Amit K.

Amit K.

Business/Project Planning Manager

Bengaluru , India

Experience: 10 Years

Amit

Bengaluru , India

Business/Project Planning Manager

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10 Years

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About Me

Business and Technology consultant with around nine years of experience in Enterprise Application Development, IT advisory consulting, business analysis, Research, and project/product management in Digital Transformation space. Over 4 years of projec...

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Project aims is to enhance end-user experience for its cloud management app

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Responsible for overall success of the project through leveraging Agile delivery model. Taking major decisions to ensure timely & quality project deliveries with customer satisfaction

Description

Project aims is to enhance end-user experience for its cloud management application by adding new features in software (available in both desktop/SaaS) such as; self-provisioning, auto scaling, marketplace, chargeback etc.

  • As part of CPS team responsible for driving the strategic initiative of the company for cloud and platform services which includes conducting various research to understand market and competitive landscape and identify areas of improvement for new product/solutions
  • Responsible for overall success of the project through leveraging Agile delivery methodology (Scrum framework). Taking major decisions to ensure timely & quality project deliveries with customer satisfaction, smooth operations of the project. Guide the team and organization on Agile/Scrum best practice
  • Organize and facilitate various meetings such as; sprint planning, daily Scrum, product demo, retrospective meeting etc. Leverage JIRA tools for sprint planning and tracking.
  • Facilitate team with required resources to deliver the project, play role to ensure the accord between development team and product owner
  • Monitor project controls (schedule/risk/issues/changes/dependencies, burn-down chart) and generate project health metrics.
  • Collaborate with practice leaders to coordinate project schedules, budgets, and sprint / release planning. Coordinate UAT as part of change enablement process
  • Working closely with build and sales team to arrive at key decision for addressing critical situations, contract level decisions etc.
  • Stakeholder communication and reporting on status, risks, planning etc. on regular basis.
  • Working with proposal of future releases along with bid management team and evaluating appropriate & profitable financial models and team organization structure.
  • Working closely with delivery team and monitoring daily progress, take necessary action if there is potential impact to schedule.
  • Provide support for proposal creation/ RFP response to bid management team and provide insights to enhance DXC competency against competitors.
  • Draft internal and external presentations, communications, and status reports to executive leadership.
  • Initiate and lead the business development initiatives to drive the digital technology led different business models to increase the digital revenue through existing clients and new logo win
  • Closely work with internal and external stakeholders such as partners, practice head, business unit head, CXOs to define and develop new offerings

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  • Responsible to implement and practice agile methodology for delivering intelligent automation programs across Telstra involving, Blue Prism, Pega, AI/ML solutions.
  • As lead Scrum Master for automation program, I lead 40+ remembers consisting five squads and four Scrum Masters.
  • Implement Scrum principles and conduct Scrum events such as sprint planning, daily stand-up, product demo, retrospective etc.,
  • Conduct Scrum of Scrum and manage partner delivery team from various IT service companies
  • Involve across the lifecycle for automation such as; process identification, benefit analysis, scoping, PDD, OID, SDD development and getting business sign-off
  • Work with platform team to ensure stable dev and production environment in cloud (AWS)
  • Managing business stakeholders (BU heads and project sponsors) on project status, change management, conflict management, benefit realization reporting and developing delivery plan
  • Work closely with various teams to ensure keep project on track and resolve any impediments on time
  • In short time I have some significant gain such as; establishing Scrum practice effectively which helped in over 30% growth in velocity, enabled active participation in retrospective (using Fun Retro) to identify major gaps/challenges, average project life cycle reduced by 50%.

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Developing web portal and mobile application for all products. Application was mainly aimed to establish a direct connect with the customers by offering enhanced customer experience and to know the customers better. Main objective of the project was to enable customers order with convenience and get it delivered at home. It was a cloud-based (SaaS) project using AWS

Role & Responsibilities

  • Tailoring Agile methodology and functional concepts for client implementation. Agile maturity assessments of enterprise clients, defining change management strategies and implementation plans
  • Supporting Product Owner in identifying and prioritizing user stories for developing product backlog.
  • Coach development team to enable project delivery by following Scrum principles.
  • Responsible for overall success of the account and project delivery
  • Taking all key decisions necessary and measures to ensure timely & quality project deliveries with customer satisfaction, smooth operations of the project.
  • Delivery planning for Application development using Iterative model and Change Requests and engage resources as necessary to deliver successfully with adequate support of UAT.
  • Working closely with Management & IT team of customer to arrive at key decision for addressing critical situations, contract level decisions, future release planning etc.
  • Stakeholder communication and reporting on status, risks, planning etc. on regular basis.
  • Project Delivery planning, risk assessment, resource capacity planning etc.
  • Project ramp up including Infrastructure set up, resourcing, logistics, training etc.

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Comprehensive end-to-end customer journey analytics, store analytics, new product analytics, geographical segmentation (at pin code level) for one of the leading consumer electronic provider.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Led the project from initial stage, provided initial consulting to identify relevant opportunity across the business and product lines, solution categorization and prioritization (Desirability, viability, and feasibility analysis) to gain quick business value, solutioning and technology identification
  • Leveraged Agile and DevOps methodology to delivery solution based on Hadoop, NoSQL, Spark and Azure instance was used as development environment
  • Work with product Owner to develop backlog and prioritizing user stories for developing product backlog.
  • Coach development team to enable project delivery by following Scrum principles.
  • Stakeholder communication and reporting on status, risks, planning etc. on regular basis.
  • Project Delivery planning, risk assessment, resource capacity planning etc.
  • Project ramp up including Infrastructure set up, resourcing, logistics, training etc.

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Description

Application was mainly aimed to establish a direct connect with the customers by offering enhanced customer experience and to know the customers better. Main objective of the project was to enable customers order with convenience and get it delivered at home. It was a cloud-based (SaaS) project using AWS

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Description

First phase of the project was in waterfall model and second phase was in Agile (using Scrum methodology) model. My role changed in second phase mainly as Scrum Maser and had responsibility of PM as well

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