Grandhe Sarath C. Email & Phone Number

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

•Guiding multiple Scrum Teams in the delivery of open products and services, using Agile processes.•Facilitating to ensure consistency of Program Iteration( PI Planning, PI Review, PI Retrospectives).•Identify and manage the risks associated with projects to achieve project success.•Support and educate the Product Owner on refining the product backlog and make them ready for upcoming sprints, enabling longer-term work visibility for reporting to delivery and management teams.•Demonstrate ability to influence Product Development and Management teams to improve product features and supportability of a product offering by identifying problems and suggesting or driving implementation of fixes or features.•Work together with team during project estimation sessions and share understanding of projected durations and release plans with leadership team.•Influence others including those more senior on best practices in Agile.•Assessing the agile maturity of the team and coaching them to higher levels of maturity.•Works with other Scrum Masters within the Program to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile methodologies like SAFE /Scrum.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Helped organization, business units to migrate their projects from waterfall to agile/scrum by coaching team on agile principles / practices.• Facilitated agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily standup, etc., and product backlog prioritization and grooming sprint backlog.• Identified impediments and help to removal so that team can achieve the best possible results.• Protected the team from disruption, from outside interference Encouraged the team to create and track “Definition of Done.”• Experience in working with agile tools (Jira, and Atlassian tools).• Experience in working with enterprise product, application development projects in agile delivery.• Exposure to one of the Story point estimations (T-Shirt sizing, Planning poker, Fibonacci series).• Able to connect with senior management ( Business heads) Created and presented project/program dashboards that showcase progress status.• Coordinating with multiple stake holders and ensured no blockers for the team, to succeed with their sprints• Lead for all Power BI Reports.• Track all Power BI reports, ensure they are up to date, prioritize reports and plan for releases.

My responsibilities as a scrum master isa) Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and softwaredemonstrations.b) Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintainfocus on product backlog project timeline.c) Work closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.d) I build strong and lasting relationships with Stakeholders for helping teams to deliver the right thingat the right time.e) Facilitate the scrum ceremonies such as stand ups, retrospectives, story planning and sprint planning.f) Acted as a facilitator for the Product Owner and the team both.g) Removed impediments that were obstructing the team from achieving sprint goals, helped the team remain creative and productive, while making sure its successes are visible to the Product Owner.h) Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders. i) Customized the workflow and processes for the scrum teams.j) Ensuring the SCRUM teams is delivering their Quarterly Milestones effectively.k) Identify and implement process improvements, onboarding, reporting improvements and training as required within and across Scrum teams.l) Keep a check on product backlog health.m) To maintain retro action items and making sure team is working on it.n) Facilitated retrospectives using innovation games.o) Educated and coached the teams on usage of JIRA & CONFLUENCE tools.p) Coordinating with multiple stake holders and ensured no blockers for the team, to succeed with their Sprints.

Postgraduate Degree

B.Tech