Krishna R.

Background

About Krishna R.

With over 25 years of diverse experience across various industries like Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Business Consulting, and Professional Services, Krishna has practiced Agile, SAFe, and Waterfall methodologies and delivered large-scale capability and value to clients on multimillion-dollar programs. • Known for having exceptional knowledge and experience in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe, software development life cycle (SLDC), change management, and process improvements resulting in excellence in delivery, Team and Technical Agility, Business Agility, and Customer Centricity. • Expert in setting and managing Business Owner/Sponsor and Stakeholder expectations, and building trust with Business Owners with predicted delivery, increased transparency, and reduced uncertainty in software development projects. • 8+ years’ of combined experience in software development as a Release Train Engineer/ Sr. Scrum Master on Agile and SAFe methodologies • As an RTE, Krishna launched, coached, and steered the Agile Release Train (ART) teams, facilitated the PI events, and Inspect and Adapt events • Coached leaders and Scrum Masters and helped them to become effective leaders who can support their Agile teams in delivering value to their customers. • Contributed to the overall success of the organizations by ensuring that the ARTs deliver value aligned with the organization's priorities, managing risks and dependencies, fostering Agile Culture by promoting the SAFe principles and values, by promoting continuous improvements and learning Culture. • Facilitated innovation and creativity within the Agile Release Trains by encouraging experimentation, supporting the Agile Teams in trying new ideas and approaches, and creating a culture of innovation. • Excellent communicator and communicates effectively about value delivered by the teams, teams’ performance, actionable improvement items, and the program's progress with key stakeholders, business owners, and decision-makers to make sound decisions • Hands-on leader who built top-caliber Agile and Waterfall teams of technical professionals. Led, facilitated, and coached multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural, cross-functional teams, ensured that everyone worked towards the same goals and objectives, and delivered more creative and innovative solutions to the clients by organizing and unlocking the intrinsic motivation of the diverse technical teams. • Renowned expert program/project manager who managed and delivered multimillion dollars waterfall programs/projects with huge onsite and offshore teams.