Rani Nair

Experience

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  IBS Software

  Oct 2005 - Dec 2022

  Product Owner – IBS Software PVT LTD, Trivandrum (Jan 2018 – till date)Product owner of Agile Squad for revamping the Hospitality gateway product from existing monolithic platform to cloud based (AWS) scalable distributed microservices , integrating major functional modules like Shopping, Hotel Inventory Data processing and Booking. The functionalities covered are for renowned customers in travel & hospitality industryCreation,Prioritization and management of product backlog inline to the Product Roadmap andderiving release plans through Value-driven Delivery model (VDD) in which high valuerequirements in the Prioritized Product Backlog will be delivered incrementally to the customers.Handling multiple Squads running in Scrum and Kanban model,collaborating with the scrum masters to run successful Sprint Planning, Release Planning and Sprint Reviews & Retrospectives. Collaborate with development teams to produce technically focused user stories and engineering tasks to ensureaccuracy and feasibility.Defining the DOR and DOD of the Sprint Backlogs and Certifying the Sprint Increments for Production Release Show less · Work with Senior Product manager to do the Business EffectivenessReview and take corrective steps if required· Analyzing and defining the Product Vision, directing end-to-end productdevelopment life cycle,prioritizing the features by following VDD and RICEscore Model etc.· Reviewing and approving the changes that come into the Product Teamas Change Control Product Board member· Creating industry standard best practices/processes re-usable artifacts· Conducting Pre-sales demo of the Product to the prospective customers Show less Senior Business Consultant – IBS Software PVT LTD, Trivandrum (April 2009 – till date)(IHG, Mariott, DisneyLand Paris, Hyatt,Atlantis,MBS,Booking.com,Expedia,FlightCentre,British Airways etc.)-Worked as SME with regards to Distribution platform product as well as the Booking Engine (both B2C and B2B) that collaborates Hospitality and Airline Domain-Pre-sales support activities including evaluating and formulating responses to RFIs/ RFPs, customerdemos and discovery workshops.-Facilitating requirement elicitation workshops-Business analysis,functional solutioning,process flow design, preparation of Functional SpeciationDocument,BRDs, Approach Documents, SUCs etc-Validating the business need and solution proposed by the implementation teamsClient management, developing a good working relationship with stakeholders and delivering value to their business processes-Introducing solutions that can generate value for the customers and the product Show less

  • Product Owner

    Jan 2018 - Dec 2022

  • Product Manager Products(Additional Responsibility)

    Dec 2017 - Dec 2022

  • Senior Business Consultant

    Apr 2009 - Dec 2022

  • Quality Assurance Engineer

    Oct 2005 - Mar 2009
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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Mar 2022 - now

  Product Owner