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Nazneen Khatib

Enthusiastic Scrum Master worked on three Scrum teams and also filled in as Agile coach on Portfolio level. Proven history of successful work with cross-functional teams.

Key Skills

Team Building
Communication skills
Backlog Management
Communications To Executive Leadership
Mentoring & Coaching

Professional Experience

Jan 2019
Present
Scrum master/ Agile Delivery Manage
Accenture Pune, IN
  • Works with three Scrum teams towards Agile transformation by bought ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation and so on to help the team become a high-performance team.
  • Creates and manages project/program resource loading and budget; reconciles budget monthly and communicates risks to Leadership.
  •  Empowers the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings.
  • Removing obstacles for developer team and keeping them motivated.
  •  Manages sprint backlog items and tasks and helping PO team to priorities the work by focus on Value delivery techniques. 
  •  Manages all Scrum boards (JIRA) and overall health of team.
  •  Uses key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity, cycle time) to help deliver committed work. 
  • Works wit team on increase the average velocity by brainstorming/ retrospective sessions and implementing good practices. 
  • Implements TDD model with 100% of Automation within Sprint.
  • Guides team through CICD implementation and minimizes the downtime in the application.
Mar 2018
Jan 2019
Agile Project Manager
Sterling Talent Solution Pune, IN
  • Worked with Scrum and Kanban teams to help achieving the quality and on time delivery across the cross functional teams.
  • Worked as Servant agent and facilitator towards Scrum ceremonies.  
  • Provided a single point of contact for projects and establishing communication model.
  • Worked effectively with others to remove delivery team roadblocks. 
  • Guided team through continual improvement process and knowledge documents to resolved production issues on time.
  • Maintained Kanban board (Physical, JIRA) and help team to prioritize the work.
  • Empowered teams to be self motivated and work towards value delivery.
Dec 2011
Feb 2018
Project Lead
L&T Infotech Pune, IN
  • Worked as key lead towards SAFe implementation for one of the diamond client project and setup the planning the delivery Trains. 
  • Lead Scrum of Scrum calls for portfolio of 25-30 team members.
  • Guided development and leadership teams in Agile transformation.
  • Helped the leads from changing the typical Project manager mindset to Scum master and coaching them Agile delivery model.
  • Guided Scrum teams towards good practices in Scrum and value delivery in limited Scrum time.
  • Closely worked with Scrum masters and PO team and helping the cross teams impediments and planning activities to minimize dependencies.
Nov 2003
Feb 2011
Team lead
Tata Technologies Ltd Pune, IN
  • Worked as Lead on Digital transformation using DELMIA (Digital Lean Manufacturing) and PLM (Product Life cycle Management) 
  • Mentor the Shop floor and Leadership team towards digital solution and saved cost, money and time for any critical issues on Production.
  • Created the end to end solution and helped planning team to work towards excellence which result 98% of increased efficiency. 
 

Education

Mar 2001
Apr 2003
Master of Computer Science in
Pune University
Mar 1998
Oct 2000
Bachelor of Computer Science in
Pune University

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Azure Foundation
Microsoft
Certified advance RPA professional
Automation Anywhere
Certified Project Manager
Prince2
Certified Project Manager
LTI

Achievements

Scrum master
  • Lead three Product teams' transition to Agile development.
  • SM for three geographically distributed teams and managed planning, backlog grooming, CICD and TDD implementation.
  • Customized Scrum and crafted an in-house version specifically for Accenture UBS teams.
  • Responsible for release train management: dependencies, challenges and risks.
  • Product ownership: created comprehensive functional requirements and prioritized them for all sprint meetings. 
Valuable Contribution
  • Helped onboarded team in SAFe Agile transformation. 
  • Managed QA and Engineering team of ~30 resources (managers, developers, and analysts).
  • Conducted coaching for whole portfolio(5 teams)  different managers to help them transition into SM and take lead as Scrum Master to their Agile teams.
Innovation Award
  • Worked with various division and leadership towards changes from paper based planning to digital transformation.
  • Provided cost saving solution which saves several lakhs of manufacturing cost and time.
  • Trained various levels from shop floor to divisional manager to implement 3D for all.
 

Quote

“Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career"

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Hobbies & Interests

  • Music
  • Painting
  • Reading
  • Travelling

Languages

English
(Fluent)
Hindi
(Fluent)
Marathi
(Native)
Urdu
(Basic)

Career Aspiration

After my next 3 years I would like to see myself as well-settled in my career and personal life and I would like to reach a respectable person in company where I'm working where that never want to loose in any circumstances.

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