Scrum Master

SCRUM MASTER

Laura Ambang

Telephone: 508-***-****)

Email: ***********@*****.***

Highly skilled and experienced Scrum Master with proven record of facilitating successful Agile projects. Adept at leading Scrum ceremonies, driving team collaboration, and improving project deadlines/efficiency. Well-versed in coaching teams on Agile and Lean principles, removing impediments, and fostering self-management. Strong liaison between business and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment of data needs. Proficient in analyzing data sets, identifying trends, and recommending process improvements. Committed to promote positive work environment and achieve customer satisfaction.

Skills:

Knowledge of various Agile frameworks: Scrum, XP, Kanban Principles, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Lean principles, Business Analysis, Risk Analysis, SDLC.

Experienced in Agile techniques: User Stories, Test-driven development (TDD), Continuous Integration, CI/CD, Story pointing, Relative sizing, Coaching/Mentoring, Conflict Resolution, Emotional Intelligence, Lean/Agile values, and principles, Continues improvement.

Leadership skills: Excellent communication skills, strategic planning skills, ability to multitask, effective decision-making skills, time management skills, computer skills, great interpersonal skills.

SCRUM MASTER (Aledade, Inc) June 2022 – Present

Facilitated Scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, and retrospectives to ensure team alignment and progress, preaching the need to frequently inspect and adapt.

Continually refined agile processes for efficient and rapid software delivery, resulting in hitting 40% of improved project deadlines and agility.

Expert at driving the adoption of scrum values, coaching teams on lean principles and practices, removing impediments and fostering self-management with the goal of enhancing collaboration and a positive work environment.

Worked hand in hand with POs to manage and prioritize artifacts such as the product backlog, sprint backlog ensuring full team collaboration and understanding with clear user stories and acceptance criteria.

Proactively identified risks and dependencies, worked on a mitigation plan, tracked reported and communicated updates with stakeholders, and adjusted the sprint plan accordingly.

Ensured teams had a well-defined and enforced Definition of Ready (DOR) & Definition of Done (DOD) before stories are moved to a sprint.

Helped transition my team from Scrum methodology to Kanban, coached teams on WIP limits, consistent batch sizes, which improved cycle time by 40% in 8months.

Capital One August 2017 – June 2022

Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and ensured the team was focused on delivering high-quality products and meeting business goals.

Worked closely with the product owner to define and prioritize the product backlog, developed user stories, and refined requirements to ensure clarity which improved our backlog completion rate from 30% to 60%

Communicated with stakeholders on project status, risks, and dependencies to ensure alignment and transparency.

Coached teams on better story writing, effort estimation ensuring the INVEST criteria was met resulting in velocity improvement of more than 40%

Improved transparency by sharing team progress through burndown charts, velocity charts, story acceptance rate, defect rates. Analyzed team morale through anonymous questionnaires and more.

Played the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.

Creating an impediment backlog to keep track of team’s impediment at the Scrum of Scrum.

Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams’ work to meet delivery schedule.

Participated in the running of Scrum of Scrum meetings to ensure the coordination and integration of output from the various teams by eliminating all impediments. Assisted with Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) for the quick start and Release train launches.

JR. Business Analyst Health Management Associates…Feb 2015 – May 2017

Served as liaison between business and stakeholders to understand and document data needs.

Collaborated with all members of the project development team to enhance and streamline the processes leading to product delivery.

Coordinated with different departmental teams to produce better business outcomes that align with customer satisfaction.

Test business processes and recommend improvements where necessary.

Recognized trends, detected outliers, and summarized data sets needed to inform business development processes.

Researched and reviewed up-to-date business processes and new IT advancements to make systems more up to date.

Delivered weekly key status updates to key stakeholders.

Certifications:

Certified Scrum Master. Education:

Certified SAFe 5.1 Scrum Master B.Sc. Computer Science

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