Gurpreet Kaur

Technical Business Analyst @Progressive Insurance

Mayfield, OH, US

Educate team to transition from waterfall to agile methodology. Explain them difference betweendoing agile Vs being agile. Facilitated all the SCRUM ceremonies like Sprint Envisioning, Daily Stand-up, User stories Estimationand Sprint Retrospective. Make sure acceptance criteria in the user stories is clear and easy to understand so that team candevelop the functionality efficiently Prepare Sprint review deck to report the status of the stories in the current sprint, velocity trendand sprint burn downs to the business stakeholders and other impacted teams. Conduct agile games for teams to gain knowledge in agile and actively participate in discussions. Conducted Joint Requirements planning sessions (JRP) as a facilitator to gather requirements fromthe Business User and conducted many Joint Application Development (JAD) and Joint ApplicationManagement (JAM) and conducted many Rapid application development (RAD) sessions. Collaborate with the Product Owner on project/roadmap planning, facilitated daily stand-upmeetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-relatedmeetings. Coordinated cross-functional process development and identified opportunities and improve theprocess. Developed As-Is and To-Be Business Process Models for complex processes by analyzing the currentprocesses, and gathering information from SME\'s. Involved in all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC) in agile framework. Used MS-Visio for Flow-Charting, Use Case process model and Architectural design of theapplication. Managed requirements and use cases with the help of Enterprise Architect. Used SQL, Toad, Data Warehousing and Data Cleansing for the arrangement of customer data. Queried database using Web focus and acted as a Liaison between end users and the data team(Business Intelligence Competency team).