KEMI DADA

SCRUM MASTER (PSM, CSM)

Toronto, Ontario, www.linkedin.com/in/adekemidada • +1-437-***-**** • advnhx@r.postjobfree.com EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Innovative and solutions driven Scrum Master with over Seven (7) years’ experience leading, improving, coaching multi teams in an Agile Environment. A remarkable ability to comprehend and construct complicated systems, focusing on motivating teams across IT departments to create a collaborative, cross functional and high-performing agile environment. A great knowledge of various Agile Frameworks; Scrum, XP, Kanban Principles, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Waterfall. Utilized Agile project tools for Project Management, QA/Testing, Jira, Asana, Rally, DevOps and Team foundation. Acknowledged and recognized for innovative and creative ideas that increased production and workflow processes to deliver value to my team and organization at large. TECHNICAL SKILLS / EXPERTISE

· JIRA · Scrum · PI Planning · Communication: Written and Verbal · Agile Principles and Values · SAFe

· Kanban · Process Improvement · Rally · Negotiation · Epics · Servant Leadership and Team Building

· Miro · Agile Testing · Emotional Intelligence · Conflict Resolution · Azure DevOps · Murial · Confluence

· Requirement Analysis · User Acceptance · Microsoft Package · Problem Solving · Certified SAFe 5

· Stakeholder and C-Suite Management · Conflict, Problems and Issue Management ·Talent Management · Agile Metrics and Reporting · SAP Success Factor · Agile Web Development · Coaching, Training and Facilitation · Change and Risk Management · Time Management and User story writing WORK EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master Jul 2019 - Present

Venture Garden Group

Projects: Delivery of numerous Mobile and Desktop Applications for various clients. Key Achievements

Made use of Kanban Principles that reduced the cycle time by 20% which increased the team's throughput in less than 8 weeks.

Improved team health by 25%. Engaged with team and listened to track impediments before, during and after sprints. Tracked planned to done ratios and happiness metrics to detect issues and make decisions.

Saved significant cost by training teams on the Lean Agile principles for efficiency, risk minimization and reduction of non-value-added activities (waste). Main Responsibilities

Supporting teams of 9 subject matter experts (agile team) to ensure that each sprint remain within defined timelines, mitigating risks and scope creep. Planning the Teams capacity and ensure it influences the sprint load to prevent over commitment.

Ensure all agile ceremonies are facilitated correctly for all teams including Daily Scrum, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review and Iteration Retrospective Facilitate, coach and motivate scum teams to ensure compliance to agile processes. Coordinate the Scrum/Kanban process, managing agile initiatives, create customized Agile training and implement Agile tools to enhance team collaboration. Promote agile best practices while participating in iterative design sessions, testing and tracking team's delivery on commitments by leveraging enterprise-level artifacts and other visual tools. Collaborate with scrum team to analyze user stories for identifying product vision and translate into prioritized product backlogs. provide guidance to the scrum team in their estimating efforts using good estimation techniques which has led to improved story pointing. Perform knowledge transfer to the agile team regarding work items/tasks and story estimations. collaborating with the product owner in backlog refinement whilst tracking and analysing metrics using velocity and burndown charts to facilitate team improvements and productivity. Scrum Master Apr 2016 - Jun 2019

Okiki APP

Projects: Learning Management Systems (Customization, Implementation & Production Support) & Website Development

Facilitated agile working sessions to develop Team Working Agreement (TWA) to generate the Definition of Done (DoD), and Definition of Ready (DoR) for the team to ensure a clearly articulated understanding of team communication, work quality and expectations on all projects. Collaborated with senior management and product owner to examine current business processes, involving projected outcomes

Assisted Agile Coaches, Agile Delivery Leads and other Scrum Masters in identifying team dependencies to remove impediments/blockers, increase productivity and improve agility. Identified improvement opportunities for Agile teams through the adoption of Agile best practices; inspection and adaption of processes to drive value, and productivity and continuously reflect evolving business priorities in complex and fast-changing environments. Improved the maturity of the Agile teams by providing guidance and advice, protection from distractions and coaching them to manage 'Work In Progress Limits' to create a flow of starting and completing high priority stories and tasks early. Supported and coached the Product Owner in defining sprint goal, backlog prioritization, continuously refined and improve Product backlog items (including the use of stories), improving acceptance criteria.

Facilitated Agile practices and ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and Backlog Refinement.

Agile Project Manager Aug 2015 - Mar 2016

Dangote PLC

Assisted the team achieve a high level of performance and quality, held the teams become accountable for their work, removed obstacles, and mentored less experienced team members. Organized and led work and project status meetings. Promoted team empowerment through team-building techniques, ensuring each team member is making a meaningful contribution and fully engaged in the project. Developed, reviewed and modified Agile project plans, ensuring timelines, budget and deliverables are accurately tracked

Ensured project artifacts such as user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases are properly documented.

EDUCATION

MS.c International Human Resources May 2012 - Sep 2011 Royal Holloway, University of London

BSc Business & Management Sep 2007 - May 2010

Brunel University, London, England

EXTRA INFO

Volunteering Experience: Next Generation Youth Mentoring (NXGN) Hobbies/Interest: Mentoring, Bowling, Swimming

Language: English

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