Scrum Master Project Coordinator

Olay Famos

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CSM PSM 1 SAFe

SUMMARY

Committed, and collaborative servant leader with experience of over 5 years of successfully managing development teams transitioning from Waterfall to Agile methodology. I support and mentor teams and organizations in building their Agile platform and implement Agile solutions to their business challenges while delivering value and unlocking their full potentials in achieving desired organizational goals and objectives. My passion is to train, and mentor teams, product owners and leaders on how to adopt an agile mindset which brings dependability, and clarity. I am an analytical thinker and skilled communicator with outstanding conflict resolution and facilitation skills. I bring enthusiasm where there's pressure while applying myself in a rapidly evolving and dynamic environment.

SKILLS

Training, Coaching, and mentoring

Leadership and Customer focused

Design and System Thinking

Agile Methodologies (SAFe, Scrum, Scrumban, Kanban, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavioral Driven Development (BDD), Extreme Programming (XP))

Jira and Confluence

System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Release Planning

Continuous improvements

Project Management

Facilitation

Lean-Agile

Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI/CD)

Excellent interpersonal/communication skills

EXPERIENCE

HOME OWNERS OF AMERICA, Irving Tx April 2021 - Date

Scrum Master

Facilitates scrum events: sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, backlog refinement, release planning from scope till deployment.

Proactively identify and help remove impediments for the team progress while utilizing the empirical process. Facilitates internal and external communication by implementing transparency and effectively communicating team velocity, sprint / release progress to the team and stakeholders.

Mentoring the team on creating clear and concise user stories and acceptance criteria during backlog refinement sessions.

Communicate with the product Owner and support specialists on product issues while working with them to resolve these issues.

Facilitates operational work in a transparent, collaborative manner using the Scrum values and principles.

Foster communication and productive relationships with Product Owners, team members, stakeholders.

Help build and maintain trust amongst other scrum teams to ensure alignment with effective collaboration and agility in a complex environment.

Used Agile Survey/retrospective games as a tool to identify level of maturity of the scrum team.

Cultivate and promote a culture of relentless continuous improvement.

Ensure team readiness for BRP.

KEYTECH SOLUTIONS, Houston, TX January 2020 - March 2021

Scrum Master

Support and mentoring cross-functional teams while collaborating with the Product Owners to help team be self-organized and highly efficient in delivering releasable product each Sprint with zero defects.

Foster a culture of transparency, inspection, and adaptation by promoting healthy conflict and team agreement.

Facilitate scrum events (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint review) from scope till deployment.

Ensure clarity of working agreements in the team while focusing on meeting the sprint goals.

Ensuring customer’s feedback and expectations for quality products are incorporated and prioritized in the product backlog and during sprints, which has helped increase the team’s velocity at 10% iteratively.

Using JIRA to monitor the status of user stories, sprint release/progress, team velocity, and capacity.

Ensuring the team practices agile principles of collaboration, prioritizing, team accountability and visibility to meet sprint/release goals that has produced increase in team velocity and releasable products at each sprint.

Mentoring teams on story estimation techniques using planning poker, T-shirt sizing, INVEST and Fibonacci sequence.

Working remotely from United States and seamlessly working with multi-cultural teams across borders.

Working with the product owner in ensuring the items on the Product backlog are detailed (acceptance criteria and description are clear) before stories are estimated by the team.

LASIK, Houston Tx June 2018 – December 2019

Scrum Master

Coached and mentored the team on following agile values, principles, and practices.

Facilitated the Scrum Ceremonies – Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and decision-making processes.

Coached the teams on mitigating, issues, risks, and action items.

Planned and organized demos presentations with the team.

Coached the teams on good collaborative processes and removed impediments.

Tracked project processes, deliverables, and financials.

Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers

Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and coached the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team.

Fostered a trusting and safe environment for problem solving.

Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency in processes and organization.

Supported and coached the Product Owner, using the MOSCOW technique in refining and maintaining the product backlog.

Provided support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.

GT BANK, Lagos-Nigeria June 2013 – March 2018

Project Coordinator

Managed a hundred (100) million-dollars development project from initiation to closure by clearly communicating the expectations to the team which increased revenue by 50%

Followed established project management methodology to ensure project delivery, framework, tasks, activities, and deliverable are represented and accounted for in project plans and timelines.

Resolved issues and solved problems during the project cycle by encouraging my team to identify problems they were encountering which increased the team's productivity.

Effectively managed project scope by ensuring changes made to scope were documented and approved.

Tracked and reported project milestones and provided status updates to sponsors and stakeholders.

Supported and assisted in development of new processes and procedures, including workarounds where necessary.

Ensured product met customer expectations by communicating changes to team and ensuring high quality rollouts were made on time

EDUCATION

Obafemi Awolowo University - Ile-Ife, Osun State Nigeria

Bachelors of Arts

CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM 1)

Certified SAFe 5.0 Scrum Master

Certified Scrum Master

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