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Prince Tumani Manga

Exciting & Pragmatic Scrum Master ad2jzb@r.postjobfree.com +447*-****-****

An exciting and experienced Scrum Master/Agile Coach with a proven track record of coaching and developing high-performing self-organising teams with an excellent understanding of agile methodologies, best practices, and procedures. Passionate about and have always been a driver of change and innovation and promoting agile adoption and principles from Waterfall across multiple organisations. Meeting stakeholders’ requirements and maintaining team morale and engagement is something I have facilitated both on-site and remotely. I have a great amount of experience in overseeing teams working to tight deadlines, meeting high product expectations, using metrics and coaching techniques to improve processes, and using collated data as a tool for development.

Excellent at increasing the team’s awareness to identify impediments at an earlier stage and devise ways to resolve them as soon as possible. I am experienced with many other frameworks but even more so enjoy engaging with people as a primary focus, whilst process and tools follow as secondary. That's why in many ways scrum appeals to me. This business-oriented agile framework is all about understanding the business needs and creating purpose in small-sized, self-motivated teams to deliver great products. I actively participate in agile meetups, scrum master chapter-ship, read blogs and listen to podcasts to continuously increase my knowledge. Work with RTE on SAFe framework and deputise for them on releases.

Qualifications & Certificates:

Professional Scrum Master 1

City of London College

Professional Kanban

Forte Hotel

Scrum Org

Adv. Diploma in Tourism

Scrum Org

Excellence Facilitation

Frameworks & Methodologies:

Scrum

Kanban

Extreme Programming

SAFe

Nexus

Agile & Waterfall

Skills & Expertise:

Serves and Leads

Empowers & Motivates

Stakeholders Engagement

Great Facilitator

Nurturing & Supportive

Attitude of Empowerment

Conflict & Impediment Resolver

Backpack full of retrospective techniques

Mentors, coach and teaches

Experiences:

Scrum Master IAGGBS /BA Mar 2023 to Present

Introduced junior managerial teams to Scrum Agile whilst delivering working software

Lead teams to ensure that sprints of 2 to 4 weeks always delivered software on time.

Conducted Agility maturity assessments with the Coaching team on Teams based off-shore

The servant leader and go-to person for 3 teams in terms of impediments resolving and conflict resolutions.

Facilitate all Scrum events in teams of 1 x PO, 2 x QA and 7 x multi-skilled Developers

Adhere to scaled Agile SAFe framework and sometimes deputise for the RTE on releases

Delivered working software in according to roadmaps and track it via JIRA.

Active part of the Agility guild and Scrumaster’s chapter

Scrum Master Barclays Banking Group Jul 2018 – March 2023

●As a self-starting Servant Leader facilitated all Scrum ceremonies so that the software development life cycle delivered working software bug free on 2 weeks intervals.

●Coaches the development teams of 8 to 10 members that comprises of 1 x PO 2, testers and 6 x developers to use metrics to align on KPIs.

●Works with the product owner whilst providing a check and balance between getting more done and maintaining high quality and efficiency not sacrificing quality or team health.

●Influenced my development team and stakeholders by using metric like burnt-up and throughput to work SMART.

●Ensure team sustainable pace is flowing well by making certain the teams had no impediments.

●Supported the Agile teams on a tailored scaled up framework SAFe and co-lead Scrum of Scrums.

●Helped teams to release after every 5 sprints part of SAFe assist RTE and deputising in his absences

●Coached Development Team to navigate two different Product Owners

●Development Teams consisted of 50 / 50 mix of onsite and India offshore resources

●Switched Development Teams from absolute hour estimation to relative user story estimation; reducing waste, improving velocity and flexibility of both teams.

●Improved velocity and quality by removing internal Governance roadblocks especially during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic

Scrum Master E-ON Sep 2014 - July 2018

●Assisted the product team to identify tasks for delivery, agreed on planning, and coordinated releases with the Product Owner and DevOps team.

●Facilitated the day-to-day work of the scrum teams and chased up blocked items or impediments to be resolved urgently to enable the team workflow better.

●Gather data to produce metrics that go into reports shared with the team or senior management to track the productivity or progress of the team.

●Helped drive the organisational redesign across technology's 10 teams.

●Created feature teams where possible & helped the existing component teams with the implementation of the Kanban method.

●Introducing ideas & practices to create collaboration & transparency between multiple agile teams.

●Responsible for introducing the Communities of practice for Scrum Masters.

●Worked with & coaching Scrum Masters to refine & refresh on Lean thinking Principles & visualisation techniques.

●Enabled and encouraged an environment where agile values and principles. This helped them become a more self-organised, collaborative, and productive team.

●Ensured the stakeholders and product owner are in tune and aligned so the value needed to be delivered can be optimised better via frequent catch-up.

●Responsibly leads teams in their adoption of scrum & practice.

●Identifies and raises issues for open discussions whilst working together to correct or resolve them with the team.

Scrum Master Scottish Power Feb 2012 - Sep 2014

●Champion the use of agile, ensuring the theory, practices and events are understood and used to the maximum value.

●Coached teams towards self-organisation and high performance using continuous improvement approaches and constantly reviewing decisions made to understand how it has helped or hindered process improvement.

●Tracking sprint progress by improving visibility via metrics.

●Effectively guide the team to collaborate ideas to improve or remove impediments for the next sprint during retrospective by implementing Agile Games.

●Facilitating Scrum events and other meetings to foster decision makings or process improvements

●Promoted Scrum values of Transparency, Focus, Courage, Respect, and Commitment within the team and acted as a buffer for the teams, removing distractions to delivery and interference from externals that may put teams’ focus at risk.

●Assertively ensured agile/scrum concepts and principles adhere when rules are about to be broken or anti-patterns are discovered. I still ensure I use a pragmatic approach when it comes to taking a stand or taking a bow to give in to pragmatism.

●Led the collaborative, dynamic planning process - prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team.

●Ensured all increments are delivered to an appropriate level of quality as increments by encouraging DOD strict usage.

Recruitment Manager Staff Support Services LTD, Slough Dec 2009 - Feb 2012

●Responsible for 360 recruitment for a start-up recruitment business.

●Built and Managed an office of 4 people within 2 years.

●Business Development and client relationship manager.

●Driving KPI performances in the Office.

●Advertising roles, doing selections, interviews, and eligibility checks.

●Involved in training and total and continuous compliance checks.

●Increasing hours worked on some sites from just above 150 hours per week to more than 2,000 hours.

Sourcing Specialist Per Temps, Reading May 2008 - Dec 2009

●Working with team managing and recruiting for organisational restructuring of Thames Water project

●Headhunting contractors and Permanent employees to find the best talent for all parts of the business from operations to senior management.

●Providing the HR team with the correct information so that all potential employees can be made compliant before they start their placement

●On-boarding and managing compliance to meet Thames Water due diligence.

●Working to the KPI of 20 CVs to 6 interviews to 2.5 placements per week

Recruitment Delivery Consultant Resourcing Solutions LTD, Twyford Feb 2006 - May 2008

●Headhunting and Sourcing candidates for Rail and built environment, especially Commercial Rail recruitment.

●Candidates manage and manage client expectations.

●Matching candidates and screening them before submitting their CVs to Hiring Managers

●Providing 15 CVs to 5 interviews to 2 placements per week.

Hobbies:

Middle distance running, Travelling, Walking / Orienteering

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