BIBIN SOMAN

Experience

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  Tesco Bengaluru

  Jun 2006 - Aug 2015

  + Own the delivery of the project from Initiation to Post Live Support with successful Live Releases.+ Owned the Agile Process Implementation & managed 2 Scrum teams [16 members].+ Plan the project based on defined need - results in detailed scope/budget/schedule baseline.+ Work with PO & Scrum Team in Release Planning & deriving scope, identifying & mitigating risks.+ Develop capacity forecasts based on the average velocity of the team & measure against actuals.+ Facilitate & execute Scrum Ceremonies during every Sprint meeting Sprint goals.+ Worked along with Microsoft & other technology vendors in delivering mobile solutions.+ Adopting & sharing best practices, resolving impediments & managing change on time.+ Liaising on functional & technical dependencies & mitigating them accordingly.+ Stakeholder & Communication management across geographies mitigating risks timely.+ Improved team knowledge to improve efficiency & focus on Continuous Improvements.+ Guide & coach Scrum Teams regularly on applying the Agile mindset & reinforcing them.+ Foster team collaboration and help in resolving conflicts & promote self-organisation.+ Identifying & resolving functional & technical dependencies between & across teams.+ Run Scrum of Scrums to resolve the management/technical impediments accordingly.+ Track and communicate team velocity & sprint/release progress with stakeholders. Show less + Own delivery of application development & support as an Onsite Consultant in UK for 3 months.+ Managed a Scrum team [12 members] with freelance consultants & vendors like Microsoft.+ Liaised with Stakeholders across business to plan, prioritize & deliver user stories with the team.+ Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing.+ Provide technical, analytical & functional guidance to project team & assist with solutions.+ Responsible for class design, code review & implementing coding standards.+ Driving best practices & continuous improvements in operational & engineering excellence.+ Ensured smooth delivery by liaising with both onsite & offshore teams meeting tight schedules.+ Monitor & control work to ensure that the project remains on track and is under control.+ Remove impediments for the development team thereby meeting deadlines.+ Ensure that the focus on quality is present by looking at the defect trends & RCA & follow-up.+ Proactively identify risks on projects & manage changes to meet business needs timely.+ Facilitate Daily Scrum to assist the project team in acheiving achieve their Sprint commitment.+ Ownership of Quality aspects of the project like Coding Standards, Metrics & Review.+ Moved between agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics & goals. Show less + Technical feasibility analysis & providing high level development estimates & timelines.+ Responsible for class design, code review & implementing coding standards.+ Ownership of Technical System Design and System & E2E Test Plans for the project.+ Ensuring that the integration tests are liased with teams & completed on time.+ Responsible for Implementation, Release Management & Post Release Support.+ Responsible for mentoring the team and keeping them updated on the latest technologies. Show less

  • ENGINEERING MANAGER & SCRUM MASTER

    Mar 2013 - Aug 2015

  • PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER/PROJECT LEAD

    Mar 2011 - Mar 2013

  • SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

    Mar 2009 - Mar 2011

  • SOFTWARE ENGINEER

    Jun 2007 - Mar 2009

  • ASSOCIATE SOFTWARE ENGINEER

    Jun 2006 - Jun 2007
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  RM India

  Aug 2015 - Mar 2019

  DEVELOPMENT MANAGER & AGILE COACH

  + Own program delivery of solutions to schedule, budget & scope.+ Develop capacity forecasts based on the average velocity of the team & measure against actuals.+ Own process-tailoring, implementation of Agile-Scrum & DevOps transformation & coaching.+ Manage 7 Scrum teams [60+ members] by managing change & mitigating risks.+ Facilitate Inception meetings with PO & Scrum Team on the Release backlog & derive sizes.+ Assess business implications by phase, implement mitigation to manage shortfalls.+ Budget & cost controlled against baselines & managing the same in a timely fashion.+ Focus on team capabilities & performance to improving efficiency & high customer satisfaction.+ Ensure Continuous Improvements are driven along with the teams, PO’s, UI & Architects.+ Ensure that the projects are delivered to standards & passes Audit process.+ Communication of metrics with stakeholders & maintaining transparency.+ Work with vendors on delivering solutions meeting quality & project standards.+ Identify potential points of contention for missed deliverables & implement mitigation strategy.+ Identifying best practices & driving them across the project with the help of the team.+ Run Scrum of Scrums to resolve the management/technical impediments accordingly.+ Run project-level retrospectives at the end of every release with stakeholders & team.+ Ensuring that the incidents & defects in Live are monitored proactively with Post-Live Support. Show less

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  EY

  Mar 2019 - now

  Program Manager for one of the Key P&U Sector Solutions for their APAC RegionsManaged a Product Team in developing Solutions for the various regions in APACPlayeda role in ensuring that thre Solutions are evangelised across regions.Ensured that an Agile Product Framework involving multiple practices was developed and executed it successfully.in driving business.Implemented Automation Initiatives to derive Continuous Improvements driving Productivity improvements thereby bringing cost benefits to the Clients and their business. Show less

  • Technical Presales/Delivery Manager

    Feb 2022 - now

  • Program Manager

    Mar 2019 - Jan 2022