Scrum Master Product Owner
Resume:
BOLUWATIFE ALAKE
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SUMMARY
Self-motivated and value driven Scrum Master with over 4 years of experience leading Agile teams in incremental delivery of value and successful completion of project deliverables on time. A servant leader who is responsible for maintaining and evolving Agile best practices and empowering organizational transformation. Excellent coach, facilitator, team player, problem solver and the ability to achieve broadly communicated objectives under a minimal amount of supervision.
SKILLS
●self-management and organization skills to balance workload, and conflicting priorities.
●Extensive Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Ms word, Ms excel, PowerPoint)
●Requirement gathering and analysis, User Story, Story point and Story mapping.
●Offshore team management
●Strong relating skills with the ability to identify areas of strength and development opportunities for team members.
●Good judgment and strong critical thinking skills.
●Strong self-management and organization skills to balance workload, and conflicting priorities
●Jira and Version one
EXPERIENCE
BIZABIZGLOBAL – Scrum Master September 2021 –Present
•Work with product owners to develop the product vision and the product road map and how they create business value.
•Coach the team by empowering the team members on the importance of agile values and principles to increase transparency, openness, trust resulting in full team retention.
•Identify, track, and solve impediments and remove roadblocks to software development foster innovation among team members
•Protecting the team from interruptions and distractions to maximize product
•Responsible for organizing, facilitating sprint events, workshops and assisting with internal and external communications at all levels to improve commitment resulting in a improved delivery
•Leverage metrics (burndown chart and velocity) to track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
•Work with product owner to meet up withStakeholders expectations on the project/product
•Work with product owner to prioritize and validate user stories ensuring they meet the ‘Definition of Ready’ resulting to product increment that meets the ‘Definition of Done’
VOLTAGE LOGISTICS– Scrum Master - Nov 2018 – Sep 2021
●Provided a team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable the team to regularly deliver working software
●Facilitated scrum Ceremonies and keep to time box
●Worked with the team to get approval needed for releases
●Tracked and communicated team velocity to work with the team on efficiency
●Fostered and encouraged conversations and collaboration - both inside and outside of the team - allowing them to self-organize.
●Identified and removed impediments, and prevented distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.
●Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and mentored the team to higher levels of maturity.
●Worked to remove impediments to decision-making and be able to allocate personnel to problems while providing guidance.
●Understand and be able to articulate strategic and product planning and goals in the team's environment and progress toward them.
●Supported Product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined - prioritizing to maximize value and using creative techniques for elaborating user stories to be ready for the upcoming 1-2 sprints. -
●Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition.
●Recommended improvements and assists in changes to best practice.
●Participated in the agile community internally and externally with other practitioners.
●Enforced the values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loops.
CERTIFICATION
Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
Scrum Master Accredited Certification (SMAC)
EDUCATION
Bowen of University
Bachelor of Science
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