Scrum Master Remote Project

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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

An experienced certified Scrum master with over five years of coaching and guiding teams using Scrum, Kanban and SAFe. In-depth knowledge on scheduling and facilitating all scrum events. Expert in removing impediments, facilitating scrum ceremonies/ events, and building a cross functional and self-organized development teams from waterfall, hybrid to adopting agile. Experience in monitoring/ assisting development teams on testing techniques automation and manual while encouraging continuous improvement and learning. An expert in impediment removal and conflict resolution. Experience in performing the duties of servant leader.

Core skills

Capable of translating vision and strategy into clear direction and priority.

Have experience in working with multi-team environment and working with other scrum masters.

Experienced in focused project and data management.

Excellent understanding of Kanban, JIRA, and metrics

Great experience in delivery large scale technique programmed.

Experience of working effectively in a Dynamic, Fast-paced development environment coordinating between multiple teams.

Model in Servant Leadership and driving teams and organizations towards continuous Agile Maturity, conflict resolution, facilitation of scrum activities continuous improvement and discussing agile best practices.

Certified Scrum Master with thorough understanding of Iterative Software development, Lean and Agile processes such as Scrum, Kanban and SAFe, Spotify.

Great knowledge in agile and scrum framework and their application in product development and delivery organization.

Experience in working with investment management and managing delivery teams

I am. Equally a change agent who advocates for continuous improvement and a good problem solver

Experience in diversified fields of the Software Development Life Cycle with expertise in managing end to end lifecycle processes using Agile methodologies.

Capable of driving development teams towards advancing the roadmap and deliverables

Excellent team facilitation and Conflict resolution skills including arbitration, negotiation

Areas of Expertise

•SAFe, Scrum, Kanban.

•Software Development Life Cycle

•Automated/Manual/Mobile Apps Testing

•Continuous Integration/Testing

•Agile/Engineering Processes

•Agile Project management

•Pair Programming

•ATDD, TDD

•Process Improvement

•Program Increment

WORK EXPERINCE.

JoinIT Solutions, San Antonio Texas 09/2020 - Present

Scrum Master

●Act as the bridge between the product manager and the scrum delivery team and helping both parties to align to the common goals while managing stakeholders’ expectations.

●Tracked and radiated information on team level metrics to enable discussion on continuous improvement and set team expectations for high performance. Equally work with my team to identify and fill in blanks in the agile framework.

●Influencing the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices.

●Help to build a safe environment and strong relationship within teams so problem can be raised and dealt with professionally.

●Maintaining storyboards, organizing charts within JIRA, and influencing scrum best practices to team.

●Team up with product owner/ project manager to maintain and coordinate communication of project progress to client through out each project by visualizing work on scrum boards.

●Help team to execute effective sprint by organizing and facilitating regular backlog refinement sessions and make sure stories are ready to be action on by development team.

●Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data, create work breakdown structure (user stories) and corresponding activities(task).

●Facilitate exercises like Story Writing Workshop, User Story Mapping, Affinity Estimation, etc. to help product owner in managing stakeholder expectation by doing release planning.

●Lead remote project teams across multiple regions, managed project plan and budget, alongside vendors.

●Work with the product owner and the scum team to refine the product backlog, split stories, and prioritize stories based on dependencies with other teams.

●Capture and help teams continuously identify and learning from retrospectives by tracking and implementing retrospective action items in subsequent sprint.

●Capture and help the team to continuously identify and learning from the retrospectives by tracking and implementing retrospective action items in subsequent sprint Coaching and empowering teams to be self-organize and grow cross-functionally.

●Identify Scrum anti-patterns through an organizational scrum evaluation on a regular basis and made it visible, so that the teams and business can try to avoid them.

●Facilitate refinement meetings, sprint planning, daily standups, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meetings.

Daiken. Houston, Texas 10/2019 – 08/2020

Scrum Master

●Help the team estimate capacity for iterations, finalize team objectives, manage the timebox, dependencies and ambiguities during team breakout sessions.

●scrum teams to deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met.

●Use the burn down chat and burn up chat to monitor team progress in order to help coach teams to maintain stable and sustainable space in the course of development.

●Partnered with Product Owner(s) to ensure continuous refinement of backlog, which may include stories from multiple projects.

●Led and coached the Product Owner to improve story writing & requirements gathering process, leading to an increase in customer satisfaction.

●Facilitated scrum process on scrum teams with significant cross-functional impacts involving project, or maintenance work.

●Guided scrum team(s) and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.

●Fostered and encouraged conversations and collaboration - both inside and outside of team - allowing them to self-organize.

●Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, Iteration planning, Daily scrum, Iteration review, Iteration retrospective.

●Worked with development team to improve their intra-team communication and iteration work for improved visibility of current work, open issues, and priorities

●Protect teams from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritizing resolution of defects/bugs as evidence by the on-time delivery of major initiative.

●Removed roadblocks for successful iterations, which led to the transition of releases on time.

●Influenced the organization in the removal of organizational impediments and development of healthy Agile practices.

●Worked to remove impediments to decision-making and be able to allocate personnel to problems while providing guidance.

●Ensured team understands the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items and achieve this through techniques such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria.

BICEC Bank, Bamenda, Cameroon 07/2017 – 06/2019

Project Manager

●Managed communication across to schedule and plan company’s all-hand plan to ensure the team was brought into project and the company overall mission

●Analyze scope of the project based on competitive analysis, interview with customers and customers’ future request

●Set and met 95% of company set goals deadlines, allocated budgets and worked across software, marketing and executing team to ensure team were properly resourced

●Communicated progress and roadblocks to the stakeholders including executive management and made recommendations to remove roadblocks leading to onetime and on budget delivery of projects.

●Interact with 75+ high-value clients and foster work relationships with my customers.

●Schedule appointments and demos, updating calendars across companies to reduce instances of over booking by 98%.

●Worked closely with executive, engineer, marketing, product and sales team to define the scope of each project and the schedules of deliverables.

●Align goals with executives on scheduling, budgeting, resource management and style of progress.

Technical Proficiencies

Operating Systems: Windows

Reporting Tools: Version One, Jira, Confluence

Business Modeling: MS Excel, Word, Outlook, MS power point, One Note

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s Degree in project management with a minor in computer science

University of Bamenda

CERTIFICATION:

Certified scrum master

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