Scrum Master Project Coordinator

Greensboro, NC ***** 682-***-**** *************@*****.***

OLUBUNMI SHITTU

A skilled Agile Scrum Master with extensive years of knowledge of several Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe. An innovative servant leader with demonstrated ability to motivate and facilitate Agile best practices and principles align with organizational culture that aid the incremental delivery of software solutions. Experience in working with both collocated and distributed teams and guiding them to stay focus on delivering customer- centric and built-in quality business values and thriving for improvement opportunities. PROFESSIONAL

SUMMARY

SKILLS ● Backlog Refinement

● Conflict Management

● Stakeholders' engagement

● Team collaboration

Risks/Dependencies

management

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● Incremental delivery

● SAFe methodology

● Servant leadership

SCRUM MASTER 12/2020 to Current

CITI BANK

WORK HISTORY

Partnering with product owners to ensure that team understand requirement objectives and also work closely with Product owner in keeping backlog healthy which reducing rework by 37% that quarter.

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Collaborating with product owners, team members, technology SMEs, to define standardize practices in promoting efficient and effective value delivery.

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Providing best of Agile guidance and principles to drive highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity by 53% from the Agile Assessment Survey.

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Identifying and removing impediments that are beyond self organizing capabilities of developers and help them in facilitating it removal.

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Coach teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies

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Shielding teams from external interference and distractions for optimal productivity and success in meeting sprint goals and deliverables.

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Work with other scrum masters to Coordinate and synchronize plans, activities, and dependencies of parallel projects, making sure work is continuously in sync

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Responsible for facilitating adoption, implementation and sustainability of Agile processes, principles and practices within organization

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Introduced several agile practices like pair programming, refactoring, continuous integration and test driven development to teams

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Provide timely and relevant metrics to management and also maintain information radiators for stakeholders

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Facilitating Scrum Events (Ceremonies) for teams, including Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, and Daily Scrum (Standup), Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective and other activities as requested by team.

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SCRUM MASTER 02/2017 to 11/2020

Lowes companies Inc

SCRUM MASTER 11/2015 to 01/2017

PEERS EXCHANGE LLP

PROJECT COORDINATOR 01/2015 to 10/2015

Cardinal Health

Facilitated backlog grooming, sprint planning, standup meetings, retrospectives and release planning sessions

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Focused on developing more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with complete focus on problem resolution

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Responsible for facilitating adoption, implementation and sustainability of Agile processes, principles and practices within organization

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Protected development team from distractions, impediments, team conflicts, and maintained focus on product backlog

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Helping team owning a psychological safe space and creating an enabling environment to bring team to comfortably their vulnerabilities.

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Captured, tracked, and removed impediments, risks, and dependencies and follow till it is resolved.

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● Created JIRA dashboards to improve project visibility by 50% more to stakeholders. Worked closely with product owners and development teams during backlog grooming meetings.

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Reduced development time while educating and coaching teams in adoption of scrum framework: sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews and retrospectives

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Increased productivity of scrum teams while training Product Owner and team on how to create healthy backlog with clear and concise stories, promoting effective communication, and tracking burndown efforts during sprint.

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Participated in developing high performing development teams and best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, continuous integration/continuous deployment

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Collaborated with engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and their impact on products delivery

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Managed projects through various lifecycle stages from business need through design and delivery

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● Supports project-chartering process and setup

● Plans, schedules and tracks projects

● Managed project priorities, scope, timelines and expectations

● Coordinates intradepartmental projects and resources

● Managed multiple, parallel projects using formal IT project management methodologies Maintained IT project controls that accurately reflect completed work against project plans, schedules and budgets, and ensure user/management involvement at appropriate milestones

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● Continually identified, prioritized and mitigated project risks

● Managed team, driving motivation, collaboration and performance Tracks short-term project metrics (for example, schedule variances and customer satisfaction)

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Provided management with regular communication on progress of projects and other initiatives.

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● Provided oversight and control of any external resources contracted to project

● Promoted effective teamwork and managed resolution of interpersonal issues Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, Nigeria

BSc, Economics, 09/2008

EDUCATION

CERTIFICATIONS ● Professional Scrum Master - PSM

● SAFe Scrum Master - SSM

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