Yaraguile Sylla Dembele

Tel: 646-***-****

Email: ad34sb@r.postjobfree.com

Location: Garland, TX

SCRUM MASTER/AGILE COACH

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A passionate Scrum Master with 6 years of experience in driving the adaptation of agile values, principles, and practices. Adept in leveraging agile frameworks with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable and sustainable results. Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead, and coach leadership/scrum teams across multiple locations, with a record of driving complex projects. I have facilitated agile practices as a Scrum Master with multiple teams, in the delivery of enterprise applications through multiple release cycles.

SKILLS

Coaching, Mentoring, Facilitating, Training

Project Estimation

Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective,

Sprint review,

Backlog refinement/Grooming

Velocity Tracking

Capacity planning

Story Pointing

Managing Technical Risk

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

Continuous Improvement

Program Increment (PI) Planning

Team Empowerment

Conflict resolution

Burn-up Chart

Release Planning

Burn-down Chart

Communication

Quality

Quarterly Product Planning

Servant Leader

Assurance (Q/A)

Technical Project Management

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Skype •OneNote • Google Suite •Microsoft Office •Microsoft Teams •Jira •Azure DevOps •Mural, WebEx •Zoom •Microsoft Project •Confluence Outlook

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lockheed Martin, DFW, Texas May 2023 – Present

Agile Coach

Introduced and coached teams, leadership, and the organization toward the adoption of Agile best practices such as transparency, continuous inspection and adaptation, Jira tracking, continuous integration and delivery, product discovery, empirical product development, self-management, and empowerment, which resulted to an improvement of overall value delivery by 65% within 11 months.

Promoted an empowered, self-organizing teams by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions and committing to milestone deliveries

Guided Scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating. Monitored the pulse and morale of the teams, influenced the team spirit, and created excitement around deliverables

Reflective observer, facilitator, mentor, coach, hands-on expert, and counselor to Agile

teams and leadership

Fulfilling roles as Scrum Master, Agile Coach, mentor, and an active team participant within

a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE).

Offering Agile training and coaching to executives, managers, technical leaders, and teams

Utilizing Scrum, Kanban, and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to effectively plan and manage

dependencies

Engage with teams/programs to understand where they are and provide suggestions for improvement if needed

Apple, Dallas, Tx

Senior Scrum Master/Agile Coach May 2019 –Fev 2023

Supporting the team and coaching towards identification and removal of impediments

leading to a 50% increase in employee retention, increase team happiness and 25% increase

in hitting sprint goal target by the start of second quarter

Mentoring on visibility configurations in all tracking and management tools, keeping

stakeholder engagement current and reduced feedback time 30%

Coaching team on making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing, task,

definition and participate proactively in developing and maintaining efficiency

Coaching and mentoring the team to take ownership of system and process improvements

captured in sprint retrospective meetings, thereby instilling values of self-management,

ownership and empowerment resulting in 25% increase employee retention

Engaging with fellow Scrum master’s to identify opportunities for improvement across

delivery process. This has helped us drive change at organization level while keeping

progress towards sprint goal delivery consistent at 15% value increase per quarter

Facilitating sprint events (daily stand-up meetings sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint

retrospective) and the removal of impediments directly and indirectly through escalating at

various scale levels, resulting in meeting sprint goals in 99% of sprints

United Health Group Inc

Scrum Master December 2017 – May 2019

Served as a Scrum Master with primary responsibility to the organization in their agile

transformation journey while teaching, mentoring, and coaching the teams in scrum and agile

values/principles. This helped the organization in understanding and practicing agile and scrum

best practices, leading to a committed and respectful ecosystem delivering a 15% feature

increase quarterly with less defects

Mentored and coached the team in facilitation of sprint events (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up,

Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective meetings) and refinement sessions as needed, helping the

team consistently move towards maturity and self-management

Created and maintained information radiators and team tools, including sprint board,

burn-down charts, burn-up charts, progress dashboards, internal team agility accelerator and

other customized metrics, maintain stakeholder engagement and data driven feedback

Supported and coached the product owner in maintaining a healthy backlog and facilitated in

the breakdown of product vision in “READY” user stories using an array of techniques like the

DEEP criteria, INVEST criteria which helped increase on the team’s productivity

Supported a data migration project to AWS cloud service that led to an increase in value delivery

to customers from 50 to 80 percent

Deutsche Bank Project Coordinator/Scrum Master January 2017 – December 2017

Coached the team to higher levels scrum maturity at a sustainable pace,

helping to improve customer satisfaction by 28%

Supported and coached the product owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the

backlog, resulting in better sprint planning meetings, effective user story sizing and 38% increase

in commitment/reliability statistic

Identified and removed impediments or guided the team to do so, resulting in an improved

developer efficiency of 18%

Resolved and facilitated the resolution of conflicts withing scrum teams, ensuring appreciation

for agile and scrum values with an emphasis towards achieving self-organization and high

performance

Helped the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements

resulting in the automation of manual reports that saved the organization 32 hours monthly.

EDUCATION

Master in business administration

University of Atlantic, Abidjan

Bachelor in business administration

University of Atlantic, Abidjan

Merit America

Washington, DC

CERTIFICATION

Professional Scrum Master1

Scrum Master Accredited Certification (SMAC)

Google IT Certificate

Certified Nurse Assistant

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