Dinesh Kumar Y

Accomplished Scrum Master with a proven track record at Capgemini, enhancing team productivity and process efficiency through expert application of Agile methodologies and Scrum framework. Spearheaded process improvements, significantly boosting stakeholder engagement and product management. Skilled in Jira and adept at fostering team collaboration, consistently delivering projects that meet and exceed objectives.

Activities performed with the Scrum team:

• Hands-on experience in Scrum ceremonies.

• Agile management with analysis and control on release management, backlog grooming, burn-down & velocity.

• Helping the Team to understand requirements and identify gap\risk to resolve to successfully deliver the integrated product.

• Rich experience in addressing & resolving problems, identifying potential solutions, and presenting proposals to client/ management teams.

• Coach the team in agile principles and values including self-organization and cross-functionality.

• Removing impediments & protecting team members.

• interruptions & distractions to maximize productivity.

• Maintaining agile metricsregularly reporting to business leadership.

• Have a good experienced on Project Management Tools such as Jira, Rally.

Activities performed with Product owner

• Excellence in gathering and understanding requirements of clients (Epics & user stories) & other multiple stakeholders, followed by translation into functional specifications as well as provisioning of suitable software solutions & UAT testing.

• Agile management with analysis and control on release management, backlog grooming, burn-down & velocity.

• Ensure to bring Visibility and Inspection by Discussing Risk and possible solutions for successful deliver of the product.

• Negotiating on requirements during sprint in case of addition or risk in progress of work or absence of resources.

• Taking Feedback from the product owner on sprint review and made sure to adapt the changes in case of failure.

Activities performed within Organization

• Successfully guiding these teams through the transition from waterfall to agile methodology via continuous collaboration & coaching.

• Maintaining agile metrics and regularly reporting to business leadership

Pre-Sprint planning:

Capture leave plan and identify team capacity and update the Jira.

Set up a feature elaboration call with the Product owner and understand the upcoming features. Identify dependency

Ensure the team estimate the feature

Prioritize the features

Track the feature to the ready state.

Sprint Execution:

Carryout Sprint planning

Host the Daily stand-up call

Ensure Jira is updated with user stories.

Participate in the scrum of scrum call to provide status and call out any blockers or delays. Ensure to review Sprint burn-down chart

Facilitate meetings with Product owners for any queries or negotiations and review the work as required.

Facilitate refinement sessions for future sprints.

Help team to remove any impediments during execution Facilitate Sprint review and take customer feedback

Facilitate Sprint retrospective and take appropriate action for improvement update WSR (Weekly Status Report) to organization level management

Sprint Closure:

Ensure Jira is updated with all closing requirements for features.

Ensure the Feature is marked as done.

Ensure all demos and documents are uploaded to confluence.

Call out Achievements, and lessons learned in retro meeting.

Pre-PI planning:

Capture leave plan and identify team capacity and updated the Jira.

Set up a feature elaboration call with Feature owners and understand the upcoming features. Identify dependency Estimate the feature

Prioritize the features.

Track the feature to the ready state.

PI Planning:

Call out and update system dependencies

Update Mural board with Feature planning and dependencies

Participate in Scrum of Scrums

Ensure to have QA environment booking done

Update the JIRA with a planned start, end, and committed date.

PI execution:

Carryout iteration planning

Host the Daily stand-up call

Ensure Rally is updated with user stories for each iteration

Certified Scrum Master