Scrum Master

MOHAMMED SURAJU

EXCITING & EXPERIENCED SCRUM MASTER

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PERSONAL PROFILE

Over 10 years I have successfully managed and implemented complex and critical projects, providing the best cost-benefit results accordingly to the companies’ goals and strategy. To achieve these results, I have used effective project management technics and agile expertise on all project life cycle activities as well as, relationship development, teamwork, leadership, communication, stakeholders’ engagement, and effective training. Thus, I have developed a broad knowledge of data analytics, process improvement, and technological trends application. I also developed soft skills to work comfortably in collaborative and independently-driven roles. Known for adaptability, team building, and communication skills. Worked with teams in collaborative efforts to produce high-quality deliverables at a sustainable pace using Agile and Waterfall Methodologies. Highly motivated and energetic professional, dedicated to understanding and meeting client and team needs. Highly effective interpersonal and presentational skills. CAREER HISTORY & RESPONSIBILITIES

Scrum Master: SEVERN TRENT

May 2019 to Present

Maintained a two-week cadence for automated deployments, and significantly increased the number of builds deployed per month.

Helped develop and maintained rapport between product owner and stakeholders Report Projects status on a regular basis to management, and project teams through status reports.

Maintained the Scrum team capacity plan, Scrum board, sprint backlog, and all kinds of charts. Identify and help to remove impediments to enable the success of the Sprint team. Identifies and communicates potential risks to the completion of the Sprints. Distributes appropriate and timely written communication with all stakeholders throughout the life of the sprints and projects.

Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, refinement, and sprint reviews Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it. Managing and optimizing the flow of value using appropriate tools. Communicated and established the annual calendars for quarterly Agile Planning and iterations. Assisting in tracking capabilities and execution of features. Coaching leaders, scrum masters, Product Owners, and teams in Lean-Agile mindsets and practices.

Helping with dependencies and risk management removal at the team level and organizational levels.

Escalating, tracking impediments, and offering inputs on resourcing to address crucial bottlenecks.

Encouraging a culture of collaboration between teams. Working with Product Owners, Product & Solution Management, and stakeholders for ensuring strategy and execution alignments.

Helped to encourage the team’s autonomy and ownership so that they become less dependent on the development lead or me. Introducing weekly KT sessions increased this effectively. Helped with visibility transparency of the artifacts and also continuously encouraged keeping the work flowing on the board as unblocked as possible. Worked with business stakeholders to help them understand their roles and responsibilities and how best to interact with the teams – encouraged them to use instant messaging tools instead of emails and more interactions.

Supported the team by building their agile knowledge and empowered them to make process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings. Coaches the development teams in practice by building organic self-organizing teams Scrum Master: RSA INSURANCE GROUP

Aug 2015 to May 2019

Set up recurring stakeholders’ and product owners’ meetings to share product insights to allow alignment so the value needed to be delivered can be optimized better. Steering the teams towards increased collaboration, transparency, Agile mindset, and a culture of the experiment, inspection & adaptation.

Monitored the sprint progress and circulate the information to stakeholders. Educated and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.

Coached team members on Agile principles and provide general guidance on the methodology Influenced the development team to try technical practices like pair programming and test-driven development.

Fostered the creation of a self-sufficient scrum team who were able to fully interpret and deliver the product with minimal re-orientation or monitoring by me. Encourages collaboration and facilitates scrum-prescribed collaborations through; release planning sessions, daily scrum, review, planning, refinement, retrospectives, and other meetings. Collaborate with the Product Owner to know key stakeholders required to attend the review event i.e. send out reminders and include the dial-in link in the calendar for anyone joining remotely.

Created open flow and exchange of information among scrum teams and external groups. i.e. slack channel shared points to access.

Caused changes that increase the productivity of the scrum team. Emphasized trust, transparency, openness, and good communication within teams and with business stakeholders.

Coached Development teams to increase Agile Maturity through continued education on Scrum and Agile.

Tracked sprint velocity, sprint burn down and release burn up by using Jira dashboards and assigned user stories to epics and versions within Jira. Guided two Development Teams from zero releases in the prior six months to a total of nine releases in the next six months.

Helped the team to point out improvement points and future forecasting with different techniques, i.e. Risk Management and reporting objectively and accurately on project health Stakeholder management and consulting with clients, manage expectations when necessary Worked with the Product Owner and the Development Team to establish a delivery rhythm, ensure common priorities, and manage dependencies and organization risks and teams’ impediments.

Scrum Master: KINGFISHER.

Feb 2013 to Aug 2015

Supporting other scrum masters in the agile guild to increase the effectiveness of scrum in the organization.

Maintained a collaborative atmosphere through words or actions to ensure team members were supported.

Presented workshops to increase knowledge and awareness of topics such as Flow, Emotional Health, and Communication.

Actively encouraged the team to pair programs to share knowledge and improve code quality. communicated closely with key business personnel to ensure the successful resolution of defects and deployment of fixes

Encouraged collaboration and facilitates scrum-prescribed collaborations through; release planning sessions, daily scrum, review, planning, refinement, retrospectives, and other meetings. Coached and guided the scrum team to identify their potential and motivate them individually/as a team to surpass their past performance. An example is the engineering practices we have improved vastly; from peer review and pair programming activities with co-located members to involving dispersed members. We moved from using “verify” to adopting TDD and then BDD in our acceptance criteria writing.

Mentored the stakeholders on how best to engage with the team, helping them understand which of their involvement may be harmful and how well to improve it whilst managing their expectations.

Transitioned the team through the five stages of team formulation which has increased their sense of teamwork and team ownership over individual glory. Led the teams towards the goal of becoming self-managing, optimally performing teams. Communicate progress with management and stakeholders while monitoring their interaction with the team to ensure they are helpful and not disruptive. Promoted Scrum values of Transparency, Focus, Courage, Respect, and Commitment within the team and acted as a buffer for the teams, removing distractions to delivery and interference from externals that may put teams’ focus at risk.

Taught problem-solving techniques and helped the team become better problem-solvers for themselves.

Supported the Product Owner to build and iterate a product road map to meet the needs of the program.

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

Continuously foster a culture where issues or new ideas can be discussed in an open, transparent, non-judgmental way.

Great facilitating and mediating skills in events, meetings, and beyond, getting people to communicate and find the right way forward as key. Work closely with cross-functional teams by coaching the individual, and the situation and allowing the person to make decisions themselves.

Proactively identify what is getting in the way of the scrum teams delivering faster and working with them to improve productivity.

Business Analyst: KINGFISHER.

Feb 2012 to Feb 2013

Gathered business needs as they relate to a potential change or transformation. Gathering, identifying, and documenting business requirements. Explained technical jargon to non-technical/commercial teams. Simplified requirements, so they are easily understood across the whole team. Business process modeling and improving business processes. Identifying costs and business savings.

Implemented, tested, and deployed solutions to business problems. Supported business transition and helped to establish change. Created functional specifications for new systems and processes. Acted as an advisor to senior managers and executive teams. Lead Business Consultant: FIS

Jan 2010 to Feb 2012

Assisted with new and ongoing clients implementations of the Investran Private Equity solution Contributed to the ongoing success of the Private Capital Suite Upgrade program Supported new and/or ongoing consulting initiatives with clients as well as internal FIS initiatives related to product development and support.

Worked independently or as part of a team to deliver on new as well as existing Private Capital Suite engagements with specific concentrations on Solution Design, System Configuration, Data Migration, Waterfall Modeling, Reporting, Specification Development, and Client pieces of training.

Monthly reconciliation and compliance of case reports. Developed sales strategies and tactics to increase market share and ensure profitable growth. Maintained an effective control system and ensure the security of company assets. EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Scrum Alliance Professional Scrum Master

Scrum Org Professional Kanban Practitioner

Usmanu Danfodiyo University BSc Biochemistry

SKILLS

Facilitation, Servant Leadership, Mentors, Teaching, Coaching, Empowering, Manage Conflicts, Resolves Impediments, Makes Work Fun, Out-of-the-box Thinking, Natural Leader, Influencer, Communicator, Stakeholders Management, Delivery, Continuous Delivery & Integration, Power of Silence, and Powerful Questions.

Frameworks & Tools: Kanban, Scrum, XP, SAFe, Waterfall, Agile, SAFe, Nexus, Jira, Confluence, TEAMS, Rally, SharePoint, SAP, Service-Now, Slack, QuickBase, Microsoft,, ATDD, TDD, BDD (XP), LE

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