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 Exhibiting lean agile leadership by helping teams embrace SAFe core values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles and implement SAFe practices. Assist in overall program/project planning and ensure crossteam dependencies arewell understood and modeled in project plans and timelines. Using JIRA tool in collaboration with Agile frameworks to track team's progress while aligning the team's efforts to their goal and optimizing delivery. Coaching Product Owners and other teams in role execution, backlog management, facilitating meetings/ceremonies and conflict resolution. Identify, document, and publish risks and issues related to the overall program and define resolution paths where required. Possess excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams with diverse personalities, during high pressure scenarios, within extremely tight deadlines. Team award for consistent delivery excellence for 3 consecutive quarters, achieved through early identification and removal of blockers, consistent team coaching and training. Facilitate retrospective sessions using different approaches to ensure team participation and increase morale. Demonstrate ability to work closely with delivery teams to establish expectations and ensure tasks remain on track.

 Organized and facilitated scrum team events: sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review - demo, sprint retrospective, backlog refinement, release planning etc. Collaborated with developers, product owners and stakeholders to break down epics to small slices that do not span iterations or programmed increments. Led and assist teams improve and sustain the teams velocity and the delivery of backlog items ahead of stipulated deadline. Coached teams to stay focused on value delivery and not the process so they stay aligned to Agile principles. Encouraged teams to become self-organized, cross functional and more focus on their tasks for a quicker turn around. Tracked risks and dependencies at program level for visibility while guiding towards proper removal of blockers to increase productivity and reduce defects.