridge, Cambs, Gb

Tech Lead & Product Owner, IO LEF Software development in Java- Lead a team of 7 developers to generate the all critical software for IO LEF geneation- Played the Product Owner role and helped facilitate BAcklog Grooming: Participated in Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, - Started with 3 week iterations and then changed to 2 week iterations after a couple of months so we can bring increments sooner for review- Worked closely team members, stakeholders and even the executive management on Agile values and Principles- Took the team from forming, storming, norming to performing in about 4 - 6 months- The team adopted good engineering practices like TDD, Integrate continuously, Big picture focus, Refactoring often- Completed the IO LEF generation beta in about less than a year- Dealt with changing rerquirements and scope creep using Agile mindset- The success of the project led to Agile adoption to many teams and groups- The success also helped the team acquire similar LEF generation products for different family of IOs

Cambridge, Cambs, Gb

 Project Lead- SC/IO Flows, support, testing, QA, validation, flow development -- Accomplished delivery of several high profile SC+IO ASIC library projects. -- Provided several quality resolutions to deliver the software flow environment that helped create ASIC libraries with better quality, and on time. -- Tool updates and fixes made engineering life easier (ease - of - use) -- Explored alternate ways to develop software that was less stressful, more visible, collaborative and fun for the team -- ADC developer's conference in Denver (July 2005)

 Agile Team Leader / Technical Lead - IO LEF design, development & Support: 1999−2004 The critical IO LEF generation process was manual and cumbersome requiring an innovative, automated methodology that would capture inputs in a simple format, execute a program(s/w) to generate the IO LEF. The new IO LEF would be robust (complete), and could be created in a very quick time. This task when completed, provided engineering with an efficient process, helped reduce the place & route errors, and a very simple use model for engineering thereby saving time (nearly by 70%).  Agile Team Leader / Technical Lead - Independent Characterization Tool Evaluation: 1999−2004 The extremely critical process of library characterization was outdated in Artisan. A new tool adoption entailed a thorough study and analysis of the 3rd party tool(s), including testing, liberty generation/verification, reporting issues, interfacing with the vendor, weekly updates to upper management and making final recommendations. Took charge with completing this task resulting in a new, more robust (easy to use, efficient, better quality output) 3rd-party tool for engineering. The evaluation also led to setting clear expectations for the limitations that existed in the tool and commitment for vendor support.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

 Was involved in spice correlation and developing perl scripts to automate flows Used perl & cshell programming to implement a current measuring scheme for cell based array architecture. Worked alongside the technical team from Fujitsu (Joint Project) Supported the porting group team in debugging spice related issues.  Helped design & develop simple, IO circuits from schematics to liberty.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Education record

Certified Scrum Master, Agile Flow Techniques, Business Leadership & Scrum Master