Poornima Manian

Client : NatWest Group, United Kingdom

• Facilitate ART Event : Facilitate program increment (PI )planning sessions, ensuring across multiple teams to meet business objectives
• Coaching and Mentoring :Collaborate with Product owners and stakeholders to prioritize and refine the product backlog. Lead and mentor scrum masters and agile teams in Implementing best practices to enhance productivity and quality
• Cross Team Co-ordination :Ensure effective communication and collaboration across multiple teams to achieve program goals and deliverables
• Risk Management: Identify, track and manage risks and impediments, ensuring that they are addressed in a timely manner.
• Stakeholder Engagement :Work closely with business stakeholders, product management and other leadership roles to ensure alignment on priorities and goals.
• Performance Tracking : Monitor and report on program performance, including progress toward objectives, team velocity and other key metrics.

Client : NatWest Group, United Kingdom

• Facilitate Scrum Events: Organize and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Remove Impediments: Identify and address any obstacles that may hinder the team’s progress, working with stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Project Planning: Develop comprehensive project plans, including scope, goals, deliverables, resources, timelines, and budget.
• Team Leadership: Lead cross-functional project teams, fostering collaboration and ensuring that all team members are aligned with project objectives.
• Stakeholder Management: Communicate effectively with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project status, risks, and issues.
• Risk Management: Identify potential project risks and develop mitigation strategies to address them proactively.
• Facilitate Communication: Act as a bridge between the development team and other stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and understanding of project goals and status.
• Change Management – Sound knowledge of the change management processes, creating a master change record, task change record and tracking it to closure

• Mainframe Lead technically involved in understanding the requirements, developing the high level solution design, detailed design and developing the codes using COBOL, IMS -DB2 and JCL.
• Collaborate with the project's managers and developers to complete work aligning with established objectives.
• Took complete ownership of the projects from offshore, and thereby mentoring the team.
• Reviewed activities regularly to identify opportunities for improvement.

• Involved in detailed documentation of software development processes and updates.
• Coded programs in COBOL- DB2 and JCL based on specific functionality requirements.
• Employed best practices in software development to complete high-quality applications in line with schedule targets.
• Developed technical handbooks to represent code and design of new applications.