Project Objectives

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A wealth management application is developed for its first release as an enterprise product. However, the performance is not at par with the market standards. A team was formed to tune the product by enhancing application load time by analyzing the bottlenecks, brainstorming the solutions, and implementing them.

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Outcome

 

The load time of the application is reduced to the agreed-upon benchmarks provided by the business team.

 

My Role 

 

My role was as PoD Manager. 

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My responsibilities

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I work with the project sponsor to develop the requirements we intend to achieve regarding the roadmap and goals. A product owner was assigned to the project, who consistently worked with the business team to collect the requirements and was responsible for writing epics, features, and user stories. I define the project scope and out-of-scope activities. I identified stakeholders including customers who will be part of our internal testing program. As per the company's policy, a team of 8 members was formed with Scrum Methodology to develop and enhance the products. I took up the shadow role of scrum master and coached the team on scrum principles and the advantages of it. 

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I consistently refer to the quality management plan to make sure we achieve the intended quality. I participated in compiling all the risks that can occur with both qualitative and quantitative risk assessments and created the risk management plan with the risk register. I discussed with all the stakeholders their communication mode and have planned ways to keep them engaged regularly. Further, I assigned resources based on the activities leading to the creation of the plan for resource management. Thus my entire project management plan was ready to be executed. 

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2 week sprint was finalized and I followed up with daily standups to make sure we were following the scrum methodology. As the project work was in full swing, I worked towards resolving any team conflicts as and when they arose and finding solutions promptly.

I worked constantly with the product owner to make sure the product backlog was prioritized regularly. I make sure any change requests during the project execution from the stakeholders are promptly processed and ready for the next sprint. I was part of the sprint plan meeting and ensured sensible story points were taken up per sprint, which helped us get our velocity on track. With the help of burn-up and burn-down charts, I monitored the work daily to ensure that the work was under scope, time, and within budget, further avoiding any scope creep. I participated in the sprint retrospectives noted all the issues raised with what went well and implemented the suggestions in further sprints to ensure smooth working. 

 

Upon completion of the work, I facilitated the sponsor's acceptance of the deliverables. I then formally closed the project by documenting and conducting a comprehensive lessons-learned review, officially disbanding the project team, and securely archiving all project records.
 

Deliverables

 

The deliverables of the project were highly optimized Wealth Management Applications adhering to the performance benchmarks set forward by the Business team.