AMOGH PANDIT

Clients : LPL Finane,CareFirst,Intuit,CUDirect,Ernst & Young,Intuit

• Led Program Increment planning and agile onboarding for scrum teams.
• Delivered aggressive product roadmap as liaison through continuous iterative model using value driven prioritization and scale framework.
• Facilitated distributed project team in all respect to Scrum development including PI Planning, Iteration planning ,Demos, Standup and retrospectives.
• Established cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.
• Be change agent, fluent in using both Agile Mindset and Power questioning to resolve conflicts and powerfully shift organization through any resistance to change.
• Fostered a culture of continuous improvement, leading retrospectives to identify areas for process enhancement.
• Ensured alignment between business goals and technical requirements by working closely with stakeholders during sprint planning sessions.

• Develop and maintain solid partnership with key retail products and business stakeholders and work collaboratively towards common goal
• Led program increment planning and collaboration for value stream.
• Ensure that Scrum team is empowered, yet has solid framework and excellent discipline by following QVC's Agile roadmap
• Ensure all Scrum ceremonies are adhered to value throughout product lifecycle and provide coaching.
• Continuously challenge ways of working within team
• Collaborate internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

• Major Contributor for Lean-Agile Center of Excellence working with executives to build sufficiently powerful guiding coalition to drive and sustain agile journey.
• Mentored Product management to form, prioritize backlog and present quarterly value driven roadmap to team.
• Coach and facilitate scrum ceremonies and improve daily scrum outcomes. Address and mitigate impediments.
• Servant-Leader for agile teams for delivering iteratively and optimizing value driven delivery.
• Collaborate with development team and product managers to bring synergy for scope, sprint goals conflicts ,budget and release.
• Bring synchronization and cadence for program execution with cross-domain planning.
• Emphasis and coaching for team to adopt best technical practices like Mob Programming,Automation and Test or Behavior Driven Development (TDD/BDD) to catalyze agile journey.
• Worked with design team to bring synergy on customer journey, design thinking and user center design importance.
  Key Achievements
• Built Agile environment to launch new package product (300M$ opportunity) where team organized among themselves, freely escalated challenges, drive improvement with continuous feedback and treated each failures as opportunities.
• Lead Program increment planning with Technology ,Product management and Business stakeholders.
• Championed end-to-end product lifecycle with agile coach mindset to provide highest business value driven metrics.

• Servant leadership agile transformation for multidisciplinary programs which includes establishing teams, shaping environment, coaching, and leading organizational change.
• Facilitated program increment planning for strategic initiatives for Salesforce, Microsoft AX Retail POS, MOSO Membership services, AWS cloud Migration and Mobile portals.
• Delivered hands-on coaching for organization to ramp up on Scrum, Kanban, and Lean practices to build scale framework.
• Coach product managers to build out user story mapping and having value driven roadmap/journey.
  
• Managed and coach scrum ceremonies as Scrum Master and improve daily scrum outcomes, focusing on addressing impediments
  
• Manage communication and relationship for prioritization, training strategy, rollout with Change Adoption Committee.
• Presented program agile metrics, key impediments and success factors to CIO and Business Executives.
• Oversee steering committee and executive meetings to discuss agile metrics, status results and drive decisions.

Key Achievements

• Directed and guided agile teams for end-to-end implementation of Microsoft AX Platform for 81 retail stores.
• Implemented and rolled out Salesforce digital platform across new departments to uplift revenue by forming self-organized team.
• Ramp up teams on Jira and Confluence for better collaborations and improvements in tool/processes to enhance transparency.
  

• Implemented multi million program for next generation revenue management system, including building new re-forecasting and faster performance business intelligent reservation systems for properties worldwide.
• Formed Agile program lane for improved system robust group forecasting, better analytics, and enhanced user experience by delivering synchronized program increments.
• Coached SOS communication for continuous alignment
• Ensured high-value delivery aligned on execution, tactical planning, and strategic vision by implementing continuous improvements.
• Maintained continuous alignment of scope with business objectives to achieve intended result.
• Spearheaded lean budget management, presented changes in budget to finance team and managed budget and contingency.
• Responsible for presentation of status, dashboards, success metrics and key impediments to Steering Committee.

• Implemented BVOIP/IPTF product enhancement program, including which new product and services for prestigious customers in healthcare, financial, and customer care industries.
• Managed Daily Stand-ups, Requirement & Design workshops,
• Directed team for adapting best practices such as CTI, Agile ITUP,
• Managed and coordinated release go/no go decisions, led user certification for production release.
• Handled productivity reporting and infrastructure migration for ABS CARE centers for ordering and billing department, enhancing and automating billing and products offering resulting in $200MM savings.

• Managed projects and operations for various financial and pharmaceutical clients using ITIL model to adhere to compliance and regulations
• Supervised team of technical consultants to build global network for financial and pharmaceutical companies.
• Ensured projects provided quality results and client satisfaction.
• Produced new RFPs and designed techno-commercial responses.