Venkat Rajesh Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Key Responsibilities:• Project Planning and Execution: Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope,objectives, and deliverables. Develop project plans, timelines, and budgets. Execute projectsaccording to agile methodologies, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery.• Team Leadership: Lead and motivate agile development teams, fostering a collaborative andpurposeful environment. Provide guidance, coaching, and support to team members tomaximize their productivity and efficiency.• Risk Management: Identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies. Proactivelyaddress issues that may impact project timelines or quality. Ensure projects are deliveredwith minimal disruptions.• Communication: Facilitate communication within the team and with stakeholders. Provideregular status updates, reports, and presentations. Ensure transparency and alignmentamong team members and stakeholders.• Quality Assurance: Collaborate with QA teams to define and implement quality standardsand processes. Ensure that software products meet or exceed quality expectations.• Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of continuous improvement within thedevelopment teams. Implement agile best practices and lessons learned from previousprojects to enhance efficiency and product quality.• Budget Management: Monitor project budgets and expenses, ensuring that projects aredelivered within the allocated budget. Identify opportunities for cost optimization.• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and keystakeholders. Understand their needs and expectations and ensure that project outcomesalign with their goals.• Additional projects and responsibilities as assigned

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

 Managed a cross-functional team of 17 located across 3 locations (Bengaluru, Singapore, and New York) of two scrumteams, one team having 9 developers and another team having 8 developers and POs. Optimize and facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum calls, reviews, sprint releases, demos, retrospectives, and backlogrefinement related activities and ensure that they are productive and effective. Work on JIRA to set up projects, create boards, create dashboards, generate reports, and track and monitor end-end delivery. Collaborate with the team to ensure a well-maintained working agreement, DoR, acceptance criteria, DoD and educate theteam to maintain good just enough documentation of the work done. Resolved impediments of team members by constantly following up with intended members/teams. Facilitate & collaborate with on-site and offshore teams and ensure seamless transitions always happen. Status calls with my Project Manager and Delivery Manager wherein I present the KPIs of sprint, capacity, velocity, riskregister, project health, lessons learned, sprint forecast report, and key points that need leadership attention. Work closely with the product owner to ensure a well-maintained product backlog and prioritize backlog as part of theproduct backlog refinement activity.

India

 I was accountable for two scrum teams, with one team having 8 developers and another team having 5 developers, POs. I facilitate the agile development process, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives,ensure the scrum framework is effectively implemented and followed by the scrum team. I have created and managed kanban workflow stages, WIP limits, backlog prioritization, and facilitate kanban ceremonieslike daily stand-ups, flow meetings, and retrospectives. Identify and remove any obstacles or impediments that may prevent the team from achieving their goals and help themimprove their velocity and quality. Under the SAFe framework, I have worked & collaborated with other scrum masters (Scrum of Scrum) and stakeholderswithin the ART to coordinate activities, plan program increment (PI) events, and ensure alignment.

Singapore, Singapore

 I was responsible for facilitating all scrum events, which included sprint planning, daily scrum call, sprint reviews, andretrospectives. Facilitate the creation and prioritization of the product backlog using user story mapping techniques. Guide the team in crafting and refining user stories, ensuring alignment with DoD and DoR Coordinate and manage release planning and execution, ensuring smooth deployment & minimal downtime. Ensure all user stories have clear and measurable acceptance criteria before sprint planning. Monitor and analyze team metrics (velocity, capacity, burndown/burnup, sprint report, cycle time, lead time, wait time) toidentify areas for improvement.