Scrum Master

BLESSING A. AGYIE

SCRUM MASTER / SAFE AGILIST

Tel: +1-347-***-**** Email: **********@*****.***

“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change"

Project Management, Waterfall & Agile, Strategic planning, Process Improvement, Cost Estimation, Automation, Dependency & Risk Management, Information Radiator, Continuous Improvement, Agile Coaching, Product Roadmap & Development, Agile Maturity, Change Agent, Human Centered Design

Over 8 years of experience, expert in agile and waterfall methodologies known ability to produce high-quality deliverables

Solutions-driven Business Analyst / Scrum Master leading cross-functional teams and driving Business Consulting, Process Innovations, Risk and Compliance, Product Development, Application Technology

Ability to influence, persuade, lead and motivate the team and project sponsors in order to achieve the various goals and objectives of the project, excellent interpersonal skills, capable of developing effective relationships across the department and engaging with the people in effective way to deliver outcomes.

Collaborative leader, proven ability to lead and develop teams, who works extremely well in dedicated and matrix team environment and cross functionally.

Translated business requirements and/or initiatives into a conceptual solution described through Epics and Stories and application of abstraction to ensure the right level of detail to the key stakeholders.

Performed the Scrum Master role managing cross-functional teams, bringing transparency and facilitating events - Sprint Planning, Estimation Workshops, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, Fun Retrospectives.

SKILLS AND AGILE MANAGEMENT TOOLS

Azure Dev Ops, VersionOne, Rally, Agile development & best practices; Agile frameworks - Scrum, Kanban, XP; JIRA & JIRA Portfolio; MS Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio; User stories, ATDD, TDD, continuous integration, automated testing, SDLC, SAFE

Confluence, Miro, Ideaboardz, Story Mapping, Capacity Planning, Skill assessment, Agile Maturity, Risk register, Dependency mapper, Remote collaboration, Fun retrospectives

Work Experience

KROGER OCT. 2020 – PRESENT SENIOR SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Product Owner in defining the product goal & roadmap.

• Work with the team to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery with the lean process, apply scrum master experience within the team to implement solutions using an iterative approach.

• Coach and mentor multiple cross functional teams to become self-organized and highly efficient. Foster a culture of transparency, inspection, and adaptation by promoting healthy conflict and strong team agreement.

• Worked effectively within the Scrum Team to remove impediments and track them in Jira and Confluence.

• Guided the team through continual improvement process and best practices.

• Facilitated scrum master community of practices (COP).

• Facilitated all Scrum Events including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and other agile activities (Product Backlog Refinement, release planning, story writing workshop, project kick off meeting.)

• Created Jira admin activities for teams (created boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, reports using JQL..)

• Communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to the teams, management and stakeholders.

• Organized & facilitate Team and organization Agile maturity on quarterly basis.

• Facilitated retrospectives using innovation games techniques and closure of action items on improvements.

• Reflecting and radiating the metrics like burn down and burn up chart progress, quality, and velocity continuously to the team and various stakeholders.

• Prepared various dashboards in Jira which reflects risks, dependencies, impediments.

• Helped Product owner with effective management of Features, Epics, Stories and prioritization.

TEXAS TRUST CONSULTANT NOV 2016 - MAY 2020 SENIOR SCRUM MASTER/ PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities

• Effectively guided both Co-located and distributed scrum and Kanban teams.

• Continually refined and evolved agile processes for predictable and rapid software migration resulting in hitting 99% of project deadlines.

• Assisted in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work increasing the average time to deliver new features by 15%.

• Created working agreements, establishing and helping the teams by all means to achieve their Sprint Goals.

• Effectively and efficiently tracked, mitigated/resolved issues, risks and blockers.

• Educated and coached the teams on usage of Jira & Confluence tools.

• Took the initiative to conduct a skill matrix workshop for team to ensure cross functionality.

• Helped Product owner with effective management of backlog and while making sure all User stories met INVEST criteria.

• Ensured the teams are adhering to the DOR and DOD criteria.

• Educated and ensured Agile/Scrum implementation methodology, best practices, values and framework are adhered to by team members.

• Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work.

• Coordinated with the scrum team in Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Review Meetings, Sprint Retrospective Meetings and Backlog Grooming meetings.

• Worked with team to effectively migrate on-premise Java applications to AWS Cloud.

AETNA APR 2015 - OCT 2016 Business Analyst / SCRUM MASTER

Responsibilities:

• Partner with all project team roles and stakeholders.

• Experience leading Agile Scrum teams/serving as a Scrum Master/Coach.

• Administered all phases of the project lifecycle, such as initiation, planning, execution, supervision, and finalization, while identifying and eliminating risk in proactive manner.

• Communicate and report team progress and accomplishments ensuring transparency of progress and outcomes.

• Facilitate status updates, product demos and retrospectives.

• Provide proactive coaching to the team and recommend continuous improvement of processes and tools to optimize team productivity, quality, and time-to-market.

• Welcome change, influence, and coach team members with an agile mindset.

• Facilitating collaboration between Product owners and Agile teams to establish shared vision/goal, optimize value delivery & product health with team capacity allocation and healthy backlog readiness through identification of risks, issues, and dependencies in backlog refinement sessions

• Implementing Agile best practices such as time-boxing, collaboration, transparency, accountability, built-in quality, product visioning, WIP-Limit, self-organization, continuous improvement, technical debt reduction and empowerment resulting in increased productivity of more than 80%.

• Providing consultation to NEOs clients –Pharma, retail e-commerce across USA and India.

• Working with mobile applications development team (iOS and Android), website development teams.

EDUCATION

University of Buea - B.Sc Computer Science

CERTIFICATION : PSMI and SAFe AGILIST

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