Scrum Master Business Analyst

ADETUTU "TUTU" ADEFOPE

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adetutu-tutu-adefope-8a2137230/

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SUMMARY

I’m an Agile professional and a detail-oriented Scrum Master with over 5 years’ experience working with businesses and technology in achieving customer values through the collaboration of self-managing and cross-functional Agile teams.

Responsible for working directly with Product Owner, Architects, Development leads and SMEs in sprint planning, maintaining product backlog, retrospective meetings and more.

Delivered multiple projects by implementing Agile principles as a Scrum Master that resulted in reduction of cycle time and enhanced both team's & customer's feedback.

Tracking and reporting of all relevant team performance metrics to ensure organizational transparency, including but not limited to team velocity, sprint & release status.

Defining and implementing an Agile governance model, test processes and procedures to execute & continuously improve delivery. Coaching teams (incl. a significant offshore component), to prioritize work accordingly.

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EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts, English Language and Literature, Ekiti state university, October 2004

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Scrum Master (TM) I (PSM I) - Scrum.org

Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)-Scaled Agile Inc

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Agile

Coaching

Jira

Metrics & Analytics Tracking

Problem Solving

CSM

PMO

ADO

Product Backlog

Reporting

Agile Methodology

SAFe

Scrum

Sprint Planning

SQL

Kanban

Power BI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

General Motors

Scrum Master

January 2022-Present

Hired Through Epitec

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Supports the implementation of SAFe framework to incorporate scalable DevOps and continuous delivery Pipeline that gained 100% business adoption and reduced time to market by 30%.

Manage projects in TFS ADO- monitored and reported on key Agile performance metrics to Scrum of Scrums and stakeholders.

Responsible for working directly with Product Owner, Architects, Development leads and SMEs in sprint planning, maintaining product backlog, retrospective meetings and more.

Supports in facilitating PI planning, getting everything ready Including Pre and Post PI Planning meetings.

Identifying and managing Risks and Dependencies across Arts and Teams. attending meetings to follow up and tracking of those Dependencies. across Arts and Teams.

● Update the Predictability measure spreadsheet with PI Objectives and publish on the

ADO dashboard.

● Maintain flow Metrics and support the team in Identifying bottlenecks and wait times.

Spotify, TX

Scrum Master

July 2019 – Jan 2022

●Defining and implementing an Agile governance model, test processes and procedures to execute & continuously improve delivery. Coaching teams (incl. a significant offshore component), to prioritize work accordingly.

●Responsible for working directly with Product Owner, Architects, Development leads and SMEs in sprint planning, maintaining product backlog, retrospective meetings and more.

●Managed projects in JIRA and Confluence- monitored and reported on key Agile performance metrics to Scrum of Scrums and stakeholders.

●Encouraging and supporting iterative and collaborative development - favoring people over process, owning, advocating, and teaching Agile (scrum) processes, ensuring that the team is always following the framework and looking for opportunities to continuously improve.

●Delivered multiple projects by implementing Agile principles as a Scrum Master that resulted in reduction of cycle time and enhanced both team's & customer's feedback.

●Experienced in transforming project deliveries from Waterfall to Distributed Agile and integrating concepts with traditional PMO governance structures.

●Actively identify and remove impediments that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goals whilst assisting the Product Owners to keep a healthy comprehensive, sized and groomed product backlog.

●Communicated risks and issues at the right time to stakeholders and create mitigation plans.

●Implemented small and continuous improvements based on team retrospectives.

●Assisted the Scrum team to attain higher levels of Scrum maturity.

●Advocated for the Scrum team across the organization and helped in delivering projects with Scrum framework.

Avis Greece, TX

Scrum Master

November 2012 - June 2019

●Led and coached scrum teams for sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and daily scrums with the development team resulting in product features that reached users in more than 5 states.

●Created an environment that empowers and energizes team members, with a focus on accountability, adaptability and collaboration.

●Tracking and reporting of all relevant team performance metrics to ensure organizational transparency, including but not limited to team velocity, sprint & release status.

●Built and promoted an open, trusting, and respectful team environment, facilitating discussion, collaborative decision making and conflict resolution.

●Boosted project responsiveness and increased the speed of change implementation thereby minimizing the time between receiving feedback from customers and making decisions based on their feedback using Agile change request management.

●Helped the Product Owner and development team achieve customer satisfaction.

Ensure cross functional coordination (analysts, developers and testers) is occurring early and often.

Avis Greece Tx

Business Development Manager

Nov 2012-Sept 2016.

●Maintained current client relationships and identifying areas for potential clients.

●Contacted potential clients to establish a business relationship and meet with them.

●Developed new sales areas and improved sales through various methods.

●Researched the latest in the business industry and creating new opportunities to expand business.

●Collaborated with the sales and design team to ensure requirements are met, such as sales numbers and profit goals.

●Trained junior salespeople to improve sales goals and meet expectations.

●Strong understanding of company products or services as well as business position and competition to keep business competitive.

Citi, TX

Senior Business Analyst

January 2009 - October 2012

●Performed GAP and Risk analysis of the existing system and evaluated the benefits of the new system.

●Requirements gathering for modeling of new products and enhancements to existing products.

●Created and maintained reports for senior management and business unit ops managers, clean and concise documentation of the model including guidelines and usage.

●Led model evaluation with primary users and user groups and interacted with business users, including senior managers, to understand key business processes to effectively translate business requirements into technical solutions.

●Partner with application development managers and project managers to translate business requirements into approved test scripts. Oversee testing, and documentation and reporting of results.

●Monitor system enhancements through UAT testing, sign-off and implementation.

●Review metric performance, identifying trends and irregularities and developing and implementing remediation plans to address issues and missed targets on business identified metrics.

●Oversee creation and maintenance of process maps, including documentation of current state processes, roles and responsibilities, metrics, key challenges and risks and initiatives underway or in plan.

●Partner with the operations team to define a target operating model to optimize and streamline core and utility teams. Assist in defining end-to-end process flows, hand-offs, controls, and metrics, and gain key stakeholder approval.

●Develop and modify training processes and materials and oversee training execution.

●Create partnerships with the various regional operations teams to drive value for scale, expand centers of excellence, to create a single processing hub for better customer experience.

●Drive engagement in Continuous Improvement culture, including employee submission of "Most Wanted Improvements" (MWIs) and "Just Do It" (JDIs), and oversight of employee driven Production Management Reviews (PMRs).

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