Rupali Deshmukh
Agile Coach
Pune
Summary
Transformational Enterprise Agile Coach with 16 years of experience guiding large-scale Agile transformations in global organizations. Expertise in designing and implementing Agile operating models and coaching leadership teams to adopt Agile practices. Led initiatives across 30 teams and trained over 500 professionals, enhancing delivery performance and business outcomes.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Agile Coach
Capgemini
01.2025 - Current
- Led Agile transformation initiatives across 30+ teams, driving adoption of standardized Agile operating models and delivery practices.
- Co-designed and implemented Agile Transformation Blueprint, enhancing governance, team structures, delivery cadences, metrics, and organizational operating models.
- Trained and coached 500+ employees including senior leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and delivery teams on Agile principles and Lean practices.
- Partnered with 4 Senior Value Streams and successfully transformed 30+ teams through coaching, mentoring, and change enablement.
- Established Agile governance frameworks and performance metrics, increasing transparency and delivery predictability.
- Facilitated leadership workshops, Agile maturity assessments, retrospectives, and continuous improvement initiatives to drive organizational agility.
- Coached teams on backlog management, prioritization, estimation, dependency management, and release planning.
- Improved delivery outcomes by reducing cycle time, lead time, and increasing throughput and release frequency.
- Client - HSBC Global Payment Solutions (GPS)
SAFe Team Coach
Capgemini
08.2024 - 01.2025
- Coached and mentored 4 Agile teams in adopting and maturing SAFe practices, aligning team efforts with Agile principles, Lean thinking, and organizational goals.
- Facilitated key SAFe events, including Program Increment (PI) Planning, Inspect & Adapt (I&A) workshops, Scrum of Scrums, Iteration Planning, System Demos, and Innovation & Planning (IP) Sprints.
- Coached Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and team members on backlog management, prioritization, estimation, capacity planning, and value-driven delivery.
- Utilized flow-based metrics, including Cycle Time, Lead Time, Throughput, Velocity, and Work in Progress (WIP), to identify bottlenecks and facilitate continuous improvement initiatives.
- Created psychologically safe team environments, fostering trust, collaboration, accountability, and open communication to enhance overall team dynamics.
- Fostered psychologically safe and high-performing team environments, promoting trust, collaboration, accountability, and open communication.
- Supported Agile maturity assessments and developed coaching plans to help teams progress in their Agile and SAFe adoption journey.
- Guided teams in defining and refining working agreements, Definition of Ready (DoR), and Definition of Done (DoD) to improve quality and consistency of delivery.
- Client - National Grid,UK
Scrum Master | Project Lead
Persistent
01.2019 - 08.2024
- Served as Scrum Master for 2 cross-functional Agile teams, facilitating the successful delivery of business and technology initiatives.
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement, and Release Planning.
- Partnered closely with Product Owners to maintain a healthy product backlog, prioritize work effectively, and ensure alignment with business objectives.
- Coached teams on Agile principles, Scrum practices, and self-organization, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Tracked and analyzed Agile metrics such as velocity, sprint burndown, cycle time, and team capacity to enhance delivery predictability.
- Facilitated collaboration between development, testing, and business stakeholders, improving communication and delivery outcomes.
- Facilitated collaboration among development, testing, and business stakeholders to strengthen communication and delivery outcomes.
- Supported the adoption of Agile best practices, including Definition of Ready (DoR), Definition of Done (DoD), estimation techniques, and effective backlog management.
- Facilitated retrospectives and developed data-driven action plans to drive continuous improvement initiatives, enhancing team efficiency and quality.
- Mentored team members on Agile values, collaboration, and effective team dynamics, contributing to the development of high-performing teams.
Software Developer
Barclays Bank
10.2018 - 01.2019
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and deliver high-quality applications.
- Implemented automated testing procedures, improving code reliability and reducing error rates.
- Developed and maintained robust software solutions enhancing operational efficiency.
- Designed user-friendly interfaces, ensuring optimal user experience across digital platforms.
Tech Lead
Cognizant Technologies
01.2013 - 10.2018
- Coordinating with Client POP, BA, Onshore counterpart in understanding requirements,preparing designs, coding, testing.
- Continual interaction with client on requirement clarification and status update.
- Attending SCT, Estimation, Planning meetings on weekly basis.Performance improvement for DB objects.
- Involved in resolving team member queries, providing solution.
- Involved in resolving production, UAT, dev environments defects.
- Client Demo
Senior Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies
06.2010 - 11.2012
- Coordinating with manager, team members in understanding requirements and migrating InTime application from Coldfusion technology to .Net web application.
- Continual interaction with client on requirement clarification and status update.
- Involved in system design,coding and testing
- Involved in modifying, creating db-objects.
- Involved in deploying the project
- Client Demo
Education
Exec. MBA - Operations
IITM
Kharghar, Navi Mumbai01-2011
BE - Computer Science
Pillai’s Institute of Information Technology
New Panvel06-2006
Skills
- Agile framework expertise
- Scrum mastery
- Agile methodologies
- Coaching techniques
- Servant leadership
- Process improvement
- ALM tools
- SDLC, Confluence
Websites
Certification
Certification : Certified Scrum Master(CSM)
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Agile Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban
- Facilitation & Coaching: Planning, Retrospectives, Story Mapping, Conflict Resolution, Definition of Done (DoD) and Definition of Ready (DoR)
- Product Agility: Backlog Health, Backlog Refinement, Release Planning.
- Engineering Agility Coached: CI/CD pipelines, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Pair Programming, Automated Testing (collaboration with tech leads).
- Metrics & Diagnostics: Cumulative Flow Diagrams, Control Charts, Velocity, Burndown/Burnup, Cycle time, Lead time.
PERSONAL FORTE
- Name : Rupali Deshmukh
- Date of Birth : 1985-05-29
- Nationality : Indian
- Current Address : F-101, Supreme palms, Balewadi, Pune
Timeline
Agile Coach
Capgemini
01.2025 - Current
SAFe Team Coach
Capgemini
08.2024 - 01.2025
Scrum Master | Project Lead
Persistent
01.2019 - 08.2024
Software Developer
Barclays Bank
10.2018 - 01.2019
Tech Lead
Cognizant Technologies
01.2013 - 10.2018
Senior Software Engineer
Infosys Technologies
06.2010 - 11.2012
BE - Computer Science
Pillai’s Institute of Information Technology
Exec. MBA - Operations
IITM