Scrum Master Project Management

YEMI ABUDU

Calgary, AB, T*R *Z*, Canada +* (***) 614 - 9641 *****.*****@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A self-motivated Scrum Master and Agile project management professional with a decade experience, who builds innovative cultures via appropriate frameworks and principles. Able to influence adoption of techniques and processes that improve team collaboration, predictability, velocity and transparency. Good sense of judgement, well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills and efficient with interpersonal, verbal and written communication. Demonstrated versatile leadership skills with the ability to encourage organizational teamwork, collaboration and educated risk taking to develop innovative solutions in support of corporate goals.

ACHIEVEMENTS

(I) Championing significant improvement in software development Architectural Runway by coaching System Architects to introduce enablers into development ahead of Iteration which results in the business consistently achieving >85% Business predictability. (II) Detecting bottlenecks and introducing best practices (WIP limits & peer programming) which increased team throughput and improved predictability by 83%.

WORK SKILLS

Agile & Hybrid Culture Building.

Agile Visualization and Tracking tools: Jira Jira Align Confluence Rally Miro Kanban boards.

Project Management Tracking tools: Gantt chart Asana Microsoft Project.

Team Building & Servant Leadership.

Data Analytics and Visualization: Power BI DOMO.

Written & Verbal Communication: Microsoft office Suite (Word, Excel & PowerPoint).

Areas of specialization: Project Implementation Project roadmap development Budget Management Risk Management Change Management.

QUALIFICATIONS

Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Certified SAFe 6 Scrum Master (SSM) Certified Product Owner / Product Manager Coach (SPOPM) Agile Project Management

Bachelor of Science degree and Mini-MBA ( Tekedia Institute ).

10 years of proven experience in information technologies Industry as a Scrum Master of Agile teams.

Experience providing support to stakeholders who aim to increase their Agile maturity.

Mastery of the Lean and Agile philosophies and their principles and methods of application.

7 years of proven experience working with Lean and Agile software development teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Scrum Master Allstate Insurance AB, Canada. Feb 2020 – Date

Deliver hands-on-training to teams, programs/organization in Scaling Scrum & Lean practices, Kanban, Lean thinking principles, practices and mindset, including iterative development, Scrum ceremonies, managing flow, collaboration, self-organization, user stories workshop and relative estimation for increased transparency and improvements.

Continuously supporting PMs and System Architects on clarifying their roles and contributions towards improving the ART’s predictability, quality, stability and productivity.

Organizing multiple different level workshops of the engineering organization to ensure that stakeholders understand and appropriately interpret their roles, whilst staying committed to Agile principles.

Facilitating adoption of scaled Agile frameworks to enhance pre-planning readiness and MVP prioritization.

Engage, coach, mentor Scrum masters, product owners, and senior leadership, providing trainings on organizational strategies, business agility, scaled agile framework, and change management.

Coach systems teams and Agile teams to collaborate and establish clear work scope aimed to mitigate confusion and producing Product of highest quality.

Define flow metrics to measure how the Scrum and Kanban teams are doing; to drive growth, customer satisfaction and continuous improvements.

Scrum Master Polaris Bank Lagos, Nigeria. Nov 2014 – Aug 2019

Facilitated value stream mappings to understand the waste in the organization system and guide on best business process design to optimize the flow of value faster to the customer.

Coached and mentored the Chief Product Owners (Senior Directors) to embrace servant leadership while interfacing with their employees and demonstrating key mindset shifts associated with being agile.

Empowered senior leadership in Agile strategy and practice for continued adoption and improvement of agile practices to enhance business value delivery and responsiveness to marketplace opportunities.

Provided training and coaching for new and existing Agile teams while they transition from Waterfall to Agile iterative incremental delivery; whiles enabling change management and Kaizen culture building, by mentoring Lean agile change agents at the program, and team levels.

Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management; updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs

Agile Project Manager LSPHCB Lagos, Nigeria July 2010 - Sept 2014

Planned and implemented the $2.5million state Pharmaceutical project by organizing work processes, delivering upon agreed project benefits on time, on budget and according to the company’s quality standards

Coordinated team members throughout full-cycle project implementation to streamline and optimize workflows.

Managed the impact of Scope creep on cost/ schedule estimates by partnering with BSD Partner, BSD lead and Product owner and evaluated entry and exit criteria for applications, and worked with stakeholders to capture enterprise technical requirements comprehensively

EDUCATION

Olabisi Onabanjo University Bachelor of Science Ogun State, Nigeria. July 2010. .

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