Scrum Master Product Owner

Experience

SANTANDER BANK DEC ****– DEC **** SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

Worked closely with the Product Owner in defining the product goal & roadmap

Worked effectively within the Scrum Team to remove impediments and track them in Jira

Facilitated scrum master community of practices.

Ensured a conducive environment which fostered a self-organizing and self-managing team.

Empowered the Scrum team with regular inspect and adapt opportunities

Encouraged the Dev team to keep the sprint backlog up to date

Facilitated all Scrum Events including the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective,

Product Backlog Refinement. Workshops with stakeholders.

Assisted in defining and deploying the forward order processes and facilitated the continuous improvement of the existing process.

Created Epics, Features & Stories for the team in Jira and assisted the Product Owner

JIRA admin activities for teams (created boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, reports using JQL.)

Planned and tracked sprints closely and helped the team to focus on commitments & delivery

Communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to the teams and management

Organized & facilitate Team and organization Agile maturity

Facilitated retrospectives using innovation games techniques and closure of action items on improvements

Reflecting and radiating the metrics like burn down chart progress, quality, and velocity continuously to the team

and various stakeholders

Prepared various dashboards in Jira which reflects risks, dependencies, impediments

Helped Product owner with effective management of Features, Epics, Stories and prioritization

TRIPLEDGITTS TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANTS RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

DURATION: SEP 2018 – 2020 ROLE: SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

Effectively guided Scrum and Kanban teams.

Creating working agreements, establishing, and helping the teams by all means to achieve their Sprint Goals

Facilitated retrospectives using innovation games

Took ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through Scrum-of-Scrums ceremony.

Educated and coached the teams on usage of Jira & Confluence tools

Reflecting and radiating the metrics like burn down chart progress, quality, and velocity continuously to the team and various stakeholders

Prepared various dashboards in Jira using advanced JQL & Filters

Helped Product owner with effective management of backlog

Ensured INVEST criteria is met for all the user stories in the backlog

Ensured the teams are adhering to the DOR and DOD criteria

Educated business on the usage of Confluence for business requirements

Facilitated continuous improvement initiatives and process reviews.

Optimized workflow efficiency, lead the ceremonies and ensured smooth delivery.

Exhibit confidence and an extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems.

Transitioned teams from waterfall to Scrum and Kanban

Qudra Adam

Professional Scrum Master & Product owner PSPO1

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Engaged Scrum Master with skills in agile planning and leadership. Having 8+ years of overall experience in Project Planning and Management in, of which 4 years as Scrum Master with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software, on time and within budget. I enjoy my success by continuously improving the lives of teams, process, delivering values in shorter cycles and empowering people

Managing the delivery in facilitating the following scrum ceremonies (Sprint planning, Daily Stand-up, Backlog grooming, Intermediate Demo, Sprint Review and Sprint retrospective).

Ensure the scrum teams are adhering to the DOR and DOD criteria.

Ensure the team is updating efforts & story status in JIRA /Rally on a day-to-day basis.

Ensure PO is tracking and creating stories to address customer feedback.

Constantly keeps track of the burn-down chart and informing the PO if there are any risks involved in the current sprint.

Share the sprint completion report to management with the following details Velocity and capacity chart, Sprint burn-down and release burn-up.

Facilitate a Look ahead meeting and getting the upcoming 3 sprints backlog items ready with the help of PO.

Helps the team to remove impediments

MA. IT in Project Planning and Management - Northcentral University

MA. Project Planning and Management -Kampala International university

BA. Education - Makerere University

Certified Agile

Objective

Summary

Personal Info

Qualifications

PRODUCT OWNER UGANDAN MUSLIM YOUTH OF BOSTON INC 2018 – 2020

Created Epics, Features, fixed releases & Stories for the team in Jira

Utilized Jira to track issues and organize product and sprint backlogs

Designed good and achievable user stories

Create the product roadmap

Coached the team on the Agile methodologies

Prepared various dashboards in Jira which reflect risks, dependencies, and impediments.

Planned and tracked sprints closely and helped the team to focus on commitments & delivery.

Encouraged the Dev team to keep the sprint backlog up to date

PROGRAMME OFFICER UNICEF -UGANDA

July 2012 – Jan. 2018

Ensured administrative duties are accurately completed in a timely fashion.

Supported clients to establish and maintain robust relationships and interests.

Facilitated the team to meet the agreed and working case plans of.

Coordinated all departments that’s to say safe, alive, and learning

Proactively plan, organize, and execute team brainstorming sessions to bring about new innovations to improve team objectives.

Guide and coach, the team to become self-organized.

Managed and coordinated the planning and execution of assigned project ensuring all projects were completed within the budget and timely manner.

Developed and implemented detailed project work plans trained and supervised new personnel, produced weekly status and presented them to the executive

Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

Providing all support needed to the team including using a servant leadership style and leading by example.

MONITORING AND EVALUATION OFFICER HIV-USAID UGANDA

Feb 2010- May 2012

Developed, Monitored and Evaluated project plans

Helped in determining performance and impact indicators for the project team

Participated in providing project designs.

Training field staff in monitoring and evaluation processes & provide ongoing coaching.

Monitored, supervised, and implement program details implementation plan

Certifications

Agile Leadership

Interpersonal Skills

Agile Planning

Communication

Forecasting

Collaboration

Shielding Team Members

Conflict Resolution

Servant Leader

Empathy

Technical Skills

Adaptability

Meeting Facilitation

Detail Oriented

Agile Coaching

Customer Service

Decision Making

Domain Expertise: IT, Retail, Ecommerce Banking

Operating systems windows.

Methodologies/Tools: Agile, Waterfall.

Agile Management Tools: Jira, Confluence

Agile Techniques: User Stories, Estimation techniques, Prioritization, Fun retrospections

Agile Frameworks/Approaches: Scrum,

Kanban, Scrum ban

PSM 1Professional Scrum Master from Scrum

PSPO 1 Professional Scrum Product Owner

Agile Methodology

Technical Skills

Servant Leader Skills

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