Nilesh Dalvi

Deputy General Manager | SAFe Agile Lead | Product Management

Sector: IT-Software

Member Since, June 17, 2021

About Me

  • Academic Level Associate
  • Experience 22
  • Gender Male
  • Industry Management
  • Date of Birth 12/07/1977

Description

Total 22 Years of IT industry experience encompassing Project/Program & Product Management, analysis, design, implementation and support of Retail, Banking, CPG, Finance & Telecom sectors.
• Excellent Skills – Communication, Interpersonal, Leadership, Self-motivated, Quick learner & excellent team motivator.
• Have managed multiple trouble accounts in CPG industry to improve delivery performance & metrics.
• Managed multiple scrum teams at Parallels, Inc. while overseeing software development projects (from conception to completion) with budgets up to $ 5-10 M.
• Mentored and coached several employees that went on to receive promotions to Project and Product Management roles.

Education

  • Sr. Management Professional | IIM Ahmedabad (2019 - 2020) IIM Ahmedabad

    Strategic & Business Management

Work & Experience

  • Vodafone India Services Pvt Ltd (2016 - Present ) Deputy General Manager | Product Management

    Product Management – Pega SAFe Agile Lead at Vodafone – Facilitate various ceremonies such as daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective etc. – Estimate and plan for the whole software development project along with team – PI Planning – Forecast the number of deliverable possible in an iteration based on evidence – Build and maintain a healthy product backlog for team in coordination with the Product Owner – Ensuring a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team – Resolve impediments, addressing team dynamics and establishing an environment where the team can be effective – Working in coordination with other scrum masters to resolve dependencies, address risks in program level SAFe Agile framework – Works in the scrum of scrum with the RTE to improve productivity of the team, enhance existing processes and improving delivery effectiveness. see less

Expertise

Project/ Program Management
SAFe Agile Product Management

Honors & awards

  • 2011 IBM Service Excellence Award

    Awarded with IBM Service Excellence Award – July 2011 during ADM – application development & maintenance.

  • 2010 IBM’s Chairman (Gerstner) Award

    Received IBM’s Chairman (Gerstner) Award – May 2010 as Project team award during Client ADM – application development & maintenance accounts (IBM Certified Associate Project Manager). Project team was selected for this prestigious award from a total of 10 outstanding & noteworthy nominations submitted that year. In this cross-IBM effort (GBS, S&D and GTS) each member played an important role in putting their best foot forward for client.

  • 2010 IBM Bravo - Team Award

    Received Best contributor awards and part of the Team Award as well IBM Bravo Award.