Manikanta Anantula

• Spearheaded and facilitated the Agile transformation of a mortgage project at BMO, resulting in a remarkable 60% boost in productivity, a 30% reduction in time-to-market, and a 25% increase in project delivery efficiency.
• Managed a diverse team of 20 professionals, including developers, QA, and business analysts, following an offshore-onshore model spanning Canada, India, and Poland.
• Oversaw end-to-end project lifecycles, ensuring successful project delivery by leveraging Atlassian tools and Agile methodologies.
• Led the implementation of Agile and Scrum practices within the team, contributing to a 25% improvement in project delivery efficiency.
• Collaborated with DevOps teams to implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines, enhancing the seamless delivery of software.
• Worked closely with senior executives and stakeholders to align Agile transformation with the company's strategic goals, providing regular progress reports and metrics to showcase the transformation's impact.
• Mentored and coached Scrum Masters and team members, offering guidance and support to Agile teams and stakeholders.
• Led cost-benefit analysis and risk-based planning, conducting sessions with Line of Business (LOB) teams to review business process reengineering and implement necessary policy updates.
• Facilitated Scrum Events like Planning, Daily Scrum, Demo, Retrospective meeting, and backlog grooming.
• Assisted PO and team in Product Backlog refinement, Sprint Backlog prioritization and grooming, and creation of acceptance criteria and definition of Done.
• Involved in effort estimation to implement new requirements and break down user stories in tasks for sprint.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress

• Led major initiatives of Digital cart team by guiding the teams on end-to-end delivery while establishing self-managed functions such as PMO, Governance, product delivery & deployment teams.
• Led executive stakeholder meetings with the leadership
  team by providing transparency on the status of the
  project to the project sponsor and Portfolio updates on
  Monthly basis. Reporting the Program updates/Program
  status metrics to the Steering co to the Senior leadership
  team.
• Led the program's key deliverables creation of the project charter, business requirements, business case, Change
  management, training and transition plan and all PMO
  artifacts from Initiation to closure phase
• Partnered with vendors and enabler teams to ensure successful Go-to-Market objectives, while also implementing Agile practices and increasing development team velocity by 65% in 2022.
• Steered project scope creation, planning sessions, and
  cost-benefit analyses, providing timely inputs to business
  sponsors for value-based analysis. Additionally, improved
  project governance through automated reporting and
  dashboard creation for executives and leadership.
• Drove budget re-calibration sessions with finance and
  business teams to manage actual versus approved
  spends on initiatives.
• Finally, planned Agile best practices and managed
  product backlogs while supporting Scrum framework for
  monthly sprint releases, building leadership and
  accountability mindsets at all levels and championing
  value of Agile transformation for both technology and
  business teams.

• DART Library is the new Digital standard for DCX, delivering Angular projects in Capgemini. Most of the Capgemini clients are looking for new design frameworks aligning with their branding and requirements., they are spending an ample amount of time and effort in creating such designs. As a solutions provider, we at Capgemini have decided to create a custom design system helping the customers in TTM and reduce the efforts and financial burden.
• Helped Capgemini in promoting and implementing the DART design system and getting 4 new clients across Canada and USA and building revenue of $2.5M and received promotion for this achievement.
• Managed a cross-functional team consisting of designers, researchers, developers, solution architects, POs, accessibility experts, and testers spread across globe.
• Managed to deliver the project earlier than the stipulated time and helped clients save 30% of their budget.
• Also, acted as Scrum Master providing coaching and support to the team on Agile principles and values, and guiding them to practice them with the use of several methods, tools, and techniques.
• Collaborated with various stakeholders, understanding their requirements, and managing the backlog, and prioritizing the work.
• Manage resources for on-time delivery of user stories, functionality, and infrastructure improvements.
• Contribute to and promote teamwork in a multi-vendor environment, developing complex multi-layered enterprise applications.
• Manage the recruitment, onboarding, and training activities of the team.
• Work closely with the architecture team to ensure that the technical solution designs and implementation are consistent with the architectural vision.
• Research and help designers in implementing and designing reusable components and design patterns.
• Cultivated strong relationships with customers to drive business development.

Deputed to onsite on a hybrid role, as one of the key members to help client in developing and implement new design system.
• Work closely with the architecture team to ensure that the technical solution designs and implementation are consistent with the architectural vision.
• Meeting with various stakeholders, understanding their requirements and managing the backlog, and prioritizing the work.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams including developers, BAs, App managers, QA test leads and architects.
• Oversee technical deliverables, coaching, and mentoring of junior developers and provide technical leadership for same. Fixing UI defects and helping the development team in implementing Accessibility guidelines.
• Facilitated Scrum Events like Planning, Daily Scrum, Demo, Retrospective meeting, and backlog grooming
• Assisted the PO and team in Product Backlog refinement, Sprint Backlog prioritization and grooming, and creation of acceptance criteria and definition of Done.
• Involved in effort estimation to implement new requirements and break down user stories in tasks for the sprint.
• Coached scrum teams on the need for clear & concise backlog items, removed impediments, and helped them to be more efficient and self-organizing.
• Managed JIRA Dashboard for User Stories and Confluence for documentation.
• Effectively tracked team’s progress, including burn-up and burn-down charts, sprint velocity, and release forecasting.
• Reported Team KPIs, Metrics, and Financials along with risks and issues.

• AIG aimed to enhance Time to Market (TTM) by building a User Interface Engineering framework called AXIS, which could develop B2C and B2B applications globally while maintaining AIG branding and improving end deliverables' quality.
• Developed a set of 100+ UI Components and Patterns that were unique, extensible, and adaptable to support both Mobile and Desktop applications.
• Implemented best Agile practices and facilitated Scrum events, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Retrospective, and assisted in backlog refinement, prioritization, and grooming.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams (on-shore/off-shore), including Prod support, Product owners, Business, and other Scrum teams, to identify risks and resolve issues.
• Implemented automation best practices, including regression test suite automation using POSTMAN and Jenkins, resulting in an 80% reduction in regression testing effort.
• Ensured consistent alignment of business requirements with project scope by working closely with client project managers, software and business teams, and communicating progress and roadblocks to stakeholders, including executive management.
• Worked with the architecture team to ensure technical solution designs and implementation aligned with the architectural vision.

• AIG aimed to upgrade legacy desktop sites to responsive web, improving customers' ability to buy and get quotes for insurance policies.
• Goal: Convert entire desktop sites to mobile-friendly without changing business/backend logic.
• Led a team of 5 from India, serving as Single Point of Contact for client's crucial Moovweb migration project with direct revenue impact.
• Responsible for resolving client issues & concerns regarding Moovweb and providing work/cost estimations.
• Created responsive web pages for country-based websites (e.g., Japan, Israel, Malaysia, UK) while maintaining rich user interface using Tritium JS, SCSS, HTML/HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and JavaScript.