Rakesh Kannankai

Working as a Agile Program Manager/Scrum Master.

Responsibilities include;
 Drive Agile transformation across Payments & OCIO ETS teams.
 Define the scrum cadence & tailor agile R&R for transforming teams.
 Define transformation metrics & periodically gauge the team’s agile maturity using metrics.
 Define custom reports using rally data to create visibility into team’s utilization.
 Facilitate scrum ceremonies & monitor sprint progress on a daily basis.
 End to end program management.
 Participate & finetune the quarterly roadmap planning process.
 Conduct Scrum & Kanban trainings for Chennai & US teams.

Worked with Ness Technologies as Manager, playing the role of Agile Program Manager /Scrum Master at client location (PayPal Chennai).

Responsibilities include;
 APM/Scrum Master responsibilities.
 Spearheading the Agile transformation within the OCIO-ETS domain.
 Portfolio management- drive the quarterly roadmap planning.
 Facilitating scrum ceremonies for my scrum teams.
 Release planning, Capacity planning, Sprint monitoring.
 Estimation, Scheduling, Velocity tracking.
 Team Management.

• Scrum Master/Team Lead.
• Coordinate scrum ceremonies (release planning, iteration planning, sizing, daily scrum calls etc).
• Remove impediments.
• Coordinate with Product owner to understand requirements & define product roadmap.
• Track & report iteration/release level metrics to the management.
• Conduct Trainings for new joiners.
• Audit Agile practices being followed in the account.

• Scrum Master/Team Lead.
• Coordinate scrum ceremonies (release planning, iteration planning, sizing, daily scrum calls etc).
• Remove impediments.
• Coordinate with Product owner to understand requirements & define product roadmap.
• Track & report iteration/release level metrics to the management.
• Conduct Trainings for new joiners.
• Audit Agile practices being followed in the account.

• Develop code using ASP.MVC architecture.
• Analyze requirements and finalize the Functional requirement documents
• Research and Development of ASP.Net MVC 3.0 framework with Razor engine and Dell AppUIFramework.
• Implementation of functionalities and building the application to DIT environment
• Assisting developers in accomplishing tasks.

Microsoft .NET Programmer

Microsoft developer.