Kailash Pandey

About Kailash Pandey

As a Program Manager at IQVIA, I bring over five years of experience in Agile facilitation, release management, and stakeholder collaboration within the healthcare technology sector. My expertise includes leading Scrum events, optimizing processes, and ensuring seamless end-to-end release execution while fostering cross-functional alignment. With a Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) credentials, I contribute to building high-performing teams and driving value delivery. At IQVIA, I facilitate quarterly planning and pre-Scrum of Scrums, ensuring project milestones are met with precision and agility. My approach emphasizes transparent stakeholder communication and continuous process improvement to align team efforts with organizational goals. Passionate about leveraging Agile methodologies to innovate within the healthcare domain, I am committed to enhancing team collaboration and delivering impactful solutions.

Experience

1. Program Manager

   IQVIA

   Jun 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Facilitating Scrum events, promoting Agile life cycle practices leading to Scrum team success in delivering valuable product• Identifying and implementing process improvements, on boarding, reporting improvements and training as required within and across Scrum teams.• Managing release process from end to end and facilitating release meetings to ensure the smooth execution during release process. Connect with stake holders and communicate on the release schedule and down time prior to releases• Facilitating quarterly planning meetings and consistently following up with various stakeholders for work requests, ensuring all project phases remain on schedule. Leading Pre-Scrum of Scrums before quarterly planning sessions.• Overseeing all phases of the project lifecycle, including scoping, development, integration, deployment, testing, maintenance, and production support.• Introducing improvements such as sprint reports, sprint review processes, release processes, and risk and dependency identification through Scrum of Scrums, enhancing team agility and transparency.• Creating & managing the estimates, project plan, project schedule, resource allocation to ensure that targets are reached• Employing the best practices for coding, architecture, and security; ensuring high quality development of applications

Education

• SJB institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

  2008 — 2012

• University Visveshwaraya College of Engineering

  Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Bioinformatics

  2014 — 2016