Ashish Sahu

About Ashish Sahu

Highly accomplished IT professional with 19+ years of rich, multi-faceted experience across roles including Scrum Master, Product Owner, Business Analyst, and Test Lead. I am a certified Scrum Master (PSM I), dedicated to optimizing organizational processes and fostering high-performing Agile teams.Agile Leadership & Process Excellence:Certified PSM I and proficient in implementing Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and participating in PI Planning using SAFe.Skilled at facilitating all Scrum Ceremonies, ensuring DOR/DOD adherence, protecting the team from impediments, and maintaining a stable team velocity.Expertise in JIRA and Azure Dev-Ops for managing project artifacts, schedules, and deadlines.

Experience

1. Scrum Master

   Wipro

   Jul 2022 — Present · Pune, IN

   I am accountable for meeting Sprint goals along with team.• Helped team to resolve their impediments.• Educatedand helped PO for adopting Scrum Process properly and ensuredPO’s availability for team.• Worked closely with PO for maintaining the Product Backlog, definingUser Stories and Acceptance Criteria.• Facilitated estimation, backlog refinement and all planningceremonies.• Ensured that DORand DODare available before team start picking up user stories.• Ensured MoSCoW adherence of Sprint Backlog at the Sprint level.• Accountable for the correct implementation of the Agile Process.• Protectedthe team from external interference.• Facilitated technical assistance to the team and enabled clearcommunication amongst the team members.• Participate in Scrum of Scrum across teams and highlighted impediments.• Provide feedback on the team members performance to the Line manager.• Facilitate all the Scrum Ceremonies (Planning, Daily Standup,Grooming, review, retrospective) and ensure correct adoption.• Ensuredtimely updation of all Scrum artifacts(Product backlog, Sprint backlog and increment)• EnsuredAzure devops board is updated on a dailybasis.• Update key Scrum metrics into Wipro internal tool on a Sprint-by-Sprint basis• Created competency improvement and cross-skilling plan for the team. To ensureimprovement in competency score. Ensured multiskilling for at least 50%of the team members.• Help team attain stable velocity in few sprints with some variance of 10-15%.• Trained team on the proper adoption of Agile processes (Scrum / Kanban)• Help in adoption of engineering practices like Appian best practices, code modularization, refactoring and use of smart service components.• Recorded and owned the retrospection actions and implementation in future sprints.• Updated stakeholders on progress of the product developed.

Education

• Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Pune

  Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Management , Computers

  2001 — 2003

• Delhi Public School, Ranchi

  AISSCE, Science

• Fergusson College

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electronics

  1998 — 2001