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Obunezi Favour

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SUMMARY

Experienced scrum master with 8 years of extensive experience in adaptive and servant leadership. Skilled in applying empiricism and knowledge of agile values, and experienced in using multiple agile frameworks to remove waste and manage third-party and stakeholder relationships. Proven ability to lead and champion an agile mindset in a non-agile environment. Enacted a lean approach in guiding teams; through iterative and incremental delivery of high-value products, promoting an experimental platform where we can fail small, learn, and improve better, encouraging continuous improvement, and making empiricism our heart of agility. knowledgeable and excited to continuously drive business growth and success through lean and agile principles. EXPERIENCE

Delivery Lead

AXA Insurance Group January 2021 - Present, UK

• Coordinating and synchronizing efforts between teams, ensuring effective collaboration, and facilitating communication across teams providing guidance and support to the teams, aligning the teams' work with the overall project goals, and ensuring smooth integration of deliverables

• Improved team morale and efficiency by coaching and facilitating the team's adoption of Scrum, including self-organization, cross- functionality, and self-management.

• Produced a 32% increase in team productivity and improved time to market by 20%. Facilitated sprint grooming, planning, and retrospectives; identified and overcame blockers; and conducted regular meetings to ensure a shared understanding of the team's goals.

• Working closely with the teams to identify potential risks, assess their impact and likelihood, and develop mitigation strategies. This involves creating risk management plans, monitoring risks throughout the project lifecycle, and taking proactive measures to minimize their impact on project delivery.

• Facilitated collaboration and communication amongst team members and helped identify and remove impediments to ensure each sprint was delivered on time.

• Supported effective budget management within the constraints of a project by monitoring the projected budgets against expenditure and applying principles of agile project management, such as Scrum, to ensure that the project stays within budget.

• Reduced the impact of organizational processes on the pace of the team by working with stakeholders and the team to document and challenge the processes and to come up with ways to improve them.

• Guided the team and stakeholders to understand and implement Scrum processes and mechanics on the project. Investigated new methods, tools, and processes to increase the team's efficiency and productivity. Achieved 82% of all sprints delivered on time and 95% team satisfaction with the results.

Scrum Master

Vanquis Bank January 2018 - January 2021

• Developed a product backlog with the product owner, which included epics and user stories for the upcoming release.

• By creating a safe environment through the use of retrospectives and one-on-one meetings, the team was able to achieve a 100% improvement in communication and a 20% increase in meeting attendance.

• Facilitate the estimation of user stories for the development teams by using a planning poker exercise in which they assigned story points to user stories based on the complexity and amount of unknowns in each user story.

• Coordinated the Scrum of Scrums to ensure successful collaboration across teams and coordinated the daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives, sprint and release demos, and team breakouts to ensure the team met project deadlines.

• Helped the squad meet their commitments and sprint goals by removing impediments and dependencies, escalating where appropriate when the squad was off track, and coaching appropriate action to be executed; this resulted in 75% of sprint commitments being met and 85% of sprint goals being completed.

• Supports third party management with the team, ensuring clarity and alignment of expectations, delivery, stakeholder engagement, and communications to deliver projects on time.

Scrum Master

Wipro May 2016 - January 2018

• Increased the team's customer satisfaction rating from a 3.8 to a 4.5 in a 6 month period by enabling the team to establish a short feedback loop with customers and respond to change quickly.

• Resolved 100% of the impediments within the scrum team by understanding the root cause and collaborating with management to resolve the issue(s).

• Reduced the time to deliver projects by 40% and improved team efficiency by facilitating daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning sessions.

• Spearheaded the implementation of Agile techniques (Kanban, Scrum, and XP) by facilitating the transition of traditional waterfall-based

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teams to Agile.

• Ensured teams maintained quality standards by ensuring sprint objectives were met and conducting regular code reviews.

• Introduced queue metrics to expose bottlenecks on the DevOps board by limiting work in progress and adding new lanes to clarify types of work.

PROJECTS

Get Business Insurance Quote

AXA Insurance

• Supported a cross-functional mix of front-end and back-end development teams to achieve this project. Implementation of a New Mobile Banking App

Vanquish

• Foster collaboration and effective communication.

• Ensured alignment on vision and stakeholder management.

• Measurement of regular testing and quality assurance implementation. EDUCATION

BA (Hons), Adult and Non-formal Education

University of PortHarcourt • Nigeria

MA, Human Resources Management

University of Northampton • UK

CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Scrum Master

Scrum Org

SKILLS

Waterfall, Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, Nexus, Lean, Agile, XP, Miro, Outlook, MS Teams, Jira, Azure DevOps, and Confluence, Facilitation, Conflict Resolution, Troubleshooting, Risk Resolution, Stakeholder, Third Party, Vendor, Coaching, Process Improvement, Reliable, Accountable, Effective Team Player, Capable Of Partnering With A Global Team, Deep Experience In Scrum And Or Kanban, Ability To Affect Change At All Levels, Passion For Process Engineering, Agility, Lean Thinking, And Rapid Delivery Of High-quality Products, Deep Understanding Of Product Flow, Lean Metrics, And Optimizations, Capable Of Striving In A Fast Pace, and Ever-changing Environment, SDLC Processes, Ability To Lead Discussions With Agile Leaders, Managers, And Team Members On Relevant Agile Topics Working, Ability To Perform Hands-on Training/coaching To Teams In All Aspects Of Lean-Agile, and Experience In Transforming Organizations From Waterfall To Agile, Servant leader, Mentors, Facilitator, Supports Continuous Learning, Proactive, Knowledgeable, and Influential.

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