Lalit Chaudhari

Passionate and experienced Senior Scrum Master, Agile Coach with a proven track record of driving successful work method transformations for organizations and teams of all sizes. Utilizing expertise as a Coach, Mentor, Trainer, and Servant Leader, excels in Delivery and Release Management, Relationship Management, Agile Program Management, and technical skills gained from years in IT as a Developer, Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, and Release Manager. Primary objective is to enable organizations to efficiently deliver products and services by leveraging Agile methodologies such as Scrum, SAFe, Lean, Kanban, and more.

• 17+ years of IT experience comprising of 12+ years working as the Senior Scrum Master, Agile Coach & Agile Transformation Consultant for software development and services organization teams
• 12+ years of experience working in Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFe) Environment; enabling organizations and teams to cultivate Agile mindset, culture and practices
• Coached 20+ teams in supporting transformation, engagement & adoption of Agility and cultural mindset change to achieve self-organization & collaboration through empowerment. Coaching team members on Agile values & principles in order to focus on collaboration, communication and Customer value based outcomes
• Coaching and mentoring development teams, Product owners & Scrum masters on User story writing, story splitting and INVEST, estimations, DOD(Definition of Done), DOR(Definition of Ready), User Story Mapping, Product backlog management & prioritization, backlog refinement. Regular 1:1 with members, POs for individual coaching and mentorship
• Proactively assess, plan and monitor teams Agile Maturity, health metrics and product/project needs. Well versed with training & coaching Agility and Agile frameworks Scrum & Kanban along with role based trainings from scrum masters & Product owners
• Partner with Engineering and Product leaders to remove roadblocks and align on their expectations in achieving desired outcomes, results and deliverables. Built relationship with Product owner and other stakeholders to facilitate team's interaction with them
• Led various successful Agile Transformation initiatives, collaborating with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to drive organizational change and improve product delivery across multiple groups & departments
• Tracking, reporting & utilizing various agile metrics related to delivery, business outcome, product/service quality, team engagement, process efficiency, innovation, cultural adoption, stakeholders engagement, cross department collaboration, customer insights & organizational KPIs/OKRs etc.(E.g. Burn-Down/Burn-up chart, Enhanced velocity charts, Say-Do ratio, Cycle/Lead time chart & Defect trend, customer satisfaction, revenue growth, time to market, WIP, throughput etc.)
• Hands on experience in XP practices and coaching teams on CI/CD, TDD, BDD, ATDD & Pair programming
• Well versed with Agile Project Management and tools like JIRA, Rally, Azure DevOps, Leankit etc. Worked as JIRA administrator for customization & alignment.

CSM (Certified Scrum Master) - Scrum Alliance

KMP (Kanban Management Professional) - Kanban University

• Passport Number: P5474462
• Passport Expiry Date: 01/05/27