Sinora Bansal

Agile Enthusiast with approx. 13+ yrs. of experience in multiple Agile Transformation across Canada, USA, EMEA, APAC and Argentina in sectors like Automobiles, FinTech, Capital Markets, Digital Transformation, Telecommunication, Data Management &Technology, Marketing, Healthcare Insurance, Retail and Ecommerce for leading a corporation through Agile Transformation & building high performing teams in projects of medium to high complexity. Customer experience is the single most important differentiator for organizations competing in the digital world, when this is combined with agility and systems thinking it makes a powerful recipe for success.
• Build a Handbook and did training session on JIRA Premium, JIRA Advanced Roadmap and Confluence for Teams and Programs across Backlog management and Process Management. Step by Step JIRA hygiene to be followed by everyone establishing a single source of truth. Build Custom reports, dashboards, roadmaps, hygiene reports on JIRA
• Build Agile Playbooks for COE to enable Agile Transformation for various engagements.
• Set up Agile Delivery Model for Marketing Team, Engineering Team, Sales Team, Product Teams, Operations Team etc – focus on Iterative delivery, Data driven decision, Customer centricity and collaborations.

** Obtained Security Clearance Certificate by Government of CANADA.

Skills

Product Strategy and Roadmapping
Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean)
User Story Mapping and Prioritization
Stakeholder Management
Market Research and Analysis
Product Development Lifecycle
Cross-functional Collaboration
MVP Development
Data-driven Decision Making
Excellent Communication and Presentation Skills

Hi, I am Sinora Bansal

Agile Enthusiast with approx. 13+ yrs. of experience driving organisational change, fostering agile practices, and optimising processes multiple Agile Transformation Programs across Canada, USA, EMEA, APAC and Argentina

I am a results-driven Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach with a strong track record of delivering successful products on time and within budget. With 13 years of experience in Transformation and Delivering across multiple geographies like USA, UK, Canada, India, and in multiple domains like Banking, Finance, Digital Transformation, Automotive Industry, Telecommunication, Retail, healthcare and Insurance. I've honed my skills in leading cross-functional teams, facilitating cohorts of coaching SMs, Agile Coaches, PMs etc and building COE startups from ground up fostering collaboration, and mitigating product risks. I am certified as Agile Practitioner, SAFe 6.0 Agilist and expert in Design Thinking.

I'm equipped with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities to ensure product success. My commitment to excellence extends to exceptional communication and stakeholder management, guaranteeing client satisfaction.

I'm known for my attention to detail, organizational skills, and my unwavering focus on quality and continuous improvement. I approach each product with a strategic mindset, adapting to diverse requirements and industry trends, while always prioritizing the planning, execution, and risk management that's essential for success.

In my professional journey, I've excelled in team leadership and motivation, driving high performance among team members along with Project to product mindset shift. I believe that a motivated and collaborative team is the cornerstone of product success, and I'm dedicated to making this a reality in every program I undertake.

My technical skills encompass a wide range of project management tools and technologies, including Microsoft Project, Monday.com, Asana, Confluence, Advanced JIRA Premium, JIRA product Discovery, Easy Agile (JIRA), Jira Align, and more. I'm also well-versed in budget control using Microsoft Excel and I have a proficiency in tools like Slack, MS Teams and Basecamp. My reporting and analysis capabilities are enhanced by my expertise in Tableau and Power BI.

Some Initiatives I worked and excelled at are

• Agile Playbook - Build Agile Playbooks for COE to enable Agile Transformation.
• Process Enhancement and Optimisation: Conducted comprehensive assessments of existing processes, adeptly identifying pain points and lucrative optimisation opportunities. Successfully executed process improvements, fostering efficiency and effectiveness.
• Hygiene Report – created simple confluence/JIRA Dashboard report (using JQL) for Hygiene Check for all Product/Project teams which further helped in Backlog cleaning Data cleansing of upto 70% redundant data within JIRA in Risk Board, Team & Program Boards.
• Agility Lab - Worked with Agility Office to set up Learning portal “Agile Lab” for all Product lines being onboarded for a seamless Customer experience in educating on Agile Ways of working, Product Operating Model, and onboarding on JIRA.
• Client Centric Outcome Shaping – Proactively shaping ongoing discussions within sprint cadences - Showcase duration reduced for some teams - from 3.5 hours, down to 2 hours. 22.5 Hours Saved Per Showcase. 
• Dynamic Reteaming – Provide purpose, strategy and cross functional capabilities by regrouping the teammates. Maximized value delivered by deciding priorities for the teams.
• Agile Coaches and SM Cohorts, COP – Managed the pool of SM and AC providing support to Programs with Agile adoption and implementation. Facilitated COP for SM and POs and built a safe environment for sharing knowledge, collaboration, achieve workstream goals.
• Metrics-Driven Efficiency: Expertly collected, analysed, and applied historical and synthetic measurements to activities, enhancing estimation accuracy for aspects like capacity, throughput, response times, and Life Cycle metrics. Encouraged importance of data consistency, tracked predictability.
• Agile Maturity Assessment – Created a Coaching plan and showed significant improvements via 1:1 coaching as well as group training and workshops. Conducted Agile Maturity Assessment Surveys/Reports and provided recommendations for process improvements.
• Agile Workshops, Games, Quiz - on topics like Demand Management, Prioritization, SAFe, OKRs, Backlog Management, User Story, Story Point Estimation, Managing Risk & Issues, Dependency Management, Operational Efficiency, Cadence, etc.

M.S. In Management

Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. USA

B.Tech, Biotechnology

Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University, India