Scrum Master

Sabur. O. Yusuff

PHONE - 862-***-**** EMAIL- ***.*****@*****.***.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

●Sabur is a Certified Coach, Scaled Agile Leader, Facilitator and experienced Scrum Master who has worked in an Agile environment for over 10 years. I am currently working with two Agile teams with Suncoast Resources Inc. acting as a servant leader with an extensive knowledge in agile principles, values and practices.

●Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of scrum practices, removing impediments and fostering self-organization and cross-functional team

●In depth understanding of Software Development Life cycle working in Agile disciplines.

●Knowledge and experience of working within project management processes, methods and tasks and Business process techniques.

KEY SKILLS

●Coaching/Mentoring

●Servant Leadership

●Facilitation

●Conflict Resolution

●Interpersonal Skills

●Kanban Framework

●Scrum Framework

●Agile Methodology

●Burn down and Burn up charts

●Team Velocity Tracking

●Backlog Refinement

●Iteration/Sprint Planning

●Continuous Improvement

●Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

●Waterfall Methodology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Suncoast Resources Inc.- Scrum Master November 2017 -Present

●Facilitating Scrum events (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective) at a regular cadence and ensuring there’s full engagement and also conduct release planning meeting as needed for our deployments.

●Coach team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology

●Working with product owners.

●Leading a cross-functional team in delivering innovative technology solutions and ensuring incremental delivered solution meets the business needs and requirements.

●Ensuring teams adhere to scrum processes in support of product owner and development team.

●Supporting and educating the product owner with respect to refining and managing the product backlog items for upcoming sprints

●Assisting scrum teams in identifying and removing impediments to teams work progress while protecting the team from outside interference, improved transparency within the team

●Ensuring the outcomes of retrospectives action items are implemented and reflected towards continuous improvement for future sprints.

●Tracking key metrics through burn-down, burn up, team velocity and radiating progress to the teams and key stakeholders.

●Guiding Scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating and team velocity while ensuring teams have clearly defined and enforced Definition of Ready and Definition of Done

●Facilitating crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-organize.

●Using Agile tools such as JIRA and confluence to track team progress and delivery performance.

●Making sure the team’s work is visible and progress is radiated to the team and key stakeholders using metrics like burn-down, burn-up, team velocity and defect summary reports.

●Continuously building a trusting and safe environment for everyone

Dr Pepper Snapple -Scrum Master August 2016 – October 2017

●Facilitated team scrum events (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective) and making sure there’s full team engagement.

●Helped the product owner manage the product backlog by making sure that user stories are regularly prioritized by business value and are sprint ready.

●Ensured teams have clearly defined and enforced Definition of Ready & Definition of Done

●Identified and removed impediments to teams work progress.

●Made sure the team’s work is visible and progress is radiated to the team and key stakeholders using metrics like burn-down, burn-up, team velocity and defect summary reports.

●Shielded the team from interruptions and removed obstacles that may impact the delivery of the product.

●Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress

●Assisted teams with creating an environment that fosters transparency, learning, innovation, quality and speed.

●Built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.

●Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example

Nuga Consultants Limited - Scrum Master January 2014 – July 2016

●Facilitated scrum meetings (sprint release planning, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups).

●Collaborated with product owners on developing, updating, prioritizing and grooming the product backlog.

●Conducted working sessions and planning meetings for User Stories elaboration and decomposition

●Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team member to focus on the sprint goals and deliverables.

●Ensured timely updates by regularly communicating project status and progress to management and executives.

●Coach team on making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition

●Made sure stakeholders were engaged and expectations had been set regarding their involvement and participation.

●Worked with delivery teams to mitigate impediments and ease the entire development process.

●Ensured the development team worked efficiently towards sprint goals.

●Successfully guided 2 cross-functional development teams through transition from waterfall to agile development.

Nuga Consultants Limited – Project Manager June 2007– December 2013

●Served as liaison between business and stakeholders in order to understand and document data needs.

●Wrote training user guides and facilitated training for staff.

●Delivered weekly key status updates to key stakeholders.

●Worked on a clear strategy, scope and set of business requirements and responsible for capturing end to end customer journeys.

●Understood the business objectives of each business unit and ensure they are reflected in all operating processes and procedures.

●Worked closely with application developers and a variety of end-users to ensure technical compatibility and ensure that resources (Time, Budget and other requirements) are properly managed.

EDUCATION

Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomosho

BTech in Agronomy

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified SAFe 5.0 Scrum Master (SSM)

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