Sivakumar(Sk) P. Email & Phone Number

Global, OO

Herndon, Virginia, US

Irvine, CA, US

ICP-ACC Agile CoachingICP-BAF Business Agility FoundationsICP-ENT Enterprise Agile CoachingICP-CAT Coaching Agile TransformationsICP-ATF Agile Team Facilitation

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Baltimore, MD, US

• Demonstrated skills of various Agile roles, and/or collaborate with people in agile roles to plan, coordinate and facilitate scrum ceremonies, retrospectives, big room planning, user story mapping, facilitated.
• Focused on improving both team and organizational agility. As the organization was new to agile, I needed to balance between "You Know" Vs "I Know" situation with my practitioner experience. The coaching focus was.
• Coached at the team level to improve team agility and leaders during agile transformation. Coached leaders to move away from command and control to enablement and silos to transparency,
• Embrace servant leadership and display behaviors that come with the key mindset shifts associated with being agile. Provide continuous guidance on agile practices.

Mclean, VA, US

• Coached organizational leaders on scaling. During transformation adopted principles of the scaled agile framework. Coached leaders how to foster a culture that helps in rewarding continuous learning and improvement.
• Cultivated Agile Mind with the leadership team and coached them to move towards a growth mindset by Welcoming Change, Failing Early, learning through Discovery, and Continuously Improving.
• Focused on ensuring alignment with business priorities.
• As the team was new to Scaling conducted the workshop in Scaled Agile principles and Essential Safe Framework.
• Allocated a significant amount of time for observing the results of management actions to close the feedback loop and coached the management team to improve their actions.
• Coached Feature team to identify the goals on the issues they face on a daily basis and helped them to achieve goals and results

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Facilitate team workshops to help new teams understand Agile and Lean principles, Scrum, Kanban, individual and team roles and responsibilities. Provided ongoing Agile Coaching support for new Agile teams throughout.
• Provide ad hoc coaching to teams that have implemented Agile but need assistance to refine their processes. Trained the team on the areas that require more knowledge and awareness.
• Provide practical hands-on mentoring to team members, SM, PO, and managers of new and existing Agile teams. Help teams set up their team boards, workflow automation, and automated reporting (Jira)
• Assess team performance and Agile maturity and report findings to the Agile Center of Excellence
• Support multiple Agile teams at the same time and report recommendations directly to teams and to the ACE for the establishment of best practices and standards for other teams
• Used Agile maturity Model and enabled the team to set transformation goals, monitor progress for every 2 sprints by reviewing the goals in process areas (People, Process & tool)

Mclean, VA, US

• My focus in the initial duration was on educating agile values and providing training sessions about Scrum and Kanban.
• Scrum framework was adopted in the initial stage and based on the nature of the work proposed Kanban for a few teams. Faced challenges due to Organizational structure, adopting agile Mindset in collaboration.
• Balanced between coaching and consulting based on the situations. Provided case studies where organizations adopted scrum and achieved benefits.
• After the initial setup started coaching Scrum Masters and Product owners on areas, they faced challenges.
• Encountered failures in coaching agile transformation to individual, team, and program during the journey

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

New York, New York, US

Baton Rouge, LA, US

New York, NY, US

Dubai, AE

Design and Development

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, International Business

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Software Engineering