Scrum Management

Yvonne Kopanakis

(CSM, SAFe, SSM,)

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Agile transformation lead with experience leading and setting up to multiple Teams with Scrum and Kanban Framework simultaneously.

Extensive experience providing direction and coaching Scrum Masters on Agile and leadership skills.

Transformation of client from Waterfall/Non-Agile Methodology to Agile Scrum Framework,

Coached the Facilitation of Dependencies/Risks/Impediment Management between teams

Worked closely with Product Managers/ Product Owners in product backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams to articulated project goals & scope, translating business needs into technical terms.

Mentoring of teams to adopt continues Improvements practices

SKILLS

Scrum

Kanban

JIRA/Devops

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

MS Suite (Office, Excel, Teams)

Confluence/ Rally/ Candice/ Trello

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Requirement Analysis

Conflict Resolution

Relative Estimation

Removing Impediments

Effective Communication

Passionate about Improvement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Centene Corporation Clayton, NC November 2018– Current

Scrum Master

Facilitated the training of corporate teams on the Agile methodology.

Provided guidance on the development of Agile teams to ensure effective outcomes for the organization

Responsible for guiding teams through the implementation process and are tasked with encouraging workers and leadership to embrace the agile method

Provided training and worked closely with Product Owners in gathering customer requirements

Instituted the daily huddle for business owners and stakeholders to provide answers regarding product vision

Coached teams to adopt continues integration and pair programing for knowledge sharing and building quality codes

Assisted product owner in writing user stories

Fidelity Investments Arlington, Virginia January 2017- November 2018

Scrum Master

Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 25% and the quality of deliverables by 40%.

Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information from team level to management level.

Provided training and worked closely with Product Owners in product backlog refinement and continuous delivery of features.

Introduced and facilitated team’s Agile Scrum Ceremonies (Iteration planning, Daily Scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software and System demonstrations) for scrum teams

Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information from team level to management level.

Provided coaching on dependencies management, risks mitigation and issues from scrum team to the ART

Coached teams to adopt continues integration and pair programing for knowledge sharing and building quality codes

Directed and coached development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.

Developed and managed visual system to track progress of work during sprints and projects.

Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good Agile practices

Generated and posted end of Iteration review reports for team Deliverables and Agile Methodology adoption

WillowTree Charlottesville, Virginia June 2015- January 2017

Scrum Master

Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality allowing teams to fully own commitments of finishing sprint backlog items within the time box

Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the of Scrum framework in the organization through Scrum huddles and forming communities of practice

Protected team from over-commitment, planning sprints according to team’s capacity

Managed the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment

Coordinated and managed code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups

Communicated with other management, engineers, product managers, product owners and support specialists on product issues

Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress

Mentoring and coaching 2 collocated and 1 distributed agile team in their scrum adoption

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

Wake Technical Community College – Associate Degree in Business Management, 2009-2012

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro – Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, 2012-2015.

International Business Management Institute – Diploma Project Management 2020

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

Advanced Scrum Master (ASM)

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