Customer Role Scrum Master (Present Role) - Sridhar Alla

Customer Role Scrum Master (Present Role) – Sridhar Alla
 Accomplished and a passionate servant leader with more than 7 years of Agile and
10+ years of progressive experience in delivering intensely complex software solutions
supporting various lines of business in Information Technology along with HTML5,
XHTML, CSS3, JavaScript, SASS, LESS, Angular Js, React Js, jQuery.
 Helped in improving process efficiency and process enhancements through
retrospective meetings.
 Played a pivotal role in setting up Acceptance Criteria, Creating test plans, recording
test result for all the user stories.
 Coordinated with Product owner to create WBS, manage schedules, deadlines,
resources and the project tasks using JIRA /ADO/RALLY.
 Facilitated, Coached and trained all the SAF e (Scaled Agile ) process and ceremonies
like Daily stand - up, Iteration Planning / PI planning Program Increment (T-shirt Sizing,
Poker Cards, Affinity Mapping, Dot Voting), Program Backlog Grooming, Iteration
review and Iteration retrospective .
 Generated Sprint Burn Down Chart s and Burn Up Charts to track the status of each
sprint cycle .
 Developed and documented escalation process to effectively respond to customer
issues; Collaboration with several support and operation teams.
Professional  Ensured adherence to INVEST (Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small,
Summary and Testable) criteria and SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and
Timely) model. Experienced with co-located and virtual teams with perfect
collaboration and communication tools.
 Drafted the Definition of Done (DOD), Definition of Ready (DOR) and the Acceptance
Criteria for the well-defined low-level functional and non-functional requirement
specifications.
 Managed both on-site and offshore teams working on different time zones.
 Experienced on SDLC and various methodologies such as Agile (Scrum), Waterfall.
 Experience with E-Commerce, Consumer Electronics, Finance, Oil and Gas,
Investment, Information Technology and Health Care domains.
 Well versed with Scrum, Kanban and Extreme Programming
( XP ), BDD, FDD, TDD Frameworks.
 Experience with Agile techniques: User Story workshops, Continuous Integration,
Continuous Testing, Continuous Delivery
 Experienced Scrum Master who supported the teams on web applications and mobile
apps based on different technologies.
 Well versed with multiple retrospective games, story mapping sessions and other fun
agile game activities and exercises that builds team collaboration.
Relevant  Involved with 3 teams where two of them are into Scrum and the other one is
Experience into Kanban.
 Facilitated the transition of the applications (25+ members) from waterfall to Agile,
while also acting as the Scrum Master of three mixed on/offshore teams.
 Delivered training and provided coaching/mentoring support for all my teams since
they recently moved to Agile from Waterfall.
 Led workshops (Story Mapping, Affinity Sizing) and other knowledge sharing cross-
team activities imparting knowledge and sharing of successful ideas/stories for team
improvement.
 Communicated and managed project expectations for team members and
stakeholders.
 Planned and facilitated all the ceremonies such as Review/Demo, Retrospection,
Planning, Dailies and Refinements.
 Did experiments and conducted workshops for the better outcome of the teams.
 Educated teams on Scrum principles and values along with assisting various release
activities.
 Worked on continuous improvement and continuous deployment via improvement
backlog in Azure DevOps ADO, lunch-n-learns, presentations and discussions across
teams in the Finance Portfolio.
 Tracked and reported all metrics such as team progress, SPIDER metrics, 5-point
summary, features delivered, cost incurred on projects per team on a periodic basis to
all the stakeholders involved in the portfolio.
 Facilitated Scrum of Scrum calls for seven different applications following Agile
process.
 Coached teams, leaders, Product Owners and other Scrum Masters in Agile practices
and mindsets.
 Worked with product owners to prioritize product backlogs and sprint backlogs.
Facilitated backlog grooming sessions with product owner.
 Identified and tracked all dependencies across teams and discussed in scrum of
scrums and other meetings to avoid delivery conflicts.
 Introduced one of the team to feature driven development (FDD), worked with the
QA team for developing test scripts after the story mapping and grooming phase,
encouraged team to start using automated acceptance testing and continuous
integration principles to ensure high quality and tested code delivery. Assisted other
Scrum Masters in various ceremonies of their teams.
 Did check the Team Health with the help of Tuckman Model - Forming, Storming,
Norming, Performing, Adjourning. Did a few workshops with the teams on Business
Value.
 Agile, Waterfall, RUP

 Websphere, Weblogic, Apache Tomcat.
Skills Summary
 JSP, Servlets, XML, XSD, HTML, CSS
 SOAP UI, Remedy, Clearcase, CVS
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