Sakthivel Ganesan
Stockholm
Summary
- Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
- Enthusiastic Scrum Master eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills. Clear understanding of roles and responsibilities. Motivated to learn, grow and excel in industry.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Keyfactor
02.2023 - Current
- Enabled engineering manager collaboration effectively in scrum way of working
- Helped in improving agile way of working in product team to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Coached the team to achieve great sprint reviews and planning events. Also motivated to have full team engagement.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters/agile coaches to define solutions and drive progress.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
- Created value for the organization being a coach for cross-functional teams to deliver successful iterations based on product priority.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
- Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
Scrum Master & Agile Coach
Fenix outdoor
09.2021 - 01.2023
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and provided necessary coaching
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.
Scrum Master
Nordea
07.2019 - 08.2021
- Identified innovative and automated approaches to routine tasks, making suggestions that were widely received.
- Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Planned and arranged meetings with external organizations and individuals, enabling all parties to meet and discuss project progress.
- Maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.
- Investigated and corrected or escalated project problems.
- Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications.
- Built and utilized reporting systems to keep customers and management in loop with latest information.
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
- Practiced safe agile and facilitating scrum events , PI planning as well.
Scrum Master & Software Development Engineer
ABN AMRO
02.2013 - 07.2019
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
Education
Computer Science And Programming
Bachelor of Computer Science And Engineering
Chennai, India04.2012
Skills
- Risk assessment
- Project coordination
- Team training facilitation
- Client engagement
- Document organization
- Collaborative teamwork
- Self-motivated professional
- Proficient in handling multiple tasks
- Software process management
- Agile best practices
Accomplishments
- Conducted Agile team maturity assessment on frequent basis to improvement maturity level of the team
- Facilitated brainstrommig sessions, Workshops, Userstory mapping session, Lean coffee, Roadmap planning and other productive sessions to bring in additional value
- Practiced linear agile and Safe agile, Also open to adapt other agile framework
- Managed multiple product teams which works on different backlog and having different way of working
- Coached and organized boot camps for new agile teams
- Adapted best methodologies to give right mindset to agile team
Certification
- Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM I from Scrum.org)
- Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM II from Scrum.org)
- Value Stream Mapping (VSM from Coursera)
Work Availability
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Timeline
Scrum Master
Keyfactor
02.2023 - Current
Scrum Master & Agile Coach
Fenix outdoor
09.2021 - 01.2023
Scrum Master
Nordea
07.2019 - 08.2021
Scrum Master & Software Development Engineer
ABN AMRO
02.2013 - 07.2019
Computer Science And Programming
Bachelor of Computer Science And Engineering