Priya Premkumar Email & Phone Number

Mckinney, Tx, Us

Mckinney, Tx, Us

Dallas, Texas, United States

Successfully performing Scrum Master role for 3 projects in areas of Compliance, Robotic Process Automation and migration initiatives.Monitor and track progress, prepare status reports, resolve issues, coordinate tasks and other activities directed towards completing project and sprint goals.Collaborate with Product Owners to ensure understanding of user stories, project roadmap and story prioritization.Perform scrum ceremonies, remove impediments, escalate risk and issues to PO and Software Development Managers.Coordinated complex dependencies across multiple cross functional teams.Plan environment retrofits and make sure team propagated changes through right environmentPlan release calendars by coordinating with multiple teams(MW, testing, scrum teams) and bi-weekly releases Make sure the team is focused on higher priority issues, quick fixes and assess team capacity for releases.Review bug leakages, compare planned vs unplanned releases thereby identifying risks and process improvements on monthly basis.Plan resource allocation for development and testingEnsuring project documents are complete and updated in confluence.Mentoring resources new to Agile methodologies.Improve team communication and work ethics by sharing sprint burndown, activity oriented retrospective and other team activities.Approve timesheets for resources involved in projects, participated formulating in business continuity plan as part of project management activities.Proactively collaborated with other scrum masters and Agile coaches across the organization through scrum of scrums and scrum community of practice.

Plano, Texas, United States

Adapting the Agile framework and supporting the team to adapt the new working model. Assessments of the current team process and recommendations for transitioning to Agile and Scrum methodsRecommendations for and support for configuration of Agile Sprint management tools such as JIRA, Led the breaking-down of epics into user stories.Held expertise in facilitating workshops for the prioritization and estimation of user stories usingTechniques such as planning poker and T-shirt sizing.Anticipating the feature risks by recognizing the impediments and being ready at any given time to resolve and remove these road blocks and making the team move forward with the projectMaintaining consistent focus on team members, multi functional & technical teams, cross collaboration teams, engaging actively with stake holders, and vendors.Working with Product Owners and Product Managers to make sure the User Stories are prioritized and reached Definition of Ready as before adding them into a respective SprintManaged impediments, roadblocks and issues for my teamsProviding status to the product stakeholders and executive leadership team

Kochi, Kerala, India

As a Scrum Master facilitated scrum events including Sprint planning, Stand-up meeting, Backlog refinement, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective meetings.Assisted team to adapt Scrum documentation – to create Product Backlog with User stories, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Task List, Sprint Burn down and Release Burn Down charts using Trello. Assisted Product Owner in writing Acceptance Criteria for user stories and Definition of Done (DOD).Introduced a checklist during story time to ask the right questions while reviewing each story.Reported defect status to business users and serious management by using Zoho.Make sure the project stays on track by pro-actively controlling actual status of cost, schedule, quality and resources versus plans and by tracking corrective action- resolving cross- departmental conflicts.Used Version One tool for Sprint planning, Sprint backlog management, Sprint Task list management, task allocations and report generation. Generated reports to track team velocity, issue tracking, team work load tracking and response time tracking.Worked closely with the agile coach to implement best industry practices on Agile Scrum for the scrum development team.Formulated User Story Points estimation standards and relative work hours estimation standards along with the Product Owner and SME’s.

Masters Of Technology, Computer Science, Distinction

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Distinction