Scrum Master Product Owner

Abiodun Agboola

Dallas TX 929-***-**** ***********@*****.***

A certified SAFe scrum master with more than 6 years of experience with a Servant Leadership 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. Ability to work with diverse and a geographically dispersed team.

Core Competencies:

Agile Methodologies Servant Leadership

Mentoring Skills Time Management

Communication Conflict Resolution

Detail Oriented Collaboration

Meeting Facilitation

Technical Expertise:

SDLC Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe

Agile Management Tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps

Other Tools: Microsoft office, Zoom, Teams

Professional Experience:

Scrum Master

Orange grid, Brea, CA (Contractor) May 2021- Till Date

•Reviewed the product backlog regularly to ensure that it is healthy - Detailed appropriately, Emergent, Estimated, and Prioritized (DEEP)

•Managed the resolution of impediments for my team so that nothing prevents them from achieving their sprint goal every sprint Facilitate discussions between the product owner and development on ensuring that each of the user stories they will work on have a clear and understandable Acceptance Criteria

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

•Used the scrum empirical process control (Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation) to ensure that my team are clear about their goals and achieve them without failure.

•Facilitated the Daily Scrum sessions where team members integrate their tasks towards the sprint goal and escalated any impediment they might have for quick resolution.

• Facilitated the Sprint Planning sessions where the product owner communicates the sprint goal, and the development team makes commitment towards their chosen user stories which they can complete based on their capacity and/or the velocity.

•Empowered my team to be self-organizing thereby ensuring that they decide how the user stories are converted into potentially shippable product increment every sprint.

Scrum Master

Spectrum (Contractor) May 2018- May 2021

•Led my team to develop the Definition of Ready (DOR) which serves as the entry criteria for screening the product backlog items before they can move from the product backlog into the sprint backlog

•Led my team to develop the Definition of Ready (DOR) which serves as the entrance criteria for screening the product backlog items before they can move from the product backlog into the sprint backlog.

•Trained my teams on the scrum values (focus, commitment, respect, courage, openness) and ensured that they put them into practice in their agile maturity journey.

•Leveraged my excellent communication skills to foster collaborations among team members which led to team building.

•Facilitated product backlog refinement sessions where development team members sought understanding from the product owner about prioritized user stories for the subsequent sprints.

•Proactively identified, resolved and/or escalated impediments within the scrum team to the management for resolution Assisted Product Owner with Backlog grooming and refinement, User Story development, prioritization, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Scrum Meetings, and other agile activities

Scrum Master

AB Microfinance Bank, Lagos, Ng January 2015 - June 2017

•Supported the Product Owner and Development Team in making sure that the Scrum Artifacts are completely transparent.

•Helped my team to transition from waterfall to agile through training, coaching, and mentoring ensuring that they embrace the agile mindset.

•Trained, mentored, and supported scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.

•Scheduled and facilitated scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.

•Identified best practices and ensured that they were well implemented.

•Partnered with product owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep the work backlog healthy and prepared for execution.

•Resolve impediments and teach the Scrum Team how to resolve impediments themselves.

•Helped the Product Owner to make sure that each User Story in the Product Backlog meets the Definition of Ready (Acceptance Criteria plus other conditions) so that it can become part of the Sprint Backlog during Sprint Planning.

Junior Project Manager

AB Microfinance Bank, Lagos, Ng November 2012- January 2015

•Planned, coordinated operations on company projects.

•Completed tasks assigned by the Project team in an efficient and timely manner.

•Supported the coordination and management of projects.

•Communicated with stakeholders regarding project needs and goals.

•Performed miscellaneous tasks such as arranging logistics, inventory monitoring, preparing invoices, estimates, scheduling meetings etc.

•Education: B.Sc. Accounting. Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Ondo, Nigeria

•Certification: Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

Certified SAFe Scrum Master

Certified In Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)

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