Anam Tariq, CSM

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Certified Scrum Master with 6 years of experience and a passion for empowering development teams to self-organize, collaborate seamlessly, and foster the culture of relentless improvement that is the hallmark of effective Agile teams.

Key Skills:

Strong experience with Agile Frameworks with SDLC and Deployment methodologies

Detail-oriented, strong organizational skills, able to work under deadlines in a changing environment, and ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously

Proven leadership skills; ability to prioritize, communicate clearly, demonstrates consistent delivery of commitments

Experience:

Scrum Master – US Bank, Dallas, TX Feb. 2021 – Current

Facilitation of all scrum events fostering open communication and collaboration Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Backlog Refinement

Participate and facilitate Scrum of Scrums and PI Planning for Scaled Agile teams

Work with team to build working agreements, definition of ready, definition of done to reflect agreements between the team and product manager

Establish and maintain the Release Schedule (ART)

Establish and document a process with the team to ensure smooth delivery through all stages of SDLC, considering scrum values: courage, respect, openness, focus and commitment

Use of Jira labels, fix-versions, components, and other fields to establish a process for the team that allows transparent metrics on product delivery

Translate the product roadmap into epics and user stories in product backlog, prioritized to be emergent, ensuring well defined acceptance criteria, goals, and purpose of the product backlog items (PBI)

Facilitate backlog refinement, working towards getting the future user stories to the definition of ready state, working with the team to estimate according to complexity, work needed to be done, and room for process and unknowns

Enable team to identify risks, dependencies and mitigate them before they become an issue, manage RAID

Bringing in appropriate SME as needed to help team understand requirements or work through any impediments

Facilitate Sprint planning using average velocity and team capacity to determine commitment zone, define a sprint goal, work with team to commit to a prioritized backlog

Facilitate Sprint Review demonstrating team's accomplishments and struggles during the last sprint, progress towards roadmap, future sprint goals, while collecting feedback and changes from customers, stakeholders, and leaders

Facilitate Sprint Retrospective to foster team collaboration while inspecting our previous sprint, our process or anything that needs improvements, agreeing on an action plan to help the team improve in the coming sprint

Build dashboards in Jira and Confluence to radiate information on the progress of our epics, releases, and roadmap for leadership and stakeholders, as well as team tracking on a higher level (release management, bug management, project management, epic progress, UAT management etc.)

Management of production and non-prod bugs through to resolution, radiating bug tracking metrics to management

Working with QA engineers to ensure thorough testing, collaboration, and integration into team's process; focus on automated testing

Adept at coaching the team on Agile practices and helping them continuously improve their processes, as well as mentoring individuals to enhance their skills and career growth

Scrum Master – Neiman Marcus, Dallas, TX Jan. 2018 – Feb. 2021

Help the team embrace agile core values, adopt, and apply agile principles, and implement best practices

Facilitates all team meetings, including the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement

Provide guidance to the teams toward constantly improving the quality of their deliverables and meeting the Definition of Done (DoD)

Helps the team improve and take responsibility for their actions through the facilitation of the team retrospective. Teach techniques for problem-solving and help the team become better problem-solvers for themselves.

Coach the Product Owner to manage the backlog and guide the team. Focus on facilitating a healthy team dynamic, respecting priorities and scope based on the roadmap

Address issues and impediments so that the team can remain focused on achieving the the Iteration; protect the team from uncontrolled expansion of work

Facilitation of the backlog refinement, coaching the team on agile estimation techniques, and ensuring our user stories meet the definition of ready; Guides the team in establishing normalized estimates and helps the team understand how to estimate Features and Capabilities

Represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums, sharing information from that meeting back to the team and coordinating with the user experience, architecture, and other teams

Assist the team in preparation for team & program level activities like PI Planning, Iteration Review/ Demos, and Inspect and Adapt

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify impediments, bottlenecks, and issues in the development process and work with the team to find effective solutions

Provided Agile metrics such as velocity, burn-down charts, and progress towards releases and epics to stakeholders and management

Communicate with management and stakeholders regarding progress and future intitiatives

Managing external dependencies and coordination with external teams on future needs to mitigate issues

Education and Certification:

Bachelor's in business administration - Marketing

Certified Scrum Master- CSM - 2023

Technical Skills:

Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps (ADO)

Agile Scrum, Agile methodologies, Kanban, SAFe, SDLC (Software development lifecycle)

Sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective, daily scrum / standup, backlog refinement / grooming, scrum of scrums, PI planning

Agile estimation, definition of ready (DoR), definition of done (DoD), continuous improvement, problem solving, decision making, servant leadership, self-organizing, risk management, open communication, change management, scheduling, Commitment, Openness, Focus, Respect, courage, Agile project management, mentoring

MS Teams, Slack, Zoom, Webex, Outlook, SharePoint, MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Miro

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