Scrum Master Product Owner

Miranda Ndamukong

Phone: 252-***-**** ****************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

Accomplished professional with exceptional analytical, communication, and people skills. I have worked with several organizations to build their Agile platform and implement Agile solutions to their business problems. My passion is helping teams unlock their full potential to create outcomes that matter. I enjoy training, coaching, and mentoring Individuals, Teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Leaders on how to transform themselves to work more effectively with more agility and fostering communities that provide sustainability for agile transformations. In my experience, applying agile methods improves delivery, strengthens relationships, and builds trust between business and IT. I deliver training and coaching and facilitate events to enable teams and organizations to build upon successes and overcome obstacles in their journey to high performance. Currently seeking a position as a Scrum Master, bringing expertise in areas as follows:

Agile Values & Principles

Project Management

Conflict resolution

Story Pointing/Relative Sizing

Stakeholder Engagement

Backlog Refinement

Team Mentoring

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Waterfall Methodology

Team Coaching

Scrum/ Kanban/Extreme Programming

Cross-functional Teams

Risk Management

Process Optimization

Team Empowerment

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

BiServ, Atlanta GA 11/2021 - Present

Scrum Master

Coaching teams in effectively using Scrum events: Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo and Retrospective.

Resolving conflict with a continual focus on the Scrum values of openness, honesty, commitment, courage and respect.

Training the Development team in effort estimation, iteration planning for reliable delivery and making visible all work being done in the team.

Executing iteration and release planning with a view to deliver maximum value as early as possible.

Understanding individual and group interactions and facilitating conversations towards consensus aligned to relevant goals and priorities.

Working with the Product Owner and Development team to define sprint goals aligned to business value and the health of the organization.

Shielding the Development team from external interruptions and distractions

Tracking and removing impediments that would otherwise slow the Development team down.

Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.

Facilitating the presentation of the increment (feature presentation) from the sprint to the key stakeholders.

Providing guidance to the team on how to self-organize

Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

Accent Health Co. - Austin, TX 01/2017 – 10/ 2021

Scrum Master

Synchronized the Agile adoption practices between business and technology stakeholders to ensure that all efforts were coordinated and achieving their stated objectives.

Coached teams, programs/organization in Scaling Scrum & Lean practices, Kanban, SAFe, Lean thinking principles, practices and mindset, including iterative development, Scrum ceremonies, managing flow, collaboration, self-organization, user stories workshop and relative estimation for increased transparency and improvements.

Worked with business partners, architects, and other groups to identify technical and functional needs of system and determine priority and make recommendations to meet business requirement.

Facilitate business requirements gathering sessions with the stakeholders and key technical resources.

Lead Agile Ceremonies Daily stand up, Grooming session, Sprint Review and Retrospect

Groomed, prioritize and sequence the backlog of epics/features/user stories per business value, throughout the release and sprint planning cycles. Create acceptance criteria for all user’s stories using JIRA

Synchronized the Agile adoption practices between business and technology stakeholders to ensure that all efforts were coordinated and achieving their stated objectives.

Managed sprint team issues, risks and mitigation plans; work with management team to resolve issues that must be escalated.

Manage all aspects of scrum documentation including; sprint backlog, burn down, team roster, velocity, ROI, etc.

Employed Scrumban (Scrum with Kanban), Kanban and XP (TDD and Pair Programming) practices.

Driving organizational agility through agile values, principles, and practices for software delivery by working with the executive, mid-senior management, and development teams.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Bachelor’s degree, Information Management

Buea University,Cameroon

Active Certifications:

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

SAFe Scrum master (Agile)

TECHNICAL SKILLS & EXPERTISE:

Agile Scrum Process;

SAFe in Jira, Confluence and Kanban board Software.

Agile process, Extreme Programming, Monday

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