Gobindpal Singh Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Ab, Ca

Alberta, Canada

Manage organization-wide Agile transformation including bootstrapping new teams, coaching the existing agile team, engaging with business, educating management teams, and guiding the overall organizational change working with Front End teams in Telecommunications, and Retail clients • Teach and coach SAFe, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices, and identifying and eliminating bottlenecks to flow; support the teams during the creation of mandate, creation of epics/user stories/tasks, estimation of effort, adjustment, sprint planning, resource management, budget management• Execute agile projects using Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe frameworks; instrumental in using various techniques like Test-driven development, Acceptance test-driven development, Continuous Testing, Pair programming, Feature-driven development, Crystal Clear, User stories, and Test Automation• Facilitate team organization and ceremonies (sprint planning, daily scrums/stand-ups, sprint/iteration reviews/demos, and retrospectives)• Manage and track project schedule and budget and reported progress to all stakeholders through the Product backlog, Epics (User stories) Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports, Acceptant & Evaluation criteria, and velocity target updates using JIRA & Confluence• Act and model the desired Agile mindset and behaviours to ensure successful Agile practices and principles are implemented within Agile pods• Facilitate medium-to-high complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight; facilitate the creation and adoption of working agreements, definition of ready, done including the use of appropriate tools, standards, and best practices• Work with the product management team to ensure there is a proper roadmap, appropriate risk management principles are applied

Canada

• Manage organization-wide Agile transformation including bootstrapping new teams, coaching the existing agile team, engaging with business, educating management teams, and guiding the overall organizational change working on Digital/Mobile Transformation, Robotics Process Automation (RPA), CRM, Business Transformation, Digitization & Automation projects working in Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Telecommunications, and Retail clients • Teach and coach SAFe, implementing and supporting SAFe principles and practices, and identifying and eliminating bottlenecks to flow; support the teams during the creation of mandate, creation of epics/user stories/tasks, estimation of effort, adjustment, sprint planning, resource management, budget management• Execute agile projects using Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe frameworks; instrumental in using various techniques like Test-driven development, Acceptance test-driven development, Continuous Testing, Pair programming, Feature-driven development, Crystal Clear, User stories, and Test Automation• Facilitate team organization and ceremonies (sprint planning, daily scrums/stand-ups, sprint/iteration reviews/demos, and retrospectives)• Manage and track project schedule and budget and reported progress to all stakeholders through the Product backlog, Epics (User stories) Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports, Acceptant & Evaluation criteria, and velocity target updates using JIRA & Confluence• Act and model the desired Agile mindset and behaviours to ensure successful Agile practices and principles are implemented within Agile pods• Facilitate medium-to-high complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight; facilitate the creation and adoption of working agreements, definition of ready, done including the use of appropriate tools, standards, and best practices• Work with the product management team to ensure there is a proper roadmap, appropriate risk management principles are applied

Canada

• Coached and mentored the business and the development teams on Agile best practices and the Scrum values (Focus, commitment, openness, respect, and courage)• Facilitated team sessions at project kickoff, requirement workshops, building product backlog, product roadmap, story mappings, and requirement writing user stories• Facilitated daily Scrum Meetings, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, and Retrospective meetings for Digital Transformation, Business Transformation, Product Development/Design Thinking, Digitization & Automation project working in Medical HealthCare (EMS software)• Played a leadership role, track and help teams in resolving impediments, capture empirical data to adjust the forecast, and create an environment conducive to self-organization• Improved product quality by ensuring all team members follow the agreed definition of done at different levels (story, sprint, release)• Managed and tracked project schedule and budget and report progress to all stakeholders through Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports, Velocity Target Updates, Capacity Utilization, Backlog Health, Commitment Reliability, Estimation Variance, Defect leakage, and Scope Change• Redefined and facilitate training and workshops including Agile Principles and Practices; effective Story Writing; and Agile Estimation and Planning• Setup Jira, Confluence for teams to maintain product documentation; led project retrospectives sessions, business owners documented outcomes/actions, and follow up on actions to ensure all the i's are dotted and t's are crossed.

Haryana, India

• Involved in the management of the software process from requirements gathering, documentation, management approval, client approval, and development, to testing and final presentation to the clients• Participated in the development and grooming of Project Backlog User Stories (Requirements) with business and technology partners in an Agile environment • Participated in Agile ceremonies - Daily stand-up meetings, Continuous Release planning, Review, and Retrospective meetings. Wrote requirements specifications according to Agile requirements standards (e.g. using User Stories, User Story Mapping). • Identified, researched, investigated, analyzed, defined, and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios.• Assisted in designing and developing Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and OOD using UML.• Defined program and project goals, objectives, products, services, constraints, assumptions, risks, and facilitated processes by working with the project team, sponsor, and stakeholders to baseline the scope of the work and enable the development of the plan• Created User Acceptance Test (UAT) plan monitored and executed the test scripts for the testing of the developed systems and logged defects in HP QC/ALM• Conducted Lesson Learned session to capture what worked well, what did not work so well and what were the opportunities for improvement