Piyush Kothari

Background

About Piyush Kothari

14+ years of overall IT experience with a strong Techno functional background in End-to-End product Development using Agile methodologies (9+years) and Six Sigma (2 Years) methodologies • 7+ Years of effective working experience as a Scrum Master• PSM 1 and PSM 2 certified Scrum Master with Rich exposure to Agile methodology and agile implementation.• Working knowledge of multiple agile techniques/ frameworks like SCRUM, Kanban, Scaled Agile and Nexus• Well experienced in mentoring, guiding teams based on scrum guide and agile best practices• Experienced in Coaching leadership, Facilitation, Empowerment, increasing transparency, frequent inspections, and openness towards adaption.• Good experience in facilitating agile ceremonies like Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Sprint Review, Retrospective meeting Scrum-of-Scrums• Responsible for working with key stakeholders and scrum teams to define and maintain awareness of internal and external agile standards, identifying improvement opportunities with an intention of levelling up agile maturity.• Responsible for establishment of a working environment for scrum teams which resonates the culture of Trust, coloration, self-organized group, commitment, and accountability towards the deliverables• Responsible for helping team in resolving the impediments and blockers.• Good knowledge of concepts of burn down, burn up, sprint velocity mapping and multiple agile reports.• Aware of top trending Agile enablement tools suite in market and approaches to leverage the most feasible tools based on team’s requirement.• Experienced in transition of projects from waterfall framework to scrum and scaled agile frameworks• Experienced in playing active roles at organizational level towards improving the maturity of Agile practices by being part of Agile enablement core group• Experience across all stages of the Software Development Lifecycle involving requirements elicitation, authoring user stories, reviewing workflows, designs, test strategies, conducting business and user acceptance testing (UAT).