Sr Scrum Master / Agile Coach Resume

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

Delivered three years ‘worth of software development work in seven months.
Introduced and facilitated the creation of a product vision with product managers and helped Product Owners write user stories to empower development teams to deliver the highest value features to users first.
Ensure scrum teams fully understand the work they’re doing and understand why it’s important.
Manage and optimize the flow of value through the program using various physical and virtual information radiators.
Facilitate PI planning events to maximize value throughout the ART.
Help Scrum Teams create PI Objectives that focuses on delivering functionality.
Teach systems thinking from portfolio level down to scrum teams to keep the ART moving as a complete system.
Work to prevent the measurement of activity that does not lead to delivering value to the business and the user.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Served as Scrum Master for two development teams and as an agile coach for four additional scrum teams
Developed and implemented an organizational Agile adoption strategy using practices from Lean, Scrum, Kanban, and XP using a pragmatic approach.
Improved efficiency of six scrum teams by the implantation of continuous integration and automated testing. Substantially improving cycle time from two months to two weeks.
Trained and act as a mentor for multiple Product Owners in how to create user stories, refine their backlog and how to break down work into iterative and incremental parts.
Removes impediments for scrum teams and the organization.
Help to design a creative environment where development team has the ability to think outside of the box in order to solve problems and meet sprint commitments.
Coordinates merging, branching and release activities for 10 scrum teams.
Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and helped shareholders understand the value of Scrum ceremonies.
Developed a work cadence across six scrum teams to better coordinate software releases and minimize deployment risk.

Confidential

Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

Worked to develop and transition six lower performing or newly formed scrum teams to high performing consistent teams with high levels of self - sufficiency.
Improved workflow by implementing a pull workflow model where scrum teams could choose features to pull into a PI.
Served as co-RTE in leading an agile release train consisting of 17 scrum teams while serving as a Scrum Master for two scrum teams.
Establish a program wide definition of done across 17 scrum teams that was owned by each scrum team.
Facilitated PI retrospectives between leadership and development teams
Analyze, develop, present and maintain data to help business partners and development teams make statistical data driven decisions.
Guides the organization and multiple software development teams on how to use Agile/Scrum practices to provide customers the value they want quickly.
Facilitates the team and stakeholders in getting the work done without using coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
Supporting and training Product Owners, with respect to maintaining the product backlog as well as how to provide a clear strategic vision.
Implements lean practices to help software development teams, managers and stakeholders eliminate waste by understanding how to track and measure the flow of work.