Scrum Master Project Manager

BABATUNJI MOMOH

Professional Summary

I am an enthusiastic Scrum Master who trains teams to follow agile approaches which significantly improves productivity and communication.

Motivated in driving teams and delivery in continuous process improvement and quality; I am passionate about bringing both individuals and teams together in a cross-functional way and improving communications across the company to achieve business and user-centric goals, implementing the fundamentals of self-organization and continuous improvement along the way. A lover of innovation and self-organization in teams by empowering them to take charge, drive events, think out of the box, and continuously improve.

Skills & Competencies

Facilitation Relationship Management Resolves Impediment Communicator Servant Leadership Mentors, Teaches, Coaches Conflict Resolution Process Improvement Delivery Focused Frameworks

Kanban, Waterfall, Scrum, Scaled Agile (Nexus & SAFe) and XP Education and Certification

Fed. Uni of Tech Akure New Horizon KarROX

BEng. Mechanical Engineering CompTIA A+ Cisco Certified Network Associate The Training Center (TTC) Scrum Alliance Scrum Org Oracle DBA Certified Scrum Master Kanban Professional with Scrun Work History

Xsolis Scrum Master Apr 2020 – Current

• Helped the team to mature in courage and openness to identify any impediments at the early stage, and take ownership to find a solution to resolve them or escalate them.

• Successfully guided multiple development teams through the transition from waterfall to Agile development.

• Supported the team by building their agile knowledge and empowered them to make process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings.

• Successfully infused Agile into the way of working in non-agile areas of the business.

• Brought teams to an even higher level of performance by creating a zero-bug environment. This was achievable through more openness and collaboration among the team member.

• Created open flow and exchange of information among scrum teams and external groups. i.e. slack channel shared points to access.

• Identifies and raises issues for open discussions whilst working together to correct or resolve them with the team.

• Working together with the product owner to create a unified vision for the entire team. Ensuring to go over project objectives with PO to avoid confusion and assumptions. Emphasizing the importance of face-to-face meetings to help build a stronger work mentality. Supported in backlog management whilst sharing tips to improve

• Supported the agile office during PI planning events whilst supporting the team to maintain effective collaboration with all key stakeholders.

• Rendered supporting hands to new business analysts and product owners by sharing useful techniques on how to write better user stories with the use of INVEST techniques and focusing on one story per one functionality approach

• Worked selflessly to always put the team first, ensuring their good rhythm wasn’t interrupted nor sustainable pace affected.

• Creatively made work more fun with interactive agile and retrospective games likewise encouraged creativity amongst team members to suggest interactive ways we can do things differently. EXPERIENCED & PRAGMATIC SCRUM MASTER 918-***-**** ********@*****.***

• Encouraged the teams to be accountable and adhere to ways of working, code of quality standards, stories adhering to meet the definition of ready before it goes into the sprint backlog, and meeting definition of done when it turns to an increment at the end of each sprint.

Ryder System Scrum Master Jun 2016 – Apr 2020

• Influenced my development team and stakeholders to switch from the waterfall method to scrum by letting them know the benefits and how it could help business objectives.

• Ensure team sustainable pace is flowing well by making certain the team is not unnecessarily interrupted or bothered by non- essential events or occurrences.

• Facilitates and is accountable for owning the Scrum Agile ceremonies for the scrum team.

• Identifies skills and competencies of scrum team members and makes adjustments accordingly to promote development and highly effective teams.

• Fostered the creation of a self-sufficient scrum team who were able to fully interpret and deliver the product with minimal re- orientation or monitoring by me.

• Presented workshops to increase knowledge and awareness of topics such as Flow, Emotional Health, and Communication.

• Actively encouraged the team to pair programs to share knowledge and improve code quality.

• communicated closely with key business personnel to ensure the successful resolution of defects and deployment of fixes

• Encourages collaboration and facilitates scrum prescribed collaborations through; release planning sessions, daily scrum, review, planning, refinement, retrospectives, and other meetings. Ministry of Water Resources Asst Project Manager / Scrum Master Aug 2013 – Jun 2016 As a PM

• Providing clerical support to Project Managers that help them perform their du8es quickly, and accurately

• Following up with clients to understand their needs, taking minutes during project mee8ngs, and analyzing sta8s8cal data

• Assis8ng in inventory monitoring to assess the need for resource procurement

• Preparing performance and ranking reports and weekly progress updates

• Communica8ng with team members through presenta8ons and educa8ng them on marke8ng tools and strategies

• Assis8ng in data collec8on, development, and analysis to enable proper decision making and goal seBng As an SM

• Facilitates the review sessions whereby the feedback process is received with an open mind instead of being perceived or received as antagonis8c.

• Coaches the development teams in prac8ce by building organic self-organizing teams.

• Works with the product owner whilst providing a check and balance between geBng more done and maintaining high quality and efficiency not sacrificing quality or team health.

• Suppor8ng other scrum masters in agile guild to increase the effec8veness of scrum in the organiza8on.

• Maintains collabora8ve atmosphere through words or ac8ons to ensure team members were supported.

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