Pash Timsina

Professional Scrum Master with over 8 years of working experience in different roles in the agile environment. Agile scrum projects implementation experiences in diverse industries like travel & vacation, POS (point of sale) & ecommerce, finance & portfolio management, construction & government, auto & health insurance, and more. Have been leading iterative development primarily using Agile Scrum, and Kanban software development methodologies for small to large scale organizations with complex requirements.

Coached multiple scrum teams and organizations on the usages of Agile/Scrum practices, benefits of self-organization and maintaining the sustainable pace. Experienced in empirically improving iterative delivery focusing on value add and a quick turnaround time on Return of Investment (ROI). Highly successful servant leader on removing impediments to achieve team productivity, facilitating scrum events, developing project teams using Tuckman’s model of forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.

Effective communicator with the ability to build a productive stakeholder relationship while leading diverse multiple teams to exceed the performance expectations. Fluent in Microsoft 365 (office) products, DevOps, SAFe and other Agile delivery frameworks. Experienced with agile velocity, capacity planning, flow metrics, story points, planning poker, release planning, burn down chart, burn up chart and more.

• Established and ensured the team follows proven scrum practices.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint review, sprint retrospectives for multiple remote teams.
• Collaborated with Product Owner on Roadmap planning and priorities.
• Collaborated with technical product manager and tech anchor to ensure project backlog was prepared and refined by the team.
• Enabled team to plan capacity for each sprint.
• Resolved conflicts and removed obstacles that occurred.
• Tracked the team progress each sprint through Velocity, Burndown charts, and other metrics.
• Coordinated customer demos as well as internal demos to enable learning and cross-training.
• Facilitated internal communication and effective collaboration.
• Helped teams implement changes effectively.
• Ensured deliverables were up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
• Helped build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it.
• Enforced definition of done (DoD) and definition of ready (DoR) of user stories.
• Created project space in Confluence.
• Coached the new team members and other members of the organization on agile methodology, scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect.
• Guided teams on project processes, deliverables and contributed to the proposal development, client training and internal capability building and helped to detail the project scope.
• Assisted the scrum teams to create effective Epic, Features, User Stories and Technical Stories.
• Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills in English.
• Collaborated across organizational boundaries, built relationships and lead by influence to achieve broader organizational goals.
• Excellent with software development and planning tools like Rally.
• Experienced in negotiating, persuading, and driving priorities while leaning on my org-savviness to work closely with global (India) teams.
• Proven ability to proactively identify and communicate risks, issues, problems, and process gaps.

Master of Science in Computer Information Systems (MSCIS) 2009

Bellevue University, Nebraska