Syamili Syam ShortList

Roles: Technical Project Manager & Scrum Master

Process: NextGen Agile

• Delivered large and critical projects for the client as End to End Technical Project Manager.

• Managed and lead a team of 9 members as their Scrum Master.

• Managed the End to End Technical Testing team working across various platforms.

• Active participant throughout the project life cycle ensured (proposal, estimation and scope for the project).

• Scheduled assignments, monitored, reviewed and reported project status to higher management.

• Mitigating project risks involving higher management and seeking team’s guidance thus achieving successful

delivery and implementation.

• Handpicked the project team by taking complete ownership of people and their performance management in the

project.

• Ensured effective Design, Development, Validation and Support activities in line with client needs and

architectural requirements.

• Adherence to the organisational guidelines and processes.

• Worked with release management to track and manage transport movements from Development to Production

system with proper sequencing and dependencies.

• Experience in working in Global Delivery Model, multi-geography cross functional and technical teams.

• Performing project scrum activities with PO and team keeping Rally as single point of truth.

• Knowledge on using JIRA, Confluence, SLACK, MS Excel, PowerPoint etc.

IBSO of SAP Labs - APJ Region

• Maintaining project plans, tracking deliverable, monitoring status of projects, conducting

follow-ups and managing communications generated.

• Guiding and advising scrum teams in JIRA setup.

• Performing project review meetings with PMs, QMs & SMs to measure & monitor data

input to JIRA.

• Providing the team a wider scope on Agile and it's practice.

• Reviewing the project progress with the PMs.

• Providing staffing, on boarding & off boarding for the resources in various projects.

• Creating & administrating distribution lists.

• Follow up & Time sheet maintenance for T&M projects.

• Working on monthly reporting of financials through Cost Planning Tool and solving

queries related to the same.

• Maintaining evaluation tracker of IBSO and addressing its KPIs (revenue numbers,

client details, contract status, etc.) to higher management (VPs, G2M, etc).

• Providing innovative ideas and facilitating learning new tools & technologies with other

PMOs in the steam.

Agile Delivery Assurance

Process: Agile-Scrum

• Enabling the account to follow agile way of working to increase all the team's overall productivity and achieve

more by better collaboration.

• Ensuring adherence to Scrum ceremonies and agile way of working by conducting regular reviews and artifact

collation to support the review process reporting and checking on Rally Hygiene (CA).

• Review compliance as per the Agile Delivery Assurance Review Checklist based on evidences, arrive at Agile

Delivery Score and highlight risk areas and non-compliance.

• Provide guidance / advice to PM and DM at various process related situations.

• Ensure that any new team formed is aware of the Agile Process followed within the Philips account.

• Assure the well bringing up of team within a minimum of three sprints post initial escalation trigger.

• Review of Rally, identification of execution related risks and adherence to all the ceremonies.

• Publish the individual team’s Agile Delivery Assurance Review Report and work with the PM/SM/DM and show

progress on Delivery Assurance Score Card.

• Agile Process – Ensure 100% adherence to Scrum Ceremonies and regular identification of improvement areas.

• Report improvements through STH, AMM and Rally screenshots of Burndown and Cumulative flow.

• Review User stories structure and mapping to features for checking and reporting missed out by SMs.

• Identify and ensure effective usage of suitable software engineering tools, including Rally for Delivery assurance

and compliance.

• Monitor measure and record operational and contractual KPIs.

• Publish report for KPI variance.

• Rally review for variations / gaps over regular sprint updates.

• Knowledge on using MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, etc.