Parag Bhavsar Email & Phone Number

• Worked as Senior Scrum Master for 3 teams (three offshore and two onshore teams)• Worked closely with coach for understanding WOW of client through stakeholder interviews/team level interviews• Checking feasibility of Agile framework and proposing Agile Delivery Model accordingly• Identifying pilot teams for Agile Scrum/Kanban Implementation• Hands on coaching and teaching team key scrum ceremonies• Identify & raise obstacles/impediments and work with COE team to resolve this.• Helping teams to focus on outcomes by setting the objectives and defining the key results.• Defined mandatory & non-mandatory metrics and radiating the information by creating a lightweight dashboard.• Helped teams to fare better in Agile maturity by coaching and providing relevant feedback on cadence.• Pre / post assessment and readiness survey for Agile implementation.• Building a community of agile champions, practitioners and enthusiasts that promotes learning by sharing• Building high performance delivery through continuous coaching and governance through Agile Process• Initiated best practices recommendations like Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Process

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Create and manage a realistic, detailed plan to ensure medium to large-scale projects are executed on time, on budget, and in scopeChampion and manage weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated, ready-for-work and maintainedWorking closely with developers to ensure they are not blocked and can execute the process as administered by the Scrum MasterImproves team productivity by improving software development practices/processes within managed Scrum Teams and across the organizationPerform Agile Maturity assessments for teams, provide coaching and input to reach higher levels of maturity, continuous improvementWork with development teams and product owners to create a collaborative environmentWith the assistance of the Agile Coach, provide proactive coaching to the team and recommends continuous improvement of processes to optimize team productivity

Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

• Coaching to Project Manager, Product Owner, Scrum Masters, Developers and Testers. Finalize and coaching on individual roles and responsibilities• Established Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Process• Bring teams to an even higher level of performance• Engage in lightweight Agile program management• Create product concepts based on the company strategy, break down concepts into user stories• Prioritize the product backlog and channel requirements. Discuss requirements and stories with the development team• Reporting agile metrics for Projects• Plan releases• Communication with US/London/Singapore Stakeholders for discussion.• Making sure agile process followed by all teams• Started project setup from scratch and implemented Agile Scrum. Coached PMs and team members on agile scrum principles• Building high performance delivery through continuous coaching and governance through Agile Process• Initiated best practices recommendations like Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Process• Worked on product concepts creation based on the company strategy, concepts break down into user stories• Prioritize the product backlog, Channel requirements with project stakeholders and socializing requirements and stories with the development team• Handled Agile Metrics Reporting for multiple teams(BAU and PD Teams)• Release Planning through Candidate Submit and Release commit meetings with project stakeholders• Collaborate with IT/Business stakeholder to ensure their requirements are planned, managed and delivered within the available capacity• Managed Rally, ALM team effectively. Also used perfecto tool for cloud testing.• Project Reports Creations like WSR, Bi-weekly, Monthly Governance and Weekly Application Support Meeting• Support planned and ad-hoc deployments• Handled testing teams(Functional, Automation and Performance testing teams)

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Computer Science, Computer Science