Athira Chandrasekharan's Linkedin Analytics

Agile practitioner with over 16 years of experience in the software industry and more than 10 years coaching agile teams, delivering rapid project increments, and establishing best PMO practices in growing startups and large companies, with a proven track record in delivering projects on time, meeting or exceeding desired quality standards and scope requirements. Known for applying Systems Thinking into project team organization and interactions, facilitating stakeholder engagement and client in all phases of the product development, driving towards earlier prototyping and risk mitigation to combat late discovery of unknowns, and empowering agile teams to be more front and center of product decisions. Specialties * Agile Thinking and Practices * Continuous process improvements * Agile Transformations * Servant Leadership * Sprint planning * Backlog prioritization and refinement * Escalating and solving team impediments * Open feedback loops * Time Management * Communication skills * Problem solving Project Phases: * Onboarding * Implementation * Iteration * Delivery and Release * Support and Maintenance