Agile Central | Swati Chandra | Agile Coach and trainer

SWATI CHANDRA AGILE TRAINER AND COACH

Swati Chandra has 12+ years of experience in the field of Agile Coach, Agile Trainer, Scrum Master, Business Analysis, Project Management, and Technical Development. She started her IT career in waterfall model developing projects in Java, J2EE. Inducted into Agile in 2012, Swati has been leveraging Agile and servant leadership principles extensively to drive successful product development and business adoption outcomes.

Experienced Agile Coach and Trainer

1. Trained employees across the organization on Agile principles, processes, practices and tools.

2. Experienced in Scaled Agile Framework and implemented the same in the industry.

3. Forming to performing scrum & kanban teams.

4. Public Speaker on Agile, Scaling Agile, Kanban, organisational culture, facilitation techniques & technical practices.

5. Latest presentation was on Enterprise Agility topic ‘Liberating from the challenges of Enterprise Agility’ at Agility Today, Gurugram, India in March 2020.

Swati Chandra

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MY PROFESSIONAL CAREER

B.E (Computer Science)

Vishveswaraiah Technological University

1998 to 2002

05-2004 to 01–2006

Software Engineer

Infosys Technologies Ltd, Hyderabad

Software Engineer

Impetus Pvt Ltd, Noida

06-2006 to 10-2006

10-2006 to 06-2008

Software Engineer

Keane India Pvt Ltd, Noida

Corporate IT Trainer

Various corporates

05-2008 to 05-2011

10-2012 to 10-2014

Assistant Manager

HT Mobile Solutions Ltd, Gurgaon

Project Manager, Scrum Master & Trainer, Product Owner

Aricent Technologies Ltd, Gurgaon

11-2014 to 03-2019

10-2019 till date

Agile Enabler & Trainer - Freelance

Pan India

Consultant - Scrum Master, Product Management

Baking It Ltd, London, UK

12-2020 till Date

Long BIO

Agile Enabler & Trainer having 12+ years of experience in the IT industry. Worked in various roles like PM, Scrum Master, Business Analyst, Corporate Trainer (Agile,Java, J2EE) for IBM, Infosys, Fidelity, PVR cinemas, Wipro, Hewitt Associates, EXL Services.

Having extensive industry experience in varied roles and equipped with best agile certifications -

As a SAFe Program Consultant, can lead all levels of an organization through a Lean-Agile transformation at scale by training, coaching, facilitating, and mentoring. I can launch and facilitate an Agile Release Train (ART).

As an Agile Enabler/ Trainer, can facilitate, train, coach organization/multiple teams for agile transformation.

Adapted with the deep understanding of Lean-Agile principles, practices and frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe and agile working experience

As an Agile Trainer & Coach, conducted Scrum and SAFe Trainings in multiple companies like EXL Services etc in 2019 & 2020, coached teams on transformation within account developing products like NMS and IBM VM Recovery at Aricent from 2014.

As an Agile speaker, Hosted Conference Workshop on 'Liberating from the challenges of Enterprise Agility' at AgilityToday, March 2020.

As a Scrum Master, facilitated scrum events, resolved impediments, supported team to effectively integrate business during backlog grooming and sprint reviews, supported the product owner to manage their backlog, implemented tools for agile delivery, published charts.

As SAFe Scrum Master, facilitated team and program level events, team’s coordination with other teams on ART, developed Lean-Agile mindset.

As a Product Owner with good communication skills, engaged in product roadmap, story mapping, release planning, product backlog management, prioritization, inspect & evaluate and usage of tools like Jira, Confluence, Version One.

As an Agile Development Team member, actively involved in user stories creation, estimation, sprint events, used Xtreme programming techniques like BDD, TDD, used CI/CD pipeline based on Jenkins for clients like IBM, Adtran.

Holds and participates in webinars and meet-ups on agile & related topics.

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Other Releavent Experiences

Business Analyst
Product Management
Agile (Scrum) Methodology
Agile approaches like Extreme Programming
ETL tools like Jira, Confluence
Software Development

Other areas of expertise

Production Support
Onsite Co-ordination
Quality Management
Application Design
Application Development

Business domains worked on

Banking and Financial Services
Mobile
Telecom
Financials
IT Industry
Food Industry