
Venkata Sitaramanjaneyulu Godugu
Senior Agile and Leadership Coach
Salary / Daily rate
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Freelance
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About me
Intro
ICF-PCC certified executive coach with 15+ years transforming global organizations through Agile leadership across APAC, Europe, and Americas. Led enterprise transformations for 500+ teams at Fortune 500 companies including Microsoft, EY, and SAP. Expert in Scaled Agile, leadership coaching, and digital transformation delivering measurable organizational agility and performance improvements.
Work experience
Leadership Coach and Agile Leader
EJADA Systems Ltd
Feb 2022 - Jan 2025
3 years
Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Enterprise Agile Coach
Virtusa
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
1 year 1 month
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
An Enterprise Agile Coach responsible for Agile transformation and partner with design office/ATOM designed POD structures, pilot sprints to onboard traditional teams on AWOW and leadership coaching;
Director - Agile Leader, Lean Enterprise Agile Coach, Lean PMO
EY
Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
4 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Director - Lean Agile Leader, Lean PMO, Enterprise Agile Coach
Enterprise Agile Coach at CBRE Digital & Technology
CBRE Asia Pacific
Jul 2018 - May 2019
11 months
Gurugram, Haryana, India
An enterprise agile coach for APAC supporting from Digital&Technology center at Gurgaon, Working with teams cut across Australia, Newzeland, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Japan and India for Agile transformation.
Cognizant Technology Solutions Limited Chennai
Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
11 months
Chennai Area, India
Lean Agile Leader & Agile Coach for Chubb Digital Transformation
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
8 months
Chennai Area, India
Transformed waterfall teams in to Agile delivery for Chubb Digital transformation. Responsible for agile transformation of 50 people and setup them in to 5 scrum teams to deliver the digital transformation RPA – robotic process automation initiative with BoT’s and ML- machine learning technology.
Lean Agile Coach, Trainer and Mentor at MassMutual
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
4 months
Chennai Area, India
• Responsible for agile transformation of 60 people and setup them in to 4 Kanban teams and required roles as service request manager and service delivery manager to serve the MM Services, Operations and Maintenance Applications. • Converted traditional process in to Kanban work items and Kanban Statutes to create Kanban boards. • Worked with teams to set up the WIP limits, explicit policies and helped the teams to capture the agreed metrics (Lead Time, Cycle Time, CFD and Throughput) • Worked with customer and teams to setup the explicit policies to meet their SLA’s.
Cognizant Technology Solutions Limited Chennai
Jan 2015 - Jul 2017
2 years 7 months
Chennai Area, India
Enterprise Agile Coach, Trainer and Mentor at Aetna - AHM
Dec 2016 - Jul 2017
8 months
Chennai Area, India
• Responsible for AHM transformation of 150 new resources and train them on Agile, Scrum and SAFe frameworks and leverage them in to 30 new scrum teams. • Responsible for the growth of new and existing Scrum Masters, Mentor and guide multiple teams on a day-to-day basis • Responsible to identify organizational impediments towards to agility and conducted successful workshops to leadership to overcome, which intern help and promote Agile maturity across the organization. • Converted the AHM core business initiatives in to Digital strategies through Mobile/digital apps (iOS& Android) and for analytics with big data and data marts. • Responsible for conducting PI for new releases and Program and ROAM boards and DevOps setup.
Enterprise Agile Coach, Innovation Lead, Change Agent and Trainer at Trizetto
Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
2 years
Chennai Area, India
• Responsible for TriZetto’s Facets, QNXT, CAE, QicLink and TzF Product teams transformation strategy, Agile COP Activities and Rollout Phases for 500 skilled resources. • Collaborating closely with Global Transformation Coaches team in providing consistent and quality coaching. • Leading team of new Coaches to provide leadership in terms of vision, goals setting & objectives of successful transformation. • Acting as Change-Agent/Catalyst to remove organizational impediments in order to develop high performing organization. • Responsible for the growth of new and existing Scrum Masters, Mentor and guide multiple teams on a day-to-day basis • Responsible to identify organizational impediments towards to agility and conducted successful workshops to leadership to overcome, which intern help and promote Agile maturity across the organization. • Setting up 12 Scrum teams, Mentor Scrum Masters, Ensure full dedication in Scrum ceremonies, Product Backlog grooming, MVP concept and Backlog prioritization. • Conducted Lean Coffee events across TriZetto Product Teams to resolve the common impediments • Conducted workshops on Release Trains by leveraging program boards, ROM boards and Release planning events. • Responsible for DevOps and Performance process optimization.
Agile Coach and Scrum Master - Agile PMO
SAP LabsFreelance
Mar 2014 - Aug 2014
6 months
Gurugram, Haryana, India
SAP UOM - Upstream Operations Management is an existing software solution that supports key hydrocarbon accounting processes in upstream oil and gas operations. Accenture and SAP are now working together to extend UOM with additional capabilities on a single platform that will enable operators to deploy solutions that forecast and track production volumes from the wellhead to the sales meter. SAP UOM umbrella has 4 tracks as FDC, Hydro Allocation, Deferment and HANA all are working on Agile Scrum Framework as Product Development. To create the most accurate plans, upstream operators need complete visibility into all activities that impact delivery at the tailgate or custody transfer points. These include physical constraints, planned and unplanned logistic constraints, and planned maintenance and work over’s. SAP UOM supports three core functions to facilitate workflow: field data capture, production allocation, planning, and operations performance analysis. UOM Product Development Team: • Responsible for Project Plan • Responsible for Weekly Status report • Responsible for SoS – Scrum of Scrum • Responsible for Agile Project Management • As a Scrum Coach facilitated the daily scrums, sprint plannings and sprint retrospectives. • Facilitate the Daily Scrum and remove the obstacles to meet the sprint goals. • Facilitate the Product Demos for Product Owner and Stake holders. • Responsible for project management and resource management. PM Tools: MS Project, CMS, Visio, MS Office, cPro, Wiki, and Jira Tool
Program Manager and PMO Manager
Microsoft India and Creative Yogi
Jan 2012 - Mar 2014
2 years 3 months
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Program Manager - Bid Desk at Microsoft, Managed Multi Million USD Programs throughout the MS world (NA, Europe, LATAM, MEA and APAC). a. Strategic Plans for New Geo - Africa program: • Responsible for MS strategic draft plans/Business Development initiative for Africa region expansion and walk through the Program Director for his approval to execute. • Responsible for streamline the plans towards organization Vision. b. Bid Desk Program: Bid Architect Program offers deep Architectural support to Partner RFPs/Bids/Proposals, towards qualified Partner opportunities, The Bid managers will enable MS’s key SIs to bid and win more Tier 1 business on MS Stack shifting share from Oracle and IBM. c. Solution Factory Program: • Solution Factory program management (Status Calls, MOM, WSR & Monthly reports) • Request Hardware/Software licenses and facilitate to handover to SI Partners while inception of the solutions development. • Ensure the resource ramp-up/down based on the solution development plan. d. DPE Program: • DPE Budget preparation Forecast and budget tracking with Actuals and alarming the DPE director while overspends • Enterprise Partners Training Programs and Budget tracking • Prepare/Review the SOW’s for SI Partner training sessions and manage the approval process from DPE Director CRM Partner Management Tool Project: • Responsible for Managing the CRM Development Team (Partner Management Tool). • Responsible for Status calls to Program Director on CRM tool development • Responsible for project management and resource management.
Project Manager - Consultant
Fujitsu Consulting India
Feb 2011 - Jan 2012
1 year
IT Consultant
Mastek India, Ltd
Jun 2008 - May 2011
3 years
• PM/Functional consultant on Siebel CRM • Business Workshops for (business blue printing, requirements elicitation and requirements gathering etc) • Delivery focused and Quality assured implementations • Project management and People management • Client management and User interaction & User adaption.
Education
Osmania University
PGDCA
1997 - 1998
2 years
Osmania University
Msc