SAFe Scrum Master

We are a group of Trainers working with leading companies like Banking & Insurance, Manufacturing, Retail, Electrical, FMCG, Oil & Gas, Auditing and many more. We are not just a training company, but have a well-known reputation in agile coaching and mentoring in India, Malaysia, Singapore, and the rest of the APAC region. Our public guidance program for Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Agile Trainers is a well-known program among professionals. We are equally renowned incorporates for running coach-to-coach programs that rely on agile ways of working. Since this pandemic, we are giving live virtual classes and all certificate training through live virtual mode. We have been collecting feedback since inception to better serve our participants.

• Safe®
• Introduction to Scrum
• Examine basic agile development concepts
• Explore Scrum Basics
• Build agile team positions in a secure enterprise
• Characterization of the Scrum Master Role
• experience program improvement plan
• repeat execution feature
• Finished Program Upgrade
• Play the Scrum Master Role in a Secure Enterprise Facilitate
• Scrum Events Facilitate Iteration Planning Support Effective
• ProgramsCoach Agile Team

With more than 21 years of experience in the IT industry that started with HCL Tech back in 1999, my current set of responsibilities as Agile Scrum SAFe Consultant & Coach are as follows:

o Collaborating with roles at all levels to help embrace Agile Scrum Kanban values and principles
o Coaching, Training, Mentoring and Enabling based on the current situation and the desired state
o Implementing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) across multiple BUs in the organization
o Setting up teams to work in Agile, Scrum and XP and target the Program level goal of an Agile Release Train (ART) setup for a cadence
o Train and coach the starting teams for the PI Planning and I & A Meetings every Program Increment (PI)
o Work with Tools team to customize TFS so that SAFe processes can be aligned
o Capturing the maturity of Agile Teams and work on a roadmap for their transformation
o Run Role Based coaching sessions for Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Teams
o Participate & observe teams in various scrum ceremonies and suggest ways for improvement
o Work with Senior Management to introduce Agile, Scrum and SAFe & explain its benefits

As a SAFe Trainer, I have trained:
o 1000+ participants in various certified SAFe trainings
o 20+ public batches across various cities in India and abroad (US, Malaysia)
o multiple corporate batches in India,Malaysia, USA having 15+ participants

I also have experience in the following domains:

Domains – Automotive Software, Semiconductor & Chip Design, Healthcare, Travel, Security, Retail, Insurance, Financial Invoicing, Wiki 2.0, Higher Online Education, Lighting & Optics, Testing Automation & Royalty Management

Leading SAFe®
Implementing SAFe®
SAFe® Product Owner / SAFe® Product Manager
SAFe® Scrum Master
Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
SAFe® for Teams
SAFe® Release Train Engineer
SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master
SAFe® DevOps Training Course
SAFe® for Architects
Agile Product Management
SAFe® for Government
Agile Software Engineering

Kaizen as the way of delivery – The SAFe Scrum Master helps the team to learn from their mistakes and instills a sense of ownership for their actions and commitment. With the facilitation of the team retrospective, they try to surface hidden emotions and find new effective ways of improvement. Also, they help the team with problem-solving methods to create a better self-organizing team.
Towards achieving sprint/release goals – The SAFe Scrum Master helps the team in creating increments that not only add value but also improve productivity. They help the teams to become more predictable. With effective facilitation, the team comes out with positive outputs after the end of each ceremony. The SAFe Scrum Master helps them through planning their iterations and scaling them up to the release planning level. They help organize the PI events which require certain pre-work for better PI outputs.
Achieving the objective of release train – As part of scaling agile, the SAFe Scrum Master helps in aligning the teams with larger release trains, ensuring the common organization goal is met.
Support the product owner for product backlog management and prioritization – The SAFe Scrum Master assists the Product Owner to manage the backlog and helps them with prioritization and estimation methods to define a healthy backlog.
Being a change agent for SAFe adoption – The SAFe Scrum Master serves as a pillar in the implementation of scaled agile and its practices. They coach the different layers in the framework by participating in the Scrum Master Community of Practice and supporting the organization’s coaches.
Manage impediments backlog and remove them – Many times, the implements go beyond the scope of the team’s work span, and in such cases, the Scrum Master can reach out to external entities in getting the issues resolved. This helps in the timely execution of the sprint.
Endorses SAFe practices – SAFe offers direction to support the teams in continuously improving the quality of their deliverables and adhering to the Definition of Done.
Displays Lean-Agile leadership – Reveals the actions of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile Mindset. Helps the team embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices.
Facilitates SAFe ceremonies – Facilitation is yet another activity in the bucket list of responsibilities. Facilitation of events, like the Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective ensures the optimal team performance and meeting of the timelines. The SAFe Scrum Master comes up with innovative ways to make the ceremonies effective and fruitful.
Builds a highly motivated and self-organized team to deliver high business value – This is one of the main responsibilities of the SAFe Scrum Master. The focus is on improving the team dynamics and functioning. The Scrum Master coaches the team on self-organization through coaching/activities. The SAFe Scrum Master ensures the team maintains healthy relationships, by handling internal conflicts and challenges. Conflicts arise but being emotionally intelligent and keeping the dynamics healthy helps the team to move ahead.
Understand team dynamics – Every team in Agile has its own way of working together as a group. They create their working agreements which are usually lightweight, but as they are committed to following certain rules, the SAFe Scrum Master is responsible for emphasizing that work is carried out in accordance with those rules. The rules can be around ceremonies, quality, deliverable timeline, or just around communication. It can be anything that helps the team to stay bonded, transparent, and disciplined.
Manage the dependencies with other teams involved in the program – The SAFe Scrum Master helps the development team to constantly expand in terms of interactions and working rapport with other teams. They represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meeting, which helps the team to stay updated on the latest developments in terms of backlog, dependencies, risks, or other concerning areas. It helps them to be ready for any upcoming challenge. The Scrum of Scrums helps the team build active associations with the System Team, Architecture, and Shared Services, etc. Not only the Scrum Master, but the complete team holds the responsibility of creating a working relationship across the teams.
ART Ceremonies – In the Scaled Agile framework, apart from team ceremonies, the SAFe Scrum Master has to assist the team in setting the groundwork for Agile Release Train activities, which includes PI Planning, focusing on laying out a plan for an entire release, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt.
Facilitates estimation from Feature to story level – The development teams need support in understanding the estimation of the backlog items both at sprint and release level. The SAFe Scrum Master helps them identify models that can be used for efficient estimation of stories and features. Estimation helps the team in planning their work for upcoming sprints, which in turn, helps in the overall commitment.
Improves organization agility – Along with working through their teams, the SAFe Scrum Master is required to work collaboratively with other Scrum Masters, management, and stakeholders to help the team stay aligned with the committed goals, and promote improvement towards the overall development of the Value Stream. The SAFe Scrum Master has to focus on both internal and external team activities to ensure effective and timely deliveries.

#1.How long have you been working as SAFe Scrum master? Did you have prior experience working with individual agile teams as a Scrum master?

Did you observe any difference with the way Scrum master has to work with individual agile teams and SAFe agile teams?

#2.Do you think SAFe agile teams require Scrum master?Don’t you think teams can deliver on their own without Scrum master support?

#3.As a SAFe Scrum master, how many teams did you work with in your earlier organization? How many agile teams do you think SAFe Scrum master can support with out any issues?

#4.What are the main responsibilities of SAFe Scrum master ?
#5.How as a SAFE scrum master, you could help the organization to build high performance agile teams?
#6.As a SAFE Scrum master , how do you coach agile teams to deliver maximum business value?

#7.As a SAFE scrum master, what are the scrum events which you facilitate for the agile teams you work with?
Do you see any difference with the way these scrum events are conducted between individual agile teams and agile teams in SAFe enterprise?

#8.As a SAFE Scrum master, how do you work with agile teams to make sure their iteration deliverables are done on time?

#9.As a SAFe Scrum master, what’s your role in relation with Program Increment?
#10.What are the agile frameworks which are followed by the teams with which you work as SAFe Scrum master?

Do you think all agile teams should follow the same framework in a SAFe environment?

#11.What are impediments? Do you think as a SAFe scrum master, you are completely responsible to remove impediments?

#12.What’s your experience as far impediment removal is concerned? Do you work with teams to make them solve things on their own?

#13.As a Scrum master, how do you help teams to support and implement SAFe principles and practices?

#14.As a SAFe Scrum master, do you need to work with Release Train Engineer?

If YES is the answer, what are the scenarios/situations Scrum master should work with Release Train Engineer?

If NO is the answer, how do you think agile teams you work with as a Scrum master meets the release targets and align with overall release?

#15.As a SAFe scrum master, did you ever get a chance to work with Solution Train Engineer? Why do you think Scrum master would work with Solution train engineer?

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The instructor was able to give examples of real-life scenarios. The instructor demonstrated to be experienced in the field.

Well-taught course. The instructor was very good at keeping the students focused on the important elements of Scrum and it’s different roles and attributes. Patiently kept us on track and didn’t let us stay into incorrect thinking.

The Agile for Everyone Course was a great introduction to Agile fundamentals as we embark on our agile transformation with our project managers. Gourab ensured the training was tailored to our environment and was a great blend of instruction, examples and activities.

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Gourab’s Scrum and Product Owner training was extremely valuable for our NATO teams. Due to Covid-19 we had to move our training from in-person to an online format. Gourab ensured the two-day training was engaging and interactive. The material was relevant and the practical exercises really helped our teams understand how to integrate the lessons into our daily work and processes. I highly recommend Gourab and his team!
Gourab knew the material and subject matter intimately and was able to respond to questions about the application of the principles in a clear and thoughtful way. There needs to be a course for product managers.

There was a lot of quality content. I feel like I learned a lot.

The instructor was very knowledgeable did a good job facilitating discussions and leading class through exercises. (class size was great – small and focused)!

This two-day course will help attendees gain an understanding of the role of the Scrum Master in a SAFe enterprise. Unlike conventional Scrum Master training (CSM/PSM) that focuses primarily on the Scrum Guide, the SAFe Scrum Master course explores the role of the Scrum Master in the context of the entire enterprise and prepares attendees to successfully plan and execute the Program Increment (PI), the primary enabler of alignment throughout all levels of a SAFe organization. This includes learning the key components of Agile at scale development, how Scrum is facilitated throughout the enterprise and how to execute Iteration Planning.

Attendees discover how to build high performing Agile teams by becoming a servant leader and coach and how to coach those teams to deliver the maximum business value at scale. SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM) certification signifies that people are prepared to perform the role of Scrum Master in a SAFe environment, increasing their value to teams and organizations that are implementing SAFe.

In-depth knowledge and deep real-life Agile experience that brings practical expertise to the sessions
Highly experienced instructors with more than five years of experience in training delivery
Great track record of successfully conducting hundreds of public and private programs
Courses incorporate custom case studies to give a real project perspective
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