Experience

Activate Inc @ Google

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scrum Master

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  Coordinate with my teams in drafting a team agreement, establishing rules to govern the team’s communication in a respectful environment. Facilitate daily standup scrum meeting, sprint planning meeting, sprint review, sprint retrospective, release planning, and other related meetings with scrum teams and stakeholders. Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders. Protect my development Team from external interruption which could affect their productivity and efficiency. Build close relationship with product owner, ensuring each of the User Stories are well defined and meet the INVEST criteria before they are estimated by the team during the product backlog refinement sessions. Ensured transparency of the product backlog, sprint backlog, burndown chart and communicated team overall progress tracking burndown metrics, velocity and productivity. Assisting individuals in my team facing difficulties in adapting to the agile framework and the Scrum methodology, by having private sessions with them to work on their adaptations to the agile system. Worked with the development team and product owner to maintain a prioritized and prepared backlog and plan upcoming releases. Trained my team to be self-organizing and cross functional. Show less



Northern Trust Bank

• India
• Investment Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Certified Scrum Master

  • Oct 2016 - Jul 2019

  Facilitated daily standup scrum meeting, sprint planning meeting, demo, sprint retrospective, release planning, and other related meetings with scrum teams and stakeholders. Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders. Kept in contact regularly with the development team as a group, and with individual members of the team as needed, to listen and resolve any impediments affecting the entire team and individual team members. Protected the team from over commitment and external interruptions during sprints. Coordinated with my team to track and manage; product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown. Managed the project scope to ensure delivery was compliant with the scope of commitment. Show less