ProfileRazzak is a SAFe® Certified Agilist and Certified Scrum Master® (CSM) with 18 years of industry experience as an Agilist, Scrum Master, Project Manager, and Digital Strategist, mostly in the Banking and Financial industry. A Computer Science graduate with a post-grad in Strategic Management and Leadership, delivering compact results in Agile Transformations, Change Management, Project Management and coaching team Agile and Scrum at Scale. His expertise grows around implementing SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, Spotify, VFQ, DSDM, OKR, and core Agile best practices.He has number of publications on System Thinking, Design Thinking, and Agile Transformation strategy for complex environments. Lately, he has designed a custom agile framework for Citi Bank, that fits their needs. He believes that the most successful people in life are those who empower others to do extraordinary things.
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Project Manager | Scrum MasterVirtusa Nov 2021 - Aug 2024London, England, United KingdomClient: Computershare, RTA Agent, Edinburgh, [Feb,24-Jun,24] Role: Agile Project Manager| Scrum Master (Hybrid) Project: Clients provides stock registration and transfer services to companies listed on stock markets, but also offers technology services for stock exchanges, investor services for shareholders and employee share plan management. The project was to upgrade its technology infrastructure based on microservices ensuring better customer onboarding experience, system performance, efficiency, security, and overall satisfaction. Team was responsible for ESB analysis and domain driven API design for clients. Key Contributions: • Establishing agile working environment and promoted agile best practice. • Enhanced transparency using Azure, Miro and MS Team leading to higher collaboration. • Process improvements by defining workflow, DOR, and DOD, leading to higher throughput with quality. • Facilitated key scrum events, conducted root cause analysis to address issues and propose a resolution. Client: Citi Bank, Belfast [Nov,21- Nov,23] Role: Agilist | Scrum Master (Remote) Project: Trade or Market Surveillance technology team develops technology for Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM) department. Team was responsible for the design and development based on compliance behavioral analytics (CBA) on derivatives (Options & Futures) influenced by the underlying securities such as stocks, bonds, commodities, and market indexes. Key Contributions: • Prepared an Agile Transformation roadmap for the entire department. • Established Agile best practice across the department through successful pilot project and change management strategy. • Custom designed an agile framework from sketch, that works for Citi Bank. • Provided role-specific agile training to create inside capabilities. • Signed-off 9 projects successfully within that service period. -
Agile Coach | Scrum MasterBeneco Financial Services Jan 2019 - Oct 2021London, United KingdomProject: Enterprise agile transformation and agility adoption program. Key Contributions: • Developed teams inside agile capabilities on the way to the agile transformation by providing training, content, and workshops. • Promoted collaboration, transparency, empirical learning and bottom-up intelligence. • Increased velocity, maximised value delivery based on key objectives.• Facilitated key agile events such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, retrospectives, and other regular workshops. • Developed self-organizing and cross-functional team with strong commitment & accountability. • Raised visibility of work, process, impediments, risks, and dependencies through JIRA. -
Agile Coach | Scrum MasterQa Consulting Jul 2018 - Dec 2018Manchester, UkProject: Mobile application’s user experience (UX) design and development for High Street Bank. Key Contributions: • Trained team on agile best practices and promoted agile values and principles. • Created a flow of work and ensured quality of delivery on time. • Structured user stories and prioritize the backlog based on the business value. • Promoted time-boxing, transparency, accountability, technical debt reduction and self-organization. • Facilitated all scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Reviews and Retros. -
Agile Coach| Scrum MasterUnimust Consulting Jan 2016 - Jun 2018Project: Digital Transformation of Microfinance Regulation and Monitoring Services, is to establish a regulatory environment that safeguards poor people’s money while ensuring micro-finance institutions have the flexibility to develop bespoke financial products, such as savings, insurance, and credit to suit poor people’s needs. Key Contributions: • Trained all the stakeholders on the Agile process, roles, responsibilities, and expectations. • Oversee the day-to-day progress of the projects to guide release initiatives with regard to time, scope, budget, and quality directives. • Worked with Business Analyst (BA) on creating user stories, populating comprehensive Product Backlog and trained them to identify a minimal set of high priority items that can be released following MoSCoW prioritization.• Facilitating all the Agile ceremonies and updated relevant stakeholder on various matrix.
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Project ManagerWeb Mania (Uk) Ltd Sep 2012 - Dec 2015Project: Developing a cloud-based CRM (SaaS), automating recruitment management for the Higher Education Industry, ensuring strong user and privilege management (CMS), seamless communication, and heavy content management (EDMS). Key Contributions: • Oversee all aspects of the projects management such as resourcing, planning, organizing, and controlling the process to deliver a high-quality software within budget and time constraints. • Workflow automation (JIRA), defining deliverables, assign responsibilities, monitor, and summarize progress and communicate. • Stakeholder Management, Conflict resolution and conduct workshop. -
Digital StrategistSainsbury'S Jun 2006 - Aug 2012London, UkProject: Project was to support on-going development of the digital strategy for retail, particularly through the provision of accurate data, analysis, modelling, and recommendation. Key Contributions: • Initiate digital transformation projects through technology and business processes automation. • Define use case, develop workflows, review, and update strategy.• Conduct competitor analysis to understand AS-IS and suggest TO-BE.
Razzak Sikdar Skills
Razzak Sikdar Education Details
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Edexcel InternationalPost-Grad In Strategic Management & Leadership
Frequently Asked Questions about Razzak Sikdar
What is Razzak Sikdar's role at the current company?
Razzak Sikdar's current role is Agile Coach | Scrum Master | Agile Project Manager.
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Razzak Sikdar attended University Of Greenwich, Edexcel International.
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