Scrum Master Time Delivery
Resume:
Sadiat Adegbite
**********@*****.***
Summary
Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large-scale software and Web development projects on time by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum teams. Driving the adoption of Agile, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Capable of bringing enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
Areas of Expertise
Agile
Agile Training and Workshops
Scrum
Team Empowerment
Kanban
Coaching and Mentoring
SAFe
Conflict Resolution
Confluence
Goal Oriented
Continuous Improvement
Servant Leader
Career Progression
Senior Agility Lead 3/2/22-Present
JPMC
Responsibilities:
A servant leader who enables teams to self-organize, self-manage, and deliver via effective Lean-Agile practices.
· Facilitates all sprint ceremonies within the Scrum Framework – Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Backlog Refinement, Mid-Sprint Review, and Retrospectives.
· Ensure team understands the purpose and principles to all Scrum ceremonies, ensuring team is value focused throughout each iteration.
· Acts as a change agent to support continuous improvement of the team and optimize delivery.
· Develops and implements continuous improvement plans. Challenges the “norm” and develops and executes improvement plans in the areas of quality, predictability, and flow.
· Leads, guides, influences, and acts as a role model, exemplifying Scrum, / Kanban principles.
· Partners with the delivery manager, technical lead, or other stakeholders to understand and advocate for achieving technical best practices.
· Collaborates with Global Technology project managers and product owners on feature-based financials (estimates and spend detail).
· May support cross-team dependency identification, tracking and resolution.
· Works with the product owners on a continual basis to refine and prioritize backlog.
· If a part of an Agile Release Train (ART), participates and significantly contributes to ceremonies, such as Agile Release Train Synch, Scrum Master sync, and PI planning.
· Utilizes CA Agile Central (or other IHG approved delivery tool) and adheres to established standards and guidelines.
BMW Scrum Master 06/2019- 2/14/22
Responsibilities:
Led and coached Multiple Scrum teams responsible for developing software products.
Scheduled and facilitated scrum ceremonies, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and Backlog Refinement.
Day to Day Responsibilities
Facilitating the stand-up meeting, removing impediments, ensuring we have a product backlog, and the product backlog is ready for sprint planning. Working with my Product Owners to ensure the User stories are properly defined with acceptance criteria and adhere to INVEST model then familiarize myself with the product being developed.
Service to the Team
•Coaching the team in self-organization and cross-functionality.
•Removing impediments to the team’s progress to its sprint commitments.
•Facilitating scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
•Enacting change & continuous improvement to increase the productivity of the team and quality of deliverables.
•Practicing the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, accountability, and continuous improvement.
•Coaching the team in organizational environments in which scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood.
•Ensuring team execution and delivery to committed sprint work.
•Ensuring Alignment and Balance between the Product Owner and the Delivery team.
•Ensuring the transparency of team artifacts, including the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and product increment between the Product Owner and the Development Team.
•Protecting the team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery.
•Coaching the team to become High Performing.
•Develop KPIs, Monitoring the progress and sharing metrics with stakeholders via dashboards.
•Guiding story pointing, Tracking, Analyzing and Communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress.
•Built a safe environment where problems can be raised without the fear of being reprimanded.
•Assisted with internal and external communication, promoted transparency among the teams and facilitated team building activities.
Service to the Product Owner
Finding techniques for effective Product Backlog management.
Creates forum for communicating vision, goals, and Product Backlog items to the team.
Teaching the team to create clear and concise Backlog items.
Understanding long-term product planning.
Wells Fargo Scrum Master 11/2016 – 06/2019
Responsibilities:
Worked with product owners and delivery teams to groom stories in advance of each sprint.
Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 20% and the quality of deliverables by 25%.
Empowered my teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
Protected team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 33 major initiatives.
Led Interdisciplinary teams using Agile development practices.
Met my set goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours.
Doing everything possible to make my team successful by giving them the necessary resources.
Communicated and Collaborated with the product owner and stakeholders on ways to optimize value.
Guided team to attain a higher level of scrum maturity.
Coached the team to remove Impediments.
Maintained and published Agile metrics, regularly reporting to business leadership.
Represented my team’s activity and progress amongst technology services delivery forums.
Active in a community of Scrum Masters, providing training and coaching for other teammates.
Facilitated team representation in Sprint Reviews.
Maintained business relationships with other component teams necessary for product release.
WIPRO LTD Quality Assurance Analyst 10/2015 – 11/2016 Responsibilities
Proficiency in Test scenario, creating and update test cases, test data, executing test cases, logging and tracking defects in quality center.
Expertise in various forms of software testing, smoke testing, regression testing, functional testing and nonfunctional testing etc.
Ensure testing thoroughly and accurately documented following industry standards and utilizing prescribed testing application (ALM).
Collaborating with the other members of the team to ensure testing is efficiently and effectively covering all possible testing scenarios.
Performed manual testing to ensure that no defect was introduced into production
Education and Certifications:
Bachelor of Science Health Informatics, Mercer University (2021)
SAFe Scrum Master 5.0 (SSM), Scaled Agile (2019)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance (2017)
Professional Scrum Master (PSM1), Scrum.Org (2016)
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