Mangesh Deshpande

Agile Leadership: Serving as a Scrum Master for four Agile teams, facilitating ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives). Mentor and coaching teams to embrace Agile principles, self-organization, and continuous improvement. Identifying and removing impediments to ensure team productivity. Fostering a collaborative environment, encouraging open communication and feedback. Project/Program Management: Developing and managing comprehensive project plans, aligning with business objectives, and ensuring proper resource allocation. Oversee project timelines, budgets, risk management, and stakeholder communication. Track and report project status, metrics, and team performance using Project Management tools like JIRA, Confluence Coordinate across teams to manage dependencies and ensure successful delivery. Stakeholder Engagement: Building strong relationships with product owners, technical leads, and other stakeholders to understand and fulfill business needs. Acting as a point of escalation for project or team-related issues, driving resolution in a timely manner. Ensuring stakeholders are informed of project progress, changes, and risks. Team Empowerment & Development: Guiding teams to achieve autonomy and high performance. Identify and address team dynamics, fostering a culture of trust, accountability, and collaboration. Support professional development and growth of team members.

Ensures that the program/project is planned correctly, that the owner of each deliverable is identified correctly and that work is executed and aligned with the program/project charter in order to meet the KPIs and planned deliverables. - Responsible for providing an integrative view and analysis of the various project aspects within the program to enable better decisions making. Ensures that information is gathered and disseminated to all stakeholders/management. - Supports program and project governance. Performs project audits/reviews and extracts lessons-learned. - Deploys effective and auditable methods for those areas under the Project Management Office's responsibility. Implements Project Management tools and best practices. Develops Project Management processes. - Responsible for operations in following project areas within the project/program environment - Scrum, Defects, Budget, Resources, Invoicing, Communication, Reports, etc. - Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies like; PI Planning, Sprint Reviews, Retrospective & Daily Standups