Experience — 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

Detailed Description

Worked as a team member within organization level agile coaches to drive org level agile transformation
Driving organizational agility through agile values, principles, and practices for software delivery by working with the executive, mid-senior management, and development teams
Owns and demonstrates agile project/program management practices on initial release
Coaching and Mentoring multiple Scrum team's working for complex projects/programs to attain Agile Maturity level
Initiated transformation of multiple (7 teams) Enterprise product delivery teams (Product Owners, Dev, UX, Testing, and Architects) to follow agile delivery model using Scrum and Continuous Deployment in different domains
Mentored team leads to become effective scrum masters to support and sustain agile delivery
Worked with Product Managers, scrum teams, and business analysts to identify improvement opportunities in product management, requirements analysis, defect management, and estimation
Established Agile clinic for Scrum Master's grooming & knowledge sharing
Served as an Agile Coach / consultant for developing the microservices in the pilot project
Perform Agile readiness assessment by using Agile tool kit and established process for agile adoption and provided roadmap for wider adoption of agile
Support agile transformation activities by closely working with site agile coach and other scrum masters
Coach, Train and mentor team members, individually and in groups, on Scrum, Kanban and Agile practices to help teams perform better and be more self-managing

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

Detailed Description

Worked towards creating a transparent environment amongst scrum team and PO’s/customers to uncover hidden impediments/challenges and proactively took corrective and preventive actions to prevent the adverse impact on the sprint commitments
Worked with product owner for devising a strategy to prioritise user stories that maximises return on investment
Conducting the Enterprise Grooming meetings, Capacity Calculations for teams, User Stories grooming sessions
Working with 3 concurrent Scrum teams in a validated environment
Using planning poker for estimating velocity (User story points) during the Planning meeting
Scheduling and running the SCRUM meetings i.e. Planning, Daily Stand Up, Review and Retrospective Meetings
Ensuring that team is following the agile processes as well as client internal processes
Using Rally Tool for User Stories management, Release and Sprint tracking
Continuous conversation and meetings with the team members for improving the agile processes being followed by the team
Using boards and charts for better visualization of the progress for the team members
Helping team members using QC tool for Testing activities e.g. Test Script Management, Test Runs in Formal and Informal environments. Performing Test Script reviews, Test Run Approvals

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

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Aishwarya Gokhale

Agile Coach

Agile Coach / Agile Consultant

Scrum Master

Scrum Master

Test Engineer / Senior Test Analyst