Oluwatoyosi Balogun

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

adzenp@r.postjobfree.com

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Skills

Coaching • Team Leadership • Business Process Improvement • Servant Leadership • JQL • Agile Methodologies • Making complex things simple • Communication • Listening intently.

Experience

Scrum Master/ Project Manger

DHI Group

Oct 2021 – June 2023

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies as necessary and ensure the team is realizing value from them. Helping teams apply the Scrum Framework and principles of agility.

Coach the Product Owner and Development Team in effective Product Backlog management, the definition of done, ready and more.

Encourage team continuous improvement via interactions, practices, and process (inspect and adapt practices).

Collaborate with the product team to ensure the roadmap, epics, user stories are clearly defined, and backlog priorities are maintained to enable a smooth agile development process and minimize blockers.

Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives.

Track process improvement initiatives identified in the Retrospective and other forums, and championing Scrum process improvements.

Assist the Product Owner with keeping the backlog groomed (Healthy). Track and communicate team KPI (metrics) velocity and burn down.

Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to facilitate the delivery process; comfortable partnering with remote product delivery teams.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, establish trust with a variety of stakeholders across multiple time zones, find and implement process efficiency, remove blockers, and find creative ways to accelerate project delivery.

Performs core project management duties, following established agile processes and stakeholder checkpoints.

Scrum Master

Diageo

Aug 2019 - Oct 2021 (2 years 2 months)

Conducted scrum ceremonies such as Daily Standup, Estimation Sessions, Demos, Retrospective, and more.

Partnered with coaches and support Product Owner in managing the backlog to ensure it is properly prioritized and appropriately sized.

Identified training needs, created training plan & materials, and conducted training for the team, peers and the larger group on Agile principles.

Gathered and documented business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions and validate the needs of the business stakeholders.

Encouraged collaborative effort among the teams and also helped stakeholders at the program level. Worked collaboratively with other Scrum Masters and leadership to coordinate and support the activities of all scrum teams.

Scrum master/kanban lead

Spotify

May 2017 - Aug 2019 (2 years 3 month)

Led release teams through look-ahead planning, release planning, backlog grooming, sprint planning, defect management and test execution

Worked with multiple teams simultaneously in creating a configurable product environment in other to achieve speed to market in providing global customers with access to the harmonized offerings.

Utilized team feedback and metrics (Lead time, Cycle Time, Velocity and more) to identify areas of opportunity and worked with scrum teams to continuously improve their processes

Business Analyst

First Bank

Nov 2015 - April 2017 (1 year 5 months)

Partnered with Development leads to identify opportunities for better collaboration and process improvements.

Developed requirement templates, tools and checklists for reuse within the wider team while building close working relationships within engineering, development and testing teams to ensure smooth transition of products and information.

Understanding the business needs in relation to potential change or transformation Gathered, identified, and documented business requirements Simplified requirements for better team understanding o Identified cost and business savings while improving business processes.

Education

Western Governors University

MBA IT Management

March 2023

Bowen University

B.Sc., Business Administration

2014

Licenses & Certifications

Professional Scrum Master I - Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Master II- Scrum.org

Certified SAFe® 5 Release Train Engineer - Scaled Agile, Inc.

Project Management Professional (PMP) -PMI

SDLC/PM Tools

Jira, Version One, Central Agile (Rally), Zoom, WebEx, Confluence, Slack, Teams, Trello, Miro, Microsoft Project, Microsoft forms.

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