Kavita Gupta
London,UK
Summary
22 years of diverse experience in software development, delivery management and Agile coaching. For last 20 years, I have extensively worked in Lean & Agile methodologies in companies like Thought Works, Global Logic, Sky and Simply Business. I am a very experienced and result oriented Agile Coach, Team Builder, Transformation manager, Scrum Master and Agile Project Manager. I have worked in various domains like Banking & Financial services, Insurance & Media. I am a certified SAFe 4.5 Agilist, Certified Scrum Master(CSM) and Product Discovery Innovation Games Consultant. I am an MBA in Information Technology. My forte is my Mindset towards enabling teams to delivery results and practical hands-on knowledge of Agile methodology enabling enterprises and teams to achieve high outcomes. I am a facilitator and collaborator who connects and aligns people together. I am passionate about Agile and it gives me immense satisfaction to create happy and highly productive teams, creating alignment between business, stakeholders, IT teams and customers. I believe in nurturing and coaching the teams and people I work with striving for achieving business goals.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Enterprise Agile Coach
Simply Business
London
11.2022 - Current
- Facilitate alignment of Customer needs, Strategy, Business and IT goals
- Supported the change management into a Value streams based organisational structure
- Analyse and improve flow of work to enable faster and frequent business value delivery by IT
- Facilitated business process improvement by investigating issues or opportunities and recommending possible solutions.
- Delivered firm-wide support and initiatives to equip people with agile and product development skills
- Prepared and delivered agile training courses, and individual coaching sessions to employees.
Agile Coach
Simply Business
London
05.2016 - 10.2022
- Create happy and highly effective teams that deliver value to our customers early and often
- Coach and support the teams in adoption of Scrum & Kanban ways of working.
- Used Lean methodologies to re-engineer processes and increase overall productivity.
- Introduce and facilitate the usage of suitable tools like Jira, Team Retro, MIRO and Stories on Board etc.
- Analysed training needs and developed skills-based workshops for different teams.
- Facilitate the various scrum ceremonies, release planning, roadmap planning, opportunity mapping and
- product design and discovery sessions.
Senior Scrum Master
Sky
London
04.2013 - 05.2016
- Scrum master for 14 member Sky Go teams
- Delivered products on time and under budget through agile team leadership
- Monitored project status to gauge progress and meet deadlines.
- Handled negotiations with internal teams, outside vendors and service agencies to meet group needs
- Facilitate new project planning and execution.
- Facilitating Scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, stand ups, sprint reviews, product demos & retrospectives
- Delivery and release management
- Train and nurture my team on agile skills
- Formulated and submitted monthly performance reports for strategic decision-making.
Principal Consultant (Director)
Global Logic India Pvt. Ltd
Noida, India
04.2008 - 11.2012
- Helped organisations to improve customer satisfaction and achieve measurable results
- Establish effective engineering processes
- Product Manager of Velocity platform, an APLMT
- Coached teams and leadership on agile methodology
- Implemented SAFE at organisational level
- Lead an Agile consulting service globally
- Lead a large project Agile transformation (50+ team).
Scrum Master, Business Analyst
Thought Works Technologies
Bangalore, India
12.2003 - 03.2008
- Facilitate Project inception, delivery & governance though agile methods
- Release planning: Define project scope, estimation, prioritisation, roadmapping, managing schedules and budget, capacity planning etc
- Requirements definition and management
- Conducting agile workshops & coaching for both internal teams and customers
- Key Projects: Trainlines Ticketing system, Westpac Bank Superannuation System, Insurecom Insurance System, IDS Lease & Loans Management System
Senior Business Analyst
Polaris Software Lab Ltd
Gurgaon, India
03.2001 - 11.2004
- Built and nurtured professional relationships with wide range of stakeholders.
- Discovering and understanding requirement and documenting them for the engineering and test teams.
- Liaised with business and IT groups to establish short-term and long-term goals.
- Tested and maintained system operations to standardise workflow.
- Maximised project ROI, performing user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate user requirements and expectation.
Education
Master of Business Administration - IT, Marketing & Insurance
FORE School of Management
India 07/1999 - 03/2021
Bachelor of Pharmacy -
Dr. K N Modi Institute, Management
Modinagar 07/1994 - 08/1998
Skills
- Passionate and experienced Agile Coach
- Team Builder
- Facilitator and Collaborator
- Agile Transformation lead
- Scrum, Kanban And Agile Trainer
- SAFE implementation specialist
- Product discovery and planning
- Project management through lean agile approach
- Customer centric approach to align business, stakeholders and IT
- Delivering business value early and often
- Innovation precursor
- Learner
- Agile evangelist
Certification
- IC Agile Enterprise Agile Coach
- Certified Kanban Practitioner
- Certified Agile Coach
- Safe 4.5 Implementation Specialist
- Certification on Product Thinking by BCG group
- Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance
- Innovation Games specialist
Timeline
Enterprise Agile Coach
Simply Business
11.2022 - Current
Agile Coach
Simply Business
05.2016 - 10.2022
Senior Scrum Master
Sky
04.2013 - 05.2016
Principal Consultant (Director)
Global Logic India Pvt. Ltd
04.2008 - 11.2012
Scrum Master, Business Analyst
Thought Works Technologies
12.2003 - 03.2008
Senior Business Analyst
Polaris Software Lab Ltd
03.2001 - 11.2004
Master of Business Administration - IT, Marketing & Insurance
FORE School of Management
07/1999 - 03/2021
Bachelor of Pharmacy -
Dr. K N Modi Institute, Management
07/1994 - 08/1998
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