Margi P.

Agile Coach with 15 yrs of total experience. PMI-ACP, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, CSM, CSPO

Pune , India

Experience: 13 Years

Margi

Pune , India

Agile Coach with 15 yrs of total experience. PMI-ACP, CSP-SM, CSP-PO, CSM, CSPO

32914.4 USD / Year

Immediate: Available

13 Years

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About Me

I come with 15 yrs of experience for both Agile and Waterfall Projects for banking domain.

I am a Agile Certified Practioner through PMI (PMI-ACP), Certified Scrum Master(CSM),Certified Scrum Product Owner(CSPO) and Certified Scrum Profess...

I hold a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E in Electronics and Communication) and Post Graduate diploma in Business Administration(PGDBA in Finance through distance learning).

I have successfully executed high profile banking projects from concept to release with geographically distributed team size of 20-25 resources using all the scrum ceremonies which has resulted in improved project performance with in estimated budget.

Each new project in my career has provided me opportunity to develop as a better Scrum Practitioner and even share knowledge about Scrum Principles and Practices with larger group of team members.

I have got a chance to work with new as well as mature scrum teams and hence have got a chance to coach new members and learn from Senior Agile Coaches.

I am even a member of local Scrum meet ups and share Scrum experiences with community of practice.

I have experience working closely with stake holders to understand the requirements, Create Acceptance test cases using ATDD model, work with the development team to make sure they understand the requirements and participate in design review process, Participate in the iteration demos to receive stakeholder feedback and make sure the product development is in sync with customer expectation, participate in iteration planning meetings, work with stake holders to groom the backlog with the latest priorities, participate in retrospectives and come up with the continuous improvement action items.

As a project manager, I have experience creating project plans by breaking down the requirement into tasks, work with team members to analyze the effort , determine the dates and primary and secondary owners for each task. Come up with training plan to cross train resources to mitigate the risk with critical resources.

Use project management methodologies to deliver the project on time making sure that quaity, scope, time and cost are not impacted. Provide regular status reports to stake holders, proactively identify the risk and come up with mitigation strategies, communicate risk upfront to the stake holders and develop a cordial relationship with business stakeholders.

Assign tasks to resources in a way that no one is over or under utilized, conduct regular sync up meetings so that team can discuss the progress as well as the impediments with each other and make sure there exists a team spirit to achieve the common goal.

I am reachable at pancholi.margi@gmail.com and +91-9673114191.

Skills

Positions

Project Manager

Product Manager

Portfolio Projects

Project is about providing end to end Teradata solution for different LOB.

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I was an Agile Project Manager for the team of 25 resources with 20 resources at offshore and 5 resources at client onshore location. I used to manage the scrum ceremonies and do line management.

Description

Facilitating Scrum Ceremonies of daily stand up, sprint planning, retrospective, sprint review and backlog review. Facilitate Product Owner to create Product Backlog and prioritize stories.
Assist team members to resolve impediments and protect them from outside distractions there by maintaining focus on Sprint goal.
Coach team members about importance of following Agile Practices and frame works and also train new team members on ways to implement and follow Scrum framework to achieve better performance.
Conducted workshops for Business teams to understand creating Agile Stories from BRD's.
Create burn down charts with the efforts updated by team members. Also come up with correct Sprint velocity to estimate work for upcoming sprints in sprint planning meeting.
Developed the roadmap for the team to evolve toward predictive velocities
Ensure that the team is able to complete the estimated work with sustainable pace in each sprint without getting over loaded. If the team is over or under utilized, velocity is adjusted to ensure that team is appropriately utilized.
Managed dependencies between other scrum teams, third parties and also the other non-agile waterfall teams.
Working on various project management activities like creating project plan, generating monthly milestone reports and quarterly metric reports, invoicing and several resource management tasks.
Creating resource procurement as well as training plan to carry out the development activities.
Tracking progress on various project phases as per the plan and incorporating any learning as the project progresses.
Setting goals for the resources and conducting regular feedback sessions to track their performance.
Understanding business processes / requirements and translating them into technical requirements, Implementing TDD by creating test plans to procure as well loading data after doing data validation steps.
Creating automation scripts to implement Continuous Integration in order to catch the defects early.

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Project is about migrating the referral reporting database.

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As an Agile Project Manager, trained offshore team on using Scrum practices. Also created project plan, did monthly invoicing and tracked performance appraisal for the resources.

Description

As an offshore Scrum Master educated offshore team about Scrum frame work and importance of executing the project using Agile Principles.
As the team was new to using Agile at offshore, started practicing Scrum Ceremonies of Daily stand up, sprint planning and spring retrospective at offshore.
Co-ordinate with onshore Scrum Master about offshore work status so that entire offshore team don't have to stay back to dial in the onshore stand up.
Co-ordinate with onshore PO to understand doubts related to user stories raised by offshore team. Also facilitated PO to update the product backlog with any technical debts identified by offshore team.
Working on various project management activities like creating SOW, project plan, generating monthly milestone reports and quarterly metric reports, invoicing and several resource management tasks.
Created resource procurement as well as training plan to carry out the development activities.
Worked on the space and hardware allocation as well onboarding for the resources.
Since this is a new project starting from scratch, worked on getting various processes and documents created to meet CMMI standards.
Tracked progress on various project phases as per the plan and incorporating any learning as the project progresses.
Set goals for the resources and conducting regular feedback sessions to track their performance.
Track all the activities till project closure

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The project was to collect customer experience information for Credit Card.

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As a Senior Scrum Team member, proactively executed Daily Stand ups and Sprint Planning after receiving Prioritized Product backlog from Product Owner and Scrum Master.

Description

With guidance from Scrum Master, initially participated in Sprint Reviews and later on took the ownership to conduct Sprint Review with client stake holders without the presence of Scrum Master.
Learned to create Burn down charts and calculate Sprint Velocity with Scrum Master.
Participated in monthly client planning sessions at onsite and provided status updates and forecast resource requirements. Also work on the monthly billing details based on the actual consumption.
Worked on RFP and bidding for the project.
Co-ordinate with offshore team, manage work allocation and track the delivery timelines
Track monthly production support incidents and work on the incident prevention strategies to reduce the incidents.
Have done performance appraisals for the resources.
Manage network connectivity issues for offshore development centers and work with client network team to minimize offshore development impact due to connectivity issues.
Conducted regular meetings with clients to receive feedback and to provide solutions to reduce development cost and improve bandwidth utilization.
Worked on various transition activities and tracked the transition to new vendor.
The Project used agile methodology for all the life cycle stages and used mpp and excel to track various milestones.

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The project builds the platform to support campaign development and execution

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As a subject matter expert worked with PO to update the Product backlog with stories of our module.  Also participated in Sprint Reviews to receive feedback from client and co-ordinate development.

Description

As a Technical Lead analyzed the impacts for upgrading the version of Unica campaign tool from 7.2 to 8.1. As a manager prepared the list of all the tasks involved in upgrade and worked closely with onsite and offshore resources as well as Unica consultants to track the closure of each task.
Came up with the effort as well as resource estimation details based on the requirements. Also worked on the cost estimate for procuring new hardware and software licenses.
Worked closely with the clients to conduct UAT for the new environment to confirm that no data or functionality is lost due to upgrade.
Managed the setup of automated campaign scheduling using control-m tool
Worked closely with disaster recovery team to set up disaster recovery for the new environment.
Created process to provide technical resolutions for campaign failures and co-ordinate with business customers to ensure timely campaign execution as a production support lead.
Responsible for co-ordination with offshore management to get status on the offshore development activities and take bottom line for tracking production rollouts.
Have done performance appraisals for the resources.
Manage resource forecast and allocation, Project Billing, track project status and deliveries and work on RFP for new bidding.
Collect and create account level metrics report used by Infosys and Client engagement mangers. Report provides account level details for effort utilization, billing details and resource head counts.
Used Microsoft excel to track various project management tasks.