Nagaraj Rao Agile Scrum Master
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I'm a Certified Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner with overall 27+ years of work experience including 16 years of Oracle Application Development, 7+ years in IT Project Management, Expert in leading and delivering multiple IT projects including designing, developing, and implementing software applications and solutions using a range of technologies. Extensive knowledge in using Agile & Scrum methodologies in project execution with expertise in training, upskilling, and introducing an agile way of work into teams. Skilled in coaching and mentoring other team members in Scrum ceremonies and educating product owners in Agile.

I can help organizations/teams in following areas:

 Spearhead the adoption of Agile practices and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, across multiple teams or departments and lead successful implementation of Agile methodologies
 Provide guidance and mentorship to development teams, product owners, and stakeholders, facilitating their understanding and application of Agile principles. Enabled teams to achieve higher levels of self-organization, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.
 Lead the planning and execution of organization-wide Agile transformations, aligning multiple teams, departments, and stakeholders towards Agile values and principles. Developed and implemented tailored strategies, training programs, and change management initiatives to ensure successful adoption.
 Focused on developing an agile mindset in the workplace to create, deliver, and sustain complex products and services.
 Keen ability to understand and build complex systems and focusing relentlessly on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer-centric products and features.
 Highly adaptable, capable of adapting to and working on new systems & environments easily.

Subjects

  • Microsoft Excel Beginner-Intermediate

  • English Content Writing Beginner-Expert

  • Agile Scrum Master Beginner-Expert


Experience

  • Agile Project Manager (Nov, 2022Present) at Innovan Technologies
    Key Deliverables (Mar 2016 - Apr 2023)
    • End-to-end management of projects including defining project scope, planning, facilitating meetings, scheduling, setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring, summarizing and communicating progress of the project.
    • Provided technical leadership to the team on requirements management, design, implementation, system integration, verification, test, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainment of the technical solution.
    • Responsible for the development of technology solutions and mapping the client’s business requirements to systems/ technical requirements to ensure they are in line with the enterprise architectural plan.
    • Interacted with clients, understood their business needs, translated them into technical requirements and delivered solutions as per clients’ requirements.
    • Developed comprehensive project plans merging user requirements with company goals, coordinated with project personnel during all project phases, from initial development through implementation.
    • Provided resource & time estimates for projects, conducted quality checks and testing, and prepared QC test status & progress reports for top management. Ensured optimum utilization of project resources as per approved project plan.
    • Monitored project progress continuously and prepared reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables.
    • Facilitated team’s Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint demos, and retrospectives.
    • Facilitated Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Stand up calls, Sprint Retrospection, and Sprint Review Meetings.
    • Maintained awareness and oversight of project activities to ensure a timely resolution of project execution issues, including changes in scope, quality/reliability issues, and resource constraints.
    • Defined and managed well-defined project management processes and championed ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management.
    • Coached the team on Agile Methodology and best practices.

Education

  • MBA (Apr, 2005Nov, 2007) from iase university rajastan

Fee details

    6,0007,000/day (US$70.7582.54/day)

    Fee may vary depending upon number of students attending online at a particular time slot and place of training. Please contact me for exact pricing


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