Scrum Master Product Owner

OWOLABI GATTA

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A skilled Agile Scrum Master with 8yrs 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. ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Worked with Project Management Office/ Agile Center of Excellence in drafting a standardized Team Readiness Checklist before launching. Transitioned multiple teams from Waterfall to Agile.

• Drafted and documented team Operating Model, core objectives and values to help evaluate teams' Success Criteria.

• Designed the Agile Assessment Survey for Quarterly review and improvement opportunities across the value streams.

SOFT SKILLS

• Stakeholder

Management

• Servant leadership

• Risk/dependencies

management

• Agile transformation

• SAFe

• Conflict resolution

• Team empowerment

• Backlog Refinement

• Interpersonal Skills

• Sprint planning

• Design thinking

• PI Planning

• Team bonding

• Automation testing

• Communication

TOOLS

• Jira

• Confluence

• MS Word

• Azure DevOps

• Visio

• Rally

• Trello

• SharePoint

• Miro

• Adobe

WORK EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

Hanesbrands Inc – Winston Salem, NC

August 2021 - Present

• Co-launched transitioning of developments teams into Agile from waterfall and working closely with Agile Centre of Excellence in identifying continuous improvement opportunities.

• Ensuring clear communication and shared understanding of Product scope, goals, milestones, risks, status, change requests and critical issues to stakeholders and team.

• Removing impediments beyond team self-organizing capability and guiding team on impediment removal thereby increasing team's efficiency by 15% in 1st quarter.

• Attending Scrum of Scrums to strategize on how to eliminate dependencies and risks, to stay aligned with other teams in value stream and tracking timelines to committed PI objectives.

• Collaborating with Program Manager and other team leads to define quality measures for each sprint; define critical success factors for development team owned product roadmap and met 96% of all feature deadlines by proactively identifying and mitigating any engineering roadblocks.

• Evangelizing best practices and helping in identifying improvement opportunities when needed and promoting psychological safety in team.

Scrum Master

Lowe’s Companies Inc – Mooresville, NC

April 2020 – June 2021

• Guided two (2) development teams of both collocated and offshore members towards using Agile incremental model to deliver business value while focusing on meeting customers expectation at every iteration.

• Improved teams User story writing and ensured efficient facilitation of collaborative product backlog refinements sessions with Product owner and development team members to certify shared understanding of backlog requirements and ensuring meet “Ready state” before taking into iteration.

• Coached teams and stakeholders to understand how to use Jira and Confluence to improve better tracking of tasks, creation of transparency and to capture metrics such as Burn-down chart, Velocity chart, Cumulative flow diagram to help identify room for improvement.

• Created enabling environment amongst team members and flattened relationship between leadership and development teams, shielded teams from distraction and promoted psychologically safe domain to improve their confidence to be more experimental and stay self- organized.

• Organized several coaching workshops for continuous growth of Agile knowledge, guided and facilitated teams on knowledge transfer sessions as requested to make them more cross functional, helped with impediments beyond their self-organizing capability.

• Worked closely with Product Owners and ensured highest optimization of business values delivery.

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.

Scrum Master

TE Connectivity – Greensboro, NC

January 2018 – April 2020

• Facilitated pragmatic use of Agile ceremonies to deliver products increment and acting as servant leader to Scrum team by ensuring team adheres to Agile methodology and Scrum framework which has increased production and revenue by 55% annually since adoption of agile methodology from Waterfall.

• Coached stakeholders and business sponsors on better prioritizing methods like Weighted Shortest Job First

(WSJF), Minimum Viable Product (MVP) governance related policy factor e.g., regulatory and compliance to help in their prioritization decision making.

• Effectively utilized business agility metrics, agile assessment survey and data visualization to measure progress and support data driven decisions making at team and program level.

• Facilitated smooth collaboration between teams and other teams as needed during PI Planning breakouts with other teams shared dependencies, Story mapping, program risks, architectural and infrastructural overview, Business value overview and carry out necessary follow-ups for teams.

• Acted as liaison between product owner, IT, and sales teams to understand customer demand for new features and prioritized product roadmap.

• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track. Scrum Master

Soltech Inc. – Georgia Atlanta, GA

September 2015 – December 2017

• Responsible for a development team of both offshore and collocated team members.

• Facilitated Agile ceremonies such as Product Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective, and ensure they are continuously improving from iteration to iteration.

• Guided the team in revisitation of their working agreement, Definition of Ready and Definition of Done to better enhance productivity and achieve leadership expectations.

• Built and coached high performing team, foster a continuous learning environment, and looked for improvement opportunities to inspect and adapt.

• Coached my teams on the importance of ensuring the user stories are READY before the sprint planning as well as ensuring that the Sprint increment meet DoD.

• Created fun sharing and learning environment, experimenting with various ideas to improve delivery, including pair-programming and cross-functional training. Scrum Master

Gilbarco Veeder-Root – Greensboro, NC

March 2014 – August 2015

• Coached a high performing cross functional team facilitating improvements to organizational agile transformation and overall stakeholder and customer satisfaction.

• Supported and educated the product owner and product manager, especially on refining and maintaining the product backlog.

• Responsible for the execution of team monitoring, proactive engagement, problem identification analysis, reporting, tracking and resolution.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Economics

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun state, Nigeria. 2005 – 2009 CERTIFICATIONS

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)

• SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

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