Jasmine Bates
Plano, Texas, *****
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Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with 7 years of experience in coaching, supporting team development, and individuals to continuously improve their daily work through agile principles, practices, and methods. Also, acting as a servant leader while helping teams to remove impediments and conflicts; also helping clients to establish and develop an agile culture to grow further in agility. Agile Methodology
Software Development Cycle
Miro and Trello
Planning Poker
Burn-down & Burn-up Charts
Backlog refinement
Scrum Implementation
Facilitate Ceremonies
Business Process Improvement
PI Planning
Estimation and Story Pointing
User Stories
Software Development Cycle
Team management
Criminal Justice - Associate of Arts - 2011
Concordia University Wisconsin - Mequon, WI
Criminal Justice - Bachelor of Arts - 2013
Concordia University Wisconsin - Mequon, WI
Certified Scrum Master ( CSM) - Scrum Alliance
Sr. Scrum Master - June, 2020 to Present
MansaTek - Mansfield, Texas
Arranging and facilitate meetings with external organizations and individuals, enabling parties to meet and discuss project progress
One on one Coaching sessions with development team and product owner Facilitate daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Story Refinement, and Release Planning
Use Jira and confluence to track team progress and velocity improvement. Produce burn-up and burn-down charts to provide a visually transparent measurement of the team's progress and roadblocks to stakeholders. Work in collaboration with Agile Coaches to develop a comprehensive Scrum adoption program
Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflict, and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline
Interfaced with 3 product owners on an active basis to manage product backlog and sprint activities Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders. Remove impediments that were obstructing the team from achieving sprint goals, and helped the team remain creative and productive while making sure its successes are visible to the product owner Professional Summary
Skills
Education & Certifications
Work History
Scrum Master - May, 2018 to June, 2020
Vertuous Athletic® - New Berlin, WI
Facilitated focus groups, surveys, and feedback sessions to gather input from stakeholders. I created a feedback cycle that placed stakeholders at the center of project delivery. Worked with the Product Manager to define the product and service road map and help translate it into prioritized stories
Built trust and positive working relationships with teams to support the delivery Achieved cultural shifts and process change through tenacious determination and interpersonal skills Develop KPIs with business and stakeholders that align with business goals Burn-up and Burn-down chart to keep track of the progress throughout the sprint Educated teams on the purpose of the scrum ceremonies and how to use the information for the inspection/ adaptation needed
Facilitate the relationship and collaboration between the Product Owner and Developers Measuring a team’s performance to ensure they are on track to hit their project objectives Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, and mediation to help the team became a high-performance team
Used agile methodology to reduce cycle time and meet target margins. Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams internally and off-shore. Maintained tactical control over project budgets and timelines to keep teams on track and meet deadlines.
Jr. Scrum Master - May, 2015 to May, 2018
Landmark Development Group - Milwaukee, WI
Coached 20+ Scrum teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create a positive mindset towards Scrum Methodologies and values.
Facilitated discussions within/across teams on the best way to deliver maximum value to our customers Defined and managed activities across the project team Led the collaborative, dynamic planning process to deliver and prioritize the work that needed to be done against the capacity and capability of the team Plan Agile best practices and encourage team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and productivity, and reduce the number of bugs introduced.
Time boxed daily stand-up
Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work Team player and team builder with strong interpersonal skills Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams internally and off-shore. Improved my ability to translate business problems into technical solutions, as well as my ability to collaborate with and understand people in non-technical fields.