Aishwarya Gokhale

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Experiences

Developed and delivered team and organisation training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile Transformation
Established and supported communities of practices to promote organisational understanding of Agile roles and to help individuals develop into them
Coached team, scrum master, Business Analyst, Managers, Executive on Agile value and principles to promote continuous improvement in practice and artifacts
Championed cultural change and collaborated with other Coaches on plan and techniques for accelerating and advancing the organisation's transformation
Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency
Helped in defining the teams performance matrices beneficial for teams maturity level
Helped teams understand the concept of BDD, TDD, XP and guided few teams for the implementation of the same
Conducted agile games for
a. Better understanding of the agile concepts
b. Making retrospective meetings more effective

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Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog
Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology
Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks
Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction
Facilitated Agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance
Removed obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution

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Set up, own and uphold the process of Scrum
Setting up and managing cross-functional teams
Ensure that the process is followed by everyone on the team
Identify, escalate and have the barriers broken within the team members.
Teaching the process of Scrum to all team members
Working with Product Owners, managers and the whole team to evolve as a team
Leading a team to increase their productivity (velocity)
Facilitating the roles within the organization to work efficiently, effectively and most importantly, together
Conducting all the SCRUM meetings i.e. Planning, Daily Stand Up, Review and Retrospective Meetings
Implementing the results from the Retrospective meetings
Discussing the concerns brought up by the team members with the Managers and working out for a plan for the next sprints

To Monitor various Project Management activities adhering to Quality Standards
Attend delivery cycle meetings
To analyse user requirements
Preparing test plan for an application
Communicating with the client right from the project sign-up phase
Understanding customer requirements
Preparing documents like Traceability Matrix by referring to the System Requirements specification document.
Preparing test cases
To prepare & execute Test Plans and Test Cases
Performing Unit Testing of the database (SQL 2005) stored procedures
Checking whether the stored procedures (SQL 2005) can be optimized
Black-Box testing
Bug Analysis reporting and tracking
Beta-Testing
Preparing test scripts for each of the test cases for regression testing of the system

Education

Obtained GPA of 2.6 / 4

Obtained 67.5 %, First Class with Distinction

Skills

13+ years of software industry experience (7+ years as Scrum Master/Agile Coach and 5+ years as Senior test analyst and Business Analyst)
Experience in handling multi-cultural teams spanning India and UK
Experience in handling multi-lingual teams in Taiwan
Excellent track record in delivering projects from concept to validation with High Quality
Certified Scrum Master and SAFe® 4 Agilist, Drove adoption of Agile and Lean software development methodologies (Scrum and Kanban practices) across teams

Agile Coach