Rajen Hari S , Feltham, United Kingdom

Agile

◦ Extensive experience of working in agile environments delivering Software/Transformation/change.
◦ Well versed and extensive experience with XP, SCRUM and Scaled Agile (SAFe) environments.
◦ Advanced social intelligence, emotional intelligence, and communication and collaborative skills
◦ Deep understanding of adaptive, iterative, and incremental development, backlog management, agile planning, agile metrics, velocity, Scrum roles and events; combined with a strong understanding and extensive experience of the software development process and procedures.
◦ Effective ability to facilitate requirements elaboration & user story backlog creation and management
◦ Proven ability to establish Product Vision and guiding the development to achieve the vision.
◦ Proven ability of unlocking the value of team commitment to delivery and enabling the synergy of the team.
◦ Extensive experience of working to support ScrumMaster, managing Product Delivery and Scrum Teams.
◦ Extensive experience of managing Scrum Rituals, Sprint Execution and Scrum Artefacts.
◦ Extensively worked on:
• Eliciting and writing agile Epics, User Stories.
• Breaking down Epics into User Stories and grouping user stories into Themes.
• Sizing of User Stories
• Writing/defining acceptance criteria.
◦ Extensive experience of Managing Work Backlog and Sprint Backlog.
◦ Extensive experience of Prioritisation of Product Backlog using techniques like: Kano Analysis, Theme Screening, Theme Scoring and Relative Weighting.
◦ Extensive experience of Estimation improving their accuracy by using techniques like-
• Disaggregating a big story into smaller stories and tasks; Using sensible story points for estimation.
• Using analogy in estimation - The estimator compares the story being estimated with one or more other stories.
• Shared Estimation - Involving the team and taking iterative approach to estimating. (Example: Planning Poker).
◦ Experience of Product Management and PI Planning.
◦ Experience of leading the teams of Architects and Business Analysts; training, mentoring and coaching them to adapt to Scrum environment.
◦ Extensive experience of using tools used in Agile environments like JAMA, JIRA and Confluence.