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Yogesh Kanna Varadharajan

Product Management | 12 years | Enterprise B2B SaaS | End-to-end Product Lifecycle Management | Product Roadmap Ownership | Product Strategy| Product Backlog prioritization | Cross-functional | AI/ML enabled product

Bengaluru

12+ years of work experience

Dassault Systemes Solutions Lab
May 20215 y 5 moPresent

India

Product Strategy & Vision: Driving end-to-end product ownership by gathering requirements and translating business needs into a clear product vision and strategic roadmap.  Roadmap & Release Planning: Defining and managing Epics, Features, and Releases while creating release plans and timelines aligned with roadmap priorities and business objectives.  Backlog Ownership & Prioritization: Owning and evolving the Product Backlog, ensuring continuous refinement and effective prioritization to maximize customer value and delivery efficiency.  Sprint Planning & Execution: Planning and executing sprint cycles, including sprint creation, sprint planning, and defining clear Sprint Goals aligned with product outcomes.  User Story Development: Authoring, grooming, and refining User Stories, mapping them to sprint goals and ensuring they are well-defined and ready for development.  Quality & Acceptance Management: Establishing detailed Acceptance Criteria for epics and user stories and reviewing test cases to ensure functional and quality compliance.  Sprint Review & Delivery Acceptance: Leading Sprint Reviews/Demos, validating completed functionality, and accepting sprint deliverables in line with requirements and stakeholder expectations.
NTT DATA Services
Jun 20192 yrsMay 2021

Whitefield, Bengaluru Area, India

Delivered Domain Expertise: Delivered 7+ years of Business Analysis experience in the Healthcare domain, driving compliant, data-driven, and value-focused solutions. Business Requirements: Elicited, analyzed, and validated requirements through close collaboration with stakeholders, clients, and vendors, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Requirement Governance: Designed and implemented a comprehensive Requirements Management System, including creation of an effective stakeholder matrix. Agile Delivery: Managed and prioritized the Product Backlog while facilitating Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, and Agile ceremonies to enable iterative and timely delivery. Project Artifacts: Created and maintained key documentation including Business Case, Cost-Benefit Analysis, BRD, SRS, Solution & Design Documents, Use Cases, User Stories, and Epics. Business to Functional Needs: Translated complex business requirements into detailed functional requirements, ensuring clarity for development and solution design teams. Quality & Traceability: Executed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Acceptance Criteria validation, ensuring business-defined quality standards, and developed a Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for end-to-end coverage.
Vidal HealthCare- Leading Surgery Partner
Jun 20163 yrs 1 moJun 2019

Bengaluru, India

IBM india pvt ltd
Dec 20132 yrs 6 mosMay 2016

Bangalore

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Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering(ECE)

Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Reserch Academy (SASTRA), Thanjavur

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Headline

Product Management | 12 years | Enterprise B2B SaaS | End-to-end Product Lifecycle Management | Product Roadmap Ownership | Product Strategy| Product Backlog prioritization | Cross-functional | AI/ML enabled product

About

With over 12 years of experience, I specialize in end-to-end product ownership, focusing on owning product roadmap and driving product strategy at Dassault Systemes Solutions Lab. My role involves maximizing the business value with a customer centric approach and scalability. This includes user interviews, market research, product discovery, cross-functional leadership, prioritization of product roadmaps into short-term and long-term goals, product backlog ownership and sprint planning. I am well experienced designing, developing and launching software SaaS products in Agile development environments such as Scrum and SAFe.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Product Manager at Dassault Systemes Solutions Lab, May 2021 - Present · 5 y 5 mo, India, Product Strategy & Vision: Driving end-to-end product ownership by gathering requirements and translating business needs into a clear product vision and strategic roadmap.  Roadmap & Release Planning: Defining and managing Epics, Features, and Releases while creating release plans and timelines aligned with roadmap priorities and business objectives.  Backlog Ownership & Prioritization: Owning and evolving the Product Backlog, ensuring continuous refinement and effective prioritization to maximize customer value and delivery efficiency.  Sprint Planning & Execution: Planning and executing sprint cycles, including sprint creation, sprint planning, and defining clear Sprint Goals aligned with product outcomes.  User Story Development: Authoring, grooming, and refining User Stories, mapping them to sprint goals and ensuring they are well-defined and ready for development.  Quality & Acceptance Management: Establishing detailed Acceptance Criteria for epics and user stories and reviewing test cases to ensure functional and quality compliance.  Sprint Review & Delivery Acceptance: Leading Sprint Reviews/Demos, validating completed functionality, and accepting sprint deliverables in line with requirements and stakeholder expectations.

Product Owner at NTT DATA Services, Jun 2019 - May 2021 · 2 yrs, Whitefield, Bengaluru Area, India, Delivered Domain Expertise: Delivered 7+ years of Business Analysis experience in the Healthcare domain, driving compliant, data-driven, and value-focused solutions. Business Requirements: Elicited, analyzed, and validated requirements through close collaboration with stakeholders, clients, and vendors, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Requirement Governance: Designed and implemented a comprehensive Requirements Management System, including creation of an effective stakeholder matrix. Agile Delivery: Managed and prioritized the Product Backlog while facilitating Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, and Agile ceremonies to enable iterative and timely delivery. Project Artifacts: Created and maintained key documentation including Business Case, Cost-Benefit Analysis, BRD, SRS, Solution & Design Documents, Use Cases, User Stories, and Epics. Business to Functional Needs: Translated complex business requirements into detailed functional requirements, ensuring clarity for development and solution design teams. Quality & Traceability: Executed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Acceptance Criteria validation, ensuring business-defined quality standards, and developed a Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) for end-to-end coverage.

Senior Business Analyst at Vidal HealthCare- Leading Surgery Partner, Jun 2016 - Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, India

Business Analyst at IBM india pvt ltd, Dec 2013 - May 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering(ECE), Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Reserch Academy (SASTRA), Thanjavur