Scrum Master Development Corporation

‘DEBISI ADEKUNLE

Calgary, Canada

Email: ***********@*****.***

PROFILE

A tenacious and dedicated Scrum Master with proven prowess in agile methodology, scrum framework, SAFe and effective communication skills. I possess a track record of working on high- quality software/projects with cross-functional teams, on-time and within budget. I love helping teams, regardless of how mature in agile, to reach and maintain their potential with the right agility.

SKILLS

• Agile and SAFe expertise

• Proficient in Azure devops, Jira, Confluence, Digital.ai Agility (formerly known as Version One) Rally, Trello, ServiceNow and conversant with other project management computer software.

• Risk mitigation

• Requirement analysis and product development

• Stakeholder relations and workflow management

• Process optimization and improvement

• Excellent motivator with superior communication and organizational skills

• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency. WORK EXPERIENCE

THANOS GROUP LLC

Texas, United States of America

September 2019 – till date

Position held: Scrum master (Contract Remote)

• Handled several projects for a myriad of clients ranging from e-commerce, real estate to logistics for several large-scale enterprise organizations.

• Acted as project manager on several waterfall projects using ServiceNow and other project management resources to manage constraints, resources, requirement gathering and stakeholders.

• Handled an enterprise project on a native mobile application for a global logistics company. Managed two scrum teams in a SAFe environment for a global enterprise mobile development corporation and provided support to the Release and Solution Train Engineers.

• Coached the team on progressive agile practices and continuous process improvement.

• Motivating team to practice core agile principles of collaboration, prioritizing adequately to deliver value, team accountability and visibility to ensure that goals are met.

• Established, tracked, and improved metrics like Burn down, Velocity, Quality, Efficiency, Productivity and Cadence to optimize Business Value.

• Worked closely with the release management team on ensuring a seamless release process, management of defect backlog and general release compliance.

• Guided scrum teams towards preparation for scrum and SAFe events like Scrum of Scrums, ART sync, PI Planning sessions and others.

• Actively involved in Epic refinement, Feature grooming and backlog refinement to ensure that my teams had the necessary requirement, understanding, dependencies mapped and external support for development.

• Pivoted the teams towards optimizing innovation sprints to improve the project and general use experience.

• Providing guidelines for inspection, adaptation, and transparency across departments to obtain desired business value

• Engaging with Product Owner, Business Stakeholders, and delivery team to understand Business needs and identify appropriate solutions while ensuring timely delivery of prioritized stories.

• Tracking key metrics through effective communication, work cumulative flow, burn down, and burn up charts, velocity, defect summary report and making sure team progress radiates to product owners and stakeholders.

• Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process. Identified impediments and assist team with removing roadblocks to ensure successful sprint- based deliveries in timely cost-effective manner.

• Utilized information radiators such as Kanban boards, score cards, and utilization reports to foster communication amongst stakeholders.

• Participated in Kanban- Agile transformation, coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in use of Agile framework and encourage them to have Agile mindset. GIFTRETE LIMITED

London, England

July 2017 – September 2019

Position held: Scrum master/Coach (Remote)

Job Responsibilities

• Educated and reinforced scrum framework and agile methodology on team members and stakeholders. Constantly conducted scrum maturity tests to gauge the effectiveness of same.

• Handled waterfall projects with traditional project management principled and helped team from planning, charter drafting, ideation to conclusion stage.

• Facilitated scrum in a remote, self-organizing scrum team. Managed the Azure, Jira and Confluence platforms.

• Facilitated timeboxed scrum ceremonies like: sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and retrospectives. Also, sprint demos, bug tracking processes, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.

• Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintained focus on product backlog and the project timeline;

• Worked closely and extensively with the product owner on healthy backlog management achieving sprint goals, continuous delivery of increments and actualizing business values.

• Engaged in estimation planning using the Fibonacci Sequencing and Tshirt sizing. Also monitored the teams’ progress through burn down, burn up and velocity charts on azure and Jira;

• Managed scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving their efficiency in tandem with agile principles and methodology;

• Assisted Product Owners to meet the expectation of external stakeholders and the executive management; and

• Facilitated test-driven development on all projects and increased quality of work with each iteration over time.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

• CopyrightX (Harvard Law School)

• Barrister-at-law (B.L)

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