Prasad Kasinadhuni
Holly Springs,NC
Summary
With over 15 years of experience in scaled agile and project management, successfully leading agile teams focused on product enhancements and upgrades. Organized and facilitated all sprint cadences, including planning, reviews, retrospectives, and stand-ups for an engineering team. Facilitated various Kanban cadences such as risk review, strategy review meeting, daily stand-up, service delivery review, operations review, replenishment meeting, and delivery planning. Led and coordinated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint demos, sprint retrospectives, and backlog refinements to ensure smooth agile practices and values within the team. Increased productivity significantly while maintaining overall team satisfaction. Implemented and adopted ADO within the company and regularly reported project statuses to the product owner for informed decision-making. Identified and managed team impediments to improve team performance and ensure successful delivery of sprint goals. Worked closely with product management and technical stakeholders to effectively clarify project schedules, statuses, and details. Played a key role in developing metrics to facilitate team improvements and automate manual reports. Assisted product owners and project managers in backlog preparation for Program Increment as well as sprint planning. Continuous refinement of agile processes resulting in predictable and rapid software delivery.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Scrum Master
Xerox
06.2022 - Current
- Guiding and coaching both the Scrum Team and the Development team on how to get the most out of self-organization
- Guiding and coaching both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching and educating the team on areas of improvement, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving
- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums, retrospectives and planning meetings to realize full team engagement
- Organized and facilitated all sprint cadences (planning, reviews, retrospectives, and stand ups) for an engineering team
- Coached team members on the agile mindset, processes, and frameworks
- Led and coordinated the daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint demos, sprint retrospectives, and backlog refinements
- Facilitated and improved agile practices and values, increasing productivity and overall team satisfaction
Scrum Master
SunStream Business Services
01.2022 - 06.2022
- Strongly serving and supporting the Product Owner and Development Team in their quest to maintain a healthy product backlog by conducting ad hoc refinement ceremonies
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example
- Knowing when to push the team to meet product milestones
- Guiding and coaching the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to meet commitments for the sprint/
- Guiding and coaching both the Scrum Team and the Development team on how to get the most out of self-organization
- Guiding and coaching both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
- Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching and educating the team on areas of improvement, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving
- Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
- Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums, retrospectives and planning meetings to realize full team engagement
Scrum Master
United Health Group
04.2017 - 01.2022
- As Scrum Master leading agile teams focused on product enhancements and upgrades totaling annual revenue of $7.6M
- Organized and facilitated all sprint cadences (planning, reviews, retrospectives, and standups) for an engineering team
- Coached team members on the agile mindset, processes, and frameworks
- Led and coordinated the daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint demos, sprint retrospectives, and backlog refinements
- Facilitated and improved agile practices and values, increasing productivity and overall team satisfaction
- Led the company in the implementation and adoption of JIRA which reduced the time it took to create and manage tickets by an average of 2 days
- Maintained team metrics and reported project statuses on a regular basis to the Product Owner improving decision making
- Improved team performance by identifying, managing, and supporting the resolution of team impediments
- Organized and facilitated quarterly planning events - driving teams to make achievable plans
- Identified and removed impediments that interfered with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goals
- Worked closely with product management and technical stakeholders to clarify the schedule, status, and details of each project
- Helped the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements resulting in the automation of manual reports
- Assisted product owners and project managers in preparing and refining the backlog for Program Increment (large scale planning) as well as sprint planning
- Continually refined and evolved agile processes for predictable and rapid software delivery resulting in hitting 99% of project deadlines
Agile Project Manager
J.P. Morgan
07.2015 - 04.2017
- Create and drive the detailed Project planning, timeline, and Agile total sprints to deliver the final product from the Black Knight team until the product deployment
- Participate in the Data leadership team, reporting directly to the Director, Product Engineering
- Driving the meetings with Black Knight Team to drive the Delivery timelines and the scope of the delivery in each sprint
- Manage an Agile scrum team to design, implement, and test the Data warehouse projects that power Data Analytic projects
- Create Rally stories for Database Admin, Database Developers, ETL Developers, Data Architects, and .NET teams based on the code/data delivered by the Black Knight team
- Ensured the Software Set up is ready for the project build and deployment
- Working with QA teams to define the Test Scope for the sprint and delivering the data to the QA team
- Meeting with the Interfaces Team and documenting their requirements to deliver the data, format, and SLAs to their interfaces
- Collaboration with UAT teams on test cases and defects closure on time
- Work with the Black Knight team for any inaccuracy of the data/data format and marking their priority
- Work with the Development Team to create documents on Tech Design, Unit Test Cases, Implementation Plan, and the Run books
- Create CRs for UAT and Prod deployment
- Ensure the team's compliance with relevant development and functional processes
Project Manager
Highmark Health
09.2012 - 07.2015
- Analyze and develop product requirements and develop software to meet those functional needs
- Review technical feasibility and work with team to develop timelines for product development
- Manage product development budget, resource allocation and scheduling
- Recruit and mentor software engineering team members
- Lead planning and execution of project work plans, making ongoing revisions to meet changing needs
- Direct development team efforts to achieve team and product development goals, objectives and milestones
- Collaborate with cross functional teams in global locations to build software architectures that resolve complex business problems
- Oversee solutions development initiatives utilizing input from consultants and technology vendors
- Work with senior management and executive staff to develop cohesive plans for the development of innovative software products
- Working with Scrum Masters to track JIRA stories delivery
- Decision taking on Technology Enablement/Technology Stack to implement new projects/Applications
- Coordination with Offshore Management for the Development Timelines, Completion and Define Quality Development Standards
Manager Corporate Strategy
Kasimedia Pvt. Ltd
09.2008 - 08.2012
- Took company from a team of 5 Developers to a Team of 20 In House Developers and 10 Outsourced Developers
- Defined resource allocation protocol per project to ensure workload efficiency between Business Analysts, Database, Front End, Support Analysts, and Quality Assurance teams
- Developed a Project Management & Reporting Software base on Agile Dev processes but with simplicity to help stage and manage project metrics in one shop
- The tool was designed to adapt to the resource and project variables while also meeting the need for efficient project management and collaboration
- Developed a Simple Scrum process to modularize project requirements and Definition of Done (DOD) into Sprints and tasks with key dependencies defined in the planning flow charts, wire-frame designs, and Gantt Chart schedule
- Developed training programs to help the team increase knowledge in required competency areas
- Defined daily scrums collaborative process that maximized resource utility and progress management
Creative Business Associate
Midlands Asian Television
08.2005 - 07.2008
- Partnered with copywriters and art directors to align visual presentations with messaging
- Designed and approved photographs to be published in a monthly publication using Photoshop and Illustrator
- Managed staff of senior copywriters, copywriters (including SEO writers), proof readers, freelance writers, and interns
- Coordinated and managed seminars on automatic and CVT transmissions in conjunction with a technical advisor
- Produced seasonal data post mortem, print FSI, and CRM analysis
- Developed and implemented marketing and advertising strategies for online universities
- Led the CPL team to develop a new intranet site and repository for all department information
- Included process documentation and improvement; reporting and analytics; IT collaboration; budgeting and forecasting
Education
MBA - Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A)
University of Derby
Derbyshire, UK04.2004
Bachelors Degree - Bachelors in Commerce (B.Com.)
Osmania University
Hyderabad, INDIA06.2001
Skills
- SAFe Agile environment
- Kanban
- Project Management
- Practical Agile Experience
- Agile Scrum
- Scrum of Scrums
- Azure DevOps
- JIRA
- Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Waterfall Methodology
- Data Warehousing
- Continuous Integration
- Microsoft Office Suite
- User Stories
- ATDD
- TDD
- Content Management Systems
- Agile Frameworks
- Servant Leadership
- Agile Coaching
- Product Backlog Management
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Sprint Planning
- Retrospective Analysis
- Release planning
- Technical understanding
- Adaptive Planning
- Team facilitation
- Risk Identification
- Presentation Skills
- Requirements Gathering
- Meeting facilitation
- Lean principles
- Web development technologies
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Problem-Solving
- Time Management
- Attention to Detail
- Problem-solving abilities
- Multitasking Abilities
- Excellent Communication
- Organizational Skills
- Team Leadership
- Adaptability and Flexibility
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Conflict Resolution
- Risk Assessment
- Documentation And Reporting
- MS Office
- Business Analysis
- Scrum Methodology
- Agile Methodologies
- Waterfall methodology
- Process Improvement
Certification
Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, 001214525
Awards
- Young Entrepreneurship award, 10/10, Awarded 'Young Manager award' by YMCA, Hyderabad, INDIA, for achieving good business practices for the year 2009-2010.
- Employee of the year, 12/06, Consecutively nominated and won the best employee award for 2 years.
- Management Award, 09/14, Achieved 'The Management Award 2014' for best Project management skills.
Languages
English
Full Professional
Hindi
Full Professional
Telugu
Native or Bilingual
Tamil
Limited Working
Timeline
Sr. Scrum Master
Xerox
06.2022 - Current
Scrum Master
SunStream Business Services
01.2022 - 06.2022
Scrum Master
United Health Group
04.2017 - 01.2022
Agile Project Manager
J.P. Morgan
07.2015 - 04.2017
Project Manager
Highmark Health
09.2012 - 07.2015
Manager Corporate Strategy
Kasimedia Pvt. Ltd
09.2008 - 08.2012
Creative Business Associate
Midlands Asian Television
08.2005 - 07.2008
MBA - Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A)
University of Derby
Bachelors Degree - Bachelors in Commerce (B.Com.)
Osmania University
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