Scrum Master Business Analyst

FUNMI OLAOSEBIKAN PSM. MBA.BSC

(470-****-***) **********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master with a Servant Leader style for helping teams adopt Agile and drive continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment.

Strong team leader with the ability to influence team and negotiating the prioritization with product owner and Dev team

Servant leader skilled in managing incremental and iterative feature-based work.

Managed numerous multi - million-dollar projects with a high level of quality while completing on schedule and within/under budget.

In collaboration with the product owner & Scrum team, prepared sprint backlog, estimated user stories as per effort & organized daily scrum.

Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement) ·

Ability to work with diverse and a geographically dispersed team·

Agile Coach, helping teams to adopt the framework to be more agile

Burn-down chart to analyze the progress & tackle challenges causing variance.

Experienced Business Analyst with Agile and Waterfall experience.

Excellent understanding of full project life cycle (SDLC).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Methodologies: Agile- Scrum, Kanban Frameworks, Safe Waterfall, Scrumban,

Business Applications: Microsoft Office Suite – MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Project Management Tools: MS Project, Teamwork project, MS Excel, Smartsheets, Clarizen

Operating Systems: MS Windows, Unix, Linux, MAC, Solaris

Application Lifecycle Management Tools: Jira, Rally, confluence, Version One, Azure Devops Sever (TFS)

CORE SKILLS

Communication

Meeting Facilitation

Collaboration

Conflict Resolution

Interpersonal Skills

Agile Estimation

Time Management

Detail Oriented

Shielding the Team

Adaptable

Removing Impediments

Servant Leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

T Mobile

Washington

Scrum Master May2021- till date

Responsibilities

Experience in coaching and leading multiple scrum teams consisting of geographically

distributed team members to build better software and achieve faster time to market by

applying Agile Methodologies.

Collaborating with other Scrum Masters on our ART. Partnering to ensure that

our ways of working are consistent across teams.

Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the

continuous improvement of existing processes; lead the team effort towards continuous

improvement.

Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication

between engineering disciplines

Assess Scrum Maturity of teams and the organization and coach teams to higher levels of

maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable

Ability to set clear performance standards, and helping with innovative ideas to help the team stay self Organized

Work with product owner to define project scope. objectives and prioritize the Backlog

Coordinate all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily standups, sprint

retrospectives, sprint demos, story grooming and release planning.

NCI Metal Coaters

Atlanta, GA

Agile Scrum Master/Lead March 2019 – May2021

Responsibilities

Scrum Master for 2 agile teams.

Work in agile team environment alongside product owners, scrum masters, developers, and architects for well-defined projects, ensuring that the project deliverables/ meet business specifications

Assisted Product Owner with Backlog grooming and refinement, User Story development, prioritization, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Scrum Meetings, and other agile activities.

Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives

Facilitate and organize daily stand- ups, sprint planning, retrospective

Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.

Track and remove internal and external impediments for the scrum team.

Identify and prioritize risk issues, facilitate development of action plans

Facilitate retrospectives at key project milestones and final project completion.

Responsible for Product Backlog Grooming

Facilitate the development of Acceptance Criteria for user stories

Facilitate estimation meetings using relative effort estimation techniques

Facilitate team discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution

PNC Bank

Atlanta GA

Scrum Master August 2017 - February 2019

Responsibilities

Responsible for definition, adoption and optimization of an agile methodology, processes and practices

Drove and facilitated sprint ceremonies including planning, backlog grooming and refinement, daily stand-up meetings and retrospectives

Guided, coached, and motivated the team to be highly effective, self-organized, productive, and accountable, with an emphasis on achieving sprint commitments

Partnered with product owners to effectively create, maintain, and refine the product backlog.

Facilitated communication channels for the Scrum teams and associated business and technical stakeholders to ensure the vision, goals, progress, and product delivery commitments are visible and well understood.

Identified and removed impediments and blockers preventing teams from delivering sprint goals.

Taught, mentored, facilitated, and refined Scrum practices and Agile Principles within the teams.

Monitored progress and team performance throughout the life of initiatives and monitor and manage project scope and deliverables.

Used relevant metrics to guide development teams and show progress in meeting business objectives.

KROGER,

Atlanta GA

Scrum Master June 2015 - July 2017

Responsibilities

Scrum Master for 2 software development teams

Monitoring of work progress using digital.ai (version one)

Coach Waterfall teams through an Agile Transformation using Scrum and Kanban.

Drive training for teams on Agile development principles and best practices.

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.

Train and develop teams on the effectiveness of proper utilization of all Scrum ceremonies.

Train Product Owners on composing, prioritizing, and coordinating user stories and acceptance criteria.

Assist Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog.

Assist the product owner to ensure that user stories are properly articulated and prioritized.

Assist teams resolve conflicts without providing solutions.

Interface with Program Management to ensure project goals and requirements are being met.

Remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

Ensure responsibility of delivery and management of the tasks.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.

Flower Foods

Atlanta, GA

Business Analyst-Agile March 2013 - May 2015

Responsibilities:

Gathered and documented business, functional and nonfunctional requirements.

Conducted business stakeholder analysis and stakeholder workshop, identified roles and responsibilities and in turn produced a stakeholder map.

Produced and validated the Business Requirement Document (BRD) with the PM and SMEs to obtain signoff.

Fully engaged and managed relationship with internal & external stakeholders.

Gather stakeholder requirement and input on issues and opportunities.

Updated key business requirement and ensure that the impact of process changes is carefully considered and communicated to stakeholders.

Assist the product owner to ensure that user stories are properly articulated and prioritized.

Fully participated in daily stand-up, release planning, sprint planning, product backlog refinement, and sprint review.

Reviewed UAT test plans, acceptance criteria and test scenarios; involved in UAT.

Generated GAP analysis to ensure that requirements gathered was extensive and thorough.

Track record of delivering measurable business value through process improvements.

Interfaces with product owners and users of applications to understand business needs and desired changes for new or existing production systems

EDUCATION

Master’s in business Administration, (MBA) University of Lagos, Lagos, NG

Bachelor’s Degree University of Lagos, Lagos, NG

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 5.0) Scrum Master

Scrum Fundamentals Certified by Scrum study (SFC)

Business Analyst Training

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