Ninad N.

About Ninad N.

I deliver large-scale Agile programs that work. With 10+ years across API banking…

Experience

1. Lead Consultant

   Xebia

   Oct 2024 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Successfully managed the adoption and expansion of Scrum, instilling a culture of team-oriented work that brought important banking projects within deadlines and in accordance with all requirements.• Steered companywide Agile transformation initiatives, assisting teams to work smarter and faster and align their work with the overall business objectives.• Facilitated large-scale planning sessions (Program Increment Planning) to enable teams to come to consensus on priorities, identify potential issues early, and establish clean goals.• Assisted teams in dividing large projects into discrete, understandable tasks, enhancing project clarity and raising confidence in on-time delivery.• Conducted morning team check-ins to ensure everyone was aligned, quickly resolve problems, and continue making progressive moves.• Conducted all primary Agile meetings — sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives — to keep work in progress and foster ongoing improvement.• Designed simple-to-interpret reports and dashboards that provided leaders with real-time information about project status, team progress, and potential risks.• Enabled coordination across multiple teams for seamless handoffs and coordinated deliveries across development, testing, and deployment.• Dialogue continually maintained with business managers and technical teams to define project objectives, establish expectations, and provide actual value.• Identified risks proactively and managed them to ensure projects were on time without deviating from any banking regulations and rules.• Applied visual tools such as Kanban boards and burn-down charts to monitor progress, allowing everyone an easy view of status and priorities.• Monitored key Agile metrics such as team velocity and task completion rates to look for opportunities to continue to get better.• Ensured key Scrum documents (Product Backlogs, Sprint Backlogs, DoD, DoR) were up to date to facilitate transparency, accountability, and audit readiness.

Education

• MIT School of Management, Pune

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

  2015 — 2017

• Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Teamwork
• Team Management
• English
• Leadership
• Engineering
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Matlab
• Public Speaking
• Spss
• Presentation Skills
• Customer Service
• Chemical Engineering
• Analysis
• Research
• Microsoft Project
• Management
• Microsoft Word
• Chemistry
• Microsoft Office
• Process Engineering