Payal S.

• Facilitated product visioning, road-mapping, story mapping, story writing and slicing, release planning with 10+ distributed Agile teams (Scrum, SAFe & Kanban)

• Contributed to restructuring the Data Office platform with cross functional teams, DevOps, Data Scientists, QA, Power BI, etc working on competency centers, projects.

• Engaged Architectures, Business Owners, ART team, Infra & multiple vendor teams to deliver application functionality

• Handled the migration process by coaching teams on successful migration of the projects from Scrum to SAFe framework.

• Helped team prepare for and participate in Program Increment planning, forming PI objectives and represented the team in SoS (Scrum of Scrums).

• Jira Agile Lead – Key support for Jira, restructuring Jira, teams, structure boards, user accounts, projects, sprint board creation, time tracking and reports.

• Supporting PO, PM and Domain managers in agile planning with remote resources in Netherlands, Germany, Canada and Belgium holding daily scrums, scrum of scrums,

program planning and reporting.

• Utilized Scrum which helped team members to enhance their velocity by 70% within the first year of adoption. • Coached the team of 8 team members, and new joiners, removed impediments and facilitated the development team. • Facilitated team to be cross-functional & self-organized making multi-fold changes in the efficiency of the product development team raised from 33% to 72%. • Organized and improved Scrum practices and values that led to team satisfaction and productivity improvement by around 9%. • Led sprint, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and daily scrum with the scrum team resulting in product development that reached 1.3 billion users. • Owned the product roadmap and met 97% of all the product feature deadlines by proactively identifying and mitigating any engineering roadblocks. • Encouraged more open communication between stakeholders, the scrum team, and the marketing team resulting in 24% of annual increasing the pace of the feature development cycle. cycleucted A/B testing to understand user preferences.

Proficiently organize and facilitate daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning.

• Effectively track team’s progress using different metrics, including burn-down, velocity, and release forecasting.

• Coaching multiple teams to understand and adopt Scrum.

• Collaborate closely with the product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are

ready for sizing.

• Utilize the abilities and skills of individuals and foster a feedback culture to support team building and development.

• Proactively collaborate with other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches across the bank.