Scrum Master

Chidi David Izu

Scrum Master & Change Agent

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Professional Profile

A Delivery lead, Agile PM, Scrum Master, and people person who is driven and passionate about 'working agile' with a focus on scaling agile, transitioning to agile, continuous delivery, and continuous integration, whilst supporting data-informed decision-making. With a versatile character, I enjoy getting the best out of colleagues and delivering the right product for the business, citizens, or customers, acting as an enabling and collaborative problem solver. Proven success in building and managing teams and projects for both large and small initiatives using collocated offshore teams with the ability to enable teams to work at their peak whilst increasing efficient communication and collaboration with the business or customers. Love to use different pragmatic approaches to resolve issues. Likewise, a strong believer in continuous improvement, using the principles and values, not just the framework, for improvement, innovation, and transformation. I would love to bring my skills to a company that is on a mission to build digital solutions which will be game-changing for the world we live in. I thrive in environments where people, purpose, and value are the mantra, dialogue, and collaboration that support fails small learn quick environment with everyone working together to make a difference.

Areas of Expertise

Project Management

Project Governance

Project Administration

Servant Leadership

Database Management

Software Application Development

Configuration Management

Facilitation

Mentoring and Coaching

Stakeholder Management

Agile Transitioning

Empathetic

Quick Learner

Agile frameworks

Stakeholder Management

Conflict Resolution

Risk Resolver & Tracker

Team Player

Career Summary

Tesco Bank Scrum Master

Aug 2019 – Present

Worked with the product owners to optimize the product backlog and manage new requests coming into the sprint.

Coordinated sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint demo, and retrospective ensuring their purposes are met.

Supported the delivery manager to monitor and control allocated project resources, maintaining financial and progress forecasting in order to ensure projects are delivered according to schedule and within budget.

Implemented project tracking mechanisms to be able to provide timely and concise updates on project progress to senior management and key stakeholders highlighting areas of risk and capturing key decisions.

Worked closely with product owners in prioritizing and refining the product

Coached the team on story estimation techniques (planning poker and T-shirt sizing).

Fostered close collaboration across all team members, and encouraged cross-training/knowledge sharing and support among team members through design sessions, pair programming, and code review to increase the spirit of cross-functionality.

Interfaced with the Agile team, stakeholders, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters to improve performance, communication, and transparency.

Made sure that customers' feedback and expectations for quality products are incorporated and prioritized in the product backlog.

Facilitated Scrum of Scrum activities to align teams and manage dependencies or integration issues.

Facilitated the daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings.

Provide strategic coaching, consulting, and support for business owners and senior leadership

Enable organizational agility by creating the conditions and alignment for change

Develop and deliver lean-agile leadership training and curriculum solutions to the organization to support organizational change.

Participated in agile coach working groups or centers of Excellence to develop and build strategies for transformation.

Coach and mentor other Agile Coaches

Wipro Digital Asst. Project Manager/Scrum Master June 2016 – April 2019

As a Scrum Master

Facilitated the team to turn the product backlog into working functionality

Responsible for enacting agile values and practices within my teams

Proactively remove impediments or anything that would pose a threat to the sprint goal or may affect the team’s sustainable pace.

Coached teams on how they can promote the use of engineering practices and tools (i.e. XP in the likes of peer review, pair programming, BDD, etc.) to foster retention of high quality in how work is done and in increments at end of the sprint.

Maximize the throughput of the teams: help deliver business value for products and services sooner.

Collaborated with the other new scrum masters and agile coaches in rolling out an effective agile transition into the organization.

Facilitated first coaching session with two product owners on how to write better stories using INVEST technique, and the importance of collaborating efficiently with the stakeholders to optimize value in the backlog.

Organized sessions for product owners and business analysts to teach them techniques to maintain the product backlog, write better stories, and ways to collaborate better with the business.

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 it or to escalate it.

Supported the Agile office deliver agile training (SCRUM) to newly formed teams to ease their transition through the four phases and coaching on agile principles and roles.

As an Asst. Project Lead

Predicted resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner.

Prepared budget based on the scope of work and resource requirements.

Tracked project costs in order to meet the budget.

Developed and managed a detailed project schedule and work plan

Provided project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress to executives and third-party stakeholders.

Managed contracts with vendors and suppliers by assigning tasks and communicating expected deliverables.

Managed end-to-end delivery of complex projects using a combination of Waterfall and Agile practices across cross-functional teams throughout the business.

Worked with senior management to build a project management framework informing best practice/review cycles and collaborated with PO and BA in the design, architecture, and planning of projects.

AXA INSURANCE Project Analyst Feb 2013 to June 2016

Worked across multiple projects monitoring for adherence to prescribed timelines, suggesting operational changes

Produced and maintained project documentation escalating risks as appropriate

Prepared highlight reports and chaired project team meetings

Assisted in the production of third-party questionnaires working closely with Business Analysts and Litigation

Led document review conducting high-level analysis of confidential transcripts and archived correspondence

Reported project cost analysis to enhance workflow and increase profits

Authored status reports for senior executives, detailing overall performance metrics

Education and Qualifications

BSc Degree

Scrum

Digital and Technology Solutions

Coventry University

Professional Scrum Master Scaled Nexus Framework

Scrum Org

Project Mgt.

Prince2 Foundation

ITIL® Foundation Certificate

Additional Information

Technical Skills:

Amazon Web Services, WordPress, Jira, Miro, Project, Visio, Trello, PowerPoint, Excel, MS Teams, Wix Web Development, SQL, HTML, Visual Studios, Tableau, Java

Languages:

French (Beginner) English (Native), German (Understanding)

Interests:

Sports, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, Technology, Gym, Problem-solving, Events Organisation, Networking Seminars, Website and game designs

References are available on request

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