Srinath Santhanam

Managing 2 Scrum teams of 16 (9 Onshore, 7 Offshore resources). As a Scrum Master my role was to empower the team to remove any hurdles/impediments in their way and create a self-organized team. Facilitate Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint review and Sprint Retrospective session. Coach and mentors agile team members and provides constructive performance feedback. To make sure that team maintains the velocity and implement processes and techniques by which team can improve continuously. Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination. Help the business/team with creating and maintaining the product backlog, release plan, release backlog, sprint plan and sprint backlog. Continuously identifying, managing and controlling risks. Communicating the risks upfront to the relevant stakeholders. Encouraging the team to come up with reusable elements and use the best practices. Helped improve the team's engineering practices and tools as required. Fully facilitated productivity, and make sure teams have the tools and know-how they need to succeed. Help to finalize and implement the process across the program. Ensured task completion to specification, on time and within budget. Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided regularly to the business and senior management.

May’ 2012 – May’ 2014: Rapid Dashboard Framework - PWC, as Scrum Master/Agile Coach - Offshore Feb’ 2011 – June’ 2012: PRONTO - Microsoft, as Project Manager/Scrum Master - Offshore February’ 2011 – Aug’ 2011`: APAC EPG SharePoint 2010 - Microsoft, as Project Manager - Offshore