Participated as part of an Agile Release Train (ART), during PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and SystemDemos, by helping my teams identify dependencies and risks, resulting in all teams understanding the PIgoals and planning Features and stories for the next quarter.Added WIP limits to the Kanban boards to help the teams visualize the work, resulting in teams no longer over committing to work and completing the work faster. Recommended the team build in quality when they discovered defects and received unfavorable feedback from users, resulting in conference rooms that were easier to utilize.Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximizeproductivity. Encouraged and implemented process improvements. Created team-building opportunities.Monitored the project progress and radiated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigatedteam risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.Communicated the progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Charts'. Monitored the Quality thru metrics and mentored team thru the project management processes.

Transitioned the teams from Waterfall to Agile.Conducted backlog reviews, planning poker sessions, sprint planning, customer reviews and retrospectives for two teams during concurrent 3-week sprint cyclesIdentified various business processes and developed process flow diagrams for the business processes and validated the same with SMEs.Prepared business requirements Documents (BRD) and got sign off to be used by the developers.Developed test cases from functional requirements documents from the software development team.Conducted individual and group (JAD) sessions with business stakeholders and technical units.Conducted working sessions to discuss and prioritize requirements and resolve project related issues.Actively involved in meetings with development team to discuss process flow and other developmentissues.Utilized Rational the requirements and requirement change requests during various phases of project lifecycle.