Meenakshi Allampali

ameenakshi22@gmail.com
813-505-4940
Sr Scrum Master, Agilist, Coach, Project Manager
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meenakshi-allampali-8944b5280/

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
• Certified Scrum Master with proven ability to work with self-organizing and cross-functional teams in healthcare.
• Experienced in working in various software development methodologies such as SAFE, Agile Scrum and Hybrid of
Waterfall and Agile Methodologies, also have fair understanding of other industry standard methodologies like Extreme
Programming (XP), Waterfall, Spiral and Kanban.
• Adept at working with senior leaders to define strategies and organizational structure to support Agile transformation.
Competent in stakeholder management in an organization and negotiations for the project.
• Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules at Program/Portfolio level, creating self-sustaining
teams. Conversant with creation and management of Agile reporting artifacts like Release/ Product Burndown Charts,
Sprint Burndown charts, Velocity and Earned Value Management analysis.
• Facilitate PI Planning readiness by fostering the preparation of Vision and Backlogs, and through Pre and Post-PI
Planning meetings. Summarize Team PI Objectives into and assisted in Program PI Objectives (the RTE) and publish
them for visibility and transparency.
• Extensive experience working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment as a Scrum Master and Mastered the
art of facilitating Scrum Meetings such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives
ensuring timely completion and delivery of the project to the client.
• Facilitated technical coordination between scrum teams by participating in the "scrum of scrums" and proactively
coordinating between inter-related work teams
• Participated in train ceremonies including PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, System Demo and Inspect & Adapt
• Expertise in prioritizing techniques such as MoSCoW, KANO model, value stream mapping, business value based,
technology-risk based.
• Robust experience on estimation techniques such as planning poker, t-shirt size, relative mass-evaluation.
• Able to assess risks and impediments efficiently and determine effective courses of action, resulting in successful
implementations and continuously developing enterprise Agile practices.
• Proponent of adopting Extreme Programming (XP) best practices such as Pair programming, Test Driven development
(TDD), Acceptance Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven development (BDD) for improved software quality.
• Facilitated use of Continuous Integration, Continuous Refactoring, Automated Testing and Small Releases for faster
code releases and better infrastructure management.
• Collaborated on creating Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) using MS Project, tracking schedules and milestones.
• Facilitated tracking of Sprint and Release by using Burn-down charts and tracked and managed product backlog, burn-
down metrics, velocity, and task break-down.
• Extensively used Azure for maintaining User Story Hierarchy, Backlog Grooming, Updating Tasks
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and problem-solving skills combined with excellent written and verbal
communication skills
• Helping the team to maintain their Scrum tools (Story board, Action board, charts, backlogs)
• Radiated information and ensured the team's progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the
team itself.
SKILLS:

SDLC Methodologies Traditional/Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, SAFE, Waterfall-Scrum Hybrid

Business Skills JAD Sessions, SWOT Analysis, Risk Management, Conflict Management, Pareto
analysis, Effort and Impact analysis, Regression analysis, Why-Why analysis.
Business Intelligence tools Power BI, MS Excel
Business Modeling tools MS Visio, Mockup Screens, Balsamiq, Miro, LucidSpark
Project management tools MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Office
Requirement management tools AZURE, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint
Reporting tools Power BI
Testing tools Qtest, SQUIDS

EXPERIENCE

Humana Louisville, KY
Scrum Master Aug 2021- December 2023
Humana Inc is a for- profit health insurance company. The project is based onboarding Medicaid health plans for New states
and guiding care platform.
Responsibilities:
• Mentored and coached the team members on Agile practices and standards at Team level
• Involved in identifying the problem definition as part of continuous process improvement using Define, Measure,
Analyze and Improve to support the business community of the organization
• Effectively communicated weekly project status, burn down charts to executive and business leadership
• Created bulk tasks for the developers to work on tasks, conducted sync up calls with offshore team and also conducted
most of the ceremonies over Zoom or WebEx
• Assisted PO in writing user stories, use cases and managed product backlog and adding approvals, moving stories,
tracking defects, impediments, retrospectives, monitoring burndown chart
• Worked with Program Leaders and key executive stakeholders to drive ongoing clarity of strategy, decisions, and
execution alignment
• Drove visibility and transparency of dates, milestones, and dependencies throughout the PI Process, effective teamwork,
communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups (programs) with competing priorities
• Made sure User Stories are fulfilling INVEST criteria, tasks fulfilling SMART Criteria and assisted the Product Owner
in prioritizing the Product Backlog Items (PBIs) using techniques like MoSCoW, Paired comparison and estimated
Story Points using Planning Poker
• Facilitated all scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and
Backlog Grooming
• Constantly monitored development work, SPIKE Stories, TECHNICAL DEBTS and worked on removing the
impediments to improve team's performance to meet sprint goals
• Fostered constructive and pro-active communication across organizational boundaries to ensure PI goals and priorities,
key decisions, and status is clear to all
• Advocated and educated Agile and SAFe best Practices. Maintained a strong connection with resources outside the
organization to bring in recent research, data, and tools that can continue to mature Agile
• Defined best-of tooling and automation to optimize data flow and accessibility through Program Teams and the PI
Process
• Successfully conducted various retrospective techniques such as Silent writing, mad/sad/glad, Happiness Histogram to
understand team opinion on improvements
• Fostering preparation of Vision, Backlogs, and Ideation processes
• Established strong partnership with the Agile team, work stream leads and product owners and conducted coaching
sessions regarding Agile development methods
• Participated and hosted in meetings, technical discussion, reviews and release planning
• Extensively used Azure VSTS to create and manage sprint and product backlogs, to track issues, trace requirements and
team collaboration
Environment: Azure VSTS, Hybrid Agile, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), MS Visio, QTEST, SOAP UI
Pharmfood group of Companies Detroit, MI
Scrum Master Oct 2018-July2021
The project is focused on implementing snowflake Schema for datawarehouse implementation. Worked on Datamarts and
Data transformation projects. In addition to reporting projects in parallel, handled multiple teams as a Scrum master and
project manager.
Responsibilities:
• Carried thorough understanding of Agile Values and principles as outlined in Agile Framework and conducted trainings
on it.
• Mentored and coached the teams on Agile methodology and Scrum values and process.
• Initiated and participated in cross-organization dependencies for/from other scrum teams monitored and tracked PI
milestones and facilitated mitigation of issues and risks.
• Worked with leadership to assess and launch Agile Release Trains (ART): ensured team roles are staffed with the right
people; ensured suitable Agile framework is used; measured need for scalability and appropriate Agile framework.
Worked with onsite and offshore development teams on prioritizing user stories and creation of sprint backlog
• Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's
throughput.
• Responsible for ensuring User Stories meet the INVEST Criteria and tasks meet SMART criteria
• Assisted the Product Owner and business users with providing detailed requirements for the team to start the
implementation. Helped the team in estimating story points and deciding the sprint backlog for every sprint.
• Implemented Moscow, Business value-based technique for user story prioritization in Product Backlog and Scrum
poker, T-shirt sizing for user story estimation in Sprint backlog and assisted in drafting the Scrum Artifacts by
collaborating with technical teams and stakeholders
• Worked with the product owner and development team in deciding and negotiating the definition of done and acceptance
criteria for Potentially Shippable Product Increment (PSPI).
• Tracked Sprint progress using Sprint Burn down Chart and Burn up Chart. As an experienced Scrum Master, anticipated
and removed impediments from project team's path and pushed them to deliver quality results based on schedule.
• Effectively handled the Requirement Churn during the sprint cycle and added the PBI to the next sprint.
• Improved the Teams efficiency through retrospective feedback by conducting Happy Histogram, Silent Writing
Technique and made sure that the necessary improvements are been made for further sprints.
• Assisted in removal of impediments and monitoring defect logs, which in turn assist in velocity calculation for superior
planning of upcoming sprints.
• Proficient using Jira for creating individual/group dashboards, making user stories, creating defects, updating tasks and
tracking team's work. Coordinated with Scrum Masters to relegate dependencies during the sprint.
Environment: Agile/Scrum, MS Visio, JIRA, Informatica, UAT Testing , HIPPA Compliances.

ABH Natures Long Island, NY

Scrum Master May 2017-Oct 2018
The scope of this project was creating a data warehouse for business analysis. There were multiple changes in the
regulations, and it was tough to analyze the impact of those changes on the performance of the organizations. We decided
to create a data warehouse which will be used for analysis of the business and the trend of customer behavior. We also
integrated Tableau for creating reports and dashboards for the management team.

Responsibilities:
Process documentation (Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Requirements Specifications Documents (RSDs),
business process maps, user guides).
•Conducted analysis of HIPAA Established a Waterfall-Scrum hybrid analysis and development methodology. Conducted
user interviews, gathering requirements, analyzing the requirements using Requisite pro.
•Assisted teams with transition to Scrum while remaining Agile in discovering and exploring what best works for each team.
•Promote application of Agile principles and values and their application through popular methodologies and frameworks
(Scrum, Kanban) at the team and management levels.
•Act as the bridge between the Product Manager and the scrum delivery team and align both parties to a common goal while
managing stakeholder expectations.
•Coach and Guide Scrum teams towards improving the way they work and facilitate the agile ceremonies including sprint
planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, software demonstrations.
•Heavily involved in the agile transformation of the company by providing new innovative ideas within the company.
Introduced ideas & practices to create better collaboration & transparency between multiple scrum teams.
•Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability,
and visibility.
•Kept a track on inter-dependencies between the teams and blockers and guided the team to handle them accordingly.
Removed roadblocks for successful iterations, which led to the transition of releases on time
•Organized and Facilitated Scrum meetings twice weekly to tracks dependencies and blockers across domain teams and
resolve them. Conducted end user business process discovery and process improvement.
•Created and maintained business and compliance and took part in discussions for designing the healthcare transactions
system and data warehouse to be HIPAA.
•Identified/documented data sources and transformation rules required to populate and maintain data warehouse content.
Responsible for indexing of the tables in the data warehouse.

Environment: Agile/SAFe, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), MS Visio, JIRA, Qlikview, Swagger, Informatica, UAT
Testing, Selenium, Cucumber, HP ALM.

Benzer Tampa, FL
Scrum Master Dec 2016 - May 2017
The scope of this project was to develop a new web portal and create a new mobile app for the customers. Customized CRM
tool was developed using salesforce cloud CRM to track the customer queries and an enterprise data warehouse was created
for business analysis using Tableau as a BI tool. The goal of the project was to make the existing application more efficient,
improve the customer satisfaction score and reduce the call waiting time for customers.
Responsibilities:
• In addition to typical Scrum ceremonies, responsible for: Roadmap planning, Release planning, Resource planning,
Product Backlog Grooming, Team Building in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Prepared sprint metrics removed impediments towards the delivery of work and executed and monitored the planned
work.
• Kept Product Owners and the Stakeholders transparent in Sprint success and blockers.
• Looked out for improvement opportunities to increase team velocity, quality assurance and quality control of the work
undertaken, and delivery of new features as agreed upon during sprint planning.
• Helped the product owners to come up with set of stories for better understanding for estimate and development.
• Worked closely with agile teams to understand their needs and make sure that the JIRA tool meets those needs.
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
• Protected team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritized resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the
on-time delivery of initiatives
• In coordination with Release Train Engineer (RTE), to facilitate Scrum of Scrum (SoS) ceremony and participated to
update the project status and to work on the progress of the project.
• Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's
throughput
• Worked with various contributors of the project for communications, negotiations and setting realistic expectations on
the deadlines and tracked assigned tasks
• Revised and prioritized the Product Backlog by conducting requirement churning sessions with various Business /
Product Teams
• Made sure all the Quality assurance tests were carried out as per the release criteria and had enough time for hardening.
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated
proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time.
• Improved the team's engineering practices and tools as required. Fully facilitated productivity, and make sure teams
have the tools and know-how they need to succeed.
• Representing the team to report overall project status, upcoming risks and suggest solutions.
• Monitored the performance of the application or solution and collecting feedback from users
Environment: Agile/Scrum, SharePoint, XML, Rational Requisite Pro, Cognos, MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Visio,
HTML, MS Windows