MICHEAL AGBOOLA

AGILE COACH / SCRUM MASTER

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY A professional Scrum Master with over 7 years of experience in leading agile development teams to deliver high-quality deliverables that meet the customer value. Solutions-driven, proficient in agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe, with a proven track record of coaching, mentoring, and motivating cross-functional teams. Possess strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders and team members. SKILLS Critical Thinking Facilitating Skills Cross-functional Supervision Coaching Team Management Estimation Workshops

Creative Writing Risk/Change Management Team Management Verbal Communication Risk Management Teamwork

Facilitation Team Coordination Agile Portfolio Delivery Project Documentation Process improvement Servant Leadership Continuous Integration Agile Leadership Articulating Communicator Innovative Thinking Initiative Thinking Business Process Re- Fun retrospectives Problem Solving engineering . Backlog Management Stakeholder Management and Collaboration Continuous Improvement Process Optimization

EXPERIENCES EQUIFAX: AGILE PROJECT LEAD /SENIOR SCRUM MASTER

JANUARY 2021– NOVEMBER 2022

• Works with the teams to identify appropriate mitigation strategies and ensure that the team is implementing them effectively, also monitor the progress of risk mitigation activities and update the plan as needed.

• Helps the team to develop a plan for mitigating identified risks.

• Provides regular updates on risk management activities, communicate the status of risks and any changes in the risk profile of the project and help stakeholders to understand the impact of risks on project outcomes.

• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.

• Promotes a continuous learning culture in the role of mentor, teacher, trainer or coach to leaders, teams, product owners, chapter leads and others.

• Works with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.

• Assist Scrum & Kanban teams to improve delivery performance through coaching and mentoring on team roles, tools, processes and ceremonies.

• Carefully observes and visualize flow of work, controlling Work in Progress (WIP), managing queue sizes and batch optimization of work.

• Assess and raise the Agile Competency in organizations and help move them toward higher levels of Agile Maturity at a pace that is sustainable.

• Proactively collaborate and communicate with internal/external stakeholders at all levels of organizations to address Agile knowledge gaps to support Agile effectiveness.

• Uses agile reporting tools such as Azure DevOps to manage and facilitate team goals.

• Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Agile development methods and processes. RETROCUBE: SCRUM MASTER/ BUSINESS ANALYST

OCTOBER 2018 - JANUARY 2021

• Introduced Agile scrum to a newly formed team of 7 team members.

• Leads two agile development projects as scrum master "One Co-located team, One Distributed Team"

• Maintained and updating squad performance metrics such as, burn-down, burn-up charts.

• Ensure accurate and clear feedback to the squad members.

• Employs best practices for agile/scrum methodology, while operating within the department's overall Agile Framework.

• Motivates and supports team members and ensures they have the tools and knowledge to do their jobs and that all blocking issues are resolved quickly.

• Creates self-organizing agile teams and facilitates the delegation of tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members.

• Support the UI/UX designer in their work by providing them with the resources they need to do their work, such as access to user data or feedback, and by advocating for their needs within the development team.

• Support the team’s efforts to continuously improve communications and relationships with other delivery teams; represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS).

• Helping the team remain aware of engagement opportunities and program effectiveness

• Engage in challenging the old norms of development to improve performance in the areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity.

• Experienced in using engineering environments and tools that support agile development, such as JIRA, Agile Rally, Confluence, Visio.

• Assists with internal and external communication to improve transparency, identify, and remove impediments

• Servant Leader and a great team player for the Agile Development Scrum teams.

• Agnostic approach to lean and Agile frameworks, helping teams to choose their ways of working based on their environment and challenges.

• Implements effective governance, escalation, and reporting.

• Exposure with agile reporting tools such as Azure DevOps to manage and facilitate team goals EQUINOX IT SOLUTIONS: BUSINESS ANALYST / SCRUM MASTER OCTOBER 2015 - SEPTEMBER 2018

• Effective mentoring of scrum teams with different strategies and frameworks, agile transformation skills, and constantly checking the team performance in the JIRA tool.

• Supports planning and execution of large-scale operational initiatives and technology implementations.

• Performed in an agile environment, engaged in and led scrum cadence activities which includes, ceremonies, story grooming, testing activities, and building training materials and other additional support activities for various projects.

• Harvest as-is business performance according to approved methodology and perform process analysis of as-is and formulation of to-be business processes.

• Wrote user stories and performed quality assurance testing on stories.

• Designed various prototypes and mock-up designs.

• Supported the documentation and note capture of the Data Service and the process it delivers to the organization.

• Partnered with the Technical Data Service team and business partners to gather requirements and understand “the why” behind requests.

• Analyzed data and daily reports for projects and base business that support the R&D Technology department.

• Provided hands-on Methodology coaching and training to business and technical leaders, Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and teams on all aspects of Scrum, and Kanban practices.

• Promoted and advocated a culture of continuous improvement by influencing teams and the greater organization to reflect and improved through coaching, mentored, and contributed to the evolution of Agile strategies and transformation journey.

• Worked with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role

• Acted as a servant leader of the Agile Team and directs the initiative delivery team.

• Eliminated impediments by engaging the right stakeholders within the organization and partner organizations.

• Supported the team in addressing and eliminating difficult issues to improve the likelihood of achieving the objectives of the Iteration.

• Assisted with internal and external communication to improve transparency within the team and the upper managements.

EDUCATION Federal School of Statistics: BS. Computer Science. Bachelor of Science

CERTIFICATION

Safe 5

PSM-1

PSPO

TECHNICAL SKILLS Programming Language: Java, HTML, SQL

Reporting Tools: Tableau, Lumira, Analysis for Office, Crystal Report. Applications/Software: ServiceNow, Azure Devops, Remedy, Rally. Modeling Tools: ALM, HP Quality Center, JIRA, Load Runner, MS Visio, Gliffy,Lucidchart, SDLC, Windows, Mac, OS, Android, Chrome, Firefox, iOS.

Management Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Miro,Skill assessment, MS Excel. Agile Maturity, Risk register, Dependency mapper,Microsoft Office, Office 365.

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