Scrum Master Product Owner
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Fadimatou Mufireh
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Profile Summary
Core Competencies
An accomplished and experienced Certified Scrum Master with a strong concentration and enormous success utilizing agile methodology, focusing on end-user value to improve business objectives. Guiding the team members and training them on how to use Agile or Scrum practices; guiding and coaching the team towards the goal of increasing productivity; organizing and leading Scrum ceremonies; communicating with stakeholders; overseeing and managing scope and deliverables that support business goals; monitoring schedule and cost performance; identifying key KPI’s and presenting reports on success and progress. Skilled in interviewing Business users, and customers and providing recommendations to resolve issues for various business/technical groups & defining strategic solutions to business problems in a multiple projects environment. Agile practices and utilizing continuous integration practices work closely with teams on designing and developing solutions based on user stories and business-driven test scenarios, test cases, and test plan coaching.
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B.SC. COMPUTER SCIENCE
Agile Methodology
SAFe
Kanban
Waterfall to Agile Migration
Scrum of Scrum
Scaled Agile Framework
Project Management
Organizational Skills
Decision Maker Leader
Time management
Attention to detail
A skilled negotiator
Strategic Planning
Hard-Working
Goal-oriented
Strategic Planning
Business Process Development
Great Communication Skills
Problem-solving/Creativity
Leadership Development
Led and coached Product Owners to improve story writing, feature discovery, and requirements gathering process; leading to an increase in customer satisfaction and a decrease in time-to-delivery.
Resolved impediments that prevent the agile team and Product owner from effectively employing agile/lean processes.
Championed Agile concepts & methodologies outside of the software development teams, leading to the adoption of Agile
Led scrum teams under one product backlog to achieve improvements in team velocity and delivery of backlog items.
Implemented and managed projects through Agile Scrum methodology for SDLC – covering the entire supply chain from concept to production, including coaching and mentoring of the whole team.
Professional Experience
Scrum Master / Agile Lead
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA Nov 2019 - Present
Leading and influencing multiple cross functional teams synchronously, educating and ensuring that, the values, principles and theory of agile are understood and practiced.
Ensure that, the team is self-organizing, focused, engaged, motivated, committed and work collaboratively by sharing ideas and expertise amongst them through effective communication.
Participate in Scrum of Scrums to ensure dependencies are clearly understood and cross-team impediments are addressed.
Supporting Product Owner to organize backlog user stories and keeping the team self-organized, focused and shielded from outside interference. Identifying team improvement opportunities and looking externally for best practices to support continuous improvement.
Educating and teaching the principles of self- management and reinforcing scrum methodology and agile framework to team members.
Establish and ensure adherence to the Scrum framework and events, including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
Continuously strive towards more efficient and effective Scrum teams, resulting in higher and consistent velocities as well as better product quality. Howard University
CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER
Scrum Master / Agile Lead
Wells Fargo, Atlanta, GA.
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with the business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support the business Enterprise Risk Management Framework. Collaborate with the Product Owner to support short and long-term release planning, while maintaining a healthy team backlog ready for execution.
Facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, daily standup, sprint review and retrospective A scrum master with advanced technical skills on Plainview, JIRA and Jira Align/Agile Craft, Mural, Power Point, Jenkins, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SQL and AWS Cloud. Monitoring of key metrics for quality and speed, compared to scope, goals and objectives and provide regular updates to scrum team and Product Owner.
Apply expert-level knowledge of the software development life-cycle to coach teams to flawless deployments to the production environment.
Coach teams through the exploration and adoption of agile engineering practice (e.g., test automation, CI/CD, BDD, TDD, Agile Architecture)
Tracks metrics (inputs, outputs, and outcomes) for team; monitors on an ongoing basis and informs key stakeholders as appropriate. Monitors sprint velocity and works with team to determine how they can continue to improve on velocity and recognize additional efficiencies as they mature. Implementing agile ceremonies, processes, practices, and tools to create simple, consistent, sustainable, efficient, and flexible ways of working.
Assists with resource allocation and effective capacity planning for team to determine what team can take on in any given sprint. Works with product owner, engineering manager, and team to re-balance and re- prioritize work within a sprint
Scrum Master
BayelleIT Solutions, Iowa
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
Contribute best practices in Scrum Master Community of Practice and adhere to audit/compliance requirements for execution.
Identifies, tracks, removes, or escalates impediments to enable team success toward the sprint commitments. Experience on Scrum-ban framework, Scaled Agile Framework, Kanban, product backlog grooming, influence reporting shift from waterfall to Agile metrics.
Strong ability to track & communicate team’s velocity for quality and speed, compared to scope, goals and objectives, and provide regular updates to scrum team and product owner. Fostering a culture of collaboration within the team, promoting, building, and ensuring team engagement. Skilled on Tracking and managing product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown. Dedicating myself to retrospectives and focusing on collaborative decision making. Collaborate with the Release Train Engineer and other scrum masters to remove impediments across collaborating teams, facilitating transparency, inspection and adaptation. Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
Serves as an agile process expert and helps educate the team in Scrum, Kanban and Agile techniques and ceremonies. Ensures Agile methodologies are being followed.
Addressing problems through risk management and contingency planning, dependency management. Positive relationship building skills including the ability to relate constructively to all levels of the organization A scrum expert with Strong written and verbal communications skills, curious, relentless and very collaborative Waterfall to Agile Migration.
Tools & Training
JIRA Azure DevOps Confluence Rally VersionOne Jenkins SharePoint Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
TaO, SAP Utilization, BPC, and BI Reporting
Soft skills (Microsoft outlook, software applications, and infrastructure) Work Eligibility
Green Card Holder
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