Abhishek Sharma

• Helped team members, stakeholders and customers understand agile values, principles and practices.
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features
• Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
• Modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
• Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.
• Empowered Development Team to remove impediments to deliver continuous value for shareholders

• Leading two squads in implementing Agile methodologies.
• Facilitated all daily stand-ups, refinement, planning, review and retrospective meetings ensuring effective and clear communication.
• Coordinated Virtual PI planning for two squads (1 Development squad and 1 DevOps squad) by calculating capacity and prioritizing work to align with project objectives.
• Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
• Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques e.g. retrium tool for retrospective and JIRA for meetings for remote work.

Key Achievement :

• Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity. Increased velocity from 50-75 points per sprint and also helped implement code review into sprint workflow ensuring higher quality code.

Led sprint reviews, daily scrums,sprint retrospectives and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.

• Drive development of new features from refinement to deployment stage through coordination and impediment removal.
• Coordinated multiple feature releases and hyper-care processes.
• Created metrics to help measure team progress and growth.
• Built relationships around program and organization to help track dependencies or risks.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technology managers and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.

Key Achievement :

• Established team agreements, best practices and led team to becoming high performing front end gate keepers. Features released brought in over 5 million in revenue.

• Communicated with external Stakeholders to gather requirements on directing client interaction to increase communication and accuracy with processes, transactions, and file requests.
• Facilitated meetings with both internal and external stakeholders to gather requirements for stories.
• Created and implemented engaging activities that lead to increased activity, results, and improved employee morality.
• Provided accurate and clear Acceptance Criteria to Dev Teams for DoD (Definition of Done) resulting in more stories being accepted after demos.
• Led user story analysis session to create and elaborated user stories, technical stories, user journeys on JIRA.