Scrum Master Product Owner
Resume:
KINGSLEY NZEBELAI
adtpmz@r.postjobfree.com
Education
University of Buea, Cameroon -Mass communications May 2011 ITT TECHNICAL INSTITUTE Columbus Ohio- May 2015
System Analysis
Certification
Professional Scrum Master
Experience
May 2020 - Current
Humana - Scrum Master /Program Manager
● Assess Scrum maturity of the teams and organization, and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
● Remove impediments and blockers or guide the team to remove impediments and blockers; escalate impediments and blockers as necessary.
● Assist with internal and external communication, managing dependencies, and radiating information transparently.
● Apply Agile practices and facilitate the improvement and execution of teams in accordance with Agile practices and Scrum/Kanban frameworks. Actions often include visualizing work, limiting work in progress, managing workflow, planning and providing guidance for daily standups, sprint planning, short, mid, and long-range planning, backlog refinement, and retrospective meetings.
● Ensure progress toward objectives, KPIs, and commitments; guide assigned Agile teams to deliver the required product increments and outcomes.
● Partner with key stakeholders (i.e. Agile Coach, Release Train Engineer, and Team Leads) in backlog prioritization and product increment planning as well as tracking and reporting metrics, providing visibility to the team and stakeholders, ensuring a data-driven approach to decision-making.
● Support and educate the Product Owner and Team Leads, especially on the product backlog and ongoing backlog refinement.
May 2017 - May 2020
United Health Columbus Ohio - Scrum Master
● Executed the backlog as wished by the product owner, making sure that deliverables are on time with production quality.
● Actively involved in technical matters thus finding out the gaps and ensuring product owner involvement in business decisions and description of the functional flow.
● In Agile software development methodology, was responsible for monitoring the scrum processes and scrum meetings.
● Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of Agile methodology.
● Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitated meetings, scheduled meetings, demo, and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of the adaptation process.
● Helped product owners to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.
● Responsible for conducting retrospective meetings.
● Organizes and facilitates the sprint planning meeting. January 2013 - May 2017
Cigna Pittsburgh Pennsylvania- Scrum Master
● Facilitating team self-organization, learning, problem solving and continuous improvement
● Helping teams adopt and apply the values and principles described in the Agile Manifesto
● Coaching teams become proficient with Agile frameworks such as Scrum
● Tracking, socializing and using metrics to enable data-driven decision making
● Assist the team to remain focused on daily and iteration goals; and to help improve quality, flow and velocity.
● Facilitating daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
● Supporting the Product Owner to produce and maintain a prioritized product backlog.
● Practices Servant Leadership to ensure successful delivery across all the scrum/delivery teams
● Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our clients.
● Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
● Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
● Coaches the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.
● Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
● Resolves team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
● Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.
● Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
● Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual
(BAU) work and to a lesser degree, important department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.
● Prepare and present status reports to stakeholders.
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Skills
● Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.
● Understand the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental development.
● Strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules and practices.
● Knowledge of other Agile approaches, like: Kanban, Crystal, FDD, XP, etc.
● Knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games.
● Ability to take and understand commitment to deliver the product on time.
● Know about the value of metrics and incremental delivery.
● Knowledge about tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, user stories etc.
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