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Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

Analyzed the Business Process along with the prior project documentation for complete understanding of the project to deliver committed Program Increments. Lead a story writing session with an aim of decomposing the scope into a Strategic Theme and further breaking them down into Capabilities, Features and user stories based on INVEST criteria with product owners to define the acceptance criteria for the above developed user stories.Helped the team in estimating their effort required for the user stories by implementing Planning Poker technique.Facilitated and drove program level ceremonies – Ensured PI Planning Readiness was completed prior to PI Planning, Facilitated PI Planning.Assisted in creating Program and Team level PI Objectives and conducted Release Train Retrospectives. Lead the Scrum of Scrums with multiple Scrum Masters to resolve dependencies and impediments.Perform Issue and risk Management by Identifying, facilitating, and driving resolution of project issues and risks in IRAAD and created escalation paths for program level challenges. Facilitated and conducted the Sprint planning meeting to commit various PBI’s for that sprint, based on team’s velocity and capacity and made sure it was available in the Sprint Backlog.Conducted and facilitated the daily scrum standup meeting and resolved any impediments the team was facing and at the organizational level to identify alternative thinking and approaches.Developed and analyzed the Sprint and Release Burn down Chart to track sprint progress and calculate the team’s velocity, capacity and which was further utilized in planning for the upcoming sprints.Facilitate alignment of dependencies between the program team and other Scrum Teams to foster a team collaborative environment that tears down silos between groups.

Pasadena, California, United States

Collaborated with Product Managers, Product Owners, SME’s, Tech Leads and reviewed prior project documentation to better understand the business process.Conducted high-level requirement gathering sessions with Business Owners, risk analyst and concerned teams for requirement elicitation via JAD Sessions, Interviews, and Brainstorming Sessions. Facilitated backlog creation sessions by defining the scope into an Initiative and further breaking them down into Features and user stories based on INVEST criteria with product owners.Facilitated the PI Planning sessions, Program Road Mapping Sessions, Scrum of Scrums and Release Train Retrospectives.Lead the Product Management Council and improved Cross Team CollaborationFacilitated the Product Backlog Grooming meeting to reprioritize the PBI’s as per the business value.Assisted the Product Owner in prioritizing the Product Backlog items using the Kano technique and facilitated the estimation of efforts required along with Scrum team using T-shirt sizing technique.Used JIRA for issue tracking, user story management and requirement traceability.Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style by identifying training needs to increase their competencies.Protected team from Impediments as well as from over and under commitment issues.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Participated in preparing the project scope and objectives.Expert in requirement gatherings while following various elicitation techniques for business requirements by conducting client group interviews, focused groups, workshops and online surveys.Prepared business requirement document (BRD) and System Requirement Specification (SRS) to provide details of each business and functional requirement, development and implementation plan of these requirements, timelines.Assisted in developing the project deadlines/deliverables/strategies to effectively manage projects.Prepared and maintained the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to record the business and functional requirements.Prepared Mockup screens with the help of UI components using wireframes for testing the front end.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Analyzed the business process along with the prior project documentation for complete understanding of the project. Also, interviewed SME’s in order to better understand the business process model. Captained GAP Analysis by understanding the as-is business process and to-be business process.Created sample wireframes to make system better understood by Business and Technology Teams.Created the Software Requirements Specifications document.Developed GUI components such as Radio Buttons, Text Box, Drop Downs along with the screen designs.Handled Change Requests by performing Impact Analysis and obtaining the approval from the Change Control Board.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Involved in high-level requirement meetings with business users and SME’s to understand the requirement.Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels (external vendors, business partners and internal IT teams).Co-ordinated and facilitated weekly Project status meetings, record and distribute minutes.Generating responsiveness, turn around time related metrics and performance Dashboard to the management on a weekly basis.Weekly project status reporting, tracking milestones, issues, risks and action itemsAttended weekly change request meetings to document changes and implement procedures to test changes upon completion.Collaborate with external teams and stakeholders to make sure the team is in the right direction and provide necessary inputs.Worked with UI team to finalize the user interface.