Scrum Master Product Owner
Resume:
ABIDEMI BABATUNDE
Email: ******************@*****.***
Cell: 443-***-****
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Dedicated and Passionate Scrum Master with 5 years of experience leading high performing co-located and offshore software development teams in a traditional and Agile culture to deliver high valuable products within domains such as e-commerce, healthcare, and logistics. As a servant leader with effective communication skills, I have been able to coach and mentor the scrum team to adopt agile principles and value and support product delivery and management by facilitating and improving processes while collaborating with stakeholders to manage any dependencies and risk.
I have extensive knowledge of multiple agile frameworks, SAFe, Scrum and Kanban.
I am well experienced in facilitating the Scrum values, ceremonies-daily stand up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and the Sprint retrospective, backlog refinement, epics, and story estimation.
CORE QUALIFICATIONS
• Professional Scrum Master
• Evangelist of Scrum/Agile methodology
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Safe methodology
TECHNICAL SKILLS
●Agile Methodologies: SDLC, Agile Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall
●Agile/Scrum Tools: Jira, Confluence and Azure DevOps
●Business Model: MS Office, SharePoint, MS projects
●Administrative: Sprint Planning/Iteration Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrum (Daily Stand Up), Retrospectives, PI planning, Story-Based Management, Problem Solving, Facilitation, Rapid Decision Making, Empathy, Time Management, and Creativity.
CERTIFICATIONS
●PSM 1(Scrum.org)
EDUCATION
University of Ibadan in Nigeria, bachelor’s in education.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Scrum Master
Genesis Healthcare 05/2021 – Current
Worked with 3 teams:
- Tools used: Jira, Slack, Teams, Zoom, Fun retro boards, and confluence
●Assisted to develop and deliver team and organization Scrum training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation.
●Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies). Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority.
●Implemented Agile Scrum methodology with the team to improve communication within and
between departments to provide transparency across departments and to obtain great business
value with a short turnaround.
●Supported and educated the Product Owner in respect to refining and ordering the product
backlog.
●Assisted team in clarifying and writing user stories.
●Work in a SAFe framework with other scrum teams, Attend scrum of scrum to coordinate dependencies across various other scrum teams in Agile release train, work with Release Train Engineer, system Architects.
●Attend PI planning workshops and facilitate system demo, inspect, adapt workshops for future PLS and release Management meetings.
●Facilitated scrum ceremonies to promote transparency amongst the team as well as encouraged
inspection of work to identify areas of improvement for each sprint.
●Built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or
being judged, with an emphasis on problem-solving.
●Facilitating various Scrum events such as Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and
Sprint Retrospectives.
●Removed team impediments consistently to allow the team to attain sprint goals and provide
deliverables.
●Coached and empowered teams using scrum methodology to encourage them to be self-organizing and self-managing teams.
●Created templates for Sprint Review to maintain timebox for the team and clarify metrics/sprint
goals for key stakeholders/product teams.
Scrum Master 02/2018 – 05/2021
NTT DATA
Worked with 3 teams:
- Tools used: Jira, Slack, Teams, Zoom, Fun retro boards, and confluence
●Supported development teams and financial associates.
●Conducted daily SCRUM via email in the form of Daily Status Updates.
●Assisted with and remove impediments for the support of local and remote personnel.
●Conducted training sessions and created documentation for new features and functionality being released.
●Publicized the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to the product owners and stakeholders.
●Educated team members in an Agile methodology. Use of Jira for tracking projects and tasks.
●Implemented and enforced Scrum principles and practices, facilitated continuous improvement (CI), and identified and removed team impediments
●Supported the Product Owner with documentation of User Stories and Acceptance criteria
●Monitored team backlog daily and ensured it accurately reflects the current state of the sprint
Scrum Master 10/2017– 02/2018
Southwest Airline
Worked with 2 teams
- Tools used: Jira, Slack, Microsoft teams, Fun retro boards and
●Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos
●Track and communicate team velocity in Burn down charts and sprint/release progress
●Empower the team to self-organize
●Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions.
●Co-ordinate with Stakeholders and product owner for meeting sprint objectives
●Build positive working relationship between stakeholders and project managers.
●Maintain and establish data quality, completeness, and monthly metrics for leadership review.
●Co-ordinate multiple project review meetings across different project milestones.
●Enable process standards and best practices for effective project execution.
●Articulate business user needs to software development teams - user stories.
●Conduct Daily Stand up, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective meetings.
●Manage timely communication between various internal and external stakeholders.
●Help team inspect and adapt process.
●Communicate timely functional /technical/managerial feedback to Development team.
●Prepare development status reports and timely communication to various account stakeholders.
●Proactive identification & escalation of risks to stakeholders.
●Stakeholder appreciated for managing and contributing to project from different angles - Process
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