About

Tejas Gujarathi is an accomplished Product Manager with over 11 years of experience in the industry. He is currently working as a Product Manager at Equal Experts, where he is responsible for coordinating different teams to ensure successful project implementation. Tejas is an expert in facilitating backlog grooming, planning meetings, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos. He supports the team to define working agreements and ensures that they are upheld. Tejas is highly skilled in facilitating feature discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution. He is adept at assisting with internal and external communication and developing metrics that provide data for process measurement driving future improvements. Tejas is an expert in tracking requirement changes, business expectations, cost, and timeline metrics, and communicating them to the team, management, and any impacted stakeholders. Tejas is a proponent of transparency and is skilled in improving it through burn-downs, control charts, cumulative flow diagrams, and demos. He is highly adaptable and can adjust project plans, schedules, and resource assignments to manage emerging requirements and risks. Tejas is a strong advocate for collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility. He helps the team identify, remove risks, roadblocks, and dependencies to deliver the sprint goal. Tejas is skilled in making appropriate commitments through story selection and ensuring knowledge sharing happens wherever required. He is an expert in facilitating requirements gathering processes, task/stories creation and tracking, and their prioritization with the product owner's help. Tejas is highly proficient in formulating epics and stories based on user persona and customer journey maps and managing the product backlog. Tejas is experienced in using UML diagrams to clarify requirements within the team and product owner and aligning the requirements using the MoSCoW technique and attaching high-level estimations with the team's help. He is highly skilled in preparing delivery and release plans and documenting and facilitating the implementation of the feedback gathered. Tejas is an expert in ensuring non-functional requirements like logging, monitoring, and alerting are also covered and promoting test and infrastructure automation. Tejas is a strong advocate for documentation and formulating the statement of work and making sure they align by it throughout the project duration. He is highly proficient in facilitating UAT testing, performance testing, and release plannings and managing stakeholders. Tejas monitors the product's performance using business metrics and communicates/escalates to related parties. Tejas values frequent showcases and releases, short feedback cycles, test and infrastructure automation