Buyi Kalala

**** ********** **. *********, **

Phone: 407-***-****

E-mail: ad0enn@r.postjobfree.com

Website: https://linkedin.com/in/kalala

Objectives

A poised, motivated, result-oriented professional to teach, facilitate, mentor, and coach; ensuring an organization adheres and implements Agile practices. Along with a commitment to excellence that delivers value to an organization based on alignment to the Agile Manifesto & 12 Agile Principles.

Education

Strayer University Master of Business Administration 2009

Florida A & M University Bachelor of Science 2001

Experience

Principal Enterprise Agile Coach, Manager (July 2021 –Sept 2023)

AgileThought Tampa, FL (Remote)

Managed and supervised direct reports (Scrum Masters, Delivery Leads, and Agile Coaches) in client engagements while uplifting Agile maturity and technical proficiency by performing continuous feedback, aligning expectations and provide support including annual performance reviews defining engagement findings and evaluations to improve their potential for career growth.

Passionately drove a continuous improvement culture while implementing the strategic Roadmap to achieve breakthrough performance in working capital, quality, delivery, cost, and growth.

Enhanced and maintained Agile Maturity by performing formal training and constructing Agile topic specific training per the clients’ improvement opportunities.

Drove rapid, significant and sustainable improvement utilizing Agile Values & Principles to deliver incremental, iterative business value to achieve customer satisfaction.

Acted as a subject matter expert on Agile methodologies, frameworks, best practices, providing guidance to both clients and internal teams.

Steered Organization leadership to implement the appropriate Agile Methods (TDD, BDD, XP, Kanban, Scrum, and/or Lean) for their organizational needs.

Created and provided workshops, training and/or activities to resonate with F2F or virtual/remote attendees to help inspire a shared understanding and clarity of Business Agility.

Provided Enterprise, Program, and team maturity assessments routinely as improvement opportunity tools via Comparative Agility, Henrik’s Scrum Checklist, SAFe’s Measure & Grow, and Agility Health Radar.

Collaborated with a Coaching Coalition to create and document an Agile Playbook to provide guidance for SOP process for Thought leaders and clients.

Performed continuous evaluations of content and plans to enhance delivery and improve effectiveness.

Scheduled and taught in-class and online courses to increase learning opportunities.

Agile Portfolio Coach (Aug 2020 –July 2021)

The Hartford Charlotte, NC

Provided guidance for overall vision and success strategy alignment for embedded Coaching engagements.

Ensured key distribution metrics and key performance indicator systems are consistently tracking the appropriate measures and driving appropriate response behaviors.

Managed risk and dependencies, resolving organizational impediments to assist in acceleration of business-value delivery.

Built and cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders, becoming a trusted advisor for teams throughout their Agile journey.

Identified, addressed, and resolved Agile Anti-patterns for Global Specialty LOB while elevating visibility to risks, impediments, and blockers of their Agile Transformation.

Encouraged decision-makers and team members to cultivate strong work ethic by demonstrating diligence, patience, and respect for others.

Enterprise Agile Coach (Sept 2018 –Jan 2020)

The Allstate Corporation Charlotte, NC

Created, constructed, and conducted materials and workshops to enhance understanding and clarity for Agile Maturity.

Assisted leadership identification of Business KPIs and Agile-related metrics to help guide the organization’s Agile Journey across portfolio, program, and team-level.

Mentored new hires, resulting in stronger staff development, onboarding, and accelerated productivity.

Continuous assessed strategic decisions alignment with Agile Values & Principles

Utilized Change Management Models (ADKAR, Kotter’s, Lewin’s) to constitute the necessary cultural changes to bolster the Agile Transformation of the organization.

Utilized SAFe and LESS practices to scale Agile within the organization.

Constructed strategic plans to identify/address individual, team and program needs to spark their Lean-Agile Mindset conversion.

Developed & distributed Agile Ceremonial Playbooks & Role Definition to assist in Agile Maturity in Data Quality Control Agile Transformation, through organization to provide direction and guidance.

Developed an Agile Community of Practice to propel agile knowledge sharing and provide insight on Agile practitioners’ experiences.

Agile Coach (Nov 2017 – Sept 2018)

Bank of America/Mitchell Martin Charlotte, NC

Assisted in defining meaningful Agile Metrics to assist Bank of America DQC leadership manage and assess their Agile Maturity

Facilitated Value Stream Mapping activities with C-level executives to identify teams, workflow, dependencies, and intake process.

Performed Big-Room presentations and Agile Training to ensure BOA leadership & associates obtained advanced knowledge of Agile Principles and fundamentals to enhance BOA DQC Agile Transformation progression.

Constructed an Agile Health and Maturity Assessments to be utilized to record observations by Agile Coaches that provides transparency of the maturity level of BOA DQC teams on their Agile Transformation journey.

Created a Scrum Master & Product Owner Community of Practice (COP) to accelerate Agile learning and share experiences to bolster Agile Knowledge Base and skillset.

Identified the emphasis of value-driven metrics rather than previous performance metrics to drive continuous process improvement in the Portfolio.

Skills

Kaizen

Agile Leadership

Lean

Kanban

Program Increment (PI) Planning

Large-Scale Scrum (LESS)

Scrum of Scrums

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Rally/Version One/JIRA/Azure DevOps (ADO)

Miro/Mural/Google Jamboard

Kotter’s/ADKAR/Lewin’s Change Model

Certifications

ICP-Enterprise Coaching (ENT), 2023

Scrum Alliance, Certified Agile Leadership-E (CAL-E), 2023

Scrum.org, Professional Scrum Master, 2022

Scaled Agile Framework, Release Train Engineer (5.1), 2022

ICP-Agile Team Facilitator (ATF), 2020

Large Scale Scrum (LESS) Certified Practitioner, 2017

SAFe 4.0 SA Certification, 2016

Scrum Alliance, Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), 2015

Scrum Alliance, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), 2014

Project Management Institute, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), 2013

Project Management Institute, Certified Associate Project Management (CAPM), 2011

ITIL v3 Foundations, 2011

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