Vijayaram Tadala
Santa Clara,USA
Summary
Seasoned Senior Scrum Master and SAFe 5 Agilist with 11+ years of experience in managing complex software development projects. Strengths include delivering high-quality products within scope, facilitating clear communication among team members, and utilizing Agile methodologies for effective project management. Previous work has resulted in enhanced team productivity, improved stakeholder satisfaction and significant reductions in project overruns.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Scrum Master
PwC
San Jose
02.2023 - Current
- Coached, developed, and managed a team of Scrum Masters and Project Managers, ensuring consistent adherence to Agile methodologies and driving successful delivery outcomes across multiple teams
- Led Agile transformation initiatives, mentoring Scrum Masters and Project Managers to improve team velocity, predictability, and delivery commitment by fostering continuous improvement and removing obstacles
- Served as Scrum Master/Project Manager for a cross-functional team, guiding the team through sprints, managing timelines, and ensuring successful project delivery
- Drove the implementation of best practices in Agile Scrum and Project Management, establishing standardized processes for tracking, planning, and reporting to ensure transparency and alignment with organizational goals
- Mentored leadership and teams on Agile principles, offering guidance on sprint execution, backlog management, and collaboration, resulting in improved team performance and stakeholder satisfaction
- Ensured project managers effectively contributed to critical initiatives, ensuring successful project outcomes through clear communication, proactive risk management, and strategic planning
- Implemented consistent sprint practices across Scrum teams, ensuring that all teams followed the same foundational Scrum framework while adapting to their unique needs for self-management
- Created and maintained comprehensive documentation for Agile processes, sprint results, and team retrospectives to facilitate continuous learning and organizational knowledge sharing
- Fostered a collaborative team culture, promoting knowledge sharing and cross-functional collaboration, which resulted in stronger team performance and successful project deliveries
- Effectively presented Weekly, Monthly metrics like Burn-down charts, Velocity charts, release plans to all the stakeholders
- Adapted to shifting organizational priorities, leading teams through changes in project scope and strategy, while maintaining focus on key deliverables and deadlines
- Consistently met delivery deadlines by effectively managing resources, defining clear objectives, and ensuring that teams remained on track to meet project goals and timelines
- Championed a culture of continuous improvement, inspiring teams to identify process efficiencies, leading to incremental improvements in velocity, quality, and team dynamics
Senior Scrum Master
Foot Locker
06.2020 - 01.2023
- As a Servant Leader successfully served Mobile App Scrum teams that implemented Single Sign on and payment features for different banners (Foot Locker, Foot Action, Champ Sports, East Bay, Kids Footlocker)
- Worked with cross functional teams to increase revenues by slashing the delivery time by 15%
- Facilitated teams in preparation for ART activities, including PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect and Adapt
- Facilitated Scrum events (Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives) and guide the team in System demos
- Supported the Agile team in product development and testing process to align with the scope, schedule, budget, and quality baselines
- Coached the Agile team in refining the Team backlog, writing User stories as per INVEST criteria and prioritizing them using MoSCoW technique
- Headed the Sprint Backlog estimation and implemented the Scrum poker technique to accurately size the User stories
- Effectively implemented the Scrum framework by removing impediments and resolving internal conflicts to improve the team velocity by 20%
- Actively participated in Program Increment Day (PI Event), lead the team breakout sessions during the PI and assisted Release Train Engineers (RTEs) for the feature, logistic and team readiness
- Created, published, and managed JIRA dashboards and metrics to ensure transparency, collaboration, and alignment
- Shared timely reports of Sprint goal success, missed defects, Sprint velocity and Sprint burndown to all the stakeholders
Senior Scrum Master
Macys
03.2019 - 05.2020
- Promoted SAFe practices and guided the team in improving the quality of product deliverables to meet the Definition of Done (DoD)
- Applied Agile values and principles to ensure organization's Scrum best practices are followed by the product teams; Also coached the Scrum team in all aspects which includes Agile values and principles, Planning, DOR, DOD, iterative development, estimations, limiting WIP, etc
- Assisted Product owner in product backlog grooming (Prioritization and Estimation), following the INVEST criteria for every user story in JIRA and establishing the acceptance criteria
- Coached POs, Scrum Masters and Teams on Agile Development Methods and Agile best practices to effectively deliver increased value every sprint by meeting the commitments, Definition of Done with zero P1's and P2's in Prod
- Actively participated in Team break outs during PI planning, worked on Capacity Adjustments and updated the Program board with identified dependencies and risks
- Used ROAM board during PI planning to identify and analyze risks and issues that could prevent the team in achieving PI objectives
- Collaborated and worked cross functionally with other scrum masters in the organization to improve Agile methodologies efficiency
- Lead continuous improvement efforts by implementing retrospective action items, Coaching the product team to increase the productivity by analyzing different metrics which include burndown, velocity, burn up, lead time, cycle time, etc
- To improve the team's efficiency and deliver success
- Embraced and implemented SAFe Agile principles including Agile Scrum adoption across the organization
- Shared and learned best practices with Scrum Master peers to increase the effectiveness of the application of agile practices in the organization
Scrum Master
Woolworths
05.2014 - 08.2017
- Successfully guided the team in moving from traditional waterfall model to Agile environment for achieving broader enterprise goals by coaching and conducting training sessions to the team on Agile processes
- Facilitated all the Scrum Ceremonies and continuously monitored the Sprint health, including issues and risks
- Collaborated with Product Owners, Architects, Development managers to ensure Sprint commitments are well defined, prioritized, and achievable
- Worked closely with Product owners on backlog grooming and prioritization of tasks to ensure optimal delivery of the product
- As a Servant leader, ensured that the teams are reflecting on their performance every sprint to identify success as well as failures
Education
Masters - management information systems
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, Illinois, US12.2018
B.Tech - Computer Science
M.V.G.R college of Engineering
Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA04.2012
Skills
- Sprint Planning
- PI Planning
- Product Backlog
- Refinement
- Scrum
- XP
- Kanban
- CI/CD
- TDD
- ATDD
- JIRA
- ADO
- Jenkins
- Confluence
- XCode
- EasyRetro
- Scrum Poker
- Mural
- MS Word
- Excel
- Power Point
- MS Project
- SharePoint
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Coaching and mentoring
- Business process re-engineering
- Agile coaching
Certification
- SAFe Certified Agilist, 08/01/21
- Certified Scrum Master, 04/01/16
- ISTQB, 07/01/13
Timeline
Lead Scrum Master
PwC
02.2023 - Current
Senior Scrum Master
Foot Locker
06.2020 - 01.2023
Senior Scrum Master
Macys
03.2019 - 05.2020
Scrum Master
Woolworths
05.2014 - 08.2017
Masters - management information systems
Northern Illinois University
B.Tech - Computer Science
M.V.G.R college of Engineering
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