Program Manager, Enterprise Agile Coach

• Driving the establishment and execution of agile processes as Program Manager and Agile Coach, aimed at improving the development of communication software, ensuring timely and efficient program delivery.
• Guiding various teams through agile transformation initiatives, implementing frameworks such as Scrum and Scaled Agile to enhance operational efficiency.
• Supervising the development of project roadmaps while tracking project scope to ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
• Developing release schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports.
• Nurturing robust relationships with stakeholders to effectively guide project governance and facilitate informed decision-making throughout the project lifecycle, including weekly project status reporting to senior management using dashboards.
• Participating, training, coaching, mentoring and leading as a servant leader to create and evangelize an agile mindset and agility; implementing, facilitating and improving Agile/SAFe events like Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint/PI Planning, Release Planning, Stand-up, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective; creating self-organized teams by continuous coaching.
• Supporting teams in pinpointing and eliminating impediments while adeptly managing risks and dependencies, resulting in a remarkable increase in team velocity from 10 to 40.
• Coaching Agile teams, business stakeholders, Product Owners and Scrum Masters on agile and business/product management processes and practices; analyzing current processes and suggesting improvements.
• Facilitating and working with system architects to prepare architecture approaches and maintain architecture for programs.
• Conducting Agile maturity assessments to drive process improvements in Agile teams and share recent Agile trends.
• Facilitating agile-related community of practice activities in the organization to share best practices across teams.
• Facilitating more than 50 agile awareness sessions and knowledge-sharing workshops to elevate team understanding of agile principles and practices.
• Evaluating program health by leveraging key performance metrics, ensuring continuous alignment with organizational goals.

Significant Achievements:

• Developed and implemented a comprehensive agile training program that resulted in a 40% increase in team productivity and improved project delivery timelines.
• Championed a cross-functional initiative that streamlined communication processes, leading to a 50% reduction in project delays and improved stakeholder engagement.

• Led agile transformation efforts that resulted in an increase in project delivery efficiency and enhanced team collaboration across the banking division.
• Actively participated in training and coaching initiatives to promote an agile mindset and facilitate agile events across teams.
• Guided teams in the adoption of agile frameworks and assisted in the definition and implementation of innovative ways of working.
• Conducted team maturity assessments to identify areas for improvement and drive competency development initiatives across teams.

• Led agile transformation and implemented agile methodology across sites in a large organization.
• Defined, trained, coached and deployed processes for Agile, Scrum and SAFe, receiving multiple awards from customers.
• Headed the SDLC taskforce as subject matter expert for Agile, Scrum and the Scaled Agile Framework process; defined Agile practices for the SDLC handbook and implemented them across the organization.
• Championed and implemented strategy for engineering quality review (EQR) mechanisms with senior management.

• Led the team in training on Agile, Kanban and CMMI and mentoring them.
• Handled software quality assurance and testing for projects in the division, facilitated process compliance and deployed Agile, Kanban and CMMI processes to achieve level 5.
• Led the process improvement team for deploying testing tools across the organization.