Meenal Gupta

• • Teach, lead, and mentor cross-functional business groups to build, sustain, and strengthen Agile values, SAFe and scrum concepts, and practices, providing them the necessary tools and guidance to successfully implement across high-impact programs throughout the enterprise.
  • Identify and coach Agile evangelists across the organization who can act as informal mentors/peers and continue increasing the maturity across the organization.
  • Identify need and provide as necessary structured and ad-hoc training in Agile principles and practices including Scrum, Product Ownership, and Program Management
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to identify specific areas of training and coaching.
  • Oversee the coaching and planning of multiple high-performing Agile development teams and large-scale programs across the enterprise.
  • Provide coaching and mentorship to employees at all levels of the organization on Lean Agile, Agile, and SAFe, principles.
  • Prepare a variety of communication artifacts related to the Agile practice, progress and plans.
  • Develop and deliver presentations to various levels of stakeholders and facilitate working sessions to identify resolutions to impediments to continuous Agile improvement.
  • Foster strong spirit of communication and collaboration between teams to align program goals, deliver final products, and ensure leadership transparency to impediments and progress.
  • Ensure appropriate risk management and control practices are integrated into the lifecycle of Agile initiatives.
  • Build and maintain relationships with lines of business, team members, management, key stakeholders and/or external contacts (e.g., vendors, etc.)
  • Continuously identify opportunities for improvement for implementing Agile tools and best practices
  • Lead Agile teams through product framing and discovery, including defining business KPIs, product vision, user story mapping, and other framing activities.
  • Drive consistent Agile practices and strategy across the organization to enhance business value delivery and responsiveness to organization and marketplace opportunities.
  • Ensure Agile concepts and principles are adhered to, and also seen as the voice of reason and authority.
  • Led and Launched 2 train across EPS and IDM Development Value streams.
  • Tracking and evaluating ART metric and accountable for Releases and Train performance.
  • Automate all Team Level and ART metric on Confluence/Jira for daily automated roll over and Dashboard reporting and Analysis of stability/progress of the train towards its PI objectives.
  • Formally Trained employee’s on – Leading SAFe, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe for Teams, SAFe POPM and DevOps approx. 100 + people virtually in past 24 months.
  • Currently working on adoption of JIRA Align within the EPS program.
  • Lead software development programs and portfolios with project initiation, organization, goal, and change management aspects of Agile.
  • Discover opportunities to champion agile values and adoption across IT.
  • Deliver Agile training sessions, workshops, and one-on-one coaching for Business and IT participants at the team, program, and portfolio levels.
  • Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering a Continuous Exploration process which drives the synthesis of a Vision, a Roadmap, and Backlogs, and through Pre- and Post-PI Planning meetings.
  • Facilitate PI planning events mainly PI, ART Sync, I&A and STE Sync for both trains and Program Refinements etc.
  • Product manager for a high-volume software development firm.

• Conducted a meticulous GAP analysis while successfully reengineering key business processes to increase operational efficiently and alignment of business objectives.
• Developed multiple Minimum Viable Product (MVP) through lines.
• Coaches the team to create better Solutions, improve business results, and better their processes.
• Facilitates all the agile ceremonies and team meetings.
• Facilitates program events/PI for both Programs.
• Project analyst responsible for the development of Use Cases that depict the As-Is processes of the system.
• Work closely with the User Experience Group (UXG) to develop screens for the redesigned UI.
• Enter project information into VersionOne.
• Facilitate Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Daily Scrums and Retrospective meetings.
• Work with the user interface design/development team to design the user experience and develop wireframes.
• Remove team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Collaborate with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain the Product Backlog.
• Assists the PO in preparing and refining the backlog for PI and Iteration Planning

• Analyze, prepare and update data in the database for every sprint.
• Work closely with the development team for design and functional needs of the web-app.
• Facilitated data requirement meetings with business and technical stakeholders and resolved conflicts to drive decisions.
• Worked extensively on Erwin and ER Studio in several projects.
• Practical understanding of the Data modeling (Dimensional & Relational) concepts
• Generated ad-hoc SQL queries using joins, database connections and transformation rules to fetch data from legacy DB2 and SQL Server database systems.
• Worked extensively supporting two Data migration life cycle for web-based application and from Salesforce to Web based application.
• Work with Technical team to develop high level labor estimates to develop and deploy functionality.
• Conduct gap analysis between application and stated customer requirements and collaborate with Architects and Developers to estimate project impact.
• Lead daily scrums and status meetings and team of 15-20 team members including development and testing teams.

• Strong experience in gathering and analyzing business and functional requirements.
• Proven background in business process reengineering and reverse engineering.
• In depth knowledge of SDLC and Rational Unified Process.
• Experience with MS Office, MS Visio, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and Rational Requisite Pro.
• Strong written and oral communication skills. Solid organizational abilities.
• Strong experience with Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Use Case development.
• Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills
• Ability to Lead and/or direct the efforts of specialists on project(s).

• Collected, defined and analyzed business requirements.
• Developed diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps.

• Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
• Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
• Analyzed open orders, backlog, and sales data to provide sales team with insights.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
• Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
• Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
• Delivered analysis of market, sales and consumer trend impact on long and short-term strategies.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.