November 2017, Amazon. Recognition

Spot Award for a sprint process that raised completion to 85%

I proposed a 'scaling for development' process in the fraud and risk org to help teams fit Scrum to their context and introduced it in my team; our sprint task completion rose to 85% and a senior manager gave me a Spot Award.

  • Delivery
  • Leadership

50-60% to 85%

sprint task completion

What would have happened

Sprints kept finishing only half to 60 percent of committed work.

The call

Fit the Scrum process to each team's context.

What I did

Proposed the guidelines, introduced them in my team's sprints and helped the team adopt them.

What changed

Task completion rose from roughly 50-60% to 85%, and the org recognized the change with a Spot Award.

Proof

Certificate: Spot Award for a sprint process that raised completion to 85%

What people said

“Process Oriented and Methodological is Datta's super power. He approaches every problem step by step.”

Manager, 2016-17 annual reviewAmazon, 3 March 2017