Agile Coach | Program manager | Project manager | Scrum Master (rb.bansal@outlook.com)

Rajesh (rb.bansal@outlook.com), a certified candidate, as Agile Coach / SAFe Agilist has helped his clients deliver Enterprise and Global business transformation programs.  He has enabled Program and Portfolio Level Agile SAFe transformations for multi-million, multi-year Greenfield COTS Solution implementation based on SAP CRM, Guidewire, and Documentum. He coached business managers into Agile product owners, mentored staff on SAFe, Agile, Scrum and Kanban Practices like CI/PI,  CD, ATDD, TDD, JAD, RAD and sprint functions. He helped define SOPs for incremental development, releases and acceptance. He easily gains / Negotiates support of CxOs, Stakeholders, Teams (Vendors, in-house), business support functions through Timely, well analyzed and summarized reports and performance snapshots. As a Scrum master, he achieved target sprint velocity and burn rate through effective Sprint planning, Retrospectives, backlog grooming, daily scrums/stand up and product owner engagements. He is proficient in Collaboration (Sharepoint, Confluence) ALM (JIRA, Rally, HP ALM, TFS) project management (MS Project, Clarity, HP PPM).
Core Competencies / Area of Expertise Program Management                        Business Planning & Cost Benefit Analysis                 Leadership     
Project Management                          Risk & Controls Management                                     Decision Making  
People Management                          Stakeholder management                                           Problem Solving
Change Management                         Agile transofrmation                                                   SDLC/Agile & Waterfall

• Business Planning:  Business Case writing, Cost Benefit analysis (Return on Investment, Internal Rate of Return, Activity based Costing), Impact analysis (Top line, Bottom line, functional and operational process changes), RAID (Risks, Assumption, Issues and Dependencies) identification
• Agile Scrums: EPIC to user stories breakdown, product backlog buildup, Sprint planning, sprint execution (daily standups, backlog grooming, burndown analysis), sprint retrospectives, Test Driven Development (TDD, ATDD), SAFe ART, Kanban, Lean, Product Incremental (PI), Continuous Improvement (CI), Continuous Delivery / Dev Ops
• Program Governance: set up of PMO/Scrum of Scrums, definition of deliverables, tracking metrics KPIs and SoPs, prioritization and portfolio alignment, guidance and mentoring of PMs/Scrum masters / product owners
• Build Plans: Scheduling, Scope management, Work break down structure(WBS), Schedule, Quality Assurance planning, Risk Identification, Mitigation and Contingency planning, Resource Management including stake holders and vendors, Change management, Configuration, Communication and Closure plans
• Track and Report Project Metrics for Correctives, Preventives and Contingencies:(Schedule Variance, Cost Variance through EVM), Defect Ratio, Review Efficiency, Scope creeps, Resource Loading, Sprint velocity, Burnout chart
• Project Control through Earned Value Management, Change Control, Resource Leveling, Escalations and Communication, Validation and Verification and Closure (Lessons Learnt, Defect/Risk/Issue Database buildup)
• Gains / Negotiates support of CxOs, Stakeholders, Teams (Vendors, in-house), support Business function through Timely, well analyzed, summarized and targeted reports and performance snapshots.