Prachi Shah Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Lead of the New Ways of Working team at BCG - a team of Agile coaches that help transform large practice areas to Agile.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Senior Agile Coach in the New Ways of Working (NWoW) Program training Knowledge teams in Agile Ways of Working. - Training Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Leadership, and Team Members on their roles, accountabilities and support available- Setting up practices, processes, and tools to support new ways of working - Facilitating and supporting the development.

- Jira Champion for migration of the value stream from Rally to Jira- Developed and delivered Jira training and onboarding for the value stream (~300 individuals)

Work At Home

- Communicate with Product Managers, Release Train Engineers (RTE’s), System Architects, and Group Owners, to assess system and financial impacts, resource capacity, delivery timelines, and project feasibility- Facilitate Program Epic grooming, Solution and RTE Syncs, and System Demos- Works with Business teams to help them understand Agile practices.

- Hosts monthly Agile classes, courses include: Writing & Splitting Stories, Defining Minimum Viable Product, and more.- Co-facilitates Kanban classes to help students learn the importance of Work In Progress (WIP), team empowerment, and Kanban metrics through an interactive simulation- Responsible for processing student feedback for continuous training.

- RTE for an ART consisting of 5 teams (30+ members), including Kanban coaching - Facilitated physical, virtual, and hybrid PI Planning through creation of a PI Calendar, implementation of innovative Webex collaboration techniques, and creation of trainings on Pre and Post PI Planning duties- Deployed Agile to the Government Business Segment through.

- Responsible for rollout of Agile methodology to the US Commercial segment by coordinating 5 ARTs: Portfolio Planning, DevOps, Test Data & Automation, Agile Training, & Change Management- Created and managed the Portfolio Kanban Board to create visibility and transparency across all ARTs- Hosted Solution and RTE Syncs, and Solution Demos- Coordinated.

- Introduced organization to Kanban & organically created 10 Kanban trainings to deliver to over 100 employees - Coached 4 Kanban teams as they transitioned from Scrum to Kanban- Created feedback loops with business partners by inviting customers to PI Planning to review plans and assign business value scores

Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States

- Converted Waterfall team to Scrum and delivered Agile trainings to team members- Trained team on Rally software and managed the team backlog, dependencies, and risks- Managed over 80 CA PPM & HPSM work item tickets on a daily basis and coordinated with Project Managers to ensure smooth integrated releases

Bloomfield, Connecticut

Intern in the Marketing Leadership Development Program (MLDP) working in Internal Communications. - Introduced a new communication channel for internal and external communication- Assisted with 360 degree videography and hard copy marketing material for new mobile application- Scripted, videotaped, edited, and presented a 12 minute video showcasing the.

Bloomfield, Connecticut

Intern in the Technology Early Career Development Program (TECDP) working in the Social Center of Excellence- Analyzed data of Cigna's campaigns on social media platforms- Determined market opportunity to double customers on social media- Through my efforts in this role, Facebook Page likes for Cigna increased by 570,000 and LinkedIn followers increased by.

Rocky Hill, Connecticut

- Designed signs, banners, nameplates, decals, and other advertising commodities- Interacted with customers to upsell a variety of signs on a day-to-day basis

Bachelor’S Degree, Digital Marketing & Analytics

Activities and Societies: Pi Sigma Epsilon, Pan-Asian Council, Indian Students Association, Alima International Dance Association, Campus.

High School

Activities and Societies: Student Council, Bollywood Dance Club, Math League, French Club.