Scrum Master Business Analyst

MALAKI ALABI

Houston, TX 346-***-**** adwfuo@r.postjobfree.com

Scrum Master/Senior Business Analyst

Summary

●Around 7 years of experience as a Scrum Master with extensive experience in Agile Methodology, Scrum processes, Sprint Planning, Story based Development and Project Management.

●Successfully established distributed Agile/Scrum, Scrumban, and Agile environments.

●Experience in Software Development Life Cycle SDLC including Agile, RUP and Waterfall through implementation and testing.

●Strong knowledge of Scrum, and Kanban frameworks.

●Experience in Project Management and experience in agile methodologies with a proven track record of delivering value and reducing waste in the process.

●Having thorough understanding of the phases such as Requirement gathering, Designing, Building/Development, Testing, Deployment

●Experience in keeping team motivated and on track to achieve sprint goals, resolving bottle neck issues and publishing impediments to product owners and stakeholders.

●Expertise in Documenting maintaining project files Project scope, Business case, Resource planning Scheduling, Risk register, Issue register, Change control register, Progress reports.

●Created Current Process Flow as-is process Future Process Flow to-be process using MS Visio.

●Familiarity with the use of Rally, JIRA and other Agile tools.

●Experience in delivering projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching scrum teams.

●Executed multiple assignments in Application Implementations, Functional testing, and Process consulting for PeopleSoft suite of products.

●Introduced the Agile SCRUM process for the Risk Data team and utilized Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) to manage the team's software development lifecycle including deriving product backlog items, assigning sprint work items to developers and conducting sprint planning meetings.

●Ability to Support requirements and change management by identifying areas of impact.

●Elicit critical requirements using various tools and techniques.

●In addition to working at the Team level as a Scrum Master and process specialist, also have experience at the program level with leading transformational practices,

●Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm, fostering self-management and awareness to projects, removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

Skills

Methodologies:

SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, RUP, Iterative

Scrum Master:

Confluence, SharePoint, MS Visio, Microsoft Project

Tools:

Rally, JIRA, MS Office Suite, Quality Centre, MS Visio, Rational Requisite Pro, GitHub

Team Skills:

Coordinating, Facilitating, Project Tracking, Summarizing, Reporting,Conflict Resolution

Functional:

PeopleSoft

Operating Systems:

Windows, Linux

Education Bachelors in Project Management and Technology

Federal University Of Technology

MBA in Project Management

Rochester Institute of Technology

Certification Certified Scrum Master

Professional Experience

Conns Electronics, TX - Oct 2018 - Till Date

Role: Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

●Identify and help remove impediments (distractions) that interfere with the team's ability to deliver the sprint goal.

●Currently Serve as a Business Analyst of different Waterfall and Agile Projects, to Document Requirements and gain proper insight into organizational pain points and opportunities for Process improvements.

●Evangelize the values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loops.

●Responsible for multi scrum teams while delivering Sprint Goals at a record and sustainable pace.

●Enable the Scrum teams to adhere to the Agile Manifesto to focus on People and interactions over processes and tools, working software over comprehensive documentation, Customer Collaboration over contract negotiation and responding to change instead of following a plan.

●Currently responsible for Scheduling, participating, and leading Agile ceremonies from sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective.

●Serving as the sole Business Analyst working with the QA team to better create proper Test Cases to ensure successful delivery of Project goals.

●Keep the team focused on daily deliverables and sprint goals while helping the team deliver shippable, valuable and quality software.

●Currently Working with the Product Owner with respect to Product Vision, Product Backlog Priorities and Decision making, with an eye for maximizing ROI for overall Company PnLs.

●Organize estimation ceremonies for the Scrum team like Planning Poker.

●Work closely with the Product Owner on roadmap creation, forecasting activities, and team planning.

●Monitor progress and performance of Scrum Teams while also documenting and implementing the necessary lessons learned during the Sprint Retrospective to make the necessary Team Adjustments to improve the Scrum Team performance and product delivery.

●Write quality User Stories for the scrum team while making it understandable to developers and business stakeholders alike.

●Ensure that the right people get the right information at the right time all the time.

●Create reports and necessary metrics for the C-suite executive for the purpose of decision making.

●Promote a positive work environment, organize team building and recognition activities for Agile Champions.

●Recommend Process improvements and assist in changes to Agile best practices.

●Knowledgeable with widely successful agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Refactoring, Continuous Deployment, Pairing, Automated Testing. Familiar with other methodologies like Kanban, and XP.

●Lead business development portfolio reviews to enable overall Company wide productivity.

●Support the team in its Agile maturity journey and drive process improvements.

Liberty Mutual Insurance, TX - Dec 2016 to Sept 2018

Role: Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

●Defined the product strategy and monthly roadmaps for assigned product(s) and periodically communicated these roadmaps to customer groups.

●Documented Business Requirements for multiple projects, serving as the sole Business Analyst on most occasions.

●Analyzed business processes to identify economic and organizational change opportunities and re-engineered processes accordingly.

●Worked with multiple stakeholders to elicit requirements for the “E-converter Project”.

●Work with multiple product managers and engineers to ensure product roadmaps align with realistic schedules and integration points across all products.

●Performed multiple levels of root cause analysis as a Business Analyst to understand the specific “cause” of a process pain point, so that improved process solutions are geared towards the actual pain point or problem and not just the symptom.

●Created Process flows to show the AS-IS and TO-BE states of multiple processes.

●Making sure business strategies, planning and managed projects align with business goals and technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.

●Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress.

●Elicited, identified, and captured functional and non-functional stories through systems and User Stories.

●Worked on process improvements and implementation of new methodologies for software development and project management.

●Facilitated Scrum ceremonies; Iteration planning, Daily scrum, Iteration review, Iteration retrospective.

●Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintained focus on Sprint backlog and overall project timeline

●Removed roadblocks for successful iterations, which led to the transition of releases on time

●Participated in the Scrum Master Community and encouraged cross-team sharing of agile and scrum practices.

●Proactively communicate any risks, design and quality issues, or increases in time/scope required to ensure that projects remain on track.

●Led a large Scrum adoption and implementation by designing a customized Scrum framework and governance.

●Help Team focus on problem solving and solution finding

●Tracked daily progress using Burn down Chart metrics

●Created an environment for learning and innovation by helping the Product owner to create stories for learning and Research.

Honeywell International, TX - Jan 2014 to Nov 2016

Role: Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

●Facilitated retrospectives at key project milestones and final project completion, to confirm project acceptance and satisfaction, and to establish lessons learned.

●Served as a Business Analyst on multiple Enterprise Scale Projects.

●Worked to implement on-site business requirements for application upgrades and converting the processing of time and attendance system.

●Specialized in working with technical staff to create, interpret, and implement business requirements into technical specifications.

●Led the (JAD) Joint Application Development sessions with project stakeholders to identify, gather, and define precise requirements for several HR systems.

●Involved in gathering the requirements from the business and doing the impact analysis for various systems.

●Encouraged the Scrum Team to adopt pair programming, peer review, preparing reusable components and best practice documents.

●Resolved internal team conflicts and Kept the team motivated to ensure successful sprints.

●Documented Team Impediments when reported and made sure they are addressed as soon as possible. Also, Coached the Product Owner on writing user stories and assigning business value to them.

●Performed defect and bug tracking using Jira

●Knowledgeable with widely successful agile techniques: User Stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, Refactoring, Continuous Deployment, Pairing, Automated Testing. Familiar with other methodologies like Kanban, and XP.

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