Scrum Master Product Owner

Professional Summary:

Committed and ingenious Scrum Master with over 5+ years of proven track record of successfully leading software development teams that deliver solutions across enterprise, mentoring teams, and stakeholders, and report out the key value add the solution is driving across the enterprise with Return on investments.

Skill/Abilities:

Agile Framework

Scrum/Kanban

Agile Project Estimations & Business value adds

Jira Bords

Conflict Management

Decision Making

Facilitation

Team Leadership

Problem Solving

Key Risks Identification & Mitigation

Microsoft Office Suite

Achievements:

Created a lighter and fun-filled environment for the teams to work with passion, with lot of team building activities and frequent get-together events and celebrations

Fostered high collaboration and communication between the Virtual teams distributed across multiple sites through various tools

Increased predictability of software builds delivery by 60% with the implementation of CI/CD/DevOps and Azure upgrade

Part of the team leading transformation of teams to Scaled Agile Framework (45 associates into 7 teams)

Developed effective high visibility communication radiators of the team’s progress physically as well as in digital dashboard using Jira

Guided the teams with Test Driven Development (TDD) and Test Automation increasing the quality of deliverables by 55%

Guided the Product owner to define and track Release Road map, backlog management, Iteration planning, product envision planning

Created JIRA dashboard components and facilitated initial set-up for 9 Scrum teams within the account

Created and implemented Half-yearly Agile Maturity Assessment for the scrum teams as part of Key Value Measures (KVM)

Acted as a Change Evangelist for the organization, working with senior management and coaching other Scrum Masters

Projects History:

Scrum Master Middleware Optimization Nov 2020 - Present

Project Name: Deque Systems Inc

Responsibilities:

Implemented & Managed development of generic microservice offerings using agile methodologies across the organization by consolidating the requirements of similar architectures and integrated it to a single source of truth to reduce operating & infrastructure costs.

Gather requirements and acquire the right prototyping story with multiple white boarding sessions across the teams for solution fitment across organization.

Assisting in leading the projects transformations from traditional methodologies to Agile/Scrum practices by leading the sprints from the existing waterfall landscape.

Identification of the back log from the requirements dashboards and create the respective stories, epics, bugs/new requirements.

Story point estimation is used for appraising the backlogs.

Negotiated with the product owner and scrum stakeholders for prioritization.

Estimation of prioritized requirements with quantifiable deliverables, right efforts and skill sets.

Facilitated Daily Standups, Retrospectives, and Sprint Planning meetings to remove impediments.

Coordinated team events to build team collaboration.

Ensured that Agile principles are being practiced throughout the project cycle.

Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the of Scrum framework in the organization and forming communities of practice.

Worked with Product Owner to ensure that user stories meet the acceptance criteria of DOR (Definition of Ready) and DOD (Definition of Done).

Worked closely with Product Managers/ Product Owners in product backlog management for continuous delivery with utmost quality and innovation.

Worked with team to identify capacity & capabilities to ensure they can meet sprint commitment.

Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality allowing teams to fully own commitments of finishing sprint backlog items within the time box.

Used Jira boards for tracking Stories considered, Work remaining, Pace at which the sprint is delivered, Resource efficiency.

Scrum Master J&J Jan 2018 – Nov 2020

Responsibilities:

Implemented & Managed development of Order To Cash Data Engagement Platform using agile methodologies to be considered as single source of truth for all its reporting and AI needs.

Assisted the product owner and business in prioritizing and breaking down the user stories.

Facilitated the Sprint Planning, Review & interactive Retrospective meetings at the beginning and the end of each sprint cycle.

Lead the daily scrum meetings and tracked workflow in the sprint cycle as it’s progress

Identified, cleared, and escalated the impediments/Dependencies/Risks faced by team members.

Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with all levels of staff and management across multiple teams.

Introduced and maintained team’s Agile Scrum Ceremonies (Iteration planning, Daily Scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software and System demonstrations) for new and existing scrum teams

Removing barriers and impediments that are preventing the team from completing work.

Build trusting environment where the team is comfortable raising issues without fear of blame, retribution or being judged, with emphasis on problem solving.

Employer: Guardian Info groups.

Education:

BSc Computer Science 2013

MBA (Finance& Marketing) 2015

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