Joke Mabadeje
Scrum Master
Dallas, TX
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PROFILE:
I am a certified, experienced, highly personable, committed, and collaborative servant leader and mentor with about seven years of working with teams and organizations implementing Scrum across different sectors and delivering multiple projects. I played a crucial role in teaching, mentoring and coaching team members’ agile principles and best practices. Expert in building a team to become self-organized and cross-functional to ensure the delivery of products to their customers at the shortest sustainable lead time. My primary goal is to ensure that my team and organization mature in being agile and that we are continually improving through our data-driven inspection and adaptation cycles. I am very passionate about fostering lean agile mindsets.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
Agile values and principles, Scrum, Kanban, Less, SAFe, Facilitation, Process improvement, SDLC, Data Analytics, User story mapping, Coaching/Mentoring, Story Pointing, Lean-Agile mindset, Conflict resolution, Team Empowerment, Stakeholder Engagement, JIRA, Confluence, Rally, Version One, Team Performance, User story mapping, Metrics, Microsoft Office, Risk mitigation, Data analysis, Impediment Removal, Continuous Process Improvement, Mural, PMP, Azure DevOps, Product Management, Servant- leadership, Relationship building, Change Management
Certifications:
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)
Project Management Professional (PMP)
PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Senior Scrum Master 04/2019 - Present
AAA Insurance, TX
Building a solid and close working relationship with the product owner, allowing for the support of each other and understanding the backlog priorities and what the team is trying to achieve, so there’s maximum clarity and transparency.
Act as a change agent enabling a culture in which teams can self-manage themselves, help resolve impediments and enhance team collaboration.
Coaches team to embrace Agile principles and values.
Ensured that our working agreement, the definition of ready (DoR), and the definition of done (DoD) are clearly defined and understood by every member of the team.
Schedules and facilitate Scrum events: stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, and other agile-related activities, including backlog refinement and story mapping.
Mediating conflicts through team-building practices and coaching individuals to improve team dynamics.
Contributing to the scrum master community and the community of practice (CoP) sessions to develop the scrum master capability across the organization.
Ensured cross-team coordination to keep track of our risks and dependencies.
Scrum Master
US Bank, TX 06/2015 - 02/2019
Ensure impediments that could affect or are affecting the development teams are swiftly resolved, thereby enabling the team to focus on the sprint goal.
Develop team togetherness and an atmosphere that allows for constructive feedback and challenge that enables us to promote continuous improvement
Ensured all voices on the team were heard in a fair and equitable manner.
Working with the Product Owner to manage and prioritize work through product backlog whilst ensuring the latest work is captured and ready for the next sprint
Promoted self-management and self-improvement and fostered a growth mindset and spirit of continuous improvement to help my team become a high-performing team.
Attending scrum sessions and helping to address and understand cross-team dependencies.
I coached the team in identifying scrum anti-patterns and how to avoid them
Inspect and identify continuous improvements within the teams’ tools and processes based on the outcome of our retrospectives, documented, and tracked until implemented.
Ensured the team stayed focused by keeping team meetings concise and efficient.
Collaborated with product Owner, teams, and other scrum masters to find various ways to improve our combined processes and ensure project goals and requirements are met.
I facilitate scrum ceremonies – sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
PROJECT SUPPORT (Tableau Developer)
eBay, CA 03/2013 - 04/2015
Effectively managed project scope by ensuring changes to scope were documented and approved.
Tracked and reported project milestones and provided status updates to sponsors and stakeholders.
Resolved issues and solved problems during the project cycle by encouraging my team to identify problems they encountered, increasing their productivity.
Created and modified interactive dashboards and created guided navigation links within interactive dashboards.
Involved in data extraction, transformation, and loading into staging to develop various data marts. Distributed Tableau reports through the packaged workbook, PDF, etc.
Assisted the technical team with data cleansing, validation, and mapping from multiple data sources.
Created and maintained dashboards with KPIs to track performance, forecast subscriptions, and support decision-making.
Worked on generating various dashboards in the Tableau server using multiple data sources.
Facilitated all project communications (status reports, status meetings, and presentations).
Drove project schedules, mentored team members, and interacted with key departments and stakeholders.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Art in Mass Communications Moshood Abiola Polytechnic – September 2009