Scrum Master Software Development
Resume:
AYODEJI SITU
ATLANTA, GA. *****
***********@*****.***
Experience Scrum Master with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software, on time and within budget. A thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including but not limited to the various concepts such as requirements gathering. Expert in establishing collaboration among cross-functional teams, risk management and maintaining focus on strategic goals. Outstanding leadership ability, communication skills and overall business acumen. possess a detailed-oriented nature with interpersonal conflict resolving skills. Elicitation Techniques: Questionnaires, Brainstorming, Focus Group, Interviewing, Workshops, Observation, Prototyping, Document Analysis. Analysis Techniques: SWOT, MoSCoW, Gap Analysis, Business Process Analysis, RACI Matrix, Financial Analysis
ROLES AND CORE SKILLS
Project Managment
Agile Coach
Stakeholder Management
DevOps/CI/CD
JIRA and Confluence
Agile Methodologies
Contract Life cycle management
DocuSign/Salesforce
Scrum Framework
Azzure DevOps/TFS
SPECIAL EXPERTISE
Knowledge of various agile frameworks: Scrum, XP, Kanban, SAFe.
Experience in Jira, Rally, Microsoft office, Azure Devops, Slack and VersionOne, Confluence, Miro.
Experience in driving change using Change Assessment, change planning, managing and Reinforcing Change.
Servant Leadership
Experience with AWS cloud migration process
Salesforce, Laserfiche, MuleSoft, RPA
Experience with SAFe PI planning and other ARTs meetings.
Familiarity with DevOps framework and tools
Knowledge of various collaboration tools such as Skype, SharePoint, and Scrum board.
Experience with Salesforce integration with CLM tool (DocuSign)
Experience with DocuSign CLM admin, workflow and contract template configuration using XML
Excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
Experienced working with co-located and geographical distributed team (Onshore -Offshore).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Salesforce Scrum Master Mar 2024 – Current
Inspira Financials Oakbrook IL.
Act as the Scrum Master for one or more Salesforce development teams, facilitating the Agile Scrum processes and ensuring adherence to Scrum principles.
Coach and guide the team on Agile methodologies and best practices, promoting continuous improvement and collaboration.
Facilitate T-Shirt Sizing estimation sessions to categorize tasks into Small (S), Medium (M), Large (L), and Extra-Large (XL) based on complexity.
Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure a shared understanding of effort and dependencies.
Assist in defining estimation criteria, ensuring consistency across teams.
Use relative sizing techniques to compare tasks without assigning specific time estimates.
Guide teams in breaking down XL and L-sized tasks into smaller, more manageable work items.
Improve estimation accuracy by incorporating historical data and team velocity.
Align estimates with sprint planning and backlog refinement activities.
Conduct early-stage effort estimation for projects, features, or user stories.
Collaborate with stakeholders, developers, and product owners to assess complexity and resource needs.
Use estimation techniques like Planning Poker, Fibonacci Sequence, and Expert Judgment.
Provide data-driven forecasts based on historical performance and industry benchmarks.
Identify risks and uncertainties in estimations and suggest mitigation strategies.
Ensure alignment with Agile best practices and organizational goals.
Regularly refine and adjust estimates as projects evolve.
Scrum Master May 2023 – Mar 2024
Discover Financial Services Riverwood IL.
Managing projects on jira: Creating projects, defining workflows, and setting permissions
Coached and mentored Scrum teams to improve their Agile practices, resulting in a 20% increase in team velocity.
Implemented Agile best practices and frameworks, resulting in a 25% improvement in project delivery time.
Lead and facilitate daily Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
Collaborated with Product Owners to prioritize and groom the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals.
Identified and removed impediments to team progress, enabling teams to deliver on time consistently.
Conducted regular retrospective meetings to identify areas for improvement and implemented action plans to enhance team performance.
Facilitated communication and collaboration between development teams, product owners, and stakeholders.
Championed a culture of continuous improvement by introducing and maintaining agile metrics and key performance indicators.
BA/Scrum Master August 2022 – April 2023
United Airlines Chicago. IL (Apex System)
Seat with the Business to gather and understand their requirements.
Use ADO/TFS to track workflow. And, to create dashboards to aid reportability.
Support the PO as a BA in User story development and writing of acceptance criteria.
Facilitate an environment of high transparency within the Boarding Manager Team using Jira to manage work items and workflow.
Engaged with other Scrum masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
Leading and supporting the agile teams in their quest to do everything possible to delight customers.
Providing all support to the teams using a servant leadership style and leading by example. This person should personify Scrum and Agile.
Guide and Coach the Agile teams and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values.
Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the teams and organization and coaching the teams to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
Removing impediments raised through Scrum of Scrums or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.
Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
Facilitated discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
Supports and educates Product Owners, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog.
Manage dependencies between the Agile teams and third parties, release managers, or between the team and other Scrum teams. Provide Scaled Agile reporting on status, impediments, and planning for quarterly Program Increment
Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
Maintaining consolidated metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on the program and team-level progress and quality. Assist with Agile coaching in the broader organization.
Leveraging Agile knowledge and experience to provide coaching and consultation to other teams as requested. Guiding and mentoring others who are new to Agile or Scaled Agile roles.
Scrum Master/Project Manager February 2021 – August 2022
Deloitte Chicago. IL
Responsible for leading the design and development of software project using a scrum-based agile software methodology.
Agile coach for other scrum masters, leading scrum of scrum.
Manage and act as a coordinator and project liaison to the client, subcontractors, vendors, and other stakeholders, throughout the project.
Maintain project schedules and manage budget; coordinate and track project activities and communications to ensure project goals are accomplished within the prescribed timeframe and budget parameters.
Responsible for the development of internal and external reports including project budgeting, cost reports, project cash flow forecast, and project status reports to all stakeholders.
Manage project related communications and submittals to client.
Make sure clients are satisfied with quality and on time delivery for Projects.
Establish and maintain processes for managing scope during the project lifecycle, setting quality and performance standards and assessing risks
Structure and manage integrated, multitrack performance databases for digital, print, social, broadcast, and experiential projects
Develop and maintain partnerships with third-party resources, including vendors and researchers
Assign and monitor resources to ensure project efficiency and maximize deliverables
Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels and escalate issues, as necessary, according to project work plan
Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
I constantly found creative ways to run retrospectives to get valuable feedback from scrum teams to ensure continuous improvement.
Ensure offshore team members are in sync with all scrum team ceremonies.
Champion Scrum of Scrums, Sprint Planning, Sprint Closure, Sprint Retrospective, System Demo
Audit functional and system testing, use cases and test reports to ensure the definition of done was met
Experience with AWS migration program
Responsible for managing end to end delivery of testing cloud migration program- define overall test approach/strategy planning and execution.
Scrum Master Jan 2019 – January 2021
USITplus Solutions Guaranteed Rate Mortgage Chicago IL
Responsible for coaching software development product teams in adoption and practice of scrum.
Prepare user stories for sprint planning with prioritization based on team capacity and velocity measurements.
Built relationships with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them.
Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions.
Proactively provides feedback and work collaboratively with resource managers on team member's performance related issues.
Responsible for gathering and analyzing RPA business requirements by working with end users to understand and determine the business needs.
Analyze business processes, identify automation opportunities.
Define RPA value proposition and conduct RPA High level Assessments.
Provide continuous updates to RPA stakeholders and product managers.
Capable of being a scrum master for one to three scrum teams with a focus on guiding the team towards improving the way they work.
Maintain relevant metrics that provide organizational visibility and team insight for continuous improvement.
Encourage, support, and guide continuous improvement of the team, its products and process.
Execute user story points estimation, with focus on business value and team on backlog refinement priorities
Lead scrum ceremonies with customer needs at forefront, coached product owner on prioritizing user’s journey.
Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
Encourage team to self-organize and cross function to boost productivity.
Coach on continuous improvement mindset, recommend adjustment to established delivery practice and advocate transparency and trust.
Improve transparency by publishing agile metric with velocity chart, sprint Burndown, scrum board and release Burndown Chart.
Facilitate the documentation of working agreement, definition of ready and definition of done for the scrum team.
Coordinate with stakeholders and business clients on dependencies and risk management.
Business Analyst/ Scrum Master November 2016 – December 2018
D care INC (Health Care) Homewood IL
Served as a Scrum Master, supporting product owners and development teams that use Scrum methodology to self-organize and make development changes. Organized and facilitated the sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and release planning meetings.
Used Jira/Confluence tool to prepare, communicate, and share the team’s metrics and delivery results.
Supported and educated the product owner; particularly with regards to refining and managing the product backlog and decision making.
Work with diverse stakeholders to elicit goals and requirements and translate into high-quality deliverables including analysis of alternatives, use cases, user journeys, business context diagram, and process flows.
Manage parallel initiatives and provide project insights through use of roadmaps, business cases, schedules, metrics, and work breakdown structure.
Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis, and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of monthly status reports to all appropriate parties.
Author and update internal and external documentation and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation.
Conduct daily systems analytics to maximize effectiveness and troubleshoot problems.
Develop meaningful and lasting relationships with partners for optimized systems integration and respond to questions and concerns from managers and executives with supporting research and recommendations.
Lead and facilitate client-facing and internal team meetings to produce meaningful results, preparing agendas and tracking action items.
Perform risk management activities, to include providing mitigation strategies.
Support long term planning, vendor engagement working sessions, and facilitate workshops when required.
Education
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Nigeria
BSc, Economics (Agric Economics)
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Post Graduate Program in Agile.
Certification
Certified SAFe® 6 Practitioner
Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) SAFe 5.1
SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) 6.0
Certified Scrum Master (SMC)
Microsoft Querying Data with Transact SQL
UiPath RPA Starter Diploma
DocuSign CLM workflow Specialist
DocuSign CLM Specialist
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